Alumni Hall of Fame
Franklin Boster, PhD
BA Psychology '72; MA Behavioral Science '75
Franklin Boster, PhD, is an internationally recognized expert of social influence and group dynamics and professor emeritus in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University (MSU). A native of East St. Louis, Ill., Boster earned both a bachelor’s and master’s from SIUE before pursuing his doctorate at MSU. His first academic appointment was at Arizona State University, where he spent nine years before returning to MSU. For the next 33 years, Boster served as a faculty member and researcher, earning numerous awards for both endeavors. He also held appointments in the Law School and Trial Practice Institute at MSU and in the Department of Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa. Boster is the former editor of Communication Monographs, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on human communication, and is a fellow in the International Communication Association.
