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EDUCATION:Florida State University, B.S., 1998; Wake Forest University, M.A., 2002; University of Maryland, Ph.D., 2006.
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Scholar, educator, writer, and editor. The University of Alabama, assistant professor of communication studies, 2005-2010, associate professor, 2010-16, assistant dean for Undergraduate Student Services, College of Communication & Information Sciences, 2011-2013; University of North Carolina – Charlotte, professor and chair of the department of Communication Studies, 2016–.
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National Communication Association, Southern States Communication Association, Carolinas Communication Association, Rhetoric Society of America, Alabama Communication Association, International Communication Association, American Society for the History of Rhetoric (2008 – 2015), and the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (2013 – 2016).
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Gender Scholar of the Year Award, 2015, Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Award, 2008, both Southern States Communication Association.
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Contributor to books. Contributor to professional journals, including Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Southern Communication Journal, Western Journal of Communication, American Indian Quarterly, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Communication Quarterly, Enculturation, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Kenneth Burke Journal, and Journal of Media and Cultural Politics.
SIDELIGHTS
Jason Edward Black is a communication studies professor whose primary research interest lies at the juncture of rhetorical studies and social change. His work has an emphasis on American Indian resistance, LGBTQ community discourses,Black liberation, and decolonization. A contributor to professional journals and books, Black is also an editor of books and an author.
American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment
In his book titled American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment, Black focuses on the nineteenth century removal and allotment eras in relation to the American Indian. Specifically, he discusses how government rhetoric combined with American Indian responses contributed to the era’s policies. Blacks begins with an introduction discussing the colonization and decolonization of the relationship between the United States and Native Americans. He then explores the nature of U.S. government rhetoric that went from a notion of nationhood for the Native Americans to their removal.
In another chapter Black addresses the rhetoric involved with native decolonial resistance on through to removal policies and rhetoric. The fourth chapter focuses on the General Allotment Act, or the Dawes Act of 1887, which gave authority to the U.S. President to survey Indian tribal lands and divide them into allotments for individual American Indians. Next, Black turns his attention to Pan-Indianism, which was a a philosophy and movement promoting unity among different American Indian tribes and groups regardless of tribal or local affiliations. He also analyzes decolonial challenges to allotment. The book’s conclusion examines the legacies of colonizing and decolonizing rhetoric.
Throughout the discussion, Black draws from government officials’ speeches. He points out that the American Indians were not totally without power in facing the government’s hypocrisy, noting that the Native American resistance included accomplished orators who influence government rhetoric and discourse and ultimately help shaped Indian policies.”The true value of Black’s work lies in the chapters on Native resistance through oratory,” wrote Journal of Southern History contributor Jay Prech, adding later: “Black clearly makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Native agency in the face of a powerful federal government through his analysis of indigenous rhetoric.”
Arguments about Animal Ethics
Black is also editor, with Greg Goodale, of Arguments about Animal Ethics. The Book includes essays by rhetoricians in English and communication and medical studies scholars. The essays focus on the rhetorical and discursive practices used by those involved in animal ethics controversies, such as the use of animals for meat, entertainment, clothing, and vivisection practices. The essays examine the rhetoric involved in the debate as used by both sides.
Contributors examine successes and failures in rhetoric to sway people and focuses on specific topics, such as the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals group and the Corolla Wild Horse Fund. They also address the treatment of animals in the biomedical research industry. Other contributions examine human-nonhuman communication and genetic modification of animals. “Focusing on rhetorical aspects of arguments surrounding animal ethics, all the essays support animal rights broadly speaking,” wrote Choice contributor W. Ouderkirk.
An Archive of Hope
An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings, coedited by Black and Charles E. Morris III, brings together a substantial collection of Milk’s speeches, columns, editorials, open letters, and press releases, as well as certain political campaign materials. Milk was elected a San Francisco Board of Supervisors member and was one of the first openly, politically active gay public officials in the United States. He was assassinated on November 27, 1978, along with Mayor George Moscone.
An Archive of Hope features a foreword from Frank Robinson, who was Milk’s political adviser and speech writer. Robinson gives context to Milk’s political life by recounting his political philosophy and his evolution from being a conservative Republican to a political liberal supporter of GLBTQ rights, as well as a political activist who tried to forge connections among not only gay people but also other disenfranchised members of Castro district he represented, including the elderly and the poor.
“The selections capture the voice of this coalition builder,” wrote Choice contributor A.B. Johnson. James Patterson, writing for the Gay & Lesbian Review, noted that in their introduction “Morris and Black generously detail the social, economic, and political climate that catapulted Harvey Milk into the national spotlight.”
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Choice, October, 2010, W. Ouderkirk, review of Arguments about Animal Ethics, p. 282; August, 2013, A.B. Johnson, review of An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings, p. 2208.
Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, September-October, 2013, James Patterson, James, review of An Archive of Hope, p. 45.
Journal of Southern History, August, 2016, Jay Precht, review of American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment, p. 675.
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University of North Carolina Charlotte Web site, https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/jblac143/ (March 15, 2017), author faculty profile.*
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Education
Ph.D., Communication, University of Maryland (2006)
M.A., Communication Wake Forest University (2002)
B.S., Political Communication, Florida State University (1998)
CV
Black-CV-August-2016
Research Interests
Rhetoric & Social Change
Social Movements
American Indian resistance
LGBTQ discourse
Black liberation
Decolonization
Select Courses Taught (UNCC & Univ. of Alabama)
African American Oratory (undergrad, UNCC)
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (grad, UA)
Critical & Cultural Theories (grad, UA)
Rhetorical Criticism (grad, UA)
Rhetoric & Social Change (grad, UA)
African American Rhetoric (undergrad/grad, UA)
Critical Whiteness Theory (undergrad/grad, UA)
Rhetoric, Race & Law (undergrad/grad, UA)
War & Protest Rhetoric (undergrad/grad, UA)
Native American Rhetoric (undergrad/grad, UA)
Legal Rhetoric (undergrad/grad, UA)
Rhetoric & Society (undergrad, UA)
Rhetoric of Social Protest (undergrad, UA)
Rhetorical Criticism (undergrad, UA)
Critical Decision Making (undergrad, UA)
Bio
Dr. Jason Edward Black (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is professor and incoming chair of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. Prior to joining UNCC, he taught at The University of Alabama for 11 years.
His research program is located at the juncture of rhetorical studies and social change, with an emphasis on American Indian resistance, LGBTQ community discourses, and Black liberation. His work in these areas has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech; Rhetoric & Public Affairs; Southern Communication Journal; Western Journal of Communication; American Indian Quarterly; American Indian Culture and Research Journal; Communication Quarterly; Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture; Advances in the History of Rhetoric; Kenneth Burke Journal; Journal of Media and Cultural Politics; and numerous book chapters.
Black is the author of American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment (University Press of Mississippi). He is also co-editor, with Charles E. Morris, III, of An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings (University of California Press, 2013) and co-editor, with Greg Goodale, of Arguments about Animal Ethics (Lexington Books, 2010). Black is currently working on two books: the first is a University of Illinois Press contracted project (w/ Andrew Billings) on the politics of the Native American mascot, and the second is a sequel to the Harvey Milk anthology (w/Charles E. Morris, III).
Black’s research, teaching, and service have been recognized by awards such as the President’s Research Award (Univ. of Alabama, 2016), the Gender Scholar of the Year Award (Southern States Communication Association, 2015), the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award (Univ. of Alabama, 2012), the Board of Visitors Outstanding Teaching Award (Univ. of Alabama, 2011), the Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Award (Southern States Communication Association, 2008), the Knox Hagood Faculty Award (Univ. of Alabama, 2008), the Ray Camp Faculty Award (Carolinas Communication Association, 2006), the Owen Peterson Award in Rhetoric & Public Address (Southern States Communication Association, 2004), and the Wrage-Baskerville Award in Public Address (National Communication Association, 2004).
Jason Edward Black, Ph.D.
