News about Communication faculty, graduate and undergrad students and staff doings.
John Ackerman,听Associate Professor, published the lead article in a special edition of听POROI听devoted to rhetoric and resilience, 鈥淲ild Cosmopolitanism, Wily Oscillations in Artificial Neighborhoods鈥� (2019, 15.1, 1-21).听 He was invited to study the master planning process in Reno Nevada, and then to present the Plenary address at the Rhetoric Society of American Project in Power, Place, and Publics, May 20, 2019.听 Ackerman, workshop leaders and attendees, and campus faculty worked with city and campus officials to assess regional planning processes, resulting in a dedicated issue of the journal,听Review of Communication, in press for Spring 2020.
Carolin Aronis,听Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar, gave an Invited Talk, 鈥淎nti-Semitism in the U.S.: New Media, New Semantics, New Problems,鈥� at the Institute of General Semantics Symposium, Princeton Club, New York City. Her paper,听received a Top Paper Award in Philosophy of Communication at the Annual Convention of the NCA, where she also presented two other papers: 鈥溙共曰逄共曰� organized the panel听She presented with Natasha Shrikant, 鈥溾�� at the NCA Pre-Conference on African American Public Address. Carolin鈥檚 article 鈥淭he 鈥楾weeting鈥� Discourse of Balconies and Porches in the City: Identity and Public Speaking,鈥� got accepted to the edited volume,听The Urban Communication Reader IV听(New York: Peter Lang).
Karen Lee Ashcraft, Professor, published a chapter in Consuelo Vasquez & Tim Kuhn鈥檚 award-winning 2019 volume on Communication as Dis/Organization, entitled, 鈥淔eeling things, making waste: Hoarding and the dis/organization of affect.鈥� She was also a featured speaker at a sub-plenary session on 鈥淕rand Challenges: Social Inclusion鈥� at the 2019 meeting of the European Group for Organization Studies in Edinburgh, Scotland.听听
Audra Barber,听MA student, presented a paper at the National Communication Association Conference in the Public Dialogue and Deliberative Division titled 鈥淎verage is not Inclusive: Deliberative Democracy鈥檚 Environmental Conundrum.鈥�
Kellie Brownlee,听PhD student, won the Top Paper award in the Ethnography division at NCA, along with her co-author Emily Loker, for their paper 鈥淪urviving PhDepression as Women and Graduate Students: A Collaborative Feminist Autoethnography on Mental Health in Academia.鈥� She also presented on a panel called 鈥淪urviving the God Problem: Methodological Issues in Religious Communication Research.鈥�
Monica Carroll,听Office Manager, is exhibiting work in the current exhibit,听, a juried show presented by the Women's Caucus for Art at Niza Knoll Gallery in Denver. The Women鈥檚 Caucus for Art (WCA) is a national organization founded in 1972 to create community through art, education, and social activism by supporting women artists, creating leadership opportunities, and offering exhibition opportunities. Passage, a national juried exhibit features 50 artists from 22 states, selected from over 500 submissions. Juror Gwen Chanzit, Ph.D. & Curator Emerita at the Denver Art Museum selected quality artworks that reflect passage both real and metaphorical such as physical journeys, emotional change, rites of passage, personal growth and transition.
Joelle Cruz, Assistant Professor, received the inaugural Orlando L. Taylor Distinguished Scholarship Award in Africana Communication at the NCA convention. She also published a co-authored article,听听颈苍听Management Communication Quarterly.
Malinda (Mally) Dietrich, PhD student, published a book review of Colin Koopman鈥檚听How We Became Our Data听颈苍听Critical Studies in Media Communication.
J听Lisa Flores,听Associate Professor, presented the Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture at the National Communication Association conference, where she also received the NCA Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division. Her essay, 鈥淪toppage and the Racialized Rhetorics of Mobility,鈥� was published online in the听Western Journal of Communication听补苍诲 will be in print in 2020. She also delivered the Gravlee lecture for the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University.
Larry Frey,听Professor, was inducted as a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association at its annual convention in Baltimore.
Jeanette German, PhD student, presented the paper, 鈥溾�楬ealth and Safety First鈥�: Constructing a Collective Identity Through Talk at Local Political Meetings鈥� at the