Karen Foss (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is Regents Professor and until recently was Chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico and has joined Stephen Littlejohn as a co-author on his bestsellingtextbook, Theories of Human Communication, 9th Edition. She has been at the University of New Mexico since 1993 and in that time served not only as a departmental chair but also as Director of Graduate Studies for the department and as Director of Women s Studies. In 2005, she received the Gender Scholar of the Year award from the Southern States Communication...