Top Paper Award Presented to FDU Communications Professor
Gary Radford
Madison, NJ (November 27, 2006)—Gary Radford, PhD, was
presented with a Top Paper Award from the National
Communication Association (NCA) at their 92nd Annual
Conference on November 17, 2006. His paper, “The Author Should
Die: Semiotics and the Regime of Communication” was selected
from a competitive national pool of entries as best paper
submitted to NCA’s Semiotics and Communication Division in
2006.
Dr. Radford is a professor of communication and
director of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Masters program
in Corporate and Organizational Communication. A native of
England, he joined Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1999
after spending nine years working in the Department of
Communication at William Paterson University. He teaches
courses in Interpersonal Communication, Communication Theory,
Communication Philosophy, and Corporate Communication, drawing
on his unique background in semiotics and other European
approaches to communication. An active and admired professor,
he was named Becton College Teacher of the Year and received
the Educational Opportunity Fund Outstanding Faculty Award in
2003, and was honored with the Distinguished Faculty Award in
2005.
Dr. Radford’s research focuses on philosophical
and critical treatments of the communication process, using
the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault as a
foundation. He has published four major books, written more
than 20 articles for prestigious publications, and has made
presentations at nearly 100 national and international
conferences. He was a founding editor of The New Jersey
Journal of Communication (now the Atlantic Journal of
Communication) in 1993 and has been editor of the journal
since 1995.
Dr. Radford earned his B.A. at Sheffield
City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University) in
Sheffield, England, graduating in the top 5% of his class. He
received his M.S. from Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale and his Ph.D. from Rutgers.