Address: UNC Charlotte, 5055 Colvard, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223
Email: jblack143@uncc.edu
Office: 704-687-0783
Cell/text: 205-657-6755
Fax: 704-687-6900
Website: https://uncc.academia.edu/JasonEdwardBlack
Academic Appointments
Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte, 2016-present
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, The University of Alabama, 2010-2016
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Gender & Race Studies, The University of Alabama, 2008-2016
Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Student Services, College of Communication & Information
Sciences, The University of Alabama, 2011-2013
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, The University of Alabama, 2005-2010
Education
Ph.D. Communication, University of Maryland, July 2006
Emphasis: rhetoric and public discourse with a specialty in social change, American Indian discourses, GLBTQ+ discourses, African American discourses, and general cultural criticism
M.A. Communication, Wake Forest University, May 2002
Emphasis: rhetorical criticism and social change
B.A. Communication, Florida State University, December 1998
Emphasis: rhetoric and legal/political communication
Honors
Excellence in Academic Advising Award, The Univ. of Alabama, May 2016
President’s Faculty Research Award, The Univ. of Alabama, March 2016
Spotlight, “Office Hours” Recognition, Div. of Student Affairs, The Univ. of Alabama, January 2016
Finalist, Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor Award, The Univ. of Alabama, June 2015
Gender Studies Scholar of the Year Award, Gender Studies Division, SSCA, April 2015
Top Paper, Critical Cultural Studies Division, AEJMC, August 2014
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award (anthology), An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings, March 2014.
Finalist, Last Lecture Award, Graduate School of The Univ. of Alabama, March 2014
Top Paper, American Studies Division, National Communication Association, November 2013
Diversity Forum Award, College of Communication & Information Sciences, April 2013
Finalist, Last Lecture Award, Graduate School of The Univ. of Alabama, April 2013
Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award, UA Alumni Association, The Univ. of Alabama, October 2012
Top Faculty Paper Award, Alabama Communication Association Convention, Mobile, AL, July 2012
Finalist, Last Lecture Award, Graduate School of The Univ. of Alabama, April 2012
College of Communication & Information Sciences Board of Visitors Teaching Excellence Award, The Univ. of Alabama, May 2011
Anderson Society Outstanding Faculty Award, April 2011
Finalist, Last Lecture Award, Graduate School of The Univ. of Alabama, April 2011
Outstanding Faculty Award, Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, chosen by The University of Alabama chapter, October 2010
Finalist, Last Lecture Award, Graduate School of The Univ. of Alabama, April 2010
Finalist, Academic Advising Excellence Award, The Univ. of Alabama Academic Advising Association, March 2010
Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award, Southern States Communication Association, April 2008
Knox Hagood Faculty Award, College of Communication and Information Sciences, The Univ. of Alabama, May 2008
Finalist, Rose B. Johnson Southern Communication Journal Article Award, Southern States Communication Association, April 2008
Finalist, Last Lecture Award, Graduate School of The Univ. of Alabama, April 2008
Inspire Integrity Award, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, March 2008
Finalist, Last Lecture Award, Graduate School of The Univ. of Alabama, April 2007
Ray Camp Top Paper Award, Carolinas Communication Association, Charleston, SC, September 2006
Top Paper in Kenneth Burke Society Division, Southern States Communication
Association, Dallas, TX, April 2006
Top Paper in Communication and Law Division, National Communication Association,
Boston, MA, Nov. 2005
Wrage-Baskerville Award for Top Contributed Paper in Public Address, Public Address Division, National Communication Association convention, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2004
NCA Doctoral Honors Conference participant, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM,
July 2004
Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, Department of Communication, Univ. of Maryland, May 2004
Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Communication, Univ. of Maryland, May 2004
Owen Peterson Award in Rhetoric & Public Address, Public Address Division, Southern States Communication Association convention, Tampa, FL, April 2004
Jarrard Top Paper, Carolinas Communication Association, Raleigh, NC, Oct. 2003
Outstanding Graduate Scholar, Department of Communication, Univ. of Maryland, May 2003
Jarrard Top Paper, Carolinas Communication Association, Greensboro, NC, Oct. 2002
University Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2002-2006
Outstanding Master’s Student Award, Graduate School, Wake Forest University, 2001-2002
Gregg Phifer Top Paper Award in Free Speech, Southern States Communication Association convention, Lexington, KY, April 2001
Publications
Books
Jason Edward Black, American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal & Allotment, University Press of Mississippi, 2015.
Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris III., An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Selected Speeches and Writings, University of California Press, 2013.
Greg Goodale and Jason Edward Black, Arguments about Animal Ethics, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.
Journal Articles
Jason Edward Black and Vernon Ray Harrison, “The Resurgence, Productivity, and Future of Public Memory Studies: A Review Essay,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 9:2 (2016). Invited.
Jason Edward Black and Vernon Ray Harrison, “Southern Generationalism and the Rhetoric of the Drive-By Truckers,” Western Journal of Communication 79:3 (2015): 283-306. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “Native American ‘Mascotting’ Reveals Neocolonial Logics,” Spectra 50:3 (2014): 14-17. Invited.
Jason Edward Black, “Republican Motherhood, Black Militancy, and Scorching Irony in Sara Stanley’s What to the Toiling Millions There, Is This Boasted Liberty?,” Carolinas Communication Annual (2014). Refereed. Lead article.
Jason Edward Black, “Rhetorical Circulation, Native Authenticity, and Neocolonial Decay:
The Case of Chief Seattle’s Controversial Elegy,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 15:4 (2012): 635-646. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “Indigenizing the Rhetorical Canon: Native American Discourses and Memories,” Communication Teacher, 26:4 (2012): 1-9. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “A Clash of Native Space and Institutional Place in a Local Choctaw-Upper Creek Memory Site – Decolonizing Critiques and Scholar-Activist Interventions,” American Indian Culture & Research Journal 36:3 (2012): 19-44. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris III, “Harvey Milk and the Hope Speech,” Voices of Democracy Journal 6 (2012), 63-76. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “Plenary Rhetoric in Indian Country: The Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock Case and the Codification of a Weakened Native America,” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 11 (2011): 59-80. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “Performing Native America: Image Events in the Thanksgiving
Day of Mourning Protests,” Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing and Culture 6:2 (2010): 1-23. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “Native Resistive Rhetoric and the Decolonization of American Indian Removal Discourse,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 95:1 (2009): 66-88. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “Memories of the Alabama Creek War, 1813-1814: U.S. Governmental and Native Rhetorical Identities at the Horseshoe Bend National Military Park,” American Indian Quarterly 33:2 (2009): 200-229. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “Kicking Bear’s ‘I Bring You Word from Your Fathers the Ghosts’
Address,” Voices of Democracy Journal 3 (2008): 34-49. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “Remembrances of Removal: Native Resistance to Allotment and
the Unmasking of Paternal Benevolence,” Southern Communication Journal 72:2 (2007): 185-203. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “Authoritarian Fatherhood: Jackson’s Early Lectures to America’s
Red Children,” Journal of Family History 30:3 (2005): 247-264. Refereed. Lead article.
Jason Edward Black, “Symbolic Suicide as Mortification and Transformation: The
Conciliatory (Yet) Resistant Surrender of Maka-tai-mesh-ekia-kiak,” Kenneth Burke Journal 2:1 (2005). Refereed. Lead article.
Jason Edward Black, “Sacagawea as Commodity, Currency, and Cipher: A Cultural-
Feminist Reading of the U.S. Mint’s Gold Dollar,” International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 1:2 (2005): 226-230. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “SLAPPs and Social Activism: Free Speech Struggles in Grey2K’s
Campaign to Ban Dog Racing,” Free Speech Yearbook 40 (2005): 70-82. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “Extending the Rights of Personhood, Voice, and Life to Sensate
Others: A Homology of Right to Life and Animal Rights Rhetoric,” Communication Quarterly 51:3 (2003): 312-331. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “The Mascotting of Native America: Construction, Commodity,
and Assimilation,” American Indian Quarterly 26:4 (2002): 605-622. Refereed.
Jason Edward Black, “Constitutive Rhetoric and the Animal Protection Movement: The
Identities of Welfare and Rights,” Ohio Speech Journal 39 (2001): 30-47. Refereed.
Book Chapters, Essays and Proceedings
Jason Edward Black, “Here is a Strange and Bitter Crop: Emmett Till and the Rhetorical Complications of Treescape Memory” in Emmett Till in Popular Culture and Public Memory, ed., Davis Houck (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017).
Jason Edward Black, “Speech, Body, and Public Address,” in Proceedings of the 2016 Public Address Conference, eds. Charles E. Morris III and Kendall Phillips, 2016.
