Janie Harden Fritz Editor

Özüm Üçok-Sayrak is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University, USA. Her research interests include communication ethics, philosophy of communication, ethics and epistemology, contemplative education, and communicative construction of identity. Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Review of Communication, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Human Studies, Atlantic Journal of Communication, and Symbolic Interaction. She is the author of Aesthetic Ecology of Communication Ethics: Existential Rootedness (2019).

Janie Harden Fritz is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University, USA and holds the William Patrick Power, C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Academic Leadership (2019–2024). Her research focuses on communicative practices that constitute, sever, and restore the ties that bind individuals to the institutions of which they are a part. She is the author of Professional Civility: Communicative Virtue at Work (2013). Dr. Fritz is editor-in-chief of Listening/Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture and editor of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.

Kristen Lynn Majocha is Senior Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA. Her research focuses on religious communication, ethics, and pedagogy. She has published her work in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Communication and Religion. She is editor of the Iowa Journal of Communication, which was recently named journal of the year by the Central States Communication Association.