Biographical sketches
Erin Basinger is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She studies interpersonal and family communication, focusing on how people cope with stressors alongside their family members and other relational partners. In particular, she is interested in the individual and relational outcomes associated with different ways of coping.
Charles R. Berger is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. In addition to advancing Uncertainty Reduction Theory and Planning Theory, he is currently developing Story Appraisal Theory, a framework for explaining narrative impact. Among the books he has published are Social Cognition and Communication (with Michael E. Roloff), Language and Social Knowledge (with James J. Bradac), Planning Strategic Interaction and the Handbook of Communication Science (first edition with Steven H. Chaffee; second edition with Michael E. Roloff and David R. Roskos-Ewoldsen). He is Past-President and Fellow of the International Communication Association and a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar.
Graham D. Bodie is Associate Professor of Communication Theory at Louisiana State University and Agricultulral & Mechanical College. He studies the role of listening in various relationships, especially as a form of supportive communication, and has published over 60 articles and chapters on these topics. Graham is a recipient of several Early Career Awards (National Communication Association, Southern State Communication Association, International Listening Association), and his research has been funded by the Louisiana Board of Regents and the LSU Council on Research.
Judee K. Burgoon is Director of Research, Center for the Management of Information and Site Director, NSF Center for Identification Technology Research at the University of Arizona where she holds professorships in communication, family studies and human development. The author or editor of 15 volumes and nearly 300 articles, chapters and reviews, she is currently researching technologies for automated analysis of nonverbal and verbal communication, dyadic interaction, deception and computer-mediated communication. She has received National Science Foundation, Gannett Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity grants and highest honors from the International Communication Association and National Communication Association.
Daniel Canary (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1983) has taught for varied universities, including five years at Azusa Pacific University, three years at Florida Institute of Technology, five years at California State University, Fullerton, four years at Ohio University, five years at Penn State, and 15 years at Arizona State University. Today, Professor Canary teaches and researches at the University of Utah, in the areas of conflict communication, relational communication, and other courses. Dan has authored or co-authored more than 10 books and over 70 journal articles and scholarly book chapters. Dan’s research interests include conflict communication, conversational argument, and relational maintenance behaviors.
Heather Canary is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. Her primary research interests include organizational and family knowledge construction and decision making in the contexts of health, disability, and policy implementation. She co-authored Family Conflict (2013) and co-edited Communication and Organizational Knowledge: Contemporary Issues for Theory and Practice (2011). Heather’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, by the National Institutes of Health, and by institutional and foundation grants. In addition to several book chapters and reference book contributions, her research has been published in national and international academic journals.
John P. Caughlin is Professor, Acting Head, and Conrad Professorial Scholar of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on effective interpersonal communication in relationship, family, and health contexts. He has published recently in journals such as Communication Monographs, Health Communication, Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, and Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. His awards include the Brommel Award from the National Communication Association, the Arnold O. Beckman Research Award from the University of Illinois Research Board, and the Franklin H. Knower Article Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
James Price Dillard is Liberal Arts Research Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. He is a past editor of the journal Human Communication Research, a Fellow of the International Communication Association, and co-editor of 1st and 2nd editions of The Persuasion Handbook: Developments in Theory and Practice. His research focuses on interpersonal influence and persuasion.
Marko Dragojevic is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara and obtained his M.A. from the Davis campus. He studies intergroup communication, language, and persuasion. In particular, his research focuses on understanding the effects of linguistic style, such as accents and politeness, on speaker evaluations and other communication outcomes, as well as the cognitive processes that underlie those effects. His most recent publications have appeared in Human Communication Research, the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Health Communication.
Ashley P. Duggan is Associate Professor in the Communication Department at Boston College. Her research addresses the intersections of nonverbal and verbal communication processes, health, and relationships. She holds an additional appointment at Tufts University School of Medicine, and her interdisciplinary research involves integrating reflective practice in medicine, communication processes, and health outcomes. Her scholarship is regularly published in Communication journals, as well as in international, interdisciplinary journals and edited volumes across disciplines. She is Associate Editor for Personal Relationships and serves on the editorial boards for Journal of Health Communication, Communication Yearbook, and Communication Research Reports.
Norah E. Dunbar is Associate Professor of Communication and a Director of the Center for Applied Social Research at the University of Oklahoma. Her expertise is in nonverbal and interpersonal communication, with special emphasis on interpersonal power and deception. She has published over 40 journal articles and book chapters including those in Communication Research, Communication Monographs, and Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. She has been awarded over $ 6 Million in external grants and contracts from sources such as the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, The National Science Foundation, The Central Intelligence Agency and the Center for Identification Technology Research.
Meara H. Faw (M.A., University of Washington) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington. Her research examines social support and its association with relational well-being and physical health. She has published studies in Personal Relationships and Qualitative Health Research that have examined how people solicit and manage support from their friends and family. In addition, she is particularly interested in investigating how social support affects health at the physiological level. Her current research explores the short-term effects of social support on both support recipients’ and providers’ stress levels.
