CURRICULUM VITAE
Timothy Halkowski, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
School of Health Sciences & Wellness
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Education:
NIMH Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
1990-1992
Doctor of Philosophy
University of California- Santa Barbara
Sociology
June 1990
Master of Arts
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
Sociology
May 1986
Bachelor of Arts
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Sociology and Education
May 1984
Employment and Positions Held:
Professor, Tenured
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI
2008-Present
Department Chair and Associate Dean - Communication
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI
2015-2019
Visiting Associate Professor
Tenured
University at Albany
Albany, NY
2005-2008
Associate Professor
Tenured
University of Wisconsin Medical School
Milwaukee, WI
2000-2005
Assistant Professor
Tenure track
University of Wisconsin Medical School
Milwaukee, WI
1992-1999
NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Lexington, KY
1990-1992
Teaching Associate- Lecturer
University of California- Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
1986-1989
Teaching Assistant
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
1984-1986
Peer Reviewed Publications:
Halkowski, T. (2026). Methods of measurement and membership as a smoker or drinker: The epistemics of counting and categorization. In New Directions in Membership Categorization Analysis, (R. Fitzgerald, W. Housley, R. Smith, T. Au-Yeung, editors). Brill Publishing.
Halkowski, T. (2023). Harvey Sacks and the mirandum of human interaction. Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 47, Issue 2, pp. 309–313. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.657
Halkowski, T. (2023). Reply to Hammersley. Contemporary Sociology, v. 52, issue 2, March 2023, pg. 194. https://doi.org/10.1177/00943061231155330
Halkowski, T. (2023). Approximation elicitors and accomplishing response-ability in amount questions. Journal of Pragmatics, 203C (2023) pp. 130-143.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.11.014
Halkowski, T. (2022). Review essay on 'The radicalism of ethnomethodology' (M. Hammersley), Contemporary Sociology, 51 (2) 125-127, March 2022.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00943061221076191l
Halkowski, T. (2021). ’Medical Discourse’ in Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2nd edition), Ken Hyland and Brian Paltridge (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Publishing, Ltd.
Halkowski, T. (2019). Juan Eduardo Bonnin. Discourse and Mental Health: Voice, Inequality, and Resistance in Medical Settings. Language and Dialogue, Volume 9, Issue 3, Oct 2019, p. 490 – 495.
Halkowski, T. (2014). ‘Ethnomethodology’ entry in the Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Sage Publishers,
New York.
Halkowski, T., & Gill, V.T. (2013). Analisi della Conversazione ed Etnometodologia: la centralità dell’Interazione. SALUTE E SOCIETÀ. University of Bologna.
Halkowski. T. (2012). ‘‘Occasional’ Drinking: Some uses of a non-standard temporal metric in primary care assessment of alcohol use,’ in Beach, W.A. (Ed.). Handbook of patient-provider interactions: Raising and responding to concerns about life, illness, and disease. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.
Halkowski, T. (2011). ‘Medical Discourse’ in Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis, Ken Hyland and Brian Paltridge (eds.). London: Continuum Publishers, Ltd.
Halkowski, T. and V. T. Gill. (2010). “Conversation analysis & Ethnomethodology: The Centrality of Interaction.” Sage Handbook on Qualitative Health Research, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (ed.). London: Sage Publishers.
Maynard, D., S. Clayman, T. Halkowski & M. Kidwell. (2010) ‘Toward an Interdisciplinary Field: Language and Social Interaction Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara.’ W. Leeds-Hurwitz (ed.) Schools of Language and Social Interaction Research. New York: Hampton Press.
Halkowski, T. (2006) Realizing the Illness: Patients’ narratives of symptom discovery. In J. Heritage & D. Maynard (editors), Communication in Medical Care: Interaction between primary care physicians and patients. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gill, V., T. Halkowski, and F. Roberts. (2001) Accomplishing a request without making one: A single case analysis of a primary care visit. Text, Volume 21 (1/2), pp. 55-81.
Halkowski, T. (1999) Achieved Coherence in Aphasic Narrative. Perspectives on Social Problems. Vol. 11, pgs. 261-276.
Halkowski, T. (1998) Patients’ smoking counts: Implications of quantification practices. Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol. 13, Supplement 1, pg. 107, April 1998.
