West, Richard: - Richard West received his Ph.D. from Ohio University in Athens and is Professor in Communication Studies at Emerson College, Boston. Rich has served as President of the Eastern Communication Association as well as President of the National Communication Association (NCA), the oldest and largest professional communication association in the world. He and Lynn have co-authored five books co-edited two anthologies, The Sage Handbook of Family Communication (2014) and the Family Communication Sourcebook (2006), the latter receiving NCA's Distinguished Book Award. He is the co-recipient of the Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Scholarship in Family Communication Award and have served together as guest co-editors of the Journal of Family Communication upon three different occasions.