Jeanne Flora (PhD, University of Kansas, 1998) is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at New Mexico State University. Her research and teaching interests include interpersonal and family relationships, with a focus on relationship development and maintenance. Her research can be found in such journals as Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Family Communication, and Human Communication Research. She is co-author (with Chris Segrin) of the book Family Communication, which examines cutting-edge research as well as classic theories in family interaction.
Howard Giles is Professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is founding Editor of the Journal of Language and Social Psychology and the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication and Past-President of the International Communication Association and the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. Giles’ research interests encompass interpersonal and intergroup communication processes in intergenerational, police-civilian, and other applied settings and he is the editor of the recent Handbook of Intergroup Communication.
Laura K. Guerrero is Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on relational, nonverbal, and emotional communication. She has published over 100 articles and chapters on these topics, as well as several books, including Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships (Guerrero, Andersen & Afifi, 2014), Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships (Guerrero & Floyd, 2006), Nonverbal Communication (Burgoon, Guerrero, & Floyd, 2010), The Nonverbal Communication Reader (Guerrero & Hecht, 2008), and The Handbook of Communication and Emotion (Andersen & Guerrero, 1998).
James M. Honeycutt (Ph.D. University of Illinois) is LSU Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and has published six book and over 100 publications while being the winner of numerous research awards including the Southern States Outstanding Scholar in Communication Theory Award. He is co-editor of Imagination, Cognition, and Personality and founder and co-director of the LSU Matchbox Interaction Lab. He is internationally known for his work in relationship scripts, imagined interaction, personality, and cognition.
Susanne M. Jones (Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2000) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research interests focus on the influence of cognitive and affective factors on the provision and perception of nonverbal and verbal emotional support messages. She also examines issues surrounding strategic models of communication and emotion. Her work has been published in Communication Monographs, Communication Research, Human Communication Research, and Sex Roles.
Young Yun Kim is Professor of Communication at the University of Oklahoma. Her long-term research among immigrants, sojourners, and ethnic minorities highlights the centrality of communicative engagement in the cross-cultural adaptation process. This research domain has been extended to include the psychological, situational, and environmental factors influencing an individual’s associative/dissociative intercultural/interethnic communication behavior. Her publications include Becoming Intercultural: An Integrative Theory of Communication and Cross-Cultural Adaptation (2001) and Communicating with Strangers (4th ed., 2003, with W. Gudykunst). She is a Fellow of the International Communication Association, and currently serves as President of the International Academy for Intercultural Research.
Leanne K. Knobloch is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. Her research addresses how people communicate during times of transition within close relationships. Her scholarship has been honored by the Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research (2008), the Franklin H. Knower Article Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association (2011), the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from the National Communication Association (2012), and the Biennial Article Award from the International Association for Relationship Research (2012).
Ascan F. Koerner is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses mainly on Family Communication and the cognitive representations of relationships and their influence on interpersonal communication, including message production and message interpretation. His secondary research interests include evolutionary psychology and interpersonal influence. His research has appeared in such communication journals as Communication Monographs, Communication Theory, and Human Communication Research, and such interdisciplinary journals as the Journal of Marriage and Family and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and a number of edited volumes.
Michael W. Kramer is currently Chair and Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma after serving in the same capacity at the University of Missouri. His primary research focus has been on the entire assimilation/socialization process from anticipatory socialization to exit including his recent work on volunteers. This has resulted in three books, Managing Uncertainty in Organizational Communication (2004), Organizational Socialization: Joining and Leaving Organizations (2010), and Volunteering and Communication: Studies in Multiple Contexts (2013). He has published in other areas of interest including leadership, decision making, emotion management, group dialectics, and IRBs.
Eun-Ju Lee is Professor in the Department of Communication at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea. Her ongoing research program is focused on social cognition and social influence in computer-mediated communication and human-computer interaction contexts. She has published over 40 refereed journal articles and won several top paper awards from the International Communication Association (ICA), National Communication Association (NCA), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). She is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Communication and Human Communication Research.
Meina Liu is Associate Professor of Communication at the George Washington University. Her current research spans interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational communication and investigates the influence of culture, emotion, and social cognition on negotiators’ interaction patterns and negotiation outcomes. Her work has appeared in journal outlets including Human Communication Research, Communication Research, Human Relations, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, among others.
Kelly G. McAninch is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. Her research seeks to illuminate how individuals manage conversations about difficult topics, particularly discussions about relationship issues between romantic partners.
Nicholas A. Palomares is Associate Professor of Communication at University of California, Davis. His research investigates the cognitive processes involved in how people understand others’ goals in conversation (e.g., goal detection and inferences) and other mechanisms surrounding goal pursuit in social interaction. He also has interests in gender and language use and seeks to uncover the psychological and contextual factors that influence gender differences and similarities in communication. His work has been published in Human Communication Research, Communication Research, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, and other outlets.
Malcolm Parks is Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. He conducts research on interpersonal relationships, computer-mediated communication, health communication, and social networks. His book Personal Relationships and Personal Networks received the Gerald R. Miller Book Award from the National Communication Association. Professor Parks was also the recipient of the 1996 and 2011 Charles H. Woolbert Award for disciplinary impact from the National Communication Association as well as the Hammer Award for organizational innovation from the Office of the Vice President of the United States. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Communication.