Halkowski, T. (1997) Opportunities for smoking cessation intervention: Patients’ displays of stance toward smoking. Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol.12, Supplement 1, pg. 103, April 1997.
Jacobson, J. W., Halkowski, T. R., & McNutt, R. A. (1996). Data Collection in an Inner City Ambulatory Care Setting: A Survey Implementation Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 11.
Halkowski, T., McNutt, R., Sadowski, L., Evans, A., & Hall, P. (1995 Oct. - Dec.). What we have here is a failure to communicate: An empiric study of physician-patient communication strategies during decision making. Medical Decision Making, 15(4), 421.
Jordan, J. P., V. G. Gennis, & T. Halkowski (1995) Mental Health in Primary Care: A Part of Practice or Apart From Practice? Journal of General Internal Medicine, Vol.10, Supplement 1, pg. 117, April 1995.
Halkowski, T. (1992) Hearing Talk: Generating Answers and Accomplishing Facts. Perspectives on Social Problems, Vol. 4, pgs. 25-45.
Halkowski, T. (1993) The Format of Recommendation-giving in Medical and Non-medical Discourse. Clinical Research, Vol. 41, no.2, p. 584A, April 1993.
Halkowski, T. (1990) “Role” as an Interactional Device. Social Problems, Vol. 37, No.4, pp. 564-577.
Peer Reviewed Scientific and Professional Presentations:
Halkowski, T. Divergence in alignment to the larger activity of a sequence: Impeded/Expedited progressivity & epistemics. Presented at the 2026 International Conference on Conversation Analysis, June 25-29, 2026 at the University of Alberta.
Halkowski, T. 2025. Two functions of Context invokers in quantification sequences. Presented at the annual meeting of
the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 12, 2025.
Halkowski, T. 2024. Metric shifts in doctor-patient discussions of alcohol & tobacco use. Presented at the 8th
International Meeting on Conversation Analysis and Clinical Encounters, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, July 3, 2024.
Halkowski, T. 2024. A ‘scenius’ for the discovery of the centrality of sequentiality: Harvey Sacks, Stanley Fish, a puzzle,
and some conjectures. Presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association conference, San Diego,
CA, 21 March 2024.
Zalewski KR, Johnson S, Halkowski T, Sommer R, Henning R, Boeckman L. Meeting in the middle: Shaping the future of rural rehabilitation. (Accepted for presentation – cancelled due to COVID-19.) Combined Sections Meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association (February, 2021)
Halkowski, T. 2019. Practices for achieving and sustaining ‘countability’ in discussions of alcohol & tobacco use. Presented at the International Institute for Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis, Mannheim, Germany, July 3, 2019.
Halkowski, T. 2017. ‘Doing doubt, and achieving a proper count.’ Paper accepted for presentation at the International conference on ‘Intersubjectivity in Action,’ University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2017.
Halkowski, T. 2015. Epistemics, entitlement, and counting in primary care interaction. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 23, 2015.
Halkowski, T. (2014). Responding at a ‘higher level’ to advance (and/or contest) the activity. Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 21, 2014.
Halkowski, T. (2014). Respondents’ Orientation to the sequence to advance (and counter) questioners’ actions in primary care alcohol and tobacco screening. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA-14), at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, on June 27, 2014.
Halkowski, T. (2013). Introducing students to the analysis of human interaction. Teaching workshop presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY. 2013.
Halkowski, T. (2013). Accounting for delay in answering quantity questions in Primary Care visits: A Provisional Sketch. Presented at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY. 2013.
Halkowski, T. (2013). ‘The Edge of Precise Measurement: When smoking and drinking don’t count’. Presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association, London, U.K. 2013.
Halkowski, T. (2011). Some uses of metric shifts in doctor-patient discussions of alcohol & tobacco use. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Nov. 18, 2011, in New Orleans, LA.
Halkowski, T. (2009). “Displaying the conversion of another’s stance toward one’s illness as a device to account for one’s visit to the primary care clinic.” National Communication Association, (Nov. 2009) Chicago, IL.
Halkowski, T. (2008) Approximation elicitors & accountability in pursuit of amounts. Presented at the Annual conference of the National Communication Association, November 21, 2008, San Diego, CA.
