Linda Costigan Lederman, Ph.D., is professor of health and human communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Professor Lederman's research focuses on the relationship among the domains of human interaction, experiential learning and various health issues, including alcohol and other drugs, tobacco, domestic violence and leadership and change in organizational life. Her work has been funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Education Safe and Drug Free School Program ($425,000; $250,000; $98,000), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) ($6 million), the U.S. Department of Justice ($400,000), the N.J. Consortium ($60,000) and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE) ($250,000). She has won awards from the U.S. Department of Education for a Model Program and as mentor of the Model Program Award for another university.
In August 2006, Professor Ledeman was selected as founding director of the Institute for Social Science Research at ASU. In May 2007, Professor Lederman was appointed dean of social sciences for ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Professor Lederman manages 14 academic units, including the School of Geographical Sciences, the School of Global Studies, the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, the School of Justice and Social Inquiry and the School of Social and Family Dynamics and the departments of political science and transborder studies. Additionally, the division includes six programs: aerospace studies, military science studies, African and African-American studies, American Indian studies, Asian Pacific-American studies, and women and gender studies.
Professor Lederman is an award winning teacher whose first book, "New Dimensions," was one of the first communication texts in interpersonal communication to take an experiential approach. Her most recent book is, "Changing the Culture of College Drinking" (with Lea Stewart), the first scholarly communication book on communication and alcohol prevention. She is currently working on "Readings in Health Communication." She received her degrees at Brown University (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.) and Rutgers University (Ph.D.).
Professor Lederman was inaugural director of the Center for Communication and Health Issues at Rutgers University where she served on the faculty of the Department of Communication for more than 25 years, and held joint faculty appointments in the School of Education and the Center of Alcohol Studies. Rutgers presented her in 2003 with its Distinguished Public Service Award. Professor Lederman has been interviewed on CNN, NBC and local NY and NJ radio and television programs talking about her work to reduce dangerous drinking on college campuses.
The Student Voices Project (SVP) is a research report on students' perceptions of dangerous drinking and university policy banning alcohol use on campus at ASU that was prepared by Professor Lederman and students in COM 601 Health Communication (spring 2006) and presented to the ASU Alcohol Task Force.
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