Elizabeth L. Toth

Elizabeth L. Toth, Ph.D., is professor and immediate past chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was associate dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She is past president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Toth has produced more than 90 refereed journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and conference papers on public relations. She co-authored, edited, and co-edited eight books including Women and Public Relations: How Gender Influences Practice; Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations II, and the forthcoming The Future of Feminism in Public Relations and Strategic Communication: A Socio-ecological Model of Influence. She was editor of the Journal of Public Relations Research. Toth has received the Institute for Public Relations Pathfinder Award and the PRSA Jackson, Jackson & Wagner Behavioral Science Prize. She has received the PRSA Outstanding Educator Award, the PRSA National Capital Chapter’s Diversity Award, and the PRSA College of Fellows Sage Award.