Tom Kelleher is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the University of Florida Graduate School and Professor in the College of Journalism and Communications, where he served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research from 2019 to 2022 and Chair of the Department of Advertising from 2014 to 2019. Prior to his position at UF, Kelleher served on the faculty at the University of Hawaii for 13 years. From 2010 to 2013, he was chair of the School of Communications at UH. He also served on the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2004 to 2006. A native Floridian, he earned his B.A. from Flagler College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida.Kelleher has designed and taught 22 different courses at three flagship state universities (Hawaii, North Carolina, and Florida). He has published in several different scholarly journals including Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Journal of Public Relations Research, and Public Relations Review. In 2018, Oxford University Press published his second book, Public Relations, an introductory textbook that covers fundamentals with organic integration of practical ethics and digital, social, and mobile technologies (2nd ed. published in 2021).He has worked in university relations at the University of Florida; science communication at NASA in Huntsville, Alabama; and at Ketchum in Atlanta.