Umd Communication Professor Named Fellow Of The International Communication Association

Professor Edward L. Fink is first UMD faculty member to receive this recognition.

The College of Arts and Humanities would like to congratulate University of Maryland (UMD) Communication Professor Edward L. Fink on being named Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA) at its Annual Conference in May.

Fellow status from the ICA is primarily a recognition of distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication. Fellows are nominated by ICA members to the Fellow Nominating Committee (FNC), approved by the current fellows and by ICA's Board of Directors, and then selections are announced at the Annual Conference.

Fink was recognized by the ICA for his contributions to formal theory construction and methodological innovation. His research poses fundamental questions about attitude and belief change, communication networks, social influence, intercultural communication and interaction. Fellow status has been awarded by the ICA since 1979 and Fink is the first UMD faculty member to receive this recognition.

Since 1981, Fink has been at the University of Maryland serving in various roles including professor and chair (1997-2007) of the Department of Communication, as well as acting associate dean for Graduate Studies and Research (1993-1995). He also serves as an affiliate professor of sociology, psychology and the Ph.D. program in second language acquisition. Past awards and honors include the University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher (1988-1989), the Lady Davis Visiting Professorship to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998) and the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award from the International Communication Association (May 2003).

Fink’s work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Communication Research, Social Psychology Quarterly, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and Behavioral Science, as well as in journals in health education, criminology, and information science. He co-authored The Measurement of Communication Processes (New York, NY: Academic Press, 1980) and many articles and chapters in the communication, sociology, psychology, criminology, and health education literatures. Additionally, he served as the editor of Human Communication Research from 1998-2000. Several of his articles have won awards.

The ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication. The organization began more than 50 years ago as a small association of U.S. researchers and is now an international association with more than 4,500 members in 80 countries. For more information about the ICA, please click here.