About Our Faculty

We are proud of the teaching, research, and professional contributions of our faculty. From our ranks have come

• three Presidents of NCA,

• three Presidents of ICA,

• one President of the Association for Communication Administrators,

• two ICA fellows,

• four editors of national journals in communication,

• four current or former members of the Board of Directors of ICA,

• one chair of the NCA Publications Board,

• two past chairs of the NCA Research Board, and

• two NCA Distinguished Scholars.

Research produced by the department's faculty has resulted in numerous awards. These include:

• an NCA Golden Anniversary Book Award,

• five NCA Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards,

• two Winans/Wichelns Memorial Book Awards,

• the Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award,

• the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award,

• the NCA Dissertation Award,

• the NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award,

• the NCA Ehninger Distinguished Scholar Award,

• two ICA W. Charles Redding Dissertation Awards,

• the Daniel Rorher Award in Argumentation Studies, and

• numerous College of Communication Faculty Research Awards.

Faculty members have received Research Awards from NSF, the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Foundation Senior Fellowship, and the Carnegie Foundation. Currently, faculty have grants from the Spenser Foundation, Dell Computers, IBM, and the Fulbright Commission. In addition, the teaching of the department's faculty continues to receive recognition on an annual basis. Among awards received recently are:

• three UT Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching,

• University of Texas AMOCO Teaching Awards,

• one National Speakers Association Outstanding Professor Award, and

• 10 College of Communication Teaching Excellence Awards.

At the University of Texas, the highest award for teaching is The University's Academy of Distinguished Teachers: three of our faculty have received this recognition.

All faculty portraits were taken by Michael Muller.