Departmental News
Toth Named Department Chair
College of Arts & Humanities Dean James F. Harris announced the appointment of Professor Elizabeth L. Toth as the chair of the Department of Communication. Toth succeeds Professor Edward L. Fink who served two five year terms as chair.
Dr. Toth is an internationally recognized scholar of public relations and former Associate Dean of the Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University. She has co-authored Women and Public Relations: How Gender Influences Practice; The Velvet Ghetto: The Increasing Numbers of Women in Public Relations, Beyond the Velvet Ghetto, and the PRSA Glass Ceiling studies. She co-edited The Gender Challenge to Media: Diverse Voices from the Field. In 2000, she received a $10,000 grant from the Public Relations Society of America to conduct a work, life, and gender survey of PRSA members. Toth edited the Journal of Public Relations Research for six years. Currently, she co-edits Journalism Studies, a new international journal. Her co-edited book Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations won the NCA PRIDE Award. She has published over 75 articles, book chapters, and papers.
