Oct 9, 2023
Howie and Jane Giles and former UCSB grads (Jessica Gasiorek and Sharde Davis) win 2023 Communication and Aging Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association’s CAD Division for their book: Giles, H., Gasiorek, J., Davis, S., & Giles, J. (2022). Communication for successful aging: Empowering individuals across the lifespan. Routledge. The committee commented that the book “is nicely grounded in leading-edge theory and reflective of a productive line of research by the authors and other scholars,” and particularly appreciated that it “focuses squarely on communicative aspects of aging.”