Dr. Shane Gunderson is a professor, author, analyst, researcher, and Director of Client Services for the Public Defender in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Dr. Gunderson earned his Bachelor of Arts in Communication at University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He also earned his Master of Public Administration and Ph.D. in Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Dr. Gunderson has been an Adjunct at Florida International University since 2012. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the School of Communication at FIU, a part of the School of Communication + Journalism (SCJ) and the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs at FIU. He teaches graduate, undergraduate and global learning courses. 

Dr. Gunderson has worked as the Director of Client Services at the Broward Public Defender’s Office since 1989. He is a subject matter expert on criminal justice system and mental health system issues in support of the Public Defender’s role of representing approximately 28,000 indigent people per year charged with misdemeanors and felonies. He conducted a study, "Countywide System Analysis: Mentally Ill Traffic & Misdemeanor Offenders" for the Broward County court system resulting in the establishment of the nation's first mental health court. In 1995 and 1997 as a President Clinton appointee to the Presidential Rank Awards Review Board, he evaluated Senior Executive Service (SES) managers on behalf of the Office of Personnel Management for presidential awards. 

Dr. Shane Gunderson is the author and subject-matter expert for Dimensions of Public Speaking: Connecting with the Audience, a public speaking webtext. His article, "Protest Actions, Image Events, and the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham," was published in the American Communication Journal. 

Through his work, research, and publications, he developed long-lasting local, national and international contacts in the academic and social justice communities.  Dr. Gunderson’s book Momentum and the East Timor Independence Movement: the Origins of America’s Debate on East Timor won the 2015 Stanford M. Lyman Book Award from the Mid-South Sociological Association.  His book examined the campaigns by people in the United States on behalf of those seeking peace for East Timor.  

As Chairperson for United Way of Broward’s Community Impact Committee, he conducted site visits, reviewed, rated, and awarded grants to community organizations. In 2006, the United Way honored Dr. Gunderson because he formed a hard-working volunteer group called the Providing Basic Needs and Increasing Self Sufficiency Impact Team that created a model to improve community conditions.  Dr. Gunderson’s professional and institutional interest in homelessness mobilized the caring power of his community.  He was one of the founders of the Broward Coalition for the Homeless, Inc. and served on the Broward Homeless Initiative Partnership Board, Broward Re-entry Coalition, and the Alternatives to Incarceration Council.  

Publications 

Book 

Gunderson, S. (2015). Momentum and the East Timor independence movement: The origins of America's debate on East Timor. Lexington Books: An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 

Textbook and Public Speaking Course  

Gunderson, S. (2013). Dimensions of public speaking: connecting with the audience. Connect For Education, Inc.  

Book Chapters 

Gunderson, S. (2021) Sexual deviance theory, generation Z, and the LGBTQ community. Deviance today. Conyers, A. (Ed.), Abington: Routledge. 

Gunderson, S. (2011). Intellectual work:  The psychological process of cue-taking. Palmer, Steve, (Ed.)  In Between identity and practice: Contemporary perspectives on the intellectual ISBN: 978-1-84888-003-0. Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford. eBook. 

Gunderson, S. (2008). Social movement, spectacle, and momentum, In The resistance studies reader. Kullenberg, C. and J. Lehne, (Eds.), Göteborg: Resistance Studies Network. Print. 

Refereed Journal Articles 

Gunderson, S. (2009). Cultural Narcissism is not a generational phenomenon. Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences, (1), 42. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.fiu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgao&AN=edsgcl.219822481&site=eds-live 

Gunderson, S. (Winter 2008). Protest actions, image events, and the civil rights movement in Birmingham.  American Communication Journal, 10 (4). 

Gunderson, S. (Aug. 2008).  Social movement, spectacle, and momentum. Resistance Studies Magazine, 23-34. 

Book Reviews 

Gunderson, S. (2011). Hugh Heclo and the Immortality of Institutional Values.  Heclo, H. (2011). Raziskave & Razprave Research & Discussion. Nova Gorica, Slovenia: Fakulteta za uporabne družbene študije v Novi Gorici School of Advanced Social Studies vol.4 (3) 139-144. http://www.fuds.si/si/dejavnosti/zaloznistvo/?v=raziskave-in-razprave 

Gunderson, S. (2010). Gay Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America’s Debate on Homosexuality. JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY, 57(8), 1101–1104. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fiu.edu/10.1080/00918369.2010.503511 

Gunderson, S. (2007). Studying myths and recipes in organizational studies. Christensen, T. Organization theory and the public sector: Instrument, culture and myth. London: Routledge.  Volume 1 (1) http://www.journal-iostudies.org/content/paper-archive