Larissa A. Grunig, professor emerita, retired from the faculty of the University of Maryland. where she had taught public relations and communication research since 1978. She has received the Pathfinder Award for excellence in research, sponsored by the Institute for Public Relations, the Jackson, Jackson, and Wagner Behavioral Science Prize, and the Outstanding Educator Award of the Public Relations Society of America.
She was co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Public Relations Research and has written more than 200 articles, book chapters, monographs, reviews, and conference papers on public relations, activism, science writing, feminist theory, communication theory, and research.
She co-authored the first book about women in public relations
