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Craig R. Scott is the John T. Jones, Jr. Centennial Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies in the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, a position he has held since 2020. Prior to returning to UT Austin, he served at Rutgers University from 2006 to 2020 as Professor, Department Chair from 2016 to 2020, and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Communication, Information and Library Studies from 2008 to 2011. Earlier in his career, Scott was Associate Professor from 2001 to 2006 and Assistant Professor from 1995 to 2001 at UT Austin's Department of Communication Studies, following a brief stint as Assistant Professor at the University of South Alabama in 1994-1995. He earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from Arizona State University in 1994—where his dissertation won the ICA Communication & Technology Division's Dissertation of the Year award—an M.A. in Speech Communication from San Diego State University in 1991, and B.A. in Communication Arts (Public Relations) and B.S. in Business Administration from Regis University in 1989, graduating summa cum laude.

Scott's research centers on organizational communication, with particular emphasis on anonymity, identity and identification, and hidden organizations. His influential book, Anonymous Agencies, Backstreet Businesses, and Covert Collectives: Rethinking Organizations in the 21st Century (Stanford University Press, 2013), received the NCA Organizational Communication Division Top Book Award, Association for Business Communication Distinguished Publication Award, and NCA Applied Communication Division Sue DeWine Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. He co-edited the International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), earning the NCA Outstanding Edited Book Award, and guest-edited a special issue on Hidden Organizations in Management Communication Quarterly (2015), which won the NCA Outstanding Special Issue Award. Highly cited works include his 1998 paper on structurational model of identification (860 citations) and 2007 paper on anonymity in weblogs (660 citations). Scott serves on editorial boards for journals such as Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Communication, and Human Communication Research. His contributions earned him the ICA Frederick M. Jablin Award for Outstanding Contributions to Organizational Communication in 2021 and ICA Fellowship in 2023. He has chaired the ICA Organizational Communication Division, led NCA committees, and mentored award-winning doctoral students, advancing the field's understanding of communicative concealment and organizational secrecy.