Rawlins, William K.

William K. Rawlins (Ph.D., Temple University) is Stocker Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. His book, "Friendship Matters: Communication, Dialectics, and the Life Course", was selected as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1993 by the editors of "Choice", and received the Gerald R. Miller Book Award in 1994 from the Interpersonal and Small Group Interaction Division of the National Communication Association. In 2002 he received The Theory That Has Left a Legacy Award: The Dialectical Perspective from the Communication Theory Interest Group of the Central States