News and awards
The Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies would like to recognize the following achievements of its faculty and students.
Fall 2011
Faculty book publishings
_Congratulations to Professor Amardo Rodriguez, who co-authored the new book Liminal Traces: Performing, Storying, and Embodying Postcoloniality (Sense Publishers, 2011). (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, Series Editor, Shirley Steinberg, University of Calgary.)
_Congratulations to Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies Kendall Phillips, on his newest book, Global Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age published by The University of Alabama Press.
_Congratulations to Professor Amardo Rodriguez, on his new books, Intercultural Communication: An Ecological Approach published by Kendall/ Hunt Publishing and Revisioning Diversity In Communication Studies published by Troubador Publishing Ltd.
_Congratulations to Professor Brad Vivian, whose new book Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again was published by Penn State Press.
Faculty awards
The Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies is proud of its award-winning faculty. In 2011, our faculty won prestigious honors from outside organizations.
_Congratulations to Professor Bradford Vivian on receiving the 2011 NCA “James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address” for his book Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again.
_Congratulations to Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies Kendall Phillips, for being named RSA (Rhetoric Society of America) President-Elect.
_Professor Cynthia Gordon was one of the recipients of the 2011 College of Visual and Performing Arts Outstanding Faculty Award announced during the convocation ceremony on May 14, 2011.
Student awards
_Danny Stofleth was one of the recent recipients of the first annual First Year Interdisciplinary Grants.
_Congratulations to Kevin Kern ’11 for receiving the Outstanding TA Award.
_Kevin Kern '11 and Katie Lind ’11 were awarded the J.Calvin Callaghan Graduate Student Achievement Award for second-year graduate students enrolled in preparing for the Future Professoriate Project (FPP).
_Maya Powe ’14, Matt Abata '13 , and Leah Moushey ’11 each received the Mary Elizabeth Earle Endowed Prize in Communication and Rhetorical Studies, which is presented annually to outstanding undergraduates.
_Terrance Smith ’11, Terri-Ann Malgieri ’11, and Andrew Swanson ’11 were awarded the White-Denison Award for seniors for achievement in public speaking.
Student publishings
_Congratulations to Heather Roy, on her recently published essay "Harleys and Angels' Wings: Nonverbal Rhetorical Response to the Westboro Baptist Church," in the 2010 RSA proceedings volume, Rhetoric Concord and Controversy (Waveland, 2011).
