Robert T. Craig, professor and chair of the communication department at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder, has been named president-elect of the International Communication Association.
The ICA is a 51-year-old organization of more than 3,200 communication scholars and practitioners from some 60 countries. It promotes the systematic study of communication theories, processes and skills.
Craig will become president-elect at the close of the ICA's 2002 conference in Seoul, Korea, and will serve as program chair for the 2003 conference in San Diego before becoming president at the close of the California conference.
"It's a wonderful honor to have been elected to this office," Craig said. "I am grateful for the opportunity to serve ICA over the next several years."
Craig has published widely on various aspects of communication theory and discourse analysis. His article titled "Communication Theory as a Field," published in the journal Communication Theory in May 1999, won ICA's first Best Article Award as well as the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award presented by the National Communication Association in 2000.
The ICA provides a forum for those in the field of communication to share research findings and innovations and to promote a greater understanding of the human communication process. The organization recently relocated to Washington, D.C., after 27 years in Austin, Texas.
Seventeen divisions and interest groups within ICA cover such areas of interest as interpersonal communication, mass communication, law and policy, technology, health communication, intercultural communication, political communication and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communication.
Craig earned his doctorate at Michigan State University and has been at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder since 1990. He previously taught at Temple University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Pennsylvania State University, and as a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the American University of Beirut.
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