Five new members to were added to the ranks of ICA Fellows at the Association’s annual awards presentation in Chiacgo on Saturday, May 23, 2009. 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 the International Communication Association and socially or professionally significant service to other publics such as business, government, education, etc.

The 2009 ICA Fellows are:

Robert T. Craig, Professor of Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder

Robert Craig’s teaching and research have addressed topics in communication theory and philosophy, discourse analysis, and argumentation. His article, “Communication Theory as a Field” (1999) received both the International Communication Association’s Best Article Award and the National Communication Association’s Golden Anniversary Monograph Award in 2000. Theorizing Communication: Readings Across Traditions (with Heidi L. Muller) was published by Sage in 2007. Current projects include discourse analytic studies of metadiscourse and a book manuscript on communication theory forthcoming with Blackwell Publishing. Craig’s professional activities have included conference presentations and invited lectures, participation on the editorial boards of scholarly journals and book series, and service to academic institutions and professional organizations. He was founding editor of Communication Theory, a journal of the International Communication Association (ICA) that began publication in 1991. He was president of the International Communication Association for 2003-2004 and program chair for ICA’s 2003 annual conference. He currently serves as Series Editor for the ICA Handbook Series, and as an advisory editor for the International Encyclopedia of Communication. He also edits <meta>discourses | theory <for> communication, an independent scholarly website on communication theory <http://www.colorado.edu/communication/meta-discourses>.

Youichi Ito, Professor of Communication, Akita International University; Emeritus Professor, Keio University

Youichi Ito received his M.S. from School of Public Communication at Boston University and M.A. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.  Currently the ICA board member-at-large for East Asia, he also served as a board member-at-large from 1997 through 2000 and on the board of the International Council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) from 1988 through 1996.  He served as Vice-President of the Political Communication Section of the same association from 1992 through 2000 and also as Vice-President of the Research Committee on Political Communication of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) from 1998 through 2002.  He served as President of the Japan Association of Information and Communication Research from 2004 through 2008. He was the founding Editor of the Keio Communication Review from 1980 through 1996.

Michael Roloff, Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University

Michael Roloff's research and teaching interests are in the general area of interpersonal influence. He has published articles and offers courses focused on persuasion, interpersonal compliance-gaining, conflict management, organizational change and bargaining and negotiation. His current research is focused on conflict avoidance and serial arguing in intimate relationships, the interpretation and construction of persuasive messages, and the effects of planning and alternatives on negotiation processes. He has co-edited four research volumes: (1) Persuasion: New Directions in Theory and Research, (2) Social Cognition and Communication, (3) Interpersonal Processes, and (4) Communication and Negotiation. He wrote Interpersonal Communication: The Social Exchange Approach. He completed a term as the editor of Communication Yearbook and is currently coeditor of Communication Research. He was corecipient of the Woolbert Award for Outstanding Contribution to Communication Research from the Speech Communication Association and of a publication award from the Social Cognition and Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Roloff has received several teaching awards from groups at Northwestern including the Associated Student Government, the Mortar Board, and the Alumni Association. Roloff is a life member of ICA.

Dave Seibold, Professor of Communication, Director of Graduate Program in Management Practice, University of California-Santa Barbara

Dave Seibold has published more than 100 research papers, and delivered more than 200 conference papers and scholarly presentations, in four areas that represent his continuing research interests: communication and interpersonal influence (persuasion, compliance-gaining, motivation), group communication (structuration of decision making, argument and influence processes, facilitation of meetings, problem-solving techniques), organizational communication (participation structures and processes, temporality in workgroups, communication technologies, innovation and organizational change, management and strategic communication), and applied communication (bridging theory and practice, organizational development, evaluation of health communication programs). Recipient of more than a dozen “top paper” awards at conferences, his published research has been recognized by the National Communication Association with Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards in 1976, 1981, and 1986, and the Charles Woolbert Research Award in 1989 for research that has stood the test of time. In 2004 he was named a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association, its highest award for a lifetime of scholarly achievement. He has been a distinguished visiting professor, has lectured at more than two dozen universities worldwide, and has received several teaching honors including campus teaching excellence and professional society teaching awards.

Barbie Zelizer, Professor of Communication, Raymond Williams Chair of Communication, Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication - Annenberg School of Communication, Universtiy of Pennsylvania

A former journalist, Zelizer's work focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism, with a specific interest in journalistic authority, collective memory, and journalistic images in times of crisis and war. She also works on the impact of disciplinary knowledge on academic inquiry. She is coeditor and founder of the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism (Sage). Zelizer has lectured widely both internationally and nationally, and her essays on the media have appeared in The Nation, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Newsday, and other publications. She has been both a Guggenheim Fellow, a Research Fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, and a Fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Zelizer is the current president of the International Communication Association.