1996 -- Ph.D., Northwestern University,Communication Studies (Rhetoric)
1992 -- M.A., University of Arkansas, Communication Studies
1985 -- California Secondary (High School) Teaching Credential, San Jose State University, English & Mathematics
1984 -- B.A., San Jose State University, English
2004-Present -- Associate Professor, Indiana University
1998-2004 -- Assistant Professor, Indiana University
1996-1998 -- Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University
1994-1996 -- Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University
1990-1992 -- Teaching Assistant, University of Arkansas
1988-1990 -- High School Teacher, Antelope Valley Union High School District
1986-1988 -- High School Teacher, Campbell Union High School District
Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004.
Reading Rhetorical Texts: An Introduction to Criticism. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. With James R. Andrews and Michael C. Leff.
“Stokely Carmichael.” In Contemporary American Orators. Edited by B. K. Duffy and R. Leeman. Westport, CT: Greenwood, in press.
“Conservative Innovation: Stephen A. Douglas and the Northern Democrats.” In A Rhetorical History of the United States: Vol 4. Civil War Rhetoric. Edited by D. Zarefsky and M. Leff. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, in press.
“Irony, Silence, and Time: Frederick Douglass on the Fifth of July.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 89 (2003): 216-234.
“W. E. B. Du Bois, Double Consciousness, and Pan-Africanism in the Progressive Era.” In A Rhetorical History of the United States: Vol 6. Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era, pp. 269-309. Edited by J. M. Hogan. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. With Eric Watts.
“Protest, Prophecy, and Prudence in the Rhetoric of Malcolm X.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 4 (2001): 25-53.
“Spectacular Repression: Sanitizing the Batman.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 17 (2000): 493-509.
“Colonizing the Borderlands: Shifting Circumference in the Rhetoric of Malcolm X.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 86 (2000): 67-85.
“Consistency and Change in the Rhetoric of Stephen A. Douglas.” Southern Communication Journal 63 (1997): 179-196. With David Zarefsky.
** Earned the 1998 “Rose B. Johnson” award as the Top Paper published in Volume 63 of the Southern Communication Journal.“Put on a Happy Face: Batman as Schizophrenic Savior.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 79 (1993): 319-335.
** Reprinted in: S. K. Foss, Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice, pp. 509-530. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1996.
“James Buchanan: Romancing the Union.” In Before the Rhetorical Presidency. Edited by M. J. Medhurst. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, in press.
“African-American Rhetoric: Black Nationalism.” In Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, pp. 14-18. Edited by T. O. Sloane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
“White Guy, Black Texts: Appropriateness and Appropriation across Racial Difference.” Rhetoric Review 20 (2001): 56-60.
“The Polemicist as Artist: Du Bois’s Response to Booker T. Washington.” In Argumentation and Values: Proceedings of the Ninth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, pp. 230-236. Edited by S. Jackson. Annandale, VA: Speech Communication Association, 1995. With Michael Leff.
** Reprinted, with commentary, in: James R. Andrews, Michael C. Leff, and Robert E. Terrill. Reading Rhetorical Texts: An Introduction to Criticism, pp. 106-133. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
2003 -- “Teacher of the Year,” Lambda Pi Eta, Communication Studies Honor Society
2002 -- Indiana University Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA)
2001 -- Top Paper in Public Address, SSCA Annual Convention
2001 -- Distinguished Member, National Society of Collegiate Scholars
2000 -- IU Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (TERA)
1999 -- Top Three Paper in Public Address, NCA Annual Convention
1998 -- Rose B. Johnson Award, for Top Paper published in Volume 63, Southern Communication Journal
1997 -- Graduate Dissertation Award in Communication Studies, Northwestern University
1995 -- Top Three Paper in African-American Culture and Communication, SCA National Convention
1992 -- University Fellowship, Northwestern University
1991 -- Outstanding Teacher Award, International Communication Association
2004 -- Darrel Enck-Wanzer was awarded the “Robert G. Gunderson Award” by the Department of Communication and Culture for his paper, “Trashing the System: The Young Lords and the Garbage Offensive,” written for my seminar, “C615 – The Problem of Protest in America,” during fall semester, 2003.
2004 -- Kathleen McConnell was awarded the “Virginia LaFollette Gunderson Award” by the American Studies Program for her paper, “Free to Be You and Me: Notions of Freedom, Responsibility, and the Role of Race in 1960s and ‘70s High School Protest Rhetoric,” written for my seminar, “C615 – The Problem of Protest in America,” during fall semester, 2003.
2004 -- Heather Teed graduated with Departmental Honors; her Honors Thesis was titled “The Separation of Church and State and the Naturalization of Christianity.”
2004 -- Amy Beall graduated with Departmental Honors; her Honors Thesis was titled “Creating an Enemy and an Era: The Cold War and the War on Terror.”
2001 -- Samuel McCormick, "Interactive Reconciliation: Prudence, Decorum, and Zen Buddhism in a Pragmatic Rhetoric," Southern States Communication Association Annual Convention, Lexington, KY, April 5-8. Top Three Paper, Undergraduate Honors Conference.
2001 -- Ebony Utley, "Consciousness: African American Female Autobiography as Reality Management," Southern States Communication Association Annual Convention, Lexington, KY, April 5-8. Top Three Paper, Undergraduate Honors Conference.
2000 -- Camille Lewis, "Irresistible Malcolm: Malcolm X and the Romantic Rhetoric of Separation." Central States Communication Association Annual Convention, Detroit, MI, April 13-16. Top Paper, Rhetorical Theory and Criticism.