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Dr. Larissa A. Grunig (also known as Lauri Grunig) is a public relations theorist and feminist, and is known as one of the most published and influential scholars in public relations. A professor emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Communication, Grunig taught public relations and communication research since 1979. A content analysis of three academic journals (Public Relations Review, Journal of Public Relations Research and its predecessor, Public Relations Research Annual) concluded that Grunig was among the five most prolific authors contributing to public relations theory development. Grunig's research focuses on public relations, development communication, communication theory, gender issues, organizational response to activism, organization power and structure, ethics, philosophy, scientific and technical writing, and qualitative methodology.

Early life
She began her professional career as a public school teacher, and then a reporter and editor of a community newspaper in Colorado. Beginning in 1969, she served as a public relations consultant.

Personal life
Grunig is married to James Grunig, a public relations scholar and theorist. James and Larissa Grunig have four children and five grandchildren.

Career
Grunig received her Ph.D in public communication from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1985, and taught in the College of Journalism and Department of Communication there. In addition to her work in the journalism and communication departments, she was an affiliate faculty member of Maryland's School of Public Affairs and its Women's Studies Program.

Teaching
Prior to teaching at University of Maryland, College Park, Grunig was a Title III Visiting Scholar at Eastern Washington University in 1992 and taught at Washington State University from 1984-1985. During her time teaching, Grunig advised 100 master's students (overseeing 30 master's theses and 70 master's degree students who chose the non-thesis option) and ten doctoral dissertations. She was named Outstanding Educator by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Of the 30 master's theses that she advised, three won the Institute for Public Relations outstanding master's thesis competition. In 1991, Grunig was honored by the University of Maryland System with the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Mentor Award, and 1999, she was listed as one of the nation's Top 10 educators by PR Week.

Publication
In addition to serving on the advisory board of thirteen refereed journals, Grunig has written more than 200 articles, book chapters, and conference papers on public relations, communication theory and other topics. From 1987 to 1990, she was a founding co-editor of the Public Relations Research Annual (now the Journal of Public Relations Research. Grunig also coauthored the first book about women in public relations alongside Elizabeth Lance Toth and Linda Childers Hon; the book was called Women in Public Relations: How Gender Influences Practice. The book was a finalist for the Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for the best book in journalism and mass communication in 2001.

Association Membership
She is a member of the National Capital and Maryland chapters of PRSA, and was named to the Hall of Fame of the National Capital Chapter in 1999. From 1985 to 1988, Grunig served as an adviser to the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) for the chapter at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Awards
Grunig, along with her husband James Grunig, were honored with the 2010 Presidential Award of the International Public Relations Association for "outstanding contribution to better world understanding." She received the Alumni Achievement Award of North Dakota State University, which is her undergraduate alma mater, in 2003.