Dennis L. Wilcox
Professor

Office: DBH 110
Phone: 408-924-3243
E-mail: dwilcox@casa.sjsu.edu
Office Hours: MW 1:30-3p.m., or by appointment

Courses I've Taught:

 

Education:
Ph.D., University of Missouri, mass communications
M.A., University of Iowa, journalism
B.A., University of Denver, international relations
 
Professional Experience:
Professor of public relations and immediate past director of the School of Journalism & Mass Communications.
Author of six books. Current titles include Public Relations Strategies & Tactics, 8th edition (Allyn & Bacon), which is used as an introductory text in more than 300 colleges and universities, and Public Relations Writing & Media Techniques, 5th edition (Allyn & Bacon), which is used in more than 135 educational institutions. Also co-author of Essentials of Public Relations. A new book, Public Relations: Managing Conflict and Competition, will be published in mid-2007.
Editorial board, Journal of Public Relations Research and the Public Relations Review. Former national board member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and a inducted member of the College of Fellows. Active in the International Public Relations Association (IPRA), the Arthur W. Page Society (senior communication executives) and the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communications (AEJMC). Former chair of the PRSA educator’s academy and the AEJMC public relations division.
In 2000, he was named one of the top ten public relations educators in the country by PRWeek. In 2006, he was awarded the Xifra-Heras International Award by the University of Girona in Spain for outstanding contributions to public relations education. Currently appointed “honorary” adjunct professor at the University of Queensland (2006-2008).
Fulbright professor at the University of Botswana (1994-95). Past visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Rhodes University (South Africa) and Queensland University of Technology (Australia). Former USIA professional-in-residence at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Estonia. Dr. Wilcox has given workshops on public relations in such diverse nations as Lativa, Mauritius, Romania, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Spain, and Argentina. In 2005, he was the keynote speaker for the Congress of Latin America Public Relations Professionals in Valparaiso, Chile. Long active in international education, he conducted two summer short-courses for SJSU students in Bangkok, and has also served on the national selection committee for Muskie Fellows in journalism from Russia and the former republics. In summer 2006, he was a University “fellow” at the Salzburg Seminar in Austria. National selection committee for Muskie Fellows/Freedom Support Act, which is a U.S. government program to bring young professionals from the nations of the former Soviet Union to the United States for graduate study in journalism and mass communications.
 

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