Sally Planalp is Professor in the School of Communication Studies, Kent State University. Her primary expertise is interpersonal communication with emphases in face-to-face interaction, close relationships, emotion, and health communication. Her work has appeared in numerous edited volumes and in communication journals such as Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, and Communication Theory; in interdisciplinary journals on close relationships such as Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, and Personal Relationships; and in journals related to health communication, such as Health Communication, American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and Clinical Toxicology.
Michael E. Roloff is Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He researches influence processes with a special focus on conflict management and negotiation. He has published journal articles in Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, International Journal of Conflict Management, and Journal of Communication. He edited the Communication Yearbook and is co-editor of Communication Research. He is a fellow of the International Communication Association and Distinguished Scholar of the national Communication Association
Jenny Rosenberg is a Doctoral Candidate with emphasis on Interpersonal Communication in the School of Communication Studies at Kent State University. Her research interests include self-presentation and impression management as they relate to uncertainty, emotion, and impression management in both face-to-face and mediated contexts.
Chris Segrin (PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1990) is Professor and Head of the Communication Department at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on interpersonal communication and mental health, particularly in marital and family relationship contexts. He is also author of the books Interpersonal Processes in Psychological Problems (Guilford Press) and Family Communication (Routledge) with Jeanne Flora. Previously, he has served as editor of Communication Theory and associate editor of Human Communication Research. His research on psychosocial adjustment to cancer diagnosis and treatment has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Nursing Research, Lance Armstrong Foundation, American Cancer Society, and the Oncology Nursing Society.
Patricia M. Sias (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is Director of the McGuire Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management. Her research centers on workplace relationships, uncertainty, and communication and innovation in entrepreneurial teams. She has published a book, numerous book chapters, and many articles in academic journals such as Communication Monographs, Communication Research, Human Communication Research, Management Communication Quarterly, and The Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. She has served on the editorial boards of many refereed journals and is currently an Associate Editor of Management Communication Quarterly.
Denise Solomon is Liberal Arts Research Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University, where she previously served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. Her research has examined how relationship qualities, including interpersonal power, relational uncertainty, and interdependence, shape people’s perceptions of and communication about difficult topics, such as relational irritations, problematic events, uncertainty-provoking events, hurtful messages, and sexually harassing statements. This work has culminated in the relational turbulence model, which describes how transitions in relationships promote relationship qualities that polarize cognitive, emotional, and communicative reactions to both ordinary and extraordinary experiences.
Teresa L. Thompson (Ph.D., Temple University, 1980) is Professor of Communication at the University of Dayton. She edits the journal Health Communication, and has authored or edited seven books and over 75 articles, including the Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Her research focuses on provider-patient interaction, organ donation, disability and communication, and death and dying. She has published in such outlets as Human Communication Research, Social Science and Medicine, Sex Roles, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Progress in Transplantation. She was the 2009 NCA Health Communication Scholar of the Year and has won teaching, scholarship and distinguished book awards.
Anita L. Vangelisti is the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Professor of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses on the associations between communication and emotion in the context of close, personal relationships. She has published numerous articles and chapters and has edited or authored several books including the Handbook of Family Communication and the Handbook of Personal Relationships. Vangelisti has received recognition for her research from the National Communication Association, the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships and the International Association for Relationship Research.
Aldert Vrij is Professor of Applied Social Psychology, University of Portsmouth (UK). His main research interests are (non)verbal correlates of deception and people’s ability to detect deceit, resulting in more than 430 publications. He received grants from British Research Councils, Trusts and Foundations, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Dutch, British and American Governments, totalling > $ 4,500,000. He works closely with practitioners (police, security services and insurers) in terms of conducting research and disseminating its findings. His 2008 book Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities is a comprehensive overview of research into (non)verbal and physiological deception and lie detection.
Joseph B. Walther is Professor in the Department of Communication and in Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media at Michigan State University, whose research focuses on the interpersonal dynamics of computer-mediated communication in personal relationships, groups, and educational settings. A Fulbright Fellow (the Netherlands, 2013) and a Fellow of the International Communication Association, he has held appointments in Communication, Psychology, Information Technology, and Education and Social Policy at universities in the US and in Europe. He has twice been awarded the National Communication Association’s Woolbert Award for articles that have stood the test of time and changed thinking in the discipline.
Cindy H. White is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research explores how patterns of interaction form the foundation for personal relationships. She has published work on deception, relational loss, social support and health communication, and she is co-editor of Together Alone: Personal Relationships in Public Places. Her current research considers how people’s intuitive models or views of communication influence learning about communication practices.
Steven R. Wilson is Professor and the Charles and Ann Redding Faculty Fellow in the Brian Lamb School of Communication and Faculty Affiliate with the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University. His research and teaching focus on influence and identity-management processes in family, health, and workplace contexts. He is author of Seeking and Resisting Compliance: Why Individuals Say What They Do When Trying to Influence Others (2002), co-editor of New Directions in Interpersonal Communication Research (2010), and co-author of more than 80 articles and book chapters on these topics.