Halkowski, T. (2007) Does it count?: Empirical counting and moral accounting in patients' answers about tobacco and alcohol use. Presented at the Annual conference of the National Communication Association, November 17, 2007, Chicago, IL.
Halkowski, T. (2007) Resisting Counts/Accounting for Resistance: Interactional methods for avoiding quantification of one’s habits. Presented at the International meeting on Conversation Analysis and Clinical Encounters. 16-18 July 2007, University of Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.
Halkowski, T. (2007) Resisting Counts/Accounting for Resistance: Interactional methods for avoiding quantification of one’s habits. Presented at the International Communication Association conference, San Francisco, CA, May 24-28, 2007.
Halkowski, T. (2006) ‘What Counts as Smoking/Drinking?: Patients’ orientation to medical relevance.’ Presented at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association, August 14, 2006, Montreal, Canada.
Halkowski, T. (2006) Asserting and contesting the relevance of a population to a patient: Doctors’ actions and patients’ responses. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, April 30, 2006, Philadelphia, PA.
Halkowski, T. (2005) Patients’ use of lay probabilistic concepts in primary care discussions: Invoking ‘counter populations’ in response to a doctor’s recommendation. Presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, November, 2005, Boston, MA.
Halkowski, T. (2005) Doing things with ‘Risk’. Presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association, November, 2005, Boston, MA.
Halkowski, T. (2005) Patients’ use of lay probabilistic concepts in primary care discussions: Invoking ‘counter populations’ in response to a doctor’s recommendation. Presented at the Annual conference of the American Sociological Association, August, 2005, in Philadelphia, PA.
Halkowski, T. (2005) Patients’ use of lay probabilistic concepts in primary care discussions: Invoking ‘counter populations’ in response to a doctor’s recommendation. Presented at the conference of the International Applied Linguistics Association, July 31, 2005, Madison, WI.
Halkowski, T. (2005) ‘The Body as object and agent: Embodied practices and social organization.’ Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociology Society, April 1st, 2005, in Minneapolis, MN.
Halkowski, T. (2002) Counts and Accounts: Patients' preludes to biomedical measures. Presented at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis, May 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Halkowski, T. (2002) Practices and Professions in Medicine: On the relationship between Conversation Analysis and Professionals’ Theories of Practice. Presented at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis, May 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Halkowski, T. (2002) Counts and Accounts: A patient's prelude to discussion of biomedical measures. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society , Milwaukee, WI, April 7, 2002.
Halkowski, T., (with Marge Stearns & Kathleen O’Brien). (2002) ‘Conceptualizing & Measuring ‘Community-Responsiveness.’ Presented at the annual meeting of the CGEA Chicago, IL, March 15, 2002.
Halkowski, T. (2001) Assessing and improving Resident-physicians’ ‘Community-Responsiveness’ via detailed analysis of their clinical encounters. Presented at the Annual AHEC State conference, October 11, 2001.
Halkowski, T. (2001) The Alcohol-Use History: Professional Measurement and Vernacular Accounts. Presented at Scientific Day, Sinai-Samaritan Medical Center, May 17, 2001.
Halkowski, T. (2001) Clinical Investigations of Language in Everyday Life. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, April 5-7, 2001.
Halkowski, T. (2001) “How Many Pill Are You Taking?”: From Situated Accounts to Formal Counts. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, April 5-7, 2001.
Halkowski, T. (2000) Patients’ Smoking Counts: Implications of Quantification Practices. Presented at the Annual meeting of the Wisconsin Research Network (WReN) Primary Care Research Forum. June 8-9, 2000, Waukesha, WI.
Halkowski, T. (2000) Patients’ Gestures in the medical visit: The medicine bottle as a device for medication requests. Presented at the annual international conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, March 9-13, 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Halkowski, T. (1999) Teachable moments in situ: Audio Reviews of Primary Care Clinical Visits. Presented at the International Communications in Medicine conference, Northwestern University, July 20-23, 1999.
Halkowski, T. (1999) Smoking Counts: Implications of patients’ quantification practices. Presented at the International Communications in Medicine conference, Northwestern University, July 20-23, 1999.
Halkowski, T. (1999) Are you a smoker?: Social and Moral dimensions of the substance-use sequence. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, April 10, 1999, Minneapolis, MN.
