{"id":9,"date":"2016-07-07T20:53:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tsocha\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2024-08-27T21:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T21:23:06","slug":"professor-socha","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tsocha\/professor-socha\/","title":{"rendered":"About Professor Thomas Socha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Socha received his PhD in Communication at the University of Iowa. He has taught at Old Dominion University since 1989. He is a Professor of Communication, an ODU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/academics\/odufaculty\/university-professors\">University Professor <\/a>(for distinguished teaching), and the former and founding Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/commtheatre\/graduate#.V37Bxle7eu4\">Graduate Program in Lifespan &amp; Digital Communication<\/a>. He was the founding Editor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/hjfc20#.V37Dfle7eu4\">Journal of Family Communication <\/a>(2000-2005) and is currently the founding Editor of the international book series:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlang.com\/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&amp;seitentyp=series&amp;pk=41782&amp;concordeid=LC\">Lifespan Communication: Children, Families, and Aging<\/a>. He And edits the new book series, Palgrave Studies in Positive Communication. He is a leading national scholar in family communication, children&#8217;s communication, and most recently positive communication.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Thomas J. Socha, PhD., Department of Communication &amp; Theatre Arts, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, 23529, 757-683-3833, tsocha@odu.edu<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Socha received his PhD in Communication at the University of Iowa. He has taught at Old Dominion University since 1989. He is a Professor of Communication, an ODU University Professor (for distinguished teaching), and the former and founding Director&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tsocha\/professor-socha\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3364,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tsocha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tsocha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tsocha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tsocha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tsocha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tsocha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tsocha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/tsocha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}