Dr. Judee Burgoon, University of Arizona, “Unmasking Deception: Detecting credible and deceptive communication from verbal and nonverbal clues.” 

Dr. Burgoon will focus on her work on interpersonal deception theory, as well as her research with the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security on deception detection. 

Dr. Burgoon is a Professor of Communication, Family Studies, and Human Development at the University of Arizona, where she is also the Director of Human Communication Research for the Center for the Management of Information in the Eller College of Management. She has been recognized as the most published woman scholar in communication, with numerous publications in areas such as deception, nonverbal communication, expectancy violations, and relational messages.  She has received several grants to study deception from the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.