Dr Gibson has published works from serial murder and serial murder communication to outer space communication. Find more information on his published works in four specialized topical CVs; communication and law, product recalls, outer space studies and serial murder. His complete CV is available under the About Tab.
Dirk C. Gibson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech Communication with a minor in Political Science from Southern Illinois University, and a Master’s Degree and Ph.D in Speech Communication and Journalism from Indiana University. He was employed in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico from 1996 to 2020, After teaching at Auburn University, augusta college, Georgia state university and Georgia Southern university
PHILANTHROPY & CHARITABLE SERVICE
Donor to Joy Junction, 2004
Served as Neighborhood Marching Mom for the March of Dimes, 2001-2008
Served as Coordinator of the Department of Communication & Journalism United Way Fundraising Campaign, The University of New Mexico, 2002-2008
Served as Coordinator of the College of Arts & Sciences United Way Fundraising Campaign, The University of New Mexico, 2004-2007
Leadership Giver, United Way of New Mexico, 2004-2008
Donor to Mayo Clinic, 2018
Donor to Cephelopod Foundation, 2021 to present
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Institute for Aeronautics & Astronautics
American Society of Trial Consultants
Better Business Bureau
Hispanic Public Relations Association
Intellectbase International Consortium
International Association of Business Associations
International Communication Association
National Communication Association
National Space Society
New Mexico Cancer Council
Public Relations Society of America
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Reinterviewed regulatory staff at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Consumer Product Safety Commission, and Food and Drug Administration. Interviewed regulatory staff at the Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. April 2000.
Conducted a comprehensive research project into American corporate retail, industrial and regulatory product recall policies and practices including media, public groups, and trade associations at the request of the Food Safety Inspection Service of the USDA. November 1990-June 1991.
Interviewed regulatory staff at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Was granted access to agency Reading Rooms. December 1991.
Doctoral research conducted on J. Edgar Hoover in the Freedom of Information Act Reading Room, J. Edgar Hoover FBI Headquarters, Washington D.C. November 1983.
Conducted research in the Indiana State Archives as Research Assistant for Dr. Carolyn Calloway-Thomas on Blacks in antebellum Indiana. Indiana University. June through August 1979.
Master’s Thesis research conducted on the assassination of President John. F. Kennedy in the Freedom of Information Act Reading Room, J. Edgar Hoover FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC. December 1977 through December 1978.
Invited to attend the Public Hearings of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Washington, DC. December 1977.
BOOKS
The Role of Communication in the Practice of Law (1991)
A Review of Recall Policies at the Food Safety & Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Washington, D. C.: United States Department of Agriculture, (2000): Volume I: Bibliographic Perspectives on Recall Practices. Volume II: Empirical Analysis of Contemporary Recall Practices
Clues from Killers: Serial Murder and Crime Scene Messages (2004)
Serial Murder and Media Circuses (2006)
Serial Murder for Profit: Multiple Murder for Money (2009)
Legends Monsters or Serial Killers: the Real Story Behind An Ancient Crime (2012)
Jack the Writer: A Verbal and Visual Analysis of the Jack the Ripper Correspondence (2013)
The Global Dimensions of Serial Murder. (2014)
Commercial Space Tourism: Impediments to Industrial Development and Strategic Communication Solutions (2015)
Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Space Dangers: Outer Space Peril, Rocket Risks, and the Health Consequences of the Space Environment. (2015)
The Most Feared Man in America: A Rhetorical Perspective on the Political Myths of J. Edgar Hoover, (2019)
Way Worse than Attica: The 1990 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (2021)
In His Own Words: How J. Edgar Directed the FBI Through Marginalia. (2022)
PODCASTS & YOUTUBE VIDEOS
“1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico.” Youtube. December 2022. https.//youtu.be /WYSA7NUFnj0 (30 seconds); https//youtu,be./xr7bsQrnK6jl (90 seconds).
“J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI: Hoover Marginalia and Public Information.” Out of the Blank. January 2022. Episode # 1311. https://youtu.be/jrR7c9A10cA.
“Variables, Victimology and Violence: The West Mesa Murders.” February 2020. YouTube.
“The Axe-Murderer Who Loved Jazz.” Endless Thread. June 22, 2018. http://www wbur.org/endlessthread/2018/06/22/the-axeman-serial-killer-new-orleans.
“When the Killer Speaks.” The Killing Season. December 4, 2016. Season One: Episode Seven. A&E Network. YouTube.
“Commercial Space Tourism: Impediments to Industrial Developments & Strategic Communication Solutions.” April 8, 2016. YouTube.
“Jack rhe Writer: A Verbal and Visual Analysis of the Jack the Ripper Correspondence.” February 2016. YouTube.
“Mass Media in Serial Murder Cases.” Media Mayhem. http://thelip.tv/episode/making-serial-killers-celebrities-us-media-circuses-trials/. January 2015.
“Locusta the Poisoner: The First Professional Hitman.” Ancient Rome Refocused. http;//ancientromerefocused.org. January 2014.
SPECIAL STUDENT AWARDS
Mary J. White won the Bernays Cup, bestowed by Public Relations Quarterly, 1997
Tracy Krughoff, UNM Public Relations Student Society of America President, Elected National PRSSA Vice-President of Internships, 1999
Dana Reeves, Semi-Finalist, PR Student of the Year Competition, 2000
First Place, Public Relations Case Study and Campaign Creation Conference, PRSSA Southwest District, Ft. Worth, TX, 2002
Genevieve Sadler-Trainor won the Bernays Cup, 2005
Steven Machado won First Place at the Undergraduate Research Conference, Eastern New Mexico University, 2006
Candra Rivers won First Place at the University of New Mexico Undergraduate Research Conference, 2007
Shannon Guess, Devin Armijo and Jacqueline Jinzo won the Bernays Cup, 2007
MEDIA INTERVIEWS
His research into product recalls elicited numerous interview requests from television reporters at CBS Marketwatch, CNN, KRQE-TV, and NBC; Newspapers like the Detroit Free Press. the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, Orlando Sun-Sentinel, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, RCA Handelsplat, and the Toledo Blade, two interviews with The Wall Street Journal, USA Today; Magazines like Chicago Magazine, two interviews with Consumer Reports, and Contract Manufacturing and Packaging, Health Magazine, Inc Magazine, Parents Magazine, Slate, Smart Money: The Tan Sheet, and The Wall Street Journal Magazine; News agencies like Knight-Ridder News Agency; and Radio stations like KUNM-FM and National Public Radio.
His scholarship on serial murder and serial murder communication has elicited interview requests from television media; two interviews with CNN, and CBC News, three interviews with Fox News, five interviews with KRQE-TV, two interviews with KOB-TV, ABC News, three interviews with KOAT-TV, three interviews with KWCH-TV, KVIA-TV, KAKE-TV, KSN-TV, two interviews with the Discovery Channel, and two interviews with the Arts and Entertainment Network; Wire services like the Associated Press (four interviews) and the Knight Ridder news agency; Newspapers including Pravda and the Omaha News-Beacon, two interviews with the Albuquerque Journal and USA Today, two interviews with the Daily Lobo, The New York Post, The Flint Journal, and the El Paso Times; Magazines including Time magazine, Gemkilt, and Vice magazine, Radio media including C-JOB Radio and WBUR-FM; Schools including the London College of Communication, Metropolitan State College, the University of Leeds, the Salford Business School, the University of South Carolina, and Concord Academy, as well as the Center for Homicide Research and Centre Communications.
His scholarship on outer space led to interview requests from the television outlet the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and The Financial Times (Times of London); Three interviews with radio station KPCC-FM; and The National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center.
Other media interviews were requested on Hispanic public relations by the Dallas Morning Herald newspaper and Buzz Magazine; on litigation public relations by the Christian Science Monitor, on media ethics by the Albuquerque Journal and on Cancer Survivorship by the American Cancer Society.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Book Awards
Literary Titan Book Award. (2023). Way Worse than Attica: The 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico. Law and Legal Subjects.
Bookfest Book Awards. (2003). Way Worse than Attica: The 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico.
SPR Book Award, Finalist. (2022). Way Worse than Attica: The 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico. Best Indie/Self-Published Book.
BREW Awards of Excellence for Historical Books. (2022).Way Worse than Attica: The 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico. Awarded Finalist Designation.
Indies Today (2022). Way Worse than Attica: The 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico. Awarded “Notable” Designation.
Parchment Publishing Award of Distinction. (2002). In His Own Words: How J. Edgar Hoover Directed the FBI Through Marginalia.
He was named to the “All Chicago-Area Debate Team” in June of 1971.
General awards include Who’s Who in America, 2022-2023; Top Educators, Top Professionals, Marquise Who’s Who, 2022; Who’s Who in Academia, 2022; Who’s Who in the Southeast and Southwest, 1991-1992; and Outstanding Young Men of America, 1987.
Also included for membership by the Montclair Who’s Who in College Faculty, 2010-2011; Who’s Who World Class Alliance, Who’s Who of World Class Business Leaders, 2010; American Biographical Institute, Great Minds of the Twentieth Century, 2007; Cambridge Who’s Who, 2006; Woodward Who’s Who in Higher Education, 2005; Who’s Who in Social Sciences Education, 2004; Strathmore’s Who’s Who, 1989-90; Internation Platform Association, 1988, 2008; Dictionary of International Biography, 1993; Who’s Who Among Emerging Leaders in America, 1992; Who’s Who in American Education, 1991-92; Who’s Who in the World, 1991.
A study presented to the International Communication Association in 2006 determined that he was the tenth most prolific author of articles in refereed public relations journals from 1995 to 2003.
He was recognized as being an “Outstanding Mentor” at the University of Mexico Undergraduate Research Conference in 2007.
His research garnered a half-dozen Top Paper Awards in regional and national academic conferences. These included Top Paper in Media Studies at the February 2003 Western States Communication Association Conference; Top Paper in Environmental Communication at the November 1999 annual meeting of the National Communication Association; Top Paper in the Public Relations Interest Group, Southern States Communication Association, March 1996; Top Paper in the Agenda of Excellence in Public Relations, Speech Communication Association, November 1989; Top Paper in the Applied Communication Division of the Southern States Communication Association, April, 1989; Doctoral Honors Seminar in Political Communication, March, 1982.
His serial murder honors and awards include: “The Ripper Correspondence: Mass Communication Dimensions of the Whitechapel Crimes,” Top Paper, Media Studies Interest Group, Western States Communication Association Annual Convention in 2003 and “B.T.K. Strangler vs. Wichita Police Department: The Significance of Serial Murder Media Relations” in 2006 along with the selection from Public Relations Review to be included in Elsevier FLASH.
His serial murder invited addresses have included: “Law Enforcement Communication Interpretation in Serial Murder Cases.” 20th Annual Homicide Conference, Green Bay, Wisconsin, April 2014; “Communication Dimensions of Serial Murder,” 15th Annual Homicide Conference, Green Bay, Wisconsin, March, 2009; New Mexico Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police, “Serial Murder Messages,” December, 2007; Society of Former Agents of the FBI, Albuquerque Chapter, “Serial Killer Communication,” May, 2007; Sisters in Crime, Albuquerque author’s association, “Serial Murder Communication,” May, 2006; Washington, D.C. chapter of the Indiana University Alumni Association, “Travel & Tourism Aspects of Serial Murder,” March, 2006.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Named Editor: Series Editor in Journalism and Mass Communication, Bentham Science E-Books, 2014; Series Editor in Outer Space Studies, Bentham Science E-Books, 2014; Contributing Editor, Public Relations Quarterly, 2004, Sage Encyclopedia on Business Ethics & Society, 2004, 2015.
Named Associate Editor: Communication Law Review, 1998; Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1998.
Named to Editorial Boards: Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1998-2000; Journal of Communication Law and Policy, 2002; Public Relations Review 1991, Sage Encyclopedia of Business Ethics & Society, 2015.
Manuscript Reviewer for Book Companies: Allyn & Bacon, Simon & Schuster College Text Division, 1994, McGraw-Hill, 2007; McGraw-Hill Educational Group, 2003; Laurence Erlbaum Associates, 2000; Oxford University Press, 2000; St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
Manuscript Reviewer for Academic Journals: Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1997; Journal of Tourism, 2008; Journal of Travel and Tourism, 2006; Management Communication Quarterly, 2006; Scholerena Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2014; Southern Communication Journal, 1994-1996; Southern States Communication Journal, 1994; Southwestern Journal of Mass Communication, 2004.
Manuscript Reviewer for Academic Conferences: Association in Education for Journalism & Mass Communication, 1991; International Academy of Business Disciplines, 2004: National Communication Association, 1992; Speech Communication Association, 1991.
See Dr. Gibson’s Curriculum Vita Here