Brant R. Burleson, Professor of Communication at Purdue University, was selected to receive the prestigious 2009 B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award. The Award recognizes outstanding scholars, teachers, and advisors who serve as role models in those capacities and who have had a major impact on the field of communication, by virtue both of their own accomplishments and those of their former students.
“Brant Burleson is clearly an outstanding mentor to his students as he guides them through graduate school and helps them to establish themselves as researchers, teachers, and influential members of the discipline of Communication,” said Sandi Smith, Chair of the Fisher Mentorship Award Committee. “His former students are successful faculty members at fine institutions such as Purdue University, UNC-Chapel Hill, UC-Davis, University of Minnesota, University of Kansas, University of Delaware, Michigan State University, and Louisiana State University.
“He has also furthered the interests of graduate students across the discipline through his work on their behalf in our professional associations,” Smith added. “Brant R. Burleson richly deserves the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentor Award in honor of his service to graduate students.”
Burleson is a Professor of Communication and an Affiliate Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, where he conducts research examining supportive forms of communication (such as comforting) and their effects on varied forms of well-being, focusing on how people both produce and process supportive messages. He is a fellow of the International Communication Association.
Dr. Burleson was presented with the Award on May 23, 2009 during ICA’s 59th Annual International Conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
