Don W. Stacks - Co-editor for the Public Relations Collection

Don W. Stacks, Ph.D., is Professor and Director of the Public Relations Program in the School of Communication at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. Stacks has written more than 150 scholarly articles and papers. His awards include the Ralph Nichols Award for research in Listening (1984); the Institute for Public Relations Research awarded Stacks its 1999 "Pathfinder Award;" the University of Miami awarded him its “Provost’s Award for Outstanding Research and Theory” in 1999; the Public Relations Society of America named him Outstanding Educator in 2003 and the recipient of the Jackson Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Science Prize in 2005; in 1992 he was named “Outstanding Professor” by University of Miami students.

In 2007 Stacks was elected to as an Eastern Communication Association “Distinguished Research Fellow.” Stacks has authored or coauthored seven books on communication topics, to include the award winning Primer of Public Relations Research, the National Communication Association’s PRIDE award and was named the Measurement Standard’s “measurement tool” for 2003. He edited the 2002 and 2006 Dictionary of Public Relations Research and Measurement. Stacks serves on the Boards of the Institute for Public Relations and the International Public Relations Association and is a member of Echo Research’s Senior Advisory Group of Experts, specializing in evaluation research.