Robert T. Craig, professor and department chair of communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will become president-elect of the International Communication Association at its 52nd annual conference convening in Seoul, Korea, July 15-19.
Craig will become president in 2003, after planning and serving as program chair of next year's ICA conference in San Diego. "Communication in Borderlands" is his theme for the San Diego conference. In issuing a call for papers, Craig challenged ICA members to seek innovative ways in which communication can be used to bridge borders.
He suggested five types of borderlands that can be addressed at the San Diego conference: geographical borderlands; cultural borderlands; personal borderlands that occur between individuals; technological borderlands, such as those created when there are technological limitations that cannot be crossed; and disciplinary borderlands, which can occur between professions or fields of study.
Craig has published widely on various aspects of communication theory. His article, "Communication Theory as a Field," published in Communication Theory in May 1999, won ICA's first annual Best Article Award as well as the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award in 2000, presented by the National Communication Association.
A CU-Boulder faculty member since 1990, Craig 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. He received his doctorate from Michigan State University.
The International Communication Association, which recently relocated to Washington, D.C., after 27 years in Austin, Texas, is a 52-year-old organization of more than 3,600 communication scholars and practitioners from about 60 countries worldwide. ICA promotes the study of communication theories, processes and skills and provides a forum for people in the field of to share research findings and innovations.
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