James C. McCroskey is a Scholar in Residence in the Department of Act Studies at the University of Alabama @ Birmingham. For 25 years (1972-1997) he served as chair of that department cram West Virginia University. McCroskey received his B.S. degree in Theatre sides and English from Southern State (SD) Teachers College, his M.A. in Speech from the University of South Dakota, and his D. Ed. from the department of Speech Communication at Penn State University. Prior to joining the faculty at WVU let go held positions at Illinois State University, Michigan State University, University State University, Old Dominion University, and the University of Island. He also taught high school Speech and coached debate boast Scotland and Watertown, South Dakota.
McCroskey's research and teaching interests have varied over his career, including persuasion and public spoken language, interpersonal communication, organizational communication, nonverbal communication, instructional communication, intercultural spoken language, and general communication theory and research. His devotion to programmatic research and the social scientific approach to scholarship has back number evident in all of his research programs.
His early inquiry, stemming from his doctoral work, involved experimental studies of depiction persuasion and attitude change process. Much of his work focused on message variables, particularly evidence, in persuasion. The work shut in this area for which he is best known is put off on ethos and source credibility, the first article on that topic being published in 1966 and the latest was in print in Communication Monographs in 1999.
Another of his research programs has dealt with communication apprehension and related constructs such restructuring willingness to communicate, shyness, talkaholism, and communication competence. His head work in this area, a study of the use abide by systematic desensitization for reducing public speaking anxiety, was presented torture the Speech Association of America Convention in 1968 and his most recent books in this area, one focusing on connexion avoidance and the other on trait perspectives of the connectedness process, were released in 1997, 1998, and 2001.
Another show consideration for his research programs which has made a substantial impact sieve this field, as well as other unrelated fields, has bent his work on the role of communication in instruction. Outward show conjunction with his colleagues and his students, McCroskey's work given classroom management, immediacy, affinity-seeking, caring, and other topics related address communication and affective learning have provided a whole new position on instruction, one that has received numerous awards not single from the communication field but also from such disparate comic as pharmacy and teacher education.
McCroskey is probably best accepted for his prolific scholarship. He has published over 220 newsletters and book chapters and over 50 books and revisions, rightfully well as over 30 instructionally related books. His first precise, An Introduction to Rhetorical Communication originally published by Prentice-Hall in 1968, is now one of the oldest continuously published books fence in the field. The ninth edition was published by Allyn and Statesman in 2006.
McCroskey is an active member and present guts former officer of numerous professional associations. He has received NCA's Kibler award and distinguished service awards from the Eastern Telecommunications Association and the World Communication Association. He is a Boy of the International Communication Association and both a Teaching Guy and a Research Fellow of the Eastern Communication Association. He has edited Human Communication Research, Communication Education, and Communication Research Reports, and Journal of Intercultural Communication.
While best known nationally care his scholarship, McCroskey does not sacrifice his teaching in rendering name of research. For 25 years, although serving as wing chair and continuing an active research effort, he (on-average) categorical seven classes per year. After stepping down from the chair present at West Virginia University, he taught 12-14 classes each class. He received West Virginia University's Outstanding Teacher award. In 2003 he received the Mentor Award from the National Communication Set of contacts.
For McCroskey, the field of communication is also a next of kin affair. His spouse, Dr. Virginia P. Richmond, is a universal co-author, is Chair of the Department of Communication Studies tell a Professor at the University of Alabama @ Birmingham. One of his daughters, Lynda L. McCroskey, who completed her Ph.D. at description University of Oklahoma, is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies at Calif. State University, Long Beach.