Cindy Gallois, chair of the ICA Fellows Nominating Committee, announced on 28 May in Boston the selection of six new scholars as Fellows of the International Communication Association. Fellow status in ICA is primarily a recognition of distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication. The primary consideration for nomination to Fellow status is a documented record of scholarly achievement; secondary consideration is given to such criteria as service to ICA and socially or professionally significant service to other publics such as business, government, education, etc.

The 2011 fellows are:

Patrice M. Buzzanell is Professor in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. Her research centers on leadership, work-personal life sustainability, and careers, particularly individual and structural processes in gendered careers and those associated with science, technology, engineering, and math.

Buzzanell has edited Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication From Feminist Perspectives (2000), and coedited Gender in Applied Communication Contexts (2004, and Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research (2010). She is author of over 100 articles and chapters including publications in such International Communication Association outlets as the Journal of Communication; Communication Theory; Human Communication Research; Communication Yearbook; and the ICA theme book, Communicating for Social Impact.

Buzzanell has served as editor of the Management Communication Quarterly and has served on a number of ICA committees, including serving as ICA President. Her ICA awards include top research paper awards, the Fredric M. Jablin Outstanding Member Award, and the W. Charles Redding Dissertation Award.

In November 2010, Buzzanell delivered the Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, "Seduction and Sustainability: The Politics of Feminist Communication and Career Scholarship," for the National Communication Association. Over the last decade, she has advised or co-advised over 20 doctoral dissertations and has delivered keynote addresses around the world. She currently serves on Purdue's NSF ADVANCE Leadership Team for the "Diversity Catalyst" component of the Educating the Majority initiative for institutional change.

James Dillard joined ICA at the tender age of 23, a decision that proved crucial to shaping the research that he would do for the next 3 decades.

His early efforts, which focused on the processes by which individuals attempt to change the opinions and behaviors of others, contributed to our understanding of how and why people create interpersonal influence messages, especially in the context of close relationships. During that period he served a chair of the Interpersonal Division.

Over the last 15 years Dillard has been instrumental in focusing attention on the role of emotion in persuasive communication. His work has informed and been informed by his role as Editor of the journal Human Communication Research from 2003 to 2006 and by 42 cumulative years of service on the editorial boards of the Communication Theory, Communication Yearbook, and the Journal of Communication. Dillard has authored over 70 refereed articles and 25 chapters. He edited the first book in our field on message production as well as the award-winning Persuasion Handbook.

Janet Fulk is a Professor of Communications in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Professor of Management & Organization in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Her books, research articles and chapters cover topics including knowledge networks, information technology for strategic alliance networks, social aspects of knowledge and distributed intelligence, social media use, networking strategies of nongovernmental organizations, and online communities. Her research has been sponsored by a series of grants from the National Science Foundation, as well as private corporations and governmental organizations.

Her publications have won a variety of awards, including the National Communication Association's Best Book Award in Organizational Communication in 1990, the Dennis Gouran Award for Research in Group Communication, and, for Academy of Management, the Distinguished Scholar in Organizational Communication and Information Systems designation. She was selected for an association wide Career Achievement Award by the Academy of Management, where she was also elected Fellow.

Her ICA service includes Chair of the Organizational Communication Division (2010-2012), the Student Affairs Committee (2003-2004) and the Outstanding Applied/Public Policy Award Committee (2005-2007).

Ronald E. Rice is Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication in the Department of Communication, and Codirector of the Carsey-Wolf Center at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Rice has been elected President of the ICA (2006-2007) and has served in a number of other roles in ICA, including Vice-Chair, Chair, of Communication and Technology Division (1983-87) and the Publications Board (1999-2002). Among his awards are a Fulbright to Finland (2006) and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Montreal (2010).

His coauthored or (co)edited books include Organizations and Unusual Routines: A Systems Analysis of Dysfunctional Feedback Processes (2010); Media Ownership: Research and Regulation (2008); The Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research and Practice (2006); Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement and Interaction (2002); The Internet and Health Communication (2001); Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication (2001); Public Communication Campaigns (1st ed.: 1981; 2nd ed.: 1989; 3rd ed.: 2001); Research Methods and the New Media (1988); Managing Organizational Innovation (1987); and The New Media: Communication, Research and Technology (1984). He has published over 100 refereed journal articles and 60 book chapters.

Cynthia Stohl is Professor of Communication at the University of California Santa Barbara and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Information, Technology and Society. Prior to joining the UCSB faculty in 2002, she was the Margaret Church Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Communication at Purdue University, where she received he Ph.D. in 1982.

For the past 25 years Stohl has focused on communication network processes as they are manifest in local and global collaborations. Her most recent work explores the changing communication partnerships among multinational, governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Her forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press (coauthors Bruce Bimber and Andrew Flanagin) focuses specifically on the role of new communication technologies in collective action organizing.

The author of over 80 articles and book chapters and the book, Organizational Communication: Connectedness in Action, Stohl has been the recipient of several research awards, including the 1995 National Communication Association's Organizational Communication Division's Best Book Award, 12 top paper awards at international conferences and including two International Communication Association's Outstanding Article Awards.

Stohl has served on the editorial boards of several journals including Communication Theory and Communication Monographs. She has served as chair of the Organizational Communication Divisions of both the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association. Other ICA service includes the Publications Committee and the Task Force on Restructuring/Reoganization. She became ICA President Select/Elect in 2010.

K. "Vish" Viswanath is an Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and in the Division of Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Viswanath received his doctoral degree in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota. His primary research is in documenting the relationship between communication inequalities, poverty and health disparities. He has written more than 100 journal articles and book chapters and is the coeditor of three books: Mass Media, Social Control and Social Change (Iowa State University Press, 1999), Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research & Practice (Jossey Bass, 2008), and The Role of Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use (National Cancer Institute, 2008). He was also the editor of the "Social and Behavioral Research" section of the 12-volume International Encyclopedia of Communication (Blackwell Publishing, 2008).

In recognition of his academic and professional achievements, Viswanath received several awards, including the Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award (2010) jointly given out by the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association. In ICA, he was the Vice-Chair (1999-2011) and Chair  (2001-2003) of the Mass Communication Division, chaired the ad hoc Committee on New Publications (2000-2001), and was a member of the Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award Committee (2008-2009).

ICA congratulates its new fellows!