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Since Fall 2017, Dr. Adams has served as the Chair and Caterpillar Professor of Communication at Bradley University. Prior to Bradley, he served as the Chair of the Department of Communication, Media, and Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU; 2008-2017). In 2017, he was honored to be named the Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor, the highest research award at NEIU; in 2021, he was honored to be named a Caterpillar Professor, the highest research award at Bradley.Dr. Adams received an A.S.(Business Administration) from Danville Area Community College, a B.A.(Radio-Television) and a M.S.(Communication Studies)) from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a Ph.D. (Communication) from the University of South Florida. He has published more than 75 articles and book chapters and has (co)authored and (co)edited nine books including Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same-Sex Attraction (Routledge), Autoethnography (Oxford University Press), and the Handbook of Autoethnography (Routledge).Dr. Adams has facilitated workshops on communication and qualitative research at numerous institutions, including the University of Edinburgh, Texas A&M, the University of Alabama, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Iceland, the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, and the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He is a co-editor of the Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives book series (Routledge) and founding co-editor of the Journal of Autoethnography (University of California Press).You can contact him at tony.e.adams@gmail.com