Dr. Timothy Muehlhoff is Associate Professor of Communication at Biola. He received his B.A. from Eastern Michigan University, M.A. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Ph.D. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
While teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dr. Muehlhoff received his department's highest award for teaching and has been recongnized by the International Communication Association for outstanding teaching. In his M.A. thesis Dr. Muehlhoff developed a method of encouraging civil dialogue and perspective-taking between groups who percieve themselves as morally opposed with no room for, or interest in, connection. Extending his thesis research, his disseration focused on a performative approach to enriching marital communication. His research interests also include social justice, gender, family communication, interpersonal communcation, and persuasion. Outside the classroom Dr. Muehlhoff and wife Noreen are frequent speakers at marriage conferences and seminars. Dr. Muehlhoff has written about marraige, faith, and communication in diverse journals and magazines such as the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Journal of Religion and Communiation, Mars Hill Review, and Discipleship Journal. He recently completed a chapter on parental communication strategies for Composing Relationships edited by Julia T. Wood and Steve Duck.