Curriculum Vitae
Kirt H. Wilson
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Communication Studies Department 612.624.5235:
Phone
University of Minnesota 612.624.6544:
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225 Ford Hall
224 Church St. SE wilso092@tc.umn.edu: Email
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Minneapolis, MN 55455 http://www.comm.umn.edu/~kwilson/:
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Ph.D., Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois
(1991-1995)
Awarded in Rhetorical Studies with an emphasis on U.S. public discourse,
African American rhetoric, argument theory, and rhetorical criticism.
M.A., Purdue University of
Indiana, West Lafayette (1989-1991)
Awarded in Rhetorical Studies with an emphasis on contemporary political
persuasion, public affairs and crisis/issue management.
B.A., Cedarville College of Cedarville, Ohio
(1985-1989).
Awarded in General Communication with an emphasis in theater.
Associate Professor: University of
Minnesota—Minneapolis Campus
(2003-present)
Director of Graduate Studies, Communication Studies Department (2005-present)
Graduate Faculty, Communication Studies Department (1996-Present)
Faculty in the graduate minor in Composition, Literacy and Rhetorical Studies (2000-Present).
Adjunct Faculty, African American & African Studies (2001-Present)
Assistant Professor: University of Minnesota—Minneapolis Campus (1996-2003)
Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (1991-1995)
Instructor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (1989-1991)
McKnight Presidential Fellow Award, a University of Minnesota honor that provides three years of research funding granted regularly to five tenured members of the faculty, 2004-2007.
James A. Winans-Hebert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, a national book sponsored by the National Communication Association. Awarded for The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate, 2003.
Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address a national book award sponsored by the Public Address Division of the National Communication Association. Awarded for The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate, 2003.
Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award, a national research award sponsored by the National Communication Association, 2002. $1,000.
Arthur Red Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2002. $5,000.
New Investigator Award, a national research award sponsored by the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association, 2001. $500.
Recognition of Research Award from the Black Caucus and African American Communication and Culture Division of the National Communication Association, November 6, 1999.
Recognition of Research Award from the Black Caucus and African American Communication and Culture Division of the National Communication Association, November 23, 1998.
Nominated by students to receive College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Minnesota, 1997-1998.
President's Faculty Multicultural Research Award, University of Minnesota, 1997-1998. Competitive University-wide, two-year, research grant, $12,281.
Dissertation Award, Northwestern University School of Speech, May, 1996.
Nominated by advisor for an SCA/NCA Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award, 1996.
Provost Fellow, Northwestern University, 1994-1995.
University Scholar, Northwestern University, 1994-1995.
Minority Student Fellowship, Northwestern University, 1991.
University Fellowship for Minority Students, Purdue University 1989-1991.
Books
Reconstruction's Desegregation Debate: The Politics
of Equality and the Rhetoric of Place, 1870-1875. East Lansing: Michigan State Press, 2002. 276 pgs.,
incl. bib. and index.
Reviewed in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Journal of American History,
American Historical Review, Argument and Advocacy; Southern Communication Journal; Public Administration Review; Civil War Book Review; Quarterly Journal of Speech.
Articles
Interpreting the Discursive Fields of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Martin Luther King, Jr.s Holt Street Address, Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8 (2005): 299-326.
Is There Any Interest in Reconciliation? Rhetoric & Public Affairs 7 (2004): 367-406.
The Racial Politics of Imitation in the Nineteenth Century. Quarterly Journal of Speech 89 (2003): 89-108. Lead Article.
The Paradox of Lincoln's Freedom Legacy: The Emancipation Proclamation and the Meaning of Rhetorical Leadership. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 3 (2000): 15-32.
Emerson, Transcendental Prudence, and the Legacy of Senator Charles Sumner. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2 (1999): 453-479.
Toward a Discursive Theory of Racial Identity: The Souls of Black Folk as a Response to Nineteenth-Century Biological Determinism. Western Journal of Communication 63 (1999): 193-215.
The Contested Space of Prudence: An Analysis of the 1875 Civil Rights Act. Quarterly Journal of Speech 84 (1998): 131-149, Lead Article.
And Equality for All: The Foundations of African American Civil Rights Argument. Argumentation and Values: the Proceedings of the Ninth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation. Edited by Sally Jackson. Annandale, Speech Communication Association, (1995): 204-212.
Our Common Fight Against Greed: The Drive Towards Association in Of the Wings of Atalanta. Iowa Journal of Communication 27 (1995): 3-18.
Essays and Book Chapters
The Problem with Public Memory: President Benjamin Harrison Confronts the Southern Question. Edited by Martin Medhurst. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, in press.
The Politics of Place and Presidential Rhetoric in the United States, 1875-1901. In Civil Rights Rhetoric and the American Presidency. Edited by James Arnt Aune and Enrique D. Rigsby. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2005, 16-40.
African-American Abolitionist Rhetoric. Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Edited by Thomas O. Sloane. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 7-11.
Change and Constancy in Reconstruction Civil Rights Rhetoric: A Decade of Congressional Civil Rights Debate, 1866-1875. Forthcoming as a book chapter to appear in the Michigan State Press series on U.S. Public Address. Edited by David Zarefsky and Michael Leff. 62 pgs.
Book Reviews
Allen C. Guelzo, Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (Simon & Schuster, 2004). Reviewed in Journal of American History 91 (2005): 1465-1466
Brooks D. Simpson, The Reconstruction Presidents (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998). Review in Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2 (1999): 516-518.
Thomas W. Benson, ed. Rhetoric and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997). Review in Quarterly Journal of Speech 84 (1998): 258-259.
Dissertation
Race, Rights, and Equality: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Congressional Debate over the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, December, 1995. Directed by Michael Leff.
In Process
Imitation and the Black Other: Racial Politics and the Intellectual History of Mimsis.
This book length manuscript examines the intellectual history of mimsis by mapping the concept in the public discourse of US race relations between 1780 and 1940.
Co-editor of Public Discourse Section for the Handbook of Communication, Sage Publications.
Rosa Eberly, Professor at Pennsylvania State University, and I are editing approximately 300 pages on public discourse and public address scholarship for the upcoming volume of the Handbook of Communication. Likely publication date is currently late 2007.
Representing Terrorism, Rebuilding Community: Congressional Testimony of Post-Civil War Violence. 27 pages.
Who was Charles Sumner? an interview and appearance at the Charles Sumner Minneapolis Library, broadcast by KMOJ, Minneapolis, January 8, 2005.
The Souls of Black Folk and W. E. B. DuBois, a panel discussion with David Blight and Robert Gooding-Williams. Conducted by Gretchen Helfrich for Odyssey, a syndicated National Public Radio program produced by WBEZ, Chicago, January 15, 2003.
How to Prepare for the Presidential Debates, an interview conducted by Channel 9 Television, Good Morning Minnesota, October 3, 2000.
Is Racism Getting Worse? Invited discussion on WCCO (AM) radio, Minneapolis, MN, January 23, 1997.
A Brave New World? A response to the panel titled New Directions in Theorizing About Public Address Scholarship, National Communication Association, Boston, MA, November 18, 2005.
Imitation and the Emancipation Moment: African American Receptions of Abraham Lincoln and Republican Citizenship American Reception Study: Reconsiderations and New Directions, University of Delaware, October 1, 2005.
Balancing Race and Civilization: Mimetic Practice among Late Nineteenth Century Black Intellectuals. International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference, Los Angeles, CA, July 15, 2005.
Interpreting the Discursive Field of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Martin Luther King, Jr.s Holt Street Address, a presentation to the Communication Department, University of Maryland, April 1, 2005.
Making the Invisible: Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man, A response to the panel titled Ralph Ellisons Oratorical Imagination, National Communication Association, Chicago IL, November 13, 2004.
Public Morality and Private Pain or Where is Jack Ryan When We Need Him? A response to the Keynote Address by Celeste Condit, 9th biennial Public Address Conference, University of Maryland, Washington D.C., October 7, 2004.
Dueling Over Freedom: Dissent and the Emancipation Moment, a presentation and workshop conducted at Northwestern University, Rhetoric Summer Institute Program, July 12-13, 2004.
Civil Rights, Civil Relations: The Emancipation Moment and Reconstruction Civil Rights Politics, a paper presented at the Athens in Africa Conference, University of Cape Town, South Africa, June 10, 2004.
Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation, a paper presented to the University of Minnesota, sponsored by the U of M Libraries in coordination with a traveling exhibit on Lincoln and Slavery, April 8, 2004.
"Rhetorical Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Souls of Black Folk" a research presentation to the ElderLearning Institute funded by the University of Minnesota Alumni Office and the College of Liberal Arts, March, 20 2004.
African American Issues in the Classroom, an pro-seminar conducted in the Communication Department at Metro State University, February 23, 2004. See http://www.comm.umn.edu/~kwilson/clresources.html.
The Souls Centenary: How Far Have We Come in 100 Years, a faculty conversation about the Souls of Black Folk organized by the CLA Deans and the Honors Program, University of Minnesota, December 2, 2003.
Between Theory and Practice: The Quickening of Rhetorical Criticism, presented as a mini-plenary panel at the National Communication Association Convention, Miami Beach, FL, November 21, 2003.
The Conservative Appropriation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a public lecture presented for the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, February 21, 2003.
From Genius to Method, Method to Genius: The Turns of Imitation, presented to the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division at the National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, November 23, 2002.
The Souls of Black Folk: Race and Politics in 1903, a public discussion presented to the CLA Undergraduate Honors Program, University of Minnesota, October 23, 2003.
Representing Terrorism, Rebuilding Community: Congressional Testimony of Post-Civil War Violence, a plenary paper presented at the eighth biennial Public Address Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, October 5, 2002.
The Problem with Public Memory: President Benjamin Harrison Confronts the Southern Question, a plenary paper presented at the eighth annual Presidency Conference. Texas A&M University, College Station, March 1, 2002. Invited.
Frederick Douglass, the Black Mimtikos, a lecture given to the Department of Speech Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 27, 2002. Invited.
Innovative Communication Scholarship in Minorities Studies, a panel response presented at the National Communication Association Convention, Atlanta, GA, November 3, 2001.
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus.
Student responses to core items in the Student Evaluation System reported below (numbers are mean scores on a 7 point scale). Note that n represents the number of students who completed the survey questionnaire, "S" represents Spring Semester and/or Quarter, F=Fall Semester and/or Quarter, W=Winter Quarter, and SS1=Summer Session, I.
Questions:
1. How would you rate the instructors overall teaching ability?
2. How would you rate the instructors knowledge of the subject matter?
3. How would you rate the instructors respect and concern for students?
4. This question addresses classroom conditions and is not included.
5. How much would you say you learned in this course?
Textual Analysis and Criticism (COMM-8504, Graduate Seminar)
2005-F n=10 Q1=6.4 Q2=6.7 Q3=6.0 Q5=5.8
2002-F n=10 Q1=6.8 Q2 6.9 Q3=6.6 Q5=6.8
2000-S n=7 Q1=6.9 Q2=7.0 Q3=6.9 Q5=6.9
Rhetoric, Race and Culture (COMM-8110, Graduate Seminar)
2002-S n=7 Q1=6.9 Q2=7.0 Q3=6.9 Q5=6.1
1997-F n=7 Q1=6.2 Q2=6.8 Q3=6.7 Q5=6.5
History and Criticism of U.S. Public Discourse, 1860-1940 (COMM-5618, Graduate and Senior lecture).
2003-F n=18 Q1=6.6 Q2=6.8 Q3=6.3 Q5=6.2
2001-F n=31 Q1=6.8 Q2=7.0 Q3=6.6 Q5=6.6
1999-F n=14 Q1=7.0 Q2=7.0 Q3=6.9 Q5=6.3
1999-W n=12 Q1=6.9 Q2=7.0 Q3=6.7 Q5=6.7
History and Criticism of U.S. Public Discourse, 1600-1860 (COMM-5617, Graduate and Senior lecture).
2005-F n=15 Q1=6.8 Q2=6.9 Q3=6.5 Q5=6.5
2002-F n=11 Q1=6.7 Q2=6.9 Q3=6.6 Q5=6.8
2000-F n=6 Q1=7.0 Q2=7.0 Q3=7.0 Q5=6.7
1998-F n=7 Q1=6.8 Q2=6.8 Q3=7.0 Q5=6.5
1996-F n=7 Q1=7.0 Q2=7.0 Q3=6.8 Q5=6.2
African American Civil Rights Rhetoric (COMM-4616, Originally labeled as 5610 until 2001, Graduate and Senior lecture).
2004-S n=30 Q1=7.0 Q2=7.0 Q3=6.8 Q5=6.4
2003-S n=32 Q1=7.0 Q2=7.0 Q3=6.9 Q5=6.7
2002-S n=44 Q1=6.9 Q2=6.9 Q3=6.4 Q5=6.4
2001-S n=36 Q1=6.9 Q2=6.9 Q3=6.7 Q5=6.5
1998-W n=7 Q1=7.0 Q2=6.8 Q3=7.0 Q5=6.3
1996-S n=12 Q1=6.7 Q2=7.0 Q3=6.3 Q5=6.7
Argumentation (COMM-3615, Undergraduate Lecture in argument theory and debate practice).
2003-S n=26 Q1=6.6 Q2=6.9 Q3=6.5 Q5=5.3
2001-S n=27 Q1=5.9 Q2=6.4 Q3=5.8 Q5=5.5
1999-F n=25 Q1=6.2 Q2=6.8 Q3=5.3 Q5=5.5
1999-W n=22 Q1=6.3 Q2=6.5 Q3=5.8 Q5=5.2
1998-S n=24 Q1=6.3 Q2=6.7 Q3=6.3 Q5=5.8
1997-W n=24 Q1=6.4 Q2=6.8 Q3=6.4 Q5=5.8
Persuasive Speaking (COMM-3605, Undergraduate lecture).
2000-F n=30 Q1=6.7 Q2=6.9 Q3=6.2 Q5=5.8
1999-SS1 no review performed.
1999-S n=18 Q1=6.9 Q2=6.9 Q3=6.5 Q5=6.4
1998-W n=19 Q1=6.6 Q2=6.8 Q3=6.4 Q5=5.8
1997-S n=31 Q1=6.5 Q2=6.6 Q3=6.6 Q5=5.5
1997-W n=32 Q1=6.6 Q2=6.7 Q3=6.1 Q5=6.1
1996-F n=12 Q1=6.7 Q2=7.0 Q3=5.8 Q5=5.9
1996-S n=17 Q1=6.5 Q2=6.6 Q3=6.6 Q5=5.6
1996 -W n=15 Q1=6.5 Q2=6.9 Q3=6.5 Q5=6.0
Political and Cultural Rhetoric of the 1960s (COMM 3110, Undergraduate lecture).
2003-F n= 34 Q1=6.9 Q2=6.9 Q3=6.6 Q5=6.6
Public Speaking (COMM 1101--SEAM Section, Undergraduate lecture).
2001-F n=22 Q1=6.9 Q2=7.0 Q3=6.9 Q5=6.4
Speech Writing (Fall 1995).
The Rhetoric of Civil Rights, Senior Seminar (Winter 1995).
Public Speaking (1993-1995).
Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University-Evanston, IL.
Contemporary Rhetorical Practices with Dean David Zarefsky (Spring 1995).
Rhetorical History of the United States with Dean David Zarefsky (Fall 1993).
Rhetorical History of the United States with Professor Michael Leff (Fall 1991).
Research Assistant, Northwestern University-Evanston, IL.
Assisted Dean David Zarefsky in historical and critical research for
various publications
(1992-1993).
Instructor, Purdue University-West Lafayette, IN.
Interviewing Skills and Practices (1990-1991).
Public Speaking (1989-1990).
Jessica Prody, M.A. adviser (Spring, 2006-Present).
Casey Kelly, Ph.D. adviser (Fall, 2005-Present).
Eric Fuchs, Ph.D. adviser (Fall, 2005-Present).
Justin Killian, Ph.D. adviser (Fall, 2005-Present).
Aric Putnam, Ph.D. adviser, prelim orals, Fall, 2002 (Fall, 2000-Present).
Michael Lee, Ph.D. adviser, (Fall, 2004-Present).
Abe Khan, Ph.D. adviser, prelim orals, Winter, 2005, (Fall, 2002-Present).
Tim Waclawski, M.A. adviser (Fall, 2003-Present).
Kristin Brown, Ph.D.-committee member, prelim orals, Fall, 2002 (Fall, 2000-Present).
Abigail Davis, Ph.D. in English-committee member, prelim orals, Fall, 2004 (Spring, 2004-Present).
Zornitsa Keremidchieva, Ph.D.-committee member, prelim orals, Fall, 2003 (Fall 2003-Present).
Kristine Bruss, Ph.D.-committee member, prelim orals, Spring 2004 (Fall, 2002-Present).
Bob Hinrichs, Ph.D.-committee member, prelim orals, Spring, 2002 (Fall, 2000-Present).
Kevin Vollmers, M.A.-committee member, (Fall, 2001-Present).
Patrick Carpenter, M.A. adviser defended (Spring, 2004).
Betsy Widup, M.A. adviser, defended (Summer, 2003).
Michael Kramer, Ph.D.-committee member, defended (Spring, 2004).
Shannon Skarphol, Ph.D.-committee member, defended (Fall, 2002).
Michael Netzley, Ph.D.–committee member, defended (Spring, 2002).
Joshua Gunn, Ph.D.-committee member, defended (Spring, 2002).
Angela Ray, Ph.D.-committee member, defended (Summer, 2001).
Lin Lee Lee, Ph.D.-committee member, defended (Summer, 2000).
Julie McTaggart, Ph.D.-committee member, defended prelim orals (Fall, 1999).
Michael Mackey, MA-committee member, defended (Summer, 1999).
Randall Furgeson, Ph.D.-committee member, defended (Summer ,1998)
Robert Brookey, Ph.D.-committee member, defended (Winter, 1998).
Tomas Klvana, Ph.D.-committee member, defended (Summer 1997).
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, M.A.-committee member, defended (Spring, 1997).
Shannon Skarphol, M.A.-committee member, defended (Spring, 1996).
Directed or directing approx. 75 Senior Papers.
National Administrative Responsibilities and Positions
Elected as the Secretary of the Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 2003-Present.
Review Committee, Marie Hochmuth Nicols Public Address Award, National Communication Association, 2005.
Elected as the Chair to the Nominating Committee of the Rhetorical and Theory Division of the National Communication Association, 2004-2005.
Twice elected as the representative to the National Communication Association Resolutions Committee for the Public Address Division, 2000-2002.
Elected to the Nominating Committee of the Rhetorical and Theory Division of the National Communication Association, 2000-2001.
National Review and Editing Responsibilities
Book Review Editor, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Summer 2004—Present.
Associate Editor for the Rhetoric and Public Affairs book series published by Michigan State University Press, 2003—present.
Associate Editor for Rhetoric & Public Affairs, edited by Martin Medhurst and published by Michigan State University Press, 2002—present.
Associate Editor for Argument and Advocacy, edited by Dale A. Herbeck and published by the American Forensics Association, 2001—2004.
Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Speech, edited by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and published by the National Communication Association, 2000—2004.
Reviewer for Communication Theory, editor Scott Jacobs and published by the International Communication Association and Oxford University Press, November 2002—2 essays.
Reviewer for Philosophy and Rhetoric, editor Stephen Brown and published by Pennsylvania State University Press, September 2002—1 essay.
Reviewer for Communication Quarterly, special issue on Identity Negotiation, edited by Ronald L. Jackson, II an d published by the Eastern States Communication Association, May, 2002.—1 essay.
Reviewer for Western Journal of Communication, edited by David Henry for National Speech Communication Association, November, 1999 and October, 2000—1 essay.
Reviewer for Quarterly Journal of Speech, edited by Andrew King and published by the National Communication Association, July, 2000—1 essay.
Reviewer for Contours, edited by David Barry Gaspar and published by Indiana University Press, March, 2000—1 essay.
Panel and paper reviewer for the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Annual Convention, October, 1999.
Reviewer for Argument and Advocacy, edited by Edward Schiappa and published by the American Forensic Association, May, 1999—1 essay.
Reviewer for Rhetoric & Public Affairs, edited by Martin Medhurst and published by Michigan State University, March, 1999, July 2001, January 2002. 3 essays.
Reviewer for Rhetoric Review, edited by Theresa Enos and published from the University of Arizona, September, 1996-1997. 2 essays.
Participated in the Alliance of Rhetoric Societies Conference, Northwestern University, October 11-13, 2003.
External Grant Reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Reviewed year-long grants submitted to the American Studies, Rhetoric, Communication and Media Review Committee, NEH, Summer, 2001.
Participated in the Civility Symposium at the University of Iowa sponsored by the Research Board of the National Communication Association, May 5-6, 2000.
Participated in the New Faculty Orientation and Teaching Workshop sponsored by the University, September 12, 1996.
Attended the "World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality" sponsored by the Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice, May 16-19, 1996.
Service to the University
Co-Chair of the Task Force on Faculty Culture, Repositioning the University of Minnesota, Fall 2005-Present.
Member of the Advisor Board, Institute for Advanced Study, CLA, University of Minnesota, Spring 2004-Present.
Member of the search committee for a Director of Public Relations, CLA, University of Minnesota, Spring 2004.
Member of the CLA Instructional Awards Committee, University of Minnesota, Spring 2003—Present.
Member of the CLA Faculty Research Awards Committee, University of Minnesota, Fall 2003.
Member of the Education Committee for the 2003 In the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr., art exhibition. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Spring 2002-Spring 2003.
Interlocutor and respondent to a paper by Professor Error! Contact not defined. at the Minnesota-Amsterdam Symposium, Technological Innovation & Cultural Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Media and the Public Sphere, September 27, 2002.
Faculty Mentor in the U of M's Undergraduate Distinguished Minority Scholar Program, December 2000-Fall 2002.
Lecturer for the CLA Freshman Orientation Leader Conference, Summer 2001 and Spring 2002.
Reviewer for the President's Multicultural Undergraduate Research Scholarships, February-March, 2000.
Reviewer panel for the President's Multicultural Research Award for Faculty, November, 1999.
Member of the College of Liberal Arts Faculty Assembly, University of Minnesota (1998-1999).
Mediator for the Graduate Student Health Care Forum sponsored by the Council of Graduate Students, University of Minnesota, April 1998.
Director of Graduate Studies, Fall 2005-Present.
Administrator of the department web and email-list server, Fall, 1997-Present.
Director of Departmental Honors Program, Fall, 2003-Fall, 2005.
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Fall, 2003-Summer, 2004.
Member of the Faculty Annual Review Committee, Spring 2003, 2004.
Member of the New Technology Committee, Fall, 1996-Present.
Member of the Annual Awards Committee, Spring, 2002.
Member of the Department Chair Search Committee, Fall, 2001.
Member of the Department Faculty Search Committee. Completed with the hire of Ronald Greene, Fall 2000-Winter, 2001.
Member of the 1102 investigative committee, March, 1997.
Member of the Travel Awards Committee, Spring, 1996, Spring,1997.
Member of the Annual Awards Committee, January, 1996-Spring, 1997.
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Rhetoric Society of America
National Communication Association (NCA); previously the Speech Communication Association (1991-Present).