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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#131516;background:white">It is a privilege to share with you this exciting news:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">The Board of Directors of the Society for Technical Communication is pleased to announce that Dr. Miriam F. Williams of Texas State University will assume
the position of Editor-in-Chief for the journal, <i>Technical Communication</i>, starting in January 2021. Dr. Williams is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of English at Texas State and previously directed its MA program in Technical Communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">In her professional career, Dr. Williams worked for the Texas Department of Health and Human Services Commission (DHS) as a Policy Specialist and Regulation Editor/Developer. Later, at DHS, Dr. Williams served as the Program Administrator
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">After completing her PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University, Dr. Williams started her academic career at Texas State University
in 2005. She served as the Presidential Fellow for 2011-2012 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2014.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white">Dr. Williams is an award winning scholar, including the 2020 CCCC Award for Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical
and Scientific Communication (“</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Technologies of Disenfranchisement: Literacy Tests and Black Voters in the US from 1890 to 1965,”
<i>Technical Communication</i> 65.4, 2018, <span style="background:white">co-authored with Natasha N. Jones) and the 2016 CCCC Award for
</span>Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication (<i>Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication</i>, Routledge, 2014, co-edited with Octavio Pimentel).
<span style="background:white">In 2017, she was elevated to Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). </span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Dr. Williams views practitioner-academic collaborations in research as a central part of her vision for the journal. As a scholar and practitioner with a commitment to social justice, she intends to keep the journal relevant,
timely, and award winning. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam Dragga<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Editor,
<i>Technical Communication</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">sam.dragga@ttu.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1-806-543-6099<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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