Amiso George

Professor
Strategic Communication
MOUS 219

Education

Ph.D., Ohio University
M.A., Ohio University
B.S., Ohio University

STCO 31423: Strategic Writing
STCO 32503: Images
STCO 47422: Global Communication
STCO 47523/53483: Crisis Communication*
STCO 48833: Campaigns (PR)

Risk and crisis communication. Public relations. Corporate communication.

Presented papers on public relations and crisis communication at national and international conferences and has published journal articles and book chapters in the same area
Co-editor of Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives.
Co-editor of Case Studies in Crisis Communication: International Perspective on Hits and Misses
Co-editor of Race, Gender and Other Minorities: Readings for Professional Communicators
Editor for Sage Open Access (online) publisher
Reviewer for Routledge, John Wiley and Oxford University publishers

Former director of the TCU Strategic Communication graduate program.
Developed and taught the first course in crisis communication.
Director of the public relations program at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada in Reno.
Taught at University of Texas San Antonio.
Worked as a radio and television journalist and freelance broadcaster at Nigerian Television Authority and Voice of America (Africa Service), a consultant for C-SPAN-TV in Washington, D.C., editor-at-large for Celebrate Your Heritage (CYH, and a public relations consultant.
APR Accreditation Chair for the Greater Fort Worth PRSA.
Former board member and vice chair of Ohio University Alumni Association.
Plank Public Relations Fellow in the Corporate Communications Department at USAA.
Conducted a workshop on crisis communication.
Visiting associate professor of strategic communication at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. George is an external examiner for the public relations program at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia.
Dr. George consults in risk and crisis communication.

PRSA Fellow
Accredited in Public Relations (APR)
Winner of three Worthy (professional PRSA) awards.
Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award at University of Texas San Antonio
Stephen H. Coltrin Award for Excellence in Communication Education
The Best of Texas award for her student teams at the Texas Public Relations Association (TPRA) Student Case Study Competition
2018 Bridge Award for Excellence in Strategic Communication Research by the International Crisis and Risk Communication Conference and the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida
2017 PRSA Educator of the Year
2017 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY)