Human Relationships
 Steve Ducktaught at two universities in the United Kingdom before taking up the Daniel and Amy Starch Distinguished Research Chair in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa, where he is a professor of communication studies and adjunct professor of psychology. He is also a Dean's Administrative Fellow and Chair of the Rhetoric Department. Duck has taught several interpersonal communication courses, mostly on relationships, but also on nonverbal communication, communication in everyday life, construction of identity, communication theory, organizational leadership, and procedures and practices for leaders. Duck has written or edited 60 books on relationships and founded theJournal of Social and Personal Relationships, which he served as Editor for 15 year, and co-founded a series of international conferences on personal relations. His book,Meaningful Relationships: Talking, Sense, and Relating, won the G. R. Miller Book Awardfrom the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Duck has also won several personal awards such as the University of Iowa’s firstOutstanding Faculty Mentor Awardin 2001, the 2004 National Communication Association’sRobert J. Kibler Memorial Award, the 2010Helen Kechriotis Nelson Teaching Awardfrom UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and elected 2010Distinguished Scholarfrom the National Communication Association. He hopes to someday appear on a viral YouTube clip and be famous.