Committee Charges
- Maintains ongoing forum discussions with committee members about topics related to business communication research.
- Recommends the Outstanding Researcher Award recipient.
- Recommends the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Business Communication Award recipient.
- Ensures the Outstanding Researcher Award recipient and the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Business Communication Award recipient are publicized in the ABC newsletter and on the ABC website.
- Organizes a panel, poster or workshop at the annual conference.
- Serves as an important resource for the Association on research issues.
- Invites former winners of the Outstanding Researcher Award (ORA) and Outstanding Dissertation Award (ODA) to join the committee.
- Invites former IJBC and BPCQ editors or associate editors to join the committee.
- Works with the Technology Coordinator to feature research resources on the website.
- Encourages business communication research and citing business communication scholarship in members’ research.
- Works with the Graduate Studies Committee and Academic Environment Committee to assess the status of business communication as an academic discipline and foster the perception of business communication as a discipline with a strong research base.
- Requests committee members additions/drops by first logging into ABC and then completing the Committee Update Request Form.
Committee Chair
Stephen Carradini, 2024
Committee Members
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End of 3-Year Term
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Abram Anders |
12/31/2026 |
Tatiana Batova |
12/31/2025 |
Kim Sydow Campbell |
12/31/2026 |
Stephen Carradini |
12/31/2024 |
Suwichit (Sean) Chaidaroon |
12/31/2025 |
Valerie Creelman |
12/31/2026 |
Bertha Du-Babcock |
12/31/2025 |
Ryan Fuller |
12/31/2026 |
Mathew Gillings |
12/31/2025 |
Yan Jin |
12/31/2025 |
Yeonkwon Jung |
12/31/2024 |
Sky Marsen |
12/31/2025 |
Veronica Rice McCray |
12/31/2026 |
Lisa Meloncon |
12/31/2025 |
Clive Muir |
12/31/2025 |
Milena Nagengast |
12/31/2025 |
Brigitte Planken |
12/31/2026 |
Kirk St.Amant |
12/31/2026 |
Junhua Wang |
12/31/2025 |
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Recent Prior Chairs
Milena Nagengast
Sky Marsen, Flinders University
Catherine Nickerson, Zayed University
Daphne Jameson, Cornell University
Cynthia Ryan, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Community Page
Members of the Research Committee can access the committee’s forum and file library on their Community Page.