Crisis Communication as Course Correction: Communicative Efforts Revive Goals

W. Timothy Coombs (PhD from Purdue University in public affairs and issues management) is a full professor in Department of Communication at Texas A&M University and holds the Abell Endowed Professorship in liberal arts. He has received the 2002 recipient of Jackson, Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Science Prize from the Public Relations Society of America, and the 2013 Pathfinder Award from the Institute of Public Relations in recognition of his research contributions to the field and to the practice. Coombs has won multiple pride awards from the Public Relations Division of the National Communication Association for both books and research articles. He is also a member of the prestigious Arthur W. Page Society. Coombs was a Fulbright Scholar in Estonia in the Spring of 2013. IIn the fall of 2013, he was named professor at Lund University, Helsingborg Campus. He is a past editor for Corporation Communication: An International Journal.