Faculty Advisor: Dr. Donn J. Tilson, APR, Fellow PRSA

Donn James Tilson, KHS, APR, Fellow PRSA, (Ph.D., University of Stirling) is an associate professor of public relations at the University of Miami's School of Communication. The first in Europe to graduate with a doctorate in public relations, he has published and lectured internationally on corporate public relations, including as a European University Public Relations Confederation Visiting Scholar at Complutense University in Madrid and Autónoma University in Barcelona.

A member of the Public Relations Society of America's College of Fellows, he serves on the editorial board of Ecquid Novi, the research journal of the Southern African Communication Association, and is the former book review co-editor of Journalism Studies. He is a participating faculty member of UM's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and Center for Latin American Studies and has led students on summer abroad programs to Spain.

Prior to joining UM, he served as a public relations manager for BellSouth for 16 years, directing the company's charitable contributions and educational relations programs in Florida. In 1999 he was inducted as a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, one of the oldest Orders of Chivalry in the world.