Don Rubin (PhD 1978, University of Minnesota) is jointly appointed as Professor in UGA’s Department of Speech Communication and Department of Language Education.  He is also a member of the Linguistics faculty, and a fellow in the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute (where he also sits on the governing council).  Rubin currently serves as editor of the journal Communication Education.   He is principal investigator of a three-year grant funded by the National Cancer Institute, “Linguistic Analyses of Tobacco Industry Documents,” and co-investigator of another similar grant focusing on Environmental Tobacco Smoke.  Rubin teaches mainly in the area of intercultural communication and TESOL.  He supervises UGA’s training for international teaching assistants.  He has published in such journals as Health Communication, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Research in the Teaching of English, and Journal of Communication, as well as Communication Education.  His research interests encompass such areas as health promotion messages (e.g., impact of social cognitive development), audience adaptation in language (e.g., tobacco industry strategies), language and attitude (e.g., evaluational reactions to nonstandard or non-native speakers of English), linguistic performance of social identity (e.g., gender-typed style),  intercultural contact (e.g., outcomes of studying abroad), oral language (e.g., listenability of messages), and instructional discourse (e.g., classroom interaction).