Steve Duck's work centers on communication in relationship development and
disintegration, and focuses particularly on everyday communication in the context of
personal relationships, especially variation in experience and communication during the
day. He has edited or written 50 books and was founding editor of the Journal of Social
and Personal Relationships. His work generally seeks to relate the rhetoric of everyday
talk to interpersonal relationship processes. He won the University of Iowa's first
Graduate College Outstanding Mentor Award in 2001. In 2004 he won the Robert J. Kibler
Memorial Award from NCA, which "recognizes NCA members who have demonstrated
dedication to excellence, commitment to the profession, concern for others, vision of
what could be, acceptance of diversity, and forthrightness". Also Winner Helen
Kechriotis Nelson Career Teaching Award, CLAS 2010.

Articles

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A past and a future for relationship research, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2008)
 

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How do you tell someone you're letting go?, The Psychologist (2005)
 

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Point of View Article: Proteus in the Family Castle: Studying the Inconstant Using the Unwieldy in Unison (with Robin Crumm), Journal of Family Communication (2004)

This article entails studying the inconstant using the unwieldy in Unison. Although family communication research...

 

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Handbook of Interpersonal Communication (with D. C. Kirkpatrick), Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2004)

Reviewing Knapp, M. L. and J.A. Daly: Handbook of Interpersonal Communication for the Journal of...

 

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The Everyday Interplay between Family Relationships and Family Members’ Health (with Carma L. Bylund), Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2004)
 

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Books

The Basics of Communication: A Relational Perspective (with David T. Mcmahan) (2011)
 

Communication in Everyday Life (with David T. McMahan) (2010)
 

Rethinking Relationships (2010)
 

The Basics of Communication: A Relational Perspective (with David T. McMahan) (2008)
 

Human Relationships (2007)
 

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Contributions to Books

Interpersonal Attraction and Personal Relationships, Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (2010)
 

Serious Challenges in Interpersonal Relationships: The case of Pat and Chris, Casing Interpersonal Communication: Case Studies in Personal and Social Relationships (2010)
 

Friendship as a Rhetorical and Epistemic Accomplishment (with K. Norwood), 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook (2009)
 

Interpersonal Communication (with B. Young), Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences (2009)
 

Relationship Dissolution Processes (with K. Norwood), Encyclopedia of Relationships (2009)
 

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Popular Press

Friends and Health, Cosmopolitan (1984)
 

Love: a modern myth?, Cosmopolitan (1984)
 

"Intimacy: can men handle it?, Cosmopolitan (1983)
 

With a little help from my friends..., New Society (1980)
 

The basis of friendship and personal relationships, Current Anthropology (1978)
 

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Presentations

Relationships Matter: Advancing the Basic Course Using a Relational Approach (with D. T. McMahan), Iowa Communication Association, DMACC (2011)
 

Advancing the Basic Course: Teaching a Relational Perspective of Communication (with D. McMahan), Central States Communication Association Annual Convention (2011)
 

The Basic Course: A relational approach, National Communication Association annual convention (2010)
 

Kenneth Burke and personal relationships: An overlooked partnership?, Eastern Communication Association (2010)
 

New Media are not NEW: They are RELATIONAL, Central Sates Communication Association (2010)
 

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