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Commpost
As Charles Dickens wrote, "it was the best of times, it was the worse of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…" The good news is that the Department of Communication Studies continues its tradition of excellence, as you will see illustrated in this issue of COMMPOST. The bad news, in case you have not heard, is that the State of Minnesota has projected a huge budget deficit for the next biennium and the University expects sizable budget cuts. There is no question that we will feel the effects and see substantial cuts in our Department, much as we did in previous recessions. We are hoping that the administration will demonstrate wisdom rather than foolishness in their decisions but don’t bet on it. Even though we are a highly efficient department that returns far more in tuition to the college than we cost them, we expect significant cuts to come our way. We will do our best to make prudent choices but if you have any questions or want to know how you can help do not hesitate to give me a call at (612) 624-2808 or email schiappa@umn.edu
Edward Schiappa
NCA CONVENTION PARTICIPATION - SENIOR FACULTY
Faculty Award
The Franklin D. Knower Award
Best Article in the Interpersonal Communication Division at NCA
Susanne M. Jones & Graduate Student John Wirtz
Panel Chair: The Prevention and Amelioration of Ethnic, Racial, and other Conflicts Involving Differences in Organizational and Societal Contexts, Rosita D. Albert
Presenter: Hillary ’08: Feminist Opportunities and Challenges Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Panel Chair: Roundtable: The Status of Rhetorical Criticism as a Field of Study, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Paper: "Electioneering Communication: Genre Trouble and the Governance of Money/Speech", Ronald Walter Greene
Respondent: Studies in Rhetoric and Materiality, Ronald Walter Greene
Presenter: Theorizing Resistance in an Age of Globalization, Ronald Walter Greene
Respondent: New Voices in Critical and Cultural Studies, Ronald Walter Greene
Presenter: Radical Political Action: Contingency, Ontology, and Communication, Ronald Walter Greene
Paper: "Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Coherent View", Alan G. Gross
Panel Chair: The Persistence of Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Roundtable Discussion, Alan G. Gross
Panel Chair: Communication that Matters: Conceptualizing Social Support in Close
Respondent: Relationships, Susanne Jones
Respondent: There is More Than One Way to be Supportive: Cultural Differences in Social Supportive Communication, Susanne Jones
Panel Chair: Honoring the Knowers and Millers: Recipients of the IPC’S Book and Article Awards Discuss Their Research, Ascan Koerner
Paper: "The Eagle and the Elephant: Comparing Organization Culture in the United States and India", Alla Kushniryk (with Kenneth J. Levine, Suzie I Allard, Carol Tenopir)
Paper: "Doing Cultural Policy Studies: The Case of Reality TV", Laurie Ouellette
Paper: "Top Model: Theorizing Reality TV’s Labor Games", Laurie Ouellette
Respondent: The Emergent Rhetorics of Conservation and Sustainability in Late Modernity, Gilbert Rodman
Respondent: Sound Subjects: Music as a Means to Re/Position Gender, Gilbert Rodman
Presenter: Communication Studies Scholars’ Contributions to Women’s and/or Gender Studies Programs, Edward Schiappa
Presenter: "Tasers at the Tupperware Party", Mary Douglas Vavrus
Paper: "McAdon on the ‘Special Topics’", Arthur E. Walzer
Respondent: The Persistence of Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Roundtable Discussion, Arthur E. Walzer
Respondent: Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award Spotlight Panel, Kirt H. Wilson
Paper: "What Does Memory Have to Do with It?", Kirt H. Wilson
NCA CONVENTION PARTICIPATION - GRADUATE STUDENTS
Paper: "Ground Zero on the Mississippi: Media Frames Linking Tragedy to Terror During the I-35 Bridge Collapse", Emily Berg
Paper: "With Her as Proof: Unconventional Consciousness-Raising and the Culture of Cancer", Samuel I. Boerboom
Paper: "Unconventional Belief: Secularization, Individuals, and Communicative Religiosity", Samuel I. Boerboom
Paper: "The Commemoration of Genocide and the Politics of Memory: A Historical Exploration of the Auschwitz Memorial Museum", Matthew Wesley Bost
Paper: "Difference, Resistance and Affect: Toward a Deleuzian Theory of Public Memory", Matthew Wesley Bost
Chair: Not All Relationships That Matter Are Romantic: Communication with Strangers, Friends, and Roommates, Heidi S. Croatt
Paper: "Experimenting with the ‘Birds and the Bees’: A Pre-Experimental Approach to Analyzing Parent-Adolescent Sexual Communication", Heidi S. Croatt
Paper: "Spectators of Stonewall", Jon Hoffman
Chair: It’s All About Sex! Or Is It? Communicating About Sex In Interpersonal Relationships, Alyssa M. Isaacs
Paper: "Sports Photographs and Meanings: Zinedine Zidane in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final", Thomas C. Johnson
Paper: "Race, Gold, and Free Labor: Mapping Whiteness in the Rhetorical Invention of Antebellum California", Casey Ryan Kelly
Presenter: "Unconventional Last Words: Theorizing The Rhetoric of the Condemned", Casey Ryan Kelly
Paper: "Women’s Rhetorical Agency in the American West: The New Penelope", Casey Ryan Kelly
Paper: "The Visual Rhetoric of Thomas Henry Huxley", Arthur Andrew Kidd
Presenter: Hillary ’08: Feminist Opportunities and Challenges, Justin L. Killian
Paper: "Benevolent Hegemony, American Exceptionalism, and Elusive Enemies: Retheorizing Foreign Policy Rhetoric in a Post September 11th World", Justin L. Killian
Chair: Communicating About Race, Rebecca A. Kuehl
Paper: "Meta-Ritual and Public Memory: Theorizing Official Culture and Politics", Rebecca A. Kuehl
Paper: "Campaign Persuasion Through Ethos: Peter Hutchinson’s Failure to Show His Commitment to the Voters of Minnesota", Margaret H. Kunde
Paper: "Genres of Governance: The Mexican National Development Plan and the Reconceptualization of Mexican Sovereignty" (Top paper for the Latina/Latino Communication Studies Division), Michael Mackey
Presenter: Theorizing Resistance in an Age of Globalization, Matthew May
Presenter: Unconventional Last Words: Theorizing the Rhetoric of the Condemned, Matthew May
Paper: "What’s Beyond the Bus: Visual Excess in Extreme Makeover Home Edition", Helen Morgan Parmett
Paper: "The ‘Possible’, Actor-Network-Theory, and Social Movement Studies", Amy M. Pason
"Towards a Feminist Cosmopolitan Theory: A Corrective to Nationalism, Fear, and War", Amy M. Pason
Chair: New Feminist Thinking about Women and Violence, Jessica Prody
Paper: "Remembering the Humanness of War: Negotiating the Public Memory of the War on Terror", Jessica Prody
Paper: "Online Tactics of Procrastination: Free Labor or Affective Resistance?", Allyson K. Shaffer
Paper: "Pathos and Pedagogy: Recovering Rhetoric as an Instruction in Virtue", Kasi L. Williamson
Department News
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell was recently honored for her professional career and her personal/intellectual influence on the field of Rhetoric and Public Address at the Biennial Public Address Conference, Madison, WI.
Kudos to Professors Ronald Greene, Gilbert Rodman, Amy Sheldon, and Mary Vavrus for being selected to the President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, run by the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence at the University of Minnesota.
Alumni News
Deborah Baker (Ph.D. 1983) accepted a new position as the Assistant Vice President for Graduate and Adult Services at Hawaii Pacific University (a small private university located in downtown Honolulu) beginning January 2009.
Zornitsa Keremidchieva (Ph.D. 2007) received the National Communication Association’s Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Advisors: Professors Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Jacquelyn Zita.
Meghan Krause (M.A. 2003) accepted the position of Director of Sustainability and Strategy for GreenMark, a start up company that operates at the intersection of strategic communications, environmental consulting, and sponsorship.
Douglas McFarland (Ph.D. 1983), Professor of Law at Hamline University, returned from a 2007-08 sabbatical in Arizona. He recently published Few Are Chosen: A Campaign Memoir, the story of his campaign for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota. It is a book of good-natured and amusing stories, insights, learned wisdom, and campaign tips from the campaign trail. He reports that his U of MN training in persuasion, interpersonal communication, nonverbal communication, and rhetoric helped a lot in the campaign. Check out the book at www.fewarechosenbook.com.
Al R. Porte (M.A. 1983) received a CLA Alumni of Notable Achievement Award at the September 16, 2008 Induction Dinner and Ceremony. This award recognizes his significant achievements and contributions in the media industry.
Richard Rowley (Ph.D. 1992) has been named Dean of Instruction in Arts, Humanities and Social Science at Mt. San Jacinto College located about 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
Julie Belle White (Ph.D. 1975) retired after 43 years in Education having been named a Professor Emerita at the College of St. Catherine where she had been teaching and doing administrative work for 33 years.
Thank you for your "bits and pieces" for COMMPOST. Next edition: March 2009.
December 2008 Vol. 27, #2
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Department of Communication Studies
225 Ford Hall, 224 Church Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Editor: Beatrice Dehler
Secretary: Edward Schiappa
