PASSAGES: James William Tankard

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator | October 1, 2005| | Copyright

James William Tankard, Jr., professor emeritus in journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, passed away August 12, 2005, in Austin. He was born June 20, 1941, in Newport News, Virginia.

Tankard earned undergraduate degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His 1970 Ph.D. from Stanford University was a dissertation on eye contact as a communication channel. Tankard spent the bulk of his academic career at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was Jesse H. Jones professor in journalism. When he retired in 2004 after thirty-two ...

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