Interests: Interpersonal Communication, Communication Competence Research Methodology, Personal and Mediated Communication, Uses of New Technologies
Rebecca B. Rubin is currently researching and teaching in the areas of interpersonal
communication, communication competence, and personal and mediated communication. In
addition to developing assessment instruments and editing measurement/professional
monographs, she has published 2 textbooks and more than 50 book chapters and journal
articles. She has been identified as a prolific researcher, and her biography appears in a
volume highlighting important professional and academic women in communication, Women
in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook. In 2000, she received the SCA Distinquished Teacher Award, a Graduate Student Senate Mentorship Award, and was a finalist for the University Research Award. Prior to coming to Kent in 1982, she
taught at Cleveland State University, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, University of
North Carolina-Greensboro, Georgia Southern College, and Messiah College.
