Verified by Dawn O. Braithwaite Ph.D.
Dawn O. Braithwaite, Ph.D., is a Willa Cather Professor of Communication at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She studies how families interact to create, navigate, and change relationships, routines, and traditions, especially in stepfamilies and chosen families.
A Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association (NCA) and the Western States Communication Association (WSCA), Braithwaite has published six books in 14 editions, including Engaging Theories in Interpersonal Communication (3nd ed.) and Family Communication: Cohesion and Change (10th ed.), as well as over 130 articles. She received NCA’s Brommel Award for Family Communication, the Samuel Becker Distinguished Service Award. Braithwaite served as President of WSCA in 2000 and as President of NCA in 2010.
