Don Stacks Program Director, Professor, Public Relations

Dr. Stacks received his Ph.D. in communication studies from the University of Florida. He has earned numerous academic and professional awards for teaching and research. At the University of Miami his awards include "Professor of the Year" and "Provost's Award for Scholarly Activity." His professional recognitions include the three highest awards an academic can get from the public relations profession: the "Pathfinder Award" for programmatic research, the "Jackson Jackson and Wagner Award" for applied research, and the Public Relations Society of America's "Educator of the Year" award. He was also named as a "Measurement Maven" by The Measurement Standard.

His background is based primarily in corporate/governmental public relations and consulting. He has authored or edited numerous books, book chapters, and articles. His most recent works are in the area of public relations measurement and evaluation and include the Primer of Public Relations Research (Guilford Press) and the Dictionary of Public Relations Measurement and Research
(www.instituteforpr.org/index.php/
IPR/research_single/dictionary_public_relations/ ).

Dr. Stacks serves on a number of academic and professional review boards. He is a Trustee for the Institute for Public Relations, a member of the International Public Relations Association Council and Regional Chair for the United States, a member of the national Commission on Public Relations Measurement and Evaluation and the Commission on Public Relations Education. He currently directs the nation's largest public relations research conference, the International Public Relations Research Conference.

Dr. Stacks' research interests include crisis management, public relations theory and methodology, nonverbal communication, persuasion, intercultural communication, listening in the corporate environment, and biosocial/neurocommunication research.

Don Stacks
School of Communication
Frances L. Wolfson Building 3007
5100 Brunson Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: (305) 284-2358
Fax: (305) 284-3648
E-mail: don.stacks@miami.edu
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