CV

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Education

Communication Arts and Sciences, Spring 2018
Dissertation: Rhetoric and the Making of Algorithmic Worlds
Advisor: Rosa Eberly
Specializations: Digital Media, Rhetorical Criticism, Publics and Political Discourse, History of Technology

Communication Arts and Sciences, Spring 2014
M.A. Thesis: Convergence Rhetorics: Negotiating Digital and Offline Identities
Advisor: Rosa Eberly

Communication and Politics & Government; Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Employment

Department of Communication, 2024-present

Department of Communication Studies, 2022–2024

Department of Communication, 2019-2021

Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, 2018-2019

Publications

Speech and Debate as Civic Education

Eds J. Michael Hogan, Jessica A. Kurr, Michael J. Bergmaier, and Jeremy D. Johnson. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2017.

“Speech and Debate as Civic Education.”

Eds. J. Michael Hogan, Jessica A. Kurr, Jeremy D. Johnson, and Michael J. Bergmaier. Communication Education 65, no. 4 (2016).

“On Shifting the Stasis of Online Argument.”

Co-authored with Michael Steudeman. Teaching Demagoguery and Democracy, ed. Michael J. Steudeman, Intermezzo Online Press, 2021.

In Eds. Michele Kennerly, Samuel Fredrick, and Jonathan Abel, Information: Keywords. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.

In Ed. Carol Winkler, Networking Argument. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics: Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere, by Damien Pfister. Quarterly Journal of Speech 102, no. 3 (2016): 328-332.

Rhet-Ops: Rhetoric and Information Warfare, edited by Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 50 (2020).

“The Geopolitical Rhetorics of Networked Mapping.”
Digital Doxa Blog, March 2020

“Becoming the Bot.”

Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative blog, April 2018.

Service


Critical and Cultural Studies Division; Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division; Public Address Division.

Department of Communication, University of the Pacific, 2019-2020 & 2024-Present. Created a department-wide TA training site and mentored graduate TAs.

September 2022-June 2024. Instructed and coached students in British Parliamentary Debate. Planned travel to tournaments, international debates, and tournament hosting. Engaged in recruitment and development of team.

March 2023-Present. Advised dissertation for Katelyn Johnson, Department of Communication Studies. Anticipated defense 2025.

University of Denver, October 2022-June 2024. Re-started departmental colloquia, providing intellectual engagement for faculty members. Facilitated speakers, planned dates and times, and organized committee.

University of Denver, September 2022–June 2024. Represented Communication Studies, provided input, and voted on agenda items. Served on Academic Planning sub-committee.

University of Denver, December 2022–April 2024. Helped plan campuswide event concerning free expression. Served on sub-committee for classroom free expression.

October 2022–June 2024, University of Denver. Served as faculty coordinator for nationwide program investigating the role of debate on college campuses and on student attitudes.

University of the Pacific, Fall 2020. Participated in workshops and developmental activities and mentored other faculty in implementing sustainable and effective online teaching practices.

Department of Communication, University of the Pacific. Andrew Morgan: “God of War: Masculinity and Fatherhood through Procedural Rhetoric,” Defended August 2020.



Selected Presentations

Part of panel, “After Technoliberalism,” National Communication Association Conference, National Harbor, MD, November 2023.

Part of panel “Access Denied: Technical Infrastructure and the Negotiation of Rhetorical Gatekeeping,” National Communication Association Convention, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2021.

Invited presentation for Digital Rhetoric and Public Life course, Wabash College, March 2021.

Presentation on panel “After the Computational Turn: Survival through Critical Infrastructure Interventions,” National Communication Association Convention, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 2019.

Invited presentation at Digital Rhetoric/Digital Media in the Post-Truth Age, University of Alabama, March 2019.

Presented to the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 2018.

Presented to the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 2018.

Invited presentation at Ripon College, April 2018.

Presentation for Penn State Center for Democratic Deliberation, April 2017.

Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2016.

Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2016.

Honors & Awards


Carroll C. Arnold Award for Scholarly Excellence

Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, Penn State University, Spring 2018.

Michael Calvin McGee Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award

Alta Argumentation Conference, Summer 2017.

Nancy and Joseph Birkle Student Engagement Award 

Center for Democratic Deliberation, Penn State University, Spring 2016.

McNair Scholar

Program designed to promote doctorate studies for students from underrepresented groups.

Grants and Funding

Center for Humanities and Information Dissertation Fellowship.

Included full-year teaching release for dissertation work, 2017-2018.

Center for Democratic Deliberation Dissertation Fellowship.

Included Spring 2017 teaching release for dissertation work, 2016-2017.

University Graduate Fellowship, Penn State University.

Included full-year teaching release, 2012-2013.