Galina Bolden (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) is Professor of Communication at Rutgers University. Her research examines how participants enact and negotiate cultural identities and personal relationships in and through talk-in-interaction. She is a co-author (with Alexa Hepburn) of Transcribing for Social Research (2017), co-editor (with John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen) of Responding to Polar Questions Across Languages and Contexts (2022), and a co-author (with Chase W. Raymond and Jeffrey D. Robinson) of Turn-Taking in Social Interaction (2026).