Jason Edward Black and Andrew C. Billings, “All Sides Agree, It’s a Powerful Name: Online Debate on the Acceptability of the Washington NFL Mascot,” in Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers, ed., Rebecca Ann Lind (New York: A.B. Longman, 2015).
Jefferson Walker and Jason Edward Black, “Get Out the Vote (GOTV) Drives,” Encyclopedia
of Social Media and Politics, eds. Kerric Harvey and J. Geoffrey Golson. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2014.
Jefferson Walker and Jason Edward Black, “Joe Lieberman,” Encyclopedia
of Social Media and Politics, eds. Kerric Harvey and J. Geoffrey Golson. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2014.
Jason Edward Black, “Native Resistive Rhetoric and the Decolonization of American Indian Removal Discourse,” REPRINTED in Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, 5th ed. Ed. Carl Burgchardt. State College, PA: Strata Publishing, 2015.
Jason Edward Black, “Revisiting the Social Actor: The Rhetorical Critic as Interventionist,” in Rhetorical Criticism: Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy. Ed. Jim Kuypers. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014, 21-43.
Jason Edward Black, “SLAPPs and Social Activism: Free Speech Struggles in Grey2K’s
Campaign to Ban Dog Racing,” REPRINTED in Readings in the Rhetoric of Social Protest, 3d edition. Eds. Charles E. Morris, III. and Stephen Browne. State College, PA: Strata Publishing, 2013.
Charles E. Morris, III and Jason Edward Black, “Harvey Milk’s Political Archive and Archival Politics,” in An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings. Eds. Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris III. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, 1-59.
Jason Edward Black, “Editor’s Introduction,” Carolinas Communication Annual 16 (2012), i-iii.
Jason Edward Black, “Editor’s Introduction,” Carolinas Communication Annual 15 (2011), i-ii.
Jason Edward Black, “Editor’s Introduction,” Carolinas Communication Annual 14 (2010), i-ii.
Greg Goodale and Jason Edward Black, “Rhetoric and ‘Animals’: A Long History and Short Introduction,” in Arguments About Animal Ethics. Eds. Greg Goodale and Jason Edward Black. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010, 1-7.
Jason Edward Black, “Biting Back at the Empire: The Anti-Greyhound Racing Movement’s Decolonizing Rhetoric as a Countermand to the Dog Racing Industry,” in Arguments About Animal Ethics. Eds. Greg Goodale and Jason Edward Black. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010, 113-125.
Jason Edward Black, “Communicating Lived Experience: Summary and Reflections on
the 2008 NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar,” in Proceedings of the 2008 National Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar. Eds. Jason Edward Black and Carol Bishop Mills. Washington, D.C.: National Communication Association, 2008, 1-9.
Jason Edward Black. “Red Stick Culture and the Creek War Uprising,” in Encyclopedia of Native American History. Ed. Peter C. Mancall. New York: Facts on File Press, 2008.
Jason Edward Black and Shawn Parry-Giles, “Elizabeth Birch: Activist for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Community” in Contemporary American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Bernie Duffy and Richard Leeman. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
Jason Edward Black and Jennifer Black, “The Rhetorical Terrorist: Implications of the
USA Patriot Act on Animal Liberation,” in Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? Essays on Animal Liberation. Eds. Anthony Nocella and Steve Best. New York: Lantern Press, 2004. 288-299.
Book Reviews
C. Richard King, Redskins: Insult and Brand. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, forthcoming.
Emma LaRocque, When the Other is Me: Native Resistive Discourse – 1850-1990. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 35:4 (2012): 286-289.
Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica Moran, and Robert Cohen. Emma Goldman: A
Documentary History of the American Years, Volume Two: Making Speech Free, 1902-1909 (Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years). Free Speech Yearbook, 45 (2009).
Eric P. Kaufmann, The Rise and Fall of Anglo America. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 10.1 (2007).
Granville Ganter, The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket. American
Indian Culture and Research Journal 31:1 (2007).
Anatol Lieven, America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 9:1 (2006).
Eva Marie Garroutte, Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America.
Quarterly Journal of Speech 90:1 (2004).
Stanley Renshon, One America? Political Leadership, National Identity and the
Dilemmas of Diversity. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5:2 (2003).
Charles Patterson, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust.
Quarterly Journal of Speech 89:1 (2003).
Work in Process
Mascotting America: Native Names, Images, and Rituals with the Power to Divide a Nation, book contract with the University of Illinois Press. With Andrew Billings.
Milk Delivery: The Queer Newspaper Columns of Harvey Milk, book contract in progress. With Charles E. Morris III.
“Detourning The World’s Fair: An American Indian Disruption of Progress,” research article, in process.
“A Straight Subject in Queen Harvey’s Court – Intersectionality, Archival Queering, and World Making in an LGBTQ Anthology Project,” autoethnography article, in process.
Research Grants
Reese Phifer Fellowship, The Univ. of Alabama, “Native Decolonization Project,” $12,000, 2014-2015.
Reese Phifer Fellowship, The Univ. of Alabama, “Harvey Milk Project,” $10,000, 2009-2011.
Research Council Grant, The Univ. of Alabama, “Rhetorical Identities of Native and Anglo Cultures in Alabama’s Creek War, 1813-1814,” $2,500, 2006-2008.
Jacob K. Goldhaber Grant, Univ. of Maryland, $2,000, competitive grant award, 2004.
Instructional Improvement Grant, Univ. of Maryland, “Service Learning in
Communication Experiences (SLICE) Program,” $3,500, 2005.
Invited Research Lectures/Colloquia/Talks
“Memory on the University of Alabama Campus,” Convocation, Blount Initiative, The University of Alabama, March 2016.
“NASCAR Fandom and Marketability,” guest Skype lecture, College of Communication, DePaul University, February 2016
“Memory, Masculinity, and the Martial Politics of Native-US Affairs: A Learning Tour of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend National Military Park,” Women’s and Gender Resource Center Speaker Series, The University of Alabama, November 2015.
“Hail to Whom?": Neo/Decolonial Rhetoric in Native American Mascotting,” Social Justice Series, The University of Alabama, October 2015.
“Neocolonialism and the Native Mascot,” public lecture, University of Utah, April 2015.
“For Whom the Indian Stands: Native Mascotting and Neo/DeColonization,” public lecture, Wake Forest University, October 2014.
“The Rhetorical Studies Process and Native Discursive Work,” proseminar discussion, Department of Communication, Wake Forest University, October 2014.
“Ideological Critique and the Native American Mascot Controversy,” guest Skype lecture, Department of Communication, Angelo State University, November 2013.
“Harvey Milk Project,” book tour talk, Books, Inc., San Francisco, CA, May 2013
“An Archive of Hope,” book tour talk, Hormel Center of the San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA, May 2013.
“Harvey Milk, Archival Politics, and the Political Archive,” Colloquia series, Department of Communication Studies, The University of Alabama, March 2013.
“Memory, Victimage, and Survivance: Approaching African American History on the Campus of The University of Alabama,” Convocation, Blount Initiative, The University of Alabama, March 2013.
“Reflections on SLIS and Autherine Lucy,” SLIS 40th Anniversary Address, The University of Alabama, October 2012.
“Scorching Irony, Militancy and Black Republican Motherhood in Sara Stanley’s What, to the Toiling Millions There, Is This Boasted Liberty? (1856),” Black Women as Public Intellectuals Symposium, The University of Alabama Gender & Race Studies series, Tuscaloosa, AL, October 2010.
“Reflections on Harvey Milk’s Legacy and Queer Memory,” The University of Alabama, Capstone Alliance Seminar, October 2010.
“What Will Your Verse Be,” The University of Alabama, Phi Eta Sigma keynote speech, 2010 induction ceremony, March 2010.
Speaker, “Native American Cultures,” Children’s Development Resource Center,
The University of Alabama, April 2008
Speaker, “Civic Engagement and Effective Small Group Communication,” The University of
Alabama, Coordinating Council of Student Organizations, Executive Conference, Fall 2007.
“The Rhetoric of Native American Mascotting,” University of Illinois colloquium, April
2007.
“Rhetoric, Collective Memory and Anglo-Native Identities,” Boston College colloquium,
February 2007.
“Remembering Indian Removal: Late Nineteenth Century American Indian Rhetoric and
the Perspective of Collective Memory,” Colloquia series, Department of Communication Studies, The University of Alabama, October 2006.
Professional Papers
"Saying Indian: Postcolonial Rhetoric and Online Commentary during the Washington Redsk-ns Trademark Disputes," National Communication Association convention, Philadelphia, PA, November 2016. With Jinjie Yang and Andrew Billings. Panel Paper.
“Here is a Strange and Bitter Crop: Emmett Till and the Rhetorical Complications of Treescape Memory,” National Communication Association convention, Philadelphia, PA, November 2016. With Andrew Billings and Lauren Auverset. Panel Paper.
“Self-Categorization Theory as a Component to Native American Mascotting,” National Communication Association convention, Philadelphia, PA, November 2016. With Andrew Billings and Lauren Auverset. Competitive Paper.
“Reflections on Gender Studies Production at SSCA,” Southern States Communication Association convention, Austin, TX, April 2016. Invited.
“The Rhetoric of Christian Authority and Violence in the Indian Removal Era,” National Communication Association convention, Las Vegas, NV, November 2015. Panel Paper.
“Southern Generational Rhetoric and the Drive-By Truckers,” Alabama Communication Association convention, Tuscaloosa, AL July 2015. Panel Paper.
“Advising Graduate Students in Rhetorical Studies,” Alabama Communication Association convention, Tuscaloosa, AL July 2015. Panel Paper.
“Orange Tuesday as Media Flag Event and Iconic Memory in the Empowerment of LGBT Liberation,” International Communication Association convention, San Juan, PR, May 2015. Competitive Paper.
VP Spotlight Panel: “The Boy Who Never Died: The Saga of Emmitt Till,” Southern States Communication Association convention, Tampa, FL, April 2015. Panel Paper.
"The Art and Craft of Social Movement Criticism: Retrospect and Prospect," Southern States Communication Association convention, Tampa, FL, April 2015. Panel Paper.
“NFL Controversies: The Case of the R-dskin and the History of Sport Colonization,” Southern States Communication Association convention, Tampa, FL, April 2015. Panel Paper.
“All Sides Agree, It’s a Powerful Name: Online Debate on the Acceptability of the Washington NFL Mascot,” Diversity Symposium, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, March 2015. With Andrew Billings and Tie Nie. Competitive Paper.
“Decolonizing Mediated Pro-Native-Mascot Messages at the University of Illinois and Florida State University,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention, Montreal, Can., August 2014. Top Paper in Critical Cultural Studies. Competitive Paper.
“Indigenizing Native Memories at the Fort Mims Heritage Site,” Alabama Communication Association convention, Troy, AL, July 2014. Competitive Paper.
“The WWF’s Tatanka and the Rhetorical Complications of a Native Person Playing a Native Persona,” Southern States Communication Association convention, New Orleans, LA, April 2014. Panel Paper.
“Queering the South – A Retrospective,” Southern States Communication Association convention, New Orleans, LA, April 2014. Panel Paper.
“Don’t Worry ‘Bout Losing Your Accent; A Southern Man Tells Better Jokes”: Generationalism in the Southern-Based Lyrics of the Drive-By Truckers,” National Communication Association Convention, Washington, DC, November 2013. Top Paper in American Studies Competitive Paper.
“The ‘Orange Tuesday’ Movement and the Struggle for (and Legacies of) Southern LGBTQ Identities in the Sunshine State,” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Louisville, KY, April 2013. Panel Paper.
“Disquietudes of Rhetorical Circulation & Neocolonial Authenticity in Chief Seattle’s Elegy,” Carolinas Communication Association Convention, Aiken, SC, October 2012. Competitive Paper.
“Maintaining the Vitality of a State Journal: An Interventionist Call to Animate Our Scholarship,” Carolinas Communication Association Convention, Aiken, SC, October 2012. Panel Paper.
“Harvey Milk’s ‘You Gotta Give ‘Em Hope’ as a Transcendent Discourse,” Alabama Communication Association Convention, Mobile, AL, July 2012. With Charles E. Morris, III. Top Faculty Paper. Competitive Paper.
“Rhetorical Circulation and Complications of Authenticity and Appropriation in (Neo)Colonial Contexts: The Case of Chief Seattle’s (Suquamish) ‘The Indians’ Night Promises to Be Dark,” Southern States Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, TX, April 2012. Competitive Paper.
“A Burkean Discussion with Mari Boor Tonn,” Southern States Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, TX, April 2012. Panel Paper.
“The Rhetorical Legacies of Black Motherhood and Scorching Irony in Sara Stanley’s Speech to the ‘State Convention of Colored Men’ (1855),” National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, November 2011. Competitive Paper.
“Harvey Milk, the Politics of Memory, and the Recovery of Queer Archives,” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Little Rock, AR, March 2011. Panel Paper.
“Détournement and the ‘Strike’ Against Imperial Labor in the Discourse of Helen Keller,” National Communication Association Convention, San Francisco, CA, November 2010. With Jennifer A. Wells. Panel Paper.
“’Your Blood Flows in My Veins’: The Feminization of African American Women’s Deliverance in the Nineteenth Century,” National Communication Association Convention, San Francisco, CA, November 2010. Panel Paper.
“For Whom the ‘Indian’ Stands: Issues of Free Speech and Hate Speech in the Collegiate Native Mascot Controversy,” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Memphis, TN, April 2010. Panel Paper.
“Preserving Pushmataha: The Clash of Native Space and Governmental Place in a Local Historical Memory Site,” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Memphis, TN, April 2010. Panel Paper.
“The Power of the Milk Campaign’s Coors Boycott,” National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL November, 2009. Panel Paper. With Charles Morris III.
“Red Sticks, Tennessee Volunteers, and a Southern ‘Indian War’ on Display: Colonized and Decolonized Identities at the Horseshoe Bend National Military Park,” Southern States Communication Association, Norfolk, VA, April 2009. Competitive paper.
“Kenneth Burke and the Postcolonial,” Southern States Communication Association, Norfolk, VA, April 2009. Panel paper.
“Indigenizing Our Rhetoric and Public Address Curriculum: American Indian Readings,
Assignments and Units in the Rhetoric Classroom,” Carolinas Communication Association Convention, Columbia, SC, October 2008. Competitive G.I.F.T.S. Program.
“Biting Back at the Empire: The Anti-Greyhound Racing Movement’s Decolonizing
Rhetoric as a Countermand to the Dog Racing Industry,” National Communication Association Convention, San Diego, CA November, 2008. Panel Paper.
“The Rhetorical Legacies and Social Activism of Harvey Milk – A 30 Year Retrospective,” National Communication Association Convention, San Diego, CA November, 2008. Chair Duties and Roundtable Paper.
“Native Mascotting as a Neocolonial Discourse: Homologies of U.S. Colonial Ideologies
and Pro-Mascot Rhetoric at the University of Illinois and Florida State University,” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Savannah, GA April 2008. Competitive Paper.
“Hybrid Rhetoric in Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Seminole Removal Resistance:
Constituting U.S. Governmental and Native Identities through the Turnaround,” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Louisville, KY, April 2007. Competitive Paper. Top Papers Panel in Rhetoric and Public Address Division.
“Bifurcating Native Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century: Burke’s Scapegoat Meets
Bhabha’s Other in U.S. Assimilation Rhetoric,” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Louisville, KY, April 2007. Panel Paper.
“Memorializing the Alabama Creek War, 1813-1814: Anglo/Native Identities in the
Monuments of Fort Mims and Horseshoe Bend,” National Communication Association Convention: San Antonio, TX, Nov. 2006. Panel Paper.
“The Rhetoric of Native America: At the Interstices of Context, Criticism and Multiple Cultures,” National Communication Association Convention: San Antonio, TX, Nov. 2006. Panel Paper.
“Remembering Indian Removal: Resistive Native Discourse and the Enactment of
Collective Memory,” Carolinas Communication Association Convention, Charleston, SC, Sept. 2006. Competitive Paper. Ray Camp Top Paper Award
“Symbolic Suicide as Mortification and Transformation: The Conciliatory (Yet) Resistant
Surrender of Maka-tai-mesh-ekia-kiak.” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Dallas, TX, April 2006. Competitive Paper. Top Paper in Kenneth Burke Division
“Sacagawea as Commodity, Currency and Cipher: Consequences of the U.S. Mint’s Gold
Dollar for American Indian Women.” National Communication Association Convention: Boston, Massachusetts, November 2005. Competitive Paper.
“Relocating Renegades/Raising Red Children: The Ideologies of Exclusion, Inclusion
and Paternalism in America’s 1830s Indian Removal Rhetoric.” National Communication Association Convention, Boston, MA, November 2005. Invited panel piece.
“Removal and Collective Memory: Native Responses to Allotment and the Reconfiguring
of U.S. Benevolence.” National Communication Association Convention, Boston, MA, November 2005. Invited panel piece.
“Codifying Plenary Power in Indian Country: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock and the Construction of a Weakened Native America.” National Communication Association Convention, Boston, MA, November 2005. Competitive Paper. Top Paper in Communication and Law Division
“Chief Black Hawk and Hybrid Identities of Chief/Child and Native/American.” New
Directions in American Indian Research, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2005. Competitive Paper.
“Constituting the ‘Allotment Indian’: The Role of Paternal Rhetoric in America’s Dawes
Act Era.” National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL, November 2004. Wrage-Baskerville Award in Public Address.
“Teaching at the Crucible of Diversity and Public Address: A Case Study of The Rhetoric
of Native America.” National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL, November 2004. Competitive G.I.F.T.S. Program
“Enriching the Public Address Classroom through African-American Discourse: A Case
Study of The Rhetoric of Black America.” National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL, November 2004. Competitive Poster Presentation.
“Reflections on Fatherhood, Paternalism, Gender, Ethnicity, Class and Cognitive
Dissonance.” National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL, November 2004. Invited panel piece.
“Adjudicating the ‘Plenary Ward’: Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock and the Constitution of a
Diminutive Native Identity.” Conference on Liminality and the Humanities, Salt Lake City, UT, September 2004. Competitive Paper.
“Marshalling Identity: America’s Cherokee Cases and the Role of Paternal Nationalism.”
NCA Doctoral Honors Conference, Albuquerque, NM, July 2004. Competitive Paper.
“Constructing Rez Indian Identity? The Ironies of Paternal Imperialism in Dawes Act
Rhetoric.” Eastern Communication Association Convention, Boston, MA, April 2004. Invited panel paper.
“Re/Claiming Indianness: Performative Rhetoric in Contemporary Native Protest.”
New Directions in American Indian Studies Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2004. Competitive Paper.
“Marshalling Identity: America’s Cherokee Cases and the Role of Paternal Nationalism.”
Southern States Communication Convention, Tampa, FL, April 2004. Owen Peterson Award in Rhetoric & Public Address.
“Authoritarian Fatherhood: Jackson’s Early Lectures to America’s Red Children.”
National Communication Association Convention, Miami Beach, FL, November 2003. Competitive Paper.
“Surrender as Mortification and Transformation: Chief Black Hawk’s Symbolic Suicide,
September 1832.” National Communication Association Convention, Miami Beach, FL, November 2003. Top Papers Panel in Burke Division.
“Justifying the Service Learning Component to Undergraduate Internship Programs.”
National Communication Association Convention, Miami Beach, FL, November 2003. Invited pre-conference paper. With Julie S. Gowin.
“Re/Claiming Indianness: Performative Rhetoric in the Plymouth Day of Mourning
Protests.” Carolinas Communication Convention, Raleigh, NC, October 2003. Jarrard Top Paper.
“Extending the Rights of Personhood, Voice and Sanctity of Life to Sensate Others: A
Rhetorical Homology of the Right to Life and Animal Rights Movements.” Eastern Communication Association Convention, Washington, D.C., April 2003. Competitive Paper.
“Debates, Dialogues and Civic Engagement.” Eastern Communication Association
Convention, Washington, D.C., April 2003. Pre-Conference Paper. With Shawn Parry-Giles.
“Exploring Native and University Identities: The Ideographic
Southern States Communication Association Convention, Birmingham, AL, April 2003. Competitive Paper.
“Re-Examining the SCLC: Free Speech, Civil Rights and the Battle of Birmingham.”
Southern States Communication Association Convention, Birmingham, AL, April 2003. Competitive Paper
“Unpacking the Collegiate Mascot Controversy: The Native American
Representational Ideograph.” Carolinas Communication Association Convention, Greensboro, NC, October 2002. Jarrard Top Paper.
“Confederate Flags and the First Amendment: Free Speech Examined at the Stadium and
Statehouse.” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Winston-Salem, NC, April 2002. Panel paper.
“Barking at the SLAPP on Greyhound Protection: Grey2K’s Struggle for Free Speech in
the Electoral Process.” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Winston-Salem, NC, April 2002. Competitive Paper.
“Abolitionism and Non-Identification in the Rhetorical Process: William Lloyd Garrison’s Moral and Anti-Political Appeal.” National Communication Association Convention, Atlanta, GA, November 2001. Panel paper.
“The Animal Protection Movement: Cases of Welfare and Rights.” 6th Communication
Conference on the Environment sponsored by the Center for Environmental Communication Studies, Cincinnati, OH, July 2001. Competitive Paper.
“Animal Rights, Identification and Competence in the Rhetorical Process: A Case Study
of PETA’s Anti-Dairy Campaign.” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Lexington, KY, April 2001. Competitive Paper.
“Battling Cyber-Parody in the Political Arena: A Case Study of the Bush Campaign’s
Clash with GWBush.com.” Southern States Communication Association Convention, Lexington, KY, April 2001. Gregg Phifer Top Paper in Free Speech Division.
“The Cold War Kid: A Narrative Critique of Billy Joel’s Rhetoric.” Southern States
Communication Association Undergraduate Honors Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 1999. Competitive Paper.
Local Guest Lectures
“Introduction to Critical, Cultural, Rhetorical Studies,” The University of Alabama, Doctoral Colloquium (CIS602), Shuhua Zhou, Fall 2015.
University Faculty lecture, CIS100, The University of Alabama, Fall 2015.
African American Heritage at UA, Leadership U, The University of Alabama, Fall 2015.
“Introduction to Rhetorical Studies,” The University of Alabama, Intro to Graduate Study
(COM500), Dr. Lu Tang, Fall 2016.
African American Heritage at UA, Student Support Services program, The University of Alabama, Kathy Wilson, Spring 2015.
Faculty Dinner Roundtable, University Fellows Program, Honors College, The University of Alabama, Dr. Jacqueline Morgan, Spring 2015.
African American History at the University of Alabama, Social Work and Education Conference, The University of Alabama, Dr. Martha Crouwther, Spring 2014.
Faculty Dinner Roundtable, University Fellows Program, Honors College, The University of Alabama, Dr. Jacqueline Morgan, Spring 2014.
“Introduction to Critical, Cultural, Rhetorical Studies,” The University of Alabama, Doctoral Colloquium (CIS602), Shuhua Zhou, Fall 2013.
“My Experiences as a McNair Scholar Mentor,” The University of Alabama, McNair Scholar Program, Nancy Campbell, Fall 2012.
“Researching in Communication Studies,” The University of Alabama, Undergraduate Research Forum, Ann Webb, Fall 2012.
“Responding to Critical Humanities Work,” The University of Alabama, Doctoral Proseminar (CIS603), Jennifer Greer, Fall 2012.
“Introduction to Critical, Cultural, Rhetorical Studies,” The University of Alabama, Doctoral Colloquium (CIS602), Shuhua Zhou, Fall 2012.
“Introduction to Critical, Cultural, Rhetorical Studies,” The University of Alabama, Doctoral Colloquium (CIS602), Loy Singleton, Fall 2011.
“Introduction to Critical, Cultural, Rhetorical Studies,” The University of Alabama, Doctoral Colloquium (CIS602), Loy Singleton, Fall 2010.
“American Indian Movement and the Day of Mourning Protest,” The University of Alabama, Rhetoric and Society (COM100), Janis Edwards, Fall 2009.
“Nineteenth Century Native Activism,” The University of Alabama, Rhetoric and Society (COM100), Janis Edwards, Fall 2009.
“Using the African American History Tour of the University of Alabama in the
Communication and Information Sciences Classroom,” The University of Alabama, Diversity Colloquia Series, Spring 2008
“Diversity in Communication Pedagogy,” The University of Alabama, Doctoral Symposium
(CIS601), Dr. Bruce Berger, Spring 2008.
“Introduction to Rhetorical Studies,” The University of Alabama, Intro to Graduate Study
(COM500), Dr. Thomas E. Harris, Fall 2007.
“Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Seminole Anti-Removal Rhetoric,” The University of
Alabama, Colloquium in Communication and Information Sciences (CIS602), Beth Bennett, Fall 2007.
“American Indian Activism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” The University of
Alabama, Rhetoric and Society (COM100), Janis Edwards, Fall 2007.
“American Indian Mascots and Contemporary Sports Culture,” The University of Alabama,
Capstone Seminar in Sport Communication (COM499), David Airne, Spring 2007.
“Memorials of the Creek War of 1813-1814: Dominance and Emancipation as
Approaches to Heritage Sites,” The University of Alabama, Seminar in Memory and Memorials (COM499), Dr. Janis Edwards, Fall 2006.
“Critical Explorations of Gendered Mediated Health Images,” The University of Alabama, Graduate Health Communication (CIS 656), Dr. Carol Bishop Mills, Fall 2006
“Introduction to Critical/Cultural/Rhetorical Studies,” The University of Alabama, Intro to
Graduate Study (COM500), Dr. Thomas E. Harris, Fall 2006.
“New Directions in Ideographic Criticism,” The University of Alabama, Graduate Rhetorical
Criticism (COM548), Dr. Janis Edwards, Spring 2006.
“The Ideological Turn in Rhetorical/Cultural Studies,” The University of Alabama, Graduate
Rhetorical Criticism (COM548), Dr. Janis Edwards, Spring 2006.
“Hegemonic Masculinity,” The University of Alabama, Communication & Gender (COM
469), Dr. Marsha Houston, Fall 2005.
“Visual Metaphors of Booker T. Washington as Back-turning Sp-de,” The University of
Alabama, Rhetorical Criticism (COM 340), Dr. Janis Edwards, Fall 2005.
“Introduction to Rhetoric,” University of Maryland, Communication Inquiry (COMM-
250), Dr. Susan Hubbard, Spring 2005.
“Burkean Theory,” University of Maryland, Communication Inquiry (COMM-250), Dr.
Susan Hubbard, Spring 2005.
“Fisher’s Theory of Narrative,” University of Maryland, Communication Inquiry
(COMM-250), Dr. Susan Hubbard, Spring 2005.
“The Rhetorical Tradition,” University of Maryland, Communication Inquiry (COMM-
250), Instructor David Payne, Summer 2004.
“Kenneth Burke and Dramatism,” University of Maryland, Communication Inquiry
(COMM-250), Instructor David Payne, Summer 2004.
“Narrative Theory and Criticism,” University of Maryland, Communication Inquiry
(COMM-250), Instructor David Payne, Summer 2004.
“Undertaking Graduate Study in Communication,” University of Maryland, Undergraduate Communication Association, Winter 2004.
“Publishing as a Graduate Student,” University of Maryland, Introduction to Graduate
Study in Communication (COMM 700), Dr. Deb Cai, Fall 2003.
“Social Movement Inquiry in Rhetorical Studies,” University of Maryland, Public
Relations Publics (COMM-617), Dr. James Grunig, Spring 2003.
“McCarthyism and the Rhetoric of the Red Scare,” Wake Forest University, American
Rhetorical Movements II. (COM-341), Dr. Deepa Kumar, Spring 2002.
Teaching
Graduate Courses
Rhetoric & the Law (COM567), doctoral/MA, Univ. of Alabama
Rhetorical Criticism (COM548), doctoral/MA, Univ. of Alabama
Critical, Cultural, Rhetorical Theories (CIS605), doctoral/MA, Univ. of Alabama
Rhetoric of U.S. Social Change (CIS652), doctoral/MA, Univ. of Alabama
Contemporary Rhetorical Theories (COM541), doctoral/MA, Univ. of Alabama
Rhetoric of Native America (COM595), MA, Univ. of Alabama
African American Rhetoric (COM515/WS510), MA, Univ. of Alabama
Rhetoric, Race and the Law (COM567/WS510), MA, Univ. of Alabama
Independent Study (COM536), MA, Univ. of Alabama
Practicum Project (COM598), MA, Univ. of Alabama
Thesis Hours (COM599), MA, Univ. of Alabama
Dissertation Hours (CIS699), doctoral, Univ. of Alabama
Independent Research (CIS690), doctoral, Univ. of Alabama
Undergraduate Courses
African American Oratory (COMM3131), UNC Charlotte
Rhetoric & the Law (COM467), Univ. of Alabama
Critical Whiteness Studies (GRS350/COM395), Univ. of Alabama
American War & Peace Rhetoric (COM467), Univ. of Alabama
Rhetoric, Race and the Law (COM467), Univ. of Alabama
Rhetoric and Social Protest (COM342), Univ. of Alabama
Rhetorical Criticism (COM310), Univ. of Alabama
African American Rhetoric (COM415/MC495/AAST490), Univ. of Alabama
Rhetoric and Society (COM100), Univ. of Alabama
Rhetoric of LGBTQ Politics and Memory (COM495), Univ. of Alabama
Communication Independent Study (COM436), Univ. of Alabama
Capstone Seminar in U.S. War/Protest Discourses (COM499), Univ. of Alabama
Critical Decision Making (COM122), Univ. of Alabama
Rhetoric of Native America (COM495), Univ. of Alabama
Rhetoric of U.S-Indian Relations (COM398), Univ. of Maryland
Rhetoric of Native America (COM398N), Univ. of Maryland
Communication Practicum (COM388), Univ. of Maryland
Communication Internship (COM386), Univ. of Maryland
Rhetoric of Black America (COM360), Univ. of Maryland
Gender and Communication (COM324), Univ. of Maryland
Introduction to Communication Inquiry (COM250), Univ. of Maryland
Rhetorical Criticism and Theory (COM211), Towson University
Public Speaking (COM107), Wake Forest University
Graduate Student Independent Studies
Jinjie Yang, doctoral student, “Native Mascot Project,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2015/Spring 2016
Adam Sharples, doctoral student, “Queer Theory and Whiteness,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2013.
Caroline Parsons, doctoral student, “Space, Place, and University Culture,” Univ. of Alabama,
Summer 2013.
Jeremy Reid, MA student, “Presidential Rhetorics of Health Care,” Univ. of Alabama, Spring
2013
Jefferson Walker, doctoral student, “Politics of Memory within Civil Rights Contexts,” Univ. of
Alabama, Spring 2012.
Catie Malone, MA student, “War & Protest Rhetoric,” Univ. of Alabama, Spring 2012.
Brett Stifflemeyer, doctoral student, “Race and Comic Book Film Adaptations,” Univ. of
Alabama, Fall 2011.
Teddy Champion, doctoral student, “Mythic Stories of Southern Masculinity and Fatherly Advice
in Popular Alt-Country Musical Forms,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2011.
Richard Mocarski, MA student, “Hegemony in the Literary Community,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall
2010.
Angela Goins, MA student, “The Rhetoric of Methodist Women in the Nineteenth Century,”
Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2010.
Ashley Joiner, doctoral student, “Power, Narrative, and Identity in Interpersonal Contexts,” Univ.
of Alabama, Fall 2010.
Gyromas Newman, doctoral student, “Sophistry and Rhetorical Studies,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall
2010.
Eric Dunning, doctoral student, “Prison Narratives and the Rhetoric of Discipline and
Punishment,” Univ. of Alabama, Spring 2010.
Jennifer A. Wells, MA student, “Pedagogical Independent Study in Social Change,” Univ. of
Alabama, Spring 2010.
LeNa Powe, MA student, “Post-Presidential Rhetoric and Humanitarianism in the Public
Discourse of James Earl Carter and William Jefferson Clinton,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2009.
Jessy Ohl, MA student, “Literature Reviews in the Nuances of Public Memory in Rhetorical
Studies,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2009.
Richard J. Brophy, MA student, “Queer Theories and Rhetorical Studies,” Univ. of Alabama,
Spring 2009.
Marissa De Anda, MA student, “Theories in the Representation of Latina/o Communities
in Telenovelas,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2008.
John Latta, doctoral student, “Readings in Myth, Metaphor and Narrative,” Univ. of
Alabama, Spring 2008.
Amanda Brozana, doctoral student, “Readings in Identity Theories,” Univ. of Alabama,
Spring 2007.
Charles Wommelsdorf, MA student, “Thinking About the Fourth Persona: Terrorism,
Secrecy and the Surveilant Audience,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2006.
Paige Thurmond, MA student, internship coordinator, William Jefferson Clinton
Presidential Center, Summer 2006.
Sheila Kinyon, MA student, “Educational Reform and the Montessori Movement,” Univ.
of Alabama, Spring 2006.
Jillian Marty, MA student, “Readings in the Rhetoric of the Black Panthers,” Univ. of
Alabama, Spring 2006.
Paige Thurmond, MA student, “The Alabama Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1963,”
Univ. of Alabama, Spring 2006.
Emerging Scholars Program
Jinnie Christensen, “Detourning the World’s Fair – A Study of Simon Pokegon’s Native-Centered Rhetoric,” 2015-2016.
Kevin Pabst, “Drive-By Truckers and Generationalism,” 2012-2013.
McNair Scholars Program Projects
Kyle Fox, “A Study of Black Political Discourse in the Context of Convention Addresses,” 2011-
2012.
Undergraduate Independent Studies, COM499 & Honors Projects
Jordyn Biffle, “NASCAR Fandom Project,” Univ. of Alabama, Summer 2016.
Kevin Pabst, “Rhetoric in the Films of Tarantino,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2014.
Mary Kate Patterson, “Honors Project on Roe v. Wade Rhetoric,” Univ. of Alabama, Spring 2014.
Regan Williams, “Gender, Sexualities, and Country Music,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2013.
John Brinkerhoff, “The Role of Paternalism in U.S. War Discourse,” Univ. of Alabama, Spring
2013.
Jordan Kindred, “Social Change Project,” Honors by Contract, Spring 2013.
David Haugen, “CampusQueer.com and the Fomentation of LGBT Politics,” Univ. of Alabama,
Spring 2012.
Sam Cook, “Organizational Culture and Leadership in Complex Management Contexts,” Univ. of
Alabama, Spring 2012.
Jonathan Dickinson, “Rhetorical Dimensions of Civil War Inaugural Addresses,” New College,
Univ. of Alabama, Summer 2011.
Jake Duncanson, “War Narratives in the Pacific Theater,” Univ. of Alabama, Spring 2011.
Michael McDowell, “Contours of Calvinism throughout American History,” Univ. of Alabama,
Spring 2011.
John Trip Jones, “A Dramatic Spill: The Rhetoric of British Petroleum,” Univ. of Alabama,
Summer 2010.
John Trip Jones, “George Wallace, Populism, and Segregationism,” Univ. of Alabama, Spring
2010.
Mary Harmon Rountree, “Post-Presidential Memoirs and Public Memory,” Univ. of Alabama,
Fall 2009.
Jessica Triplett, “Cross-Cultural Issues in an English-Language Program at an Arabic-Centered
School,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2009.
Molly Silverstein, “Rhetorical Campaigns for the Preservation of a Choctaw-Creek Battle Site
Along the Black Warrior River,” honors project, Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2009.
Dana Lewis, “Native American Mascot Project,” Univ. of Alabama, Computer-Based Honors
Project, Spring 2009.
Daniel Odrezin, “The Rhetoric of Holocaust Denial,” Univ. of Alabama, Spring 2009.
Angela Yarnish, “Popular Representations of the Trail of Tears,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2008.
Julie Pyatt, honors project, “Rhetorical and Argumentative Differences in the U.S.
Congress and British Parliament,” Univ. of Alabama, Summer 2008.
Jennifer Wells, honors project, “20th Century Women’s Protest Rhetoric,” Univ. of
Alabama, Spring 2008.
Hailey Lann, senior project, “Washington Internship: A Study of GOP Campaign
Discourse in the Capitol City,” Univ. of Alabama, Spring 2008.
Melissa VanKirk, honors project, “For Civic Engagement: The Soldier’s Outreach
Program,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2007.
Katriesa Crummie, senior project, “Black Masculinity and the Spectacle of MTV’s Twoa-
Days,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2006.
Jackson Clifford Hataway, honors project, “War/Protest Rhetoric,” Univ. of Alabama,
Spring 2006.
Treva Dean, senior project, “Readings/Research in the Rhetoric of Native America,”
Univ. of Alabama, Spring 2006.
Jason Norris, senior undergraduate independent study, “Techno Pulpits and Public
Address: The Impact of New Technologies on Baptist Preaching,” Univ. of Alabama, Fall 2005.
Graduate Advising
Current Advisees
Fernando Morales, MA student, THESIS, Univ. of Alabama, 2015 – 2016
Kalyn Lee, MA student, THESIS, Univ. of Alabama, 2015 – 2016
Levi Pressnell, doctoral student, DISSERTATION, Univ. of Alabama, 2014 – 2016
Advised/Completed Graduate Student Programs
Josie Burks, MA student, THESIS, Bloody Bogalusa: A Study in Burkean Guilt, Purification, and Redemption, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2016.
Michelle Walton, doctoral student, DISSERTATION, Communicating the Realities of Childfree, Heterosexual, Professional Africa-American Women,” Univ. of Alabama, finished 2015.
Adam Sharples, doctoral student, DISSERTATION, By the Way, I’m Gay: A Rhetorical Analysis of Celebrity Coming Out, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2015.
Rita J. Jones, MA student, PRACTICUM, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2015.
Erica Curtis, MA student, THESIS, In the Game of Patriarchy: Damsel in Distress Narratives in Video Games, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2015.
Neal Ellis, MA student, THESIS, Accessing the Means of Marginalization: The Function and Resistance to the Myth of Homelessnes, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2015.
Webb Robertson, doctoral student, DISSERTATION, Communicating Arts Funding, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2014. With Karla Gower.
Sim Butler, doctoral student, DISSERTATION, Olympic Effort: Rhetorics of Disability, Sport, and Resistance in the 2012 London Olympic Narratives, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2014.
Richard Mocarski, doctoral student, DISSERTATION, Health Mythologies: Developing an Understanding of Health Myths and How They Stick and Spread Through the Vaccine Causes Autism Myth, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2014.
Jefferson Walker, doctoral student, DISSERTATION, King’s Return to the Mall: Public Memory
and the Rhetoric of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, Univ. of Alabama, finished
2013.
Kyle Fox, MA student, THESIS, A Presidential Pilgrimage: An Afrocentric Analysis of Jesse
Jackson’s Discourse and Black Masculine Performances at the 1984 and 1988 Democratic
National Conventions, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2013.
Catie Malone, MA student, THESIS, Defying Gravity: Queering the Witches of Oz, Univ. of
Alabama, finished 2013.
Ian Summers, MA student, THESIS, Generic Criticism of Extraordinary Documents: An Inquiry
into Manifestos and Genre Analysis, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2013.
Jeremy Reid, MA student, PRACTICUM, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2013.
Ray Harrison, doctoral student, DISSERTATION, Economic Oppression and Poor White Worker
Southern Identity During the New South Era: A Rhetorical Analysis of Henry Grady’s Selected
Speeches from 1886-1889, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2012.
Matthew Brown, MA student, PRACTICUM, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2012.
Adam Sharples, MA student, THESIS, “Remembering Bayard Rustin”: A Rhetorical Analysis of
Intersectional Rhetoric and Queer-Black Memory, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2012.
Daniel Turner, MA student, COMPS, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2012.
Cliff Lorick, MA student, THESIS, The Evolution of Woodrow Wilson’s Rhetoric, co-chair with
Beth Bennett, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2011.
Richard Mocarski, MA student, THESIS, Striving to Be Unique, the Search for Voice: Identity
Construction and Performance Among Creative Writers and the Navigation of a Hegemonic
System, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2011.
Anita Mixon, MA student, THESIS, Happily Ever After and the Battle of the Races: A Critical
and Cultural Approach to Reality Television – The Bachelorette vs. The Ultimate Merger,” Univ.
of Alabama, finished 2011
Bruno Fierens, MA student, COMPS, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2011.
Angela Goins, MA student, PRACTICUM, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2011.
Christina Maltese, MA student, COMPS, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2010
Leah Garner, MA student, PRACTICUM, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2011.
Jessy Ohl, MA student, THESIS, Speakers for the Dead: The Rhetoric of Pat Tillman’s Death
Narrative, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2010.
Austin MacDonald, MA student, THESIS, Gay Actors’ Identity and Performance, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2010.
Jefferson Walker, MA student, PRACTICUM, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2010.
Jennifer A. Wells, MA student, COMPS, Univ. of Alabama, finished 2010.
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Jason Edward Black, Northport, Alabama, is an associate professor in rhetoric and public discourse and an affiliate professor in gender and race studies at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He is the coeditor of An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings and Arguments about Animal Ethics. His work has appeared in such journals as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, American Indian Quarterly, and American Indian Culture and Research Journal.
American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment
Jay Precht
82.3 (Aug. 2016): p675.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2016 Southern Historical Association
http://www.uga.edu/~sha
American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment. By Jason Edward Black. Race, Rhetoric, and Media. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. Pp. x, 214. $65.00, ISBN 978-1-62846-196-1.)
In American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment, communications scholar Jason Edward Black uses analysis of both government and indigenous rhetoric during the removal and allotment periods to show how these discourses shaped one another and American Indian policy during both periods. After an introduction and a chapter explaining how United States Indian policy evolved from recognizing indigenous sovereignty to removal, Black alternates between chapters outlining the government's colonizing ideology and Native decolonizing responses during removal and allotment. Using speeches from various government officials, the study covers familiar ground when discussing federal paternalism, the relationship between land and United States citizenship, and the tension between policies focused on assimilation and efforts to separate Native peoples from the general population, which the author identifies as contributing to "identity duality" (p. 83). The true value of Black's work lies in the chapters on Native resistance through oratory. These chapters, combined with the conclusion, convincingly demonstrate that despite an obvious power differential, Native orators shaped government discourse and United States Indian policy.
Black uses postcolonial and decolonization theories to frame his analysis and provides context from secondary literature written by scholars from various fields, including history. Recorded and published speeches provide the primary texts for evaluation. Although the early chapters provide ample contextualization for federal policies, the author introduces several ancillary ideas without sufficient consideration for historical precedents. For example, Black emphasizes the pan-Indian nature of opposition to allotment, insightfully using the Ghost Dance movement as an example of a multi-tribal movement. But he fails to outline earlier examples of pan-Indian resistance, never mentioning important religious movements led by Tenskwatawa and Neolin. Some of Black's analysis also lacks sufficient ethnological insight. To illustrate, the analysis of what the author terms "the republican father" does not address how the role of fathers differed between Euro-Americans and indigenous communities, and the work does little to explore the role of women in Native societies before discussing Native women as authors during the allotment era (p. 82). Although historians may view some of Black's work as insufficiently contextualized, these omissions will not detract from the value of his ideas among readers with a solid knowledge of American Indian history.
The organization of the book also lends itself to the interested scholar. Students of the American South can focus on chapters 2 and 3 to benefit from Black's analysis of the rhetoric surrounding removal and read the introduction and conclusion to better understand the main concepts driving his analysis. The text includes frequent repetition of key concepts such as identity duality and detournement, indigenous people's use of the government's rhetoric against it. These repetitions ensure that the reader understands these ideas and help link Black's evidence and analysis to his main points, but they are unnecessarily frequent for careful readers and detract from the author's prose. Regardless of these criticisms, Black clearly makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Native agency in the face of a powerful federal government through his analysis of indigenous rhetoric.
JAY PRECHT
Penn State Fayette
Precht, Jay
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Precht, Jay. "American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment." Journal of Southern History, vol. 82, no. 3, 2016, p. 675+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA460447773&it=r&asid=f8fa3c9fc3f8149f8bc5f581cc7c91bf. Accessed 22 Feb. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A460447773
An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings
James Patterson
20.5 (September-October 2013): p45.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2013 The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
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Edited by Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris, III
U. of California Press. 256 pages, $34.95
In a 59-page introduction, Morris and Black generously detail the social, economic, and political climate that catapulted Harvey Milk into the national spotlight as the first openly gay elected official in San Francisco in 1977. Frank M. Robinson, Milk's speech writer, calls Milk an "oracle" who "spoke not only for today but also for tomorrow." The 45 writings here include interviews, speeches, letters, press releases, campaign literature, columns for the gay press, editorials, transcriptions of audio recordings and TV broadcasts, and draft documents. Milk wrote a column for San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter, and ten of the writings are from that newsweekly. For each document, the authors give helpful political and historical perspectives on the era. Milk's politics were motivated by his passionate belief in gay equality. In a campaign document of February 1975, he announced a second run for city supervisor. Describing himself as a "populist," he hoped that young gays would "derive encouragement and strength from our battle for equality and acceptance." In June 1977, Milk delivered what's known as the "Hope Speech," an oratorical tour de force. During his ten-month service as Supervisor, he tackled important state and local issues of his day, including decriminalizing homosexuality, improving city services for gays, and opposing political efforts, like the infamous Briggs initiative, to discriminate against gay people. Milk also took on national issues like Anita Bryant's anti-gay crusade in Florida, and he called on President Carter to extend his human rights work to include gay people. Morris and Black, both academic communications scholars, have made an important contribution to the corpus of work on Harvey Milk as a writer and an orator.
Patterson, James
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Patterson, James. "An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings." The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, vol. 20, no. 5, 2013, p. 45. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA342771336&it=r&asid=ccf002b316f4a361ebfe8d4b0e8fa876. Accessed 22 Feb. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A342771336
Milk, Harvey. An archive of hope: Harvey Milk's speeches and writings
A. B. Johnson
50.12 (Aug. 2013): p2208.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2013 American Library Association CHOICE
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Milk, Harvey. An archive of hope: Harvey Milk's speeches and writings, ed. by Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris III. California, 2013. 256p bibl afp ISBN 9780520275485, $70.00; ISBN 9780520275492 pbk, $24.95
This is a volume of selected speeches and writings by Harvey Milk, a San Francisco Board of Supervisors member who was one of the first openly gay politicians to be elected in the US. Gleaned from the Milk archival collection housed at the San Francisco Public Library, it includes a variety of speeches, political fliers, editorials, and letters that Milk wrote or delivered in the course of his political career. He was assassinated (along with Mayor George Moscone) in 1978. The selections capture the voice of this coalition builder who worked to forge connections between unions and gay people and poorer and older people in the Castro district, which he represented. These documents cover both the specific issues of Milk's time, and his visionary view of the roles of LGBTQ people in American society and Californian Democratic politics. With this book, the editors aim for wider public recognition of this trailblazer and to provide, in Milk's own words, context about his historic role in the gay rights movement. This will be a useful acquisition for public and academic libraries with in-depth LGBTQ or social history holdings, but otherwise an optional purchase. Summing Up: Recommended. ** Libraries with significant LGBTQ/social history collections supporting general readers and lower-level undergraduates through researchers/ faculty.--A. B. Johnson, Ithaca College
Johnson, A.B.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Johnson, A. B. "Milk, Harvey. An archive of hope: Harvey Milk's speeches and writings." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Aug. 2013, p. 2208. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA338216487&it=r&asid=02992b68f934443a8cb4159419ae6754. Accessed 22 Feb. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A338216487
Arguments about animal ethics
W. Ouderkirk
48.2 (Oct. 2010): p282.
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2010 American Library Association CHOICE
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Arguments about animal ethics, ed. by Greg Goodale and Jason Edward Black. Lexington Books, 2010. 256p index alp ISBN 9780739142981, $70.00
In putting together this book, Goodale (Univ. of Virginia School of Law) and Black (rhetorical and cultural studies, Univ. of Alabama) did not take a neutral stand. Focusing on rhetorical aspects of arguments surrounding animal ethics, all the essays support animal rights broadly speaking. Some contributors openly state their positions; others present analyses advancing that cause. Although several essays are critical of the rhetoric of such animal-rights organizations as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, those critiques focus on how that rhetoric fails to advance the organizations' causes--and advancing those causes is clearly this book's aim. Such partisanship is not in itself bad, but the book's title is misleading in implying a consideration of alternative views. To be fair, one finds here some discussion of the rhetoric on the other side of the issue, but that discussion is always undertaken from the viewpoint of animal rights. The difficulty of the essays varies; the collection offers everything from a deconstructive analysis of "the human/ animal dichotomy" to a critical study of the reality television show Whale Wars. The quality of analysis also fluctuates; one contributor advocates anthropomorphizing animals as a means of advocacy but ignores the pitfalls of such an approach. Summing Up: Recommended. ** Optional. Graduate students, researchers, professionals.--W. Ouderkirk, SUNY Empire State College
Ouderkirk, W.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Ouderkirk, W. "Arguments about animal ethics." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Oct. 2010, p. 282. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA249220600&it=r&asid=4bd01761561fb88ba70cc3ef14a8bc30. Accessed 22 Feb. 2017.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A249220600