Facts: - caption: robert t. craig - era: contemporary philosophy - region: western philosophy - school tradition: pragmatism - awards: fellow -lrb- lifetime status -rrb- ; best article award , international and communication association , 2000 ; golden anniversary monograph award , past national communication association , 2000 president of the international communication association - birth date: may 10 , 1947 - main interests: communication theory , social constructionism - name: robert t. craig - image size: 250px - notable ideas: grounded practical discipline of communication practical theory , metacommunicative model of communication , - image: bob craig.jpg - birth place: rochester , new york Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of robert t. craig .
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robert t. craig is a communication theorist from the university of colorado , boulder who received his b.a. in speech at the university of wisconsin -- madison , and his m.a and phd .in communication from michigan state university .craig was on the 1988 founding board of the journal '' research on language and social interaction , '' a position he continues to hold .from 1991-1993 craig was the founding editor of the international communication association journal '' communication theory '' which has been in continuous publication since 1991 .he is currently the editor for the ica handbook series .in 2009 craig was elected as a lifetime fellow for the international communication association , an organization he was president for in 2004-2005 .craig 's work '' communication theory as a field '' received the best article award from the international communication association as well as the golden anniversary monograph award from the national communication association .that work has since been translated into french and russian .the theory presented in '' communication theory as a field '' has become the basis of the book '' theorizing communication '' which craig co-edited with heidi muller , as well as being adopted by several other communication theory textbooks as a new framework for understanding the field of communication theory .