Stewart L. Tubbs is the Darrell H. Cooper Professor of Leadership in the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University and former Dean of the College of Business. He received his doctorate in Communication and Organizational Behavior from the University of Kansas. His master’s degree in Communication and his bachelor’s degree in Science are from Bowling Green State University. He has completed postdoctoral work in management at the University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dr. Tubbs has also taught at General Motors Institute, and at Boise State University, where he was Chairman of the Management Department and, later, Associate Dean of the College of Business.

He has been named an Outstanding Teacher five times, has consulted extensively for Fortune 500 companies, and is former Chairman of the Organizational Communication division of the Academy of Management. In 1994, he received the Outstanding Leadership Award in London from the Academy of Business Administration and was also inducted into the Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame by Lakewood High School in Lakewood, Ohio.

Dr. Tubbs is the author of A Systems Approach to Small Group Interaction, Keys to Leadership: 101 Steps to Success, and co-author of Interpersonal Communication with Sylvia Moss. He is listed in American Men and Women of Science, Contemporary Authors, Directory of American Scholars, the International Who’s Who in Education, and Outstanding Young Men of America.

Sylvia Moss is a professional writer with a strong interest in the social sciences. She received her undergraduate education at Barnard College and the University of Wisconsin and holds graduate degrees from Columbia University and New York University. She is the author, with Stewart Tubbs, of Interpersonal Communication and has contributed to several college textbooks in the social sciences.

She is also the author of Cities in Motion, a collection of poetry selected by Derek Walcott for The National Poetry Series and published by the University of Illinois Press. She has received a Whiting Writer’s Award and twice been a Yaddo Fellow. Selections from her work also appear in the bilingual poetry anthology Six Poets (St. Petersburg) as well as in the Grolier Poetry Prize Annual and such literary journals as New Letters, Helicon Nine, and Foreign Literature (Moscow).

Ms. Moss has taught at the College of New Rochelle and is a former Random House and Knopf editor. Her translations of contemporary Russian poetry have appeared in International Poetry Review, and she is currently working on a booklength collection of English translations of Russian poems. Asia is her area of special interest and training. She is the editor of China 5000 Years: Innovation and Transformation in the Arts, published by the Guggenheim Museum.