Gill, V., T. Halkowski, F. Roberts. (1999) Patients’ requests for medical interventions in primary care visits. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, April 9, 1999, Minneapolis, MN.
Halkowski, T. (1998) The Anatomy of Medical Advice Rejection. Presented at the research conference of the International Sociological Association. Montreal, Canada, July 31, 1998.
Halkowski, T. (1997) Smokers’ Stance: Displays of Patients’ Habit Assessments. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, April 5, 1997, Des Moines, Iowa.
Halkowski, T. (1996) Realizing the Illness. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, in Jyvaskyla, Finland. August 8, 1996.
Halkowski, T. (1994) Patients’ narratives of symptom discovery. Presented at the Third Annual International Conference on Narrative. October 14-16, 1994, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Halkowski, T. (1993) The Interactive Achievement of Aphasic Narrative. Presented at the Second Annual International Conference on Narrative. October 15-16, 1993. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Halkowski, T. (1991) Making the Hearing: Respecifying “Context.” Presented at the International conference on Ethnomethodology and Conversation analysis. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 1991.
Halkowski, T. (1991) The Intra-Organization of Medical Questions. Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society. April, 1991, Des Moines, Iowa.
Funded/In Review Grant Activity:
Co-Investigator
$6,065
Responsible for design of “Digital Health Assistant” communication course.
2020-2021, AHEC Grant
Co-Investigator
$4,400
Collaborated in the design and implementation of focus group questions; collaborated in the analysis of focus group data; collaborated in the design and analysis of survey.
2020, Compeer Grant
Lead Author
$5,000
Pilot analysis of doctor-patient discussions of diet and exercise.
2005-2006, College of Arts & Sciences Grant Fund, University at Albany – SUNY
Co-Investigator
$5,000
“Population, Risk and Probability’ as Theoretical and Folk Concepts: Studying Folk Usage to Deepen the Conceptual Framework of Population Health".
2003-2004, RWJ Health & Society Scholar Program, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Department of Population Health
Co-Investigator
$10,000
Analysis of Counseling Methods in Primary Care Physician-Patient Interactions.
1999, Dr. Scholl Foundation
Co-Investigator
$8,000
Implementation and evaluation of the use of audio-tape review in the third year Primary Care Clerkship.
1998, University of Wisconsin Office of Medical Education, Research and Development
Membership in Scientific/Professional Organizations:
International Society for Conversation Analysis
2012 – Present
Member
American Association of Applied Linguistics
2010 – Present
Member
Association International for Applied Linguistics
2010 – Present
Member
American Sociological Association
1992 – 2015
Member
National Communication Association
2005 – Present
Member
International Communication Association
2005 – Present
Member
Consultative and Advisory Positions Held:
Consulting Journal Editor
Social Science & Medicine
2015 - Present
Journal Article Reviewer
Journal of Medical Internet Research
2019 - Present
Journal Article Reviewer
Social Psychology Quarterly
2000 – Present
Journal Article Reviewer
Journal of Pragmatics
2015 - Present
Journal Article Reviewer
Research on Language & Social Interaction Discourse & Society
2010 - Present
Conference Panel and Paper Reviewer
National Communication Association
2000 - 2015
Conference Panel and Paper Reviewer
International Communication Association
2000 - 2015
EMCA Section Committee Chair for Annual Best New Book
American Sociological Association
2014-2015
Review Panel Member
N.I.H. Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project
1999-2005; 2007-2009
Review Panel Member
N.I.H. Doctor Patient Communication and Childhood Illness
2006
Services to the University/College/School on Committees/Councils/Commissions:
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2013-2017
University Assessment Subcommittee
University Curriculum Committee
University Committee on Creating Healthy Communities, 2021-2023
Member, Common Council (faculty governance body). 2020-2026.
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point School of Health Sciences & Wellness, 2020-2021, Curriculum Revision Task Force Chair
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point School of Communication
2015-2019, Department Chair & Associate Dean
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Doctor of Physical Therapy
2020-2026, Search and Screen Committee
2021-2026, Chair, promotion committee for Dr. T. Aikens.
DPT Admissions committee, member.
Honors and Awards:
Lambda Pi Eta Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Award
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
2018-2019
Top Three International Communication Association Language & Social Interaction Paper, International Communication Association, 2007.