Jeffrey D. Robinson is professor of Communication at Portland State University. He completed his dissertation in 1999 at UCLA under the supervision of John Heritage, Emanual Schegloff, Charles Goodwin, Steven Clayman, and Robin DiMatteo. In addition to two edited volumes (Handbook of Research Methods in Conversation Analysis, and Accountability in Social Interaction), he has published over 90 articles and book chapters involving both basic and applied conversation analysis. Most recently, he completed a book on Turn Taking in Social Interaction (with Chase Raymond and Galina Bolden), to be published by Cambridge.