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Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Sandy Duhé, Ph.D., MBA, APR, Fellow PRSA combines an extensive corporate background, interdisciplinary degrees, and a love of teaching and learning to explore, expand and promote the contributions of communicators to business and society. She has been honored as a HOPE Distinguished Professor and a Meadows School of the Arts Distinguished Teaching Professor.

Duhé served as chair of the Division of Corporate Communication and Public Affairs (CCPA) from 2013-2024, director of Public Relations and Strategic Communication from 2012-2024, Cockrell-McIntosh Faculty-in-Residence from 2018-2023, director of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½-in-London from 2020-2024 and director of CCPA Graduate Programs from 2021-2024. She is a former president of the Dallas Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

Duhé began her corporate career in the multinational energy sector as a financial analyst and hesitantly moved into public affairs before realizing the powerful impact a combination of business acumen and communication expertise can bring to a firm. She has extensive experience in financial communication, media relations, community outreach, merger communications, brand management, and crisis response, earning each of her graduate degrees while being employed full-time.

Passionate about equipping communicators to be active contributors in corporate settings, Duhé enjoys preparing her students to be data-savvy leaders who are well versed in business principles and readily able to tie communication strategy to business strategy. She consults nationally for corporate clients facing high-risk situations when truth and credibility matter most. Her research and commentary focus on the role of public relations in capitalism, democracy and society and have been published in venues including Public Relations Review; Public Relations Journal; Corporate Communications: An International Journal; The Global Public Relations Handbook; The International Encyclopedia of Strategic Communication, The Handbook of Financial Communication and Investor Relations, and The Institute for Public Relations. She is the editor of three editions of New Media and Public Relations, published by Peter Lang, and the author of Business for Communicators: The Essential Guide to Success in Corporate and Public Affairs, published by Routledge. Duhé is currently writing the second edition of Business for Communicators: Essential Skills for Career Success, also with Routledge, for publication in 2026.

Duhé is a member of the PRSA College of Fellows and has served as an independent director on the board of U.S. Lime and Minerals (NASDAQ: USLM) since 2022.