Dawn O. Braithwaite is a Willa Cather Professor Emerita at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

Paul Schrodt is the Philip J. and Cheryl C. Burguières Professor of Communication Studies at Texas Christian University, USA.

Colleen Warner is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Missouri, USA.

Kathleen M. Galvin was a Professor Emerita of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, USA.