Howard GilesHoward Giles is distinguished research professor of communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara and honorary professor of psychology at The University of Queensland, Australia. He is founding editor of the Journal of Languae and Social Psychology and the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication and was past president of the International Communication Association and the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. He is also director of volunteer services at the Santa Barbara Police Department where, for 15 years, he was a reserve officer (and 24/7 member of the Crisis Negotiation Response Team), and the recipient of 13 outstanding service awards (including one at the State level). His research interests encompass interpersonal and intergroup communication processes in intergenerational, police-civilian, and other intergroup settings, and he is co-editor of the two-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Intergroup Communication (2018). His research on communication and attitudes toward law enforcement spans over a dozen nations from Mongolia to Bulgaria to Russia. Read More Read Less