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Richard Wilkins
Richard Wilkins is a tenured associate professor of communication at the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College, CUNY. Professor Wilkins received his BA and MA in Adult Education from Tampere University in Finland. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Previous work appears in major national and international journals in the field of communication, language, and culture and includes articles published in Communication Yearbook, Journal of Communication, Atlantic Journal of Communication, Communication Reports, and International Journal of Intercultural Relations. Most recently, Professor Wilkins co-edited a collection of empirical studies about what many in Finland suggest is a Finnish speech culture. One of the first books of its kind, it features essays from scholars on both sides of the Atlantic drawn together by a common theme: as persons speak they speak culturally. Using qualitative methodology in general and ethnography in particular, they feature work in such areas as terms for talk, the regulation of talk, relational dialectics, face-work, intangibles, strategic communication, and argumentation.