His master's thesis was titled, "An ethnomethodological analysis of selected approach to the speech act."
Deetz was a Claude Kantner Fellow in his final year of graduate study in 1973.
[2] He spent the spring semester of 1994 as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Göteborgs Universitët in Sweden.
[3] Colegio Mayor University (Colombia), Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa (Mexico).
[4] Deetz's specialization in organizational studies and organizational communication began from a philosophical understanding of the social (interactional) construction of human experience developing to a critical and cultural perspective about power and practices of corporations.