Rebecca Rubin, Ph.D.
Professor
B.A., Pennsylvania State University
M.A., Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Interests: Interpersonal Communication, Research Methodology, Personal and Mediated Communication, Uses of New Technologies, Communication Competence
Rebecca B. Rubin is currently researching and teaching in the areas of interpersonal communication, internet use, and personal and mediated communication. In addition to developing assessment instruments and editing measurement/professional monographs, she has published textbooks and many 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 Distinguished Researcher 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.