Dean Kruckeberg, Ph.D., APR and Fellow PRSA (Public Relations Society of America), is executive director of the Center for Global Public Relations and a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Previously, he was a public relations professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Northern Iowa and coordinator of the Public Relations Degree Program and the Mass Communication Division. He is a charter member of the Commission on Global Public Relations Research and a senior fellow of the Society for New Communications Research. Since 1997, Kruckeberg has been co-chair of the Commission on Public Relations Education. For the PRSA, he served for two years on the national board, is a member of the PRSA Advocacy Advisory Board, has been chair of the Educator's Section (now Academy), was Midwest District Chair of PRSA, and was co-chair of the national Educational Affairs Committee of which he remains a member. He is former National Faculty Advisor of the Public Relations Student Society of America and former Advisor to Forum, the national newspaper of PRSSA. He is a past chair of the Public Relations Division of the International Communication Association, former Head of the Public Relations Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and former Chair of the Public Relations Division of the National Communication Association. Awards include PRSA's outstanding educator in 1995; 1997 recipient of the Pathfinder Award from the Institute for Public Relations; 1997 State of Iowa Regents Faculty Excellence Award; 1998 Wartburg College Alumni Citation; and 2006 recipient of the Jackson Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Research Prize. In addition to this text, Kruckeberg is co-author of the book PUBLIC RELATIONS AND COMMUNITY: A RECONSTRUCTED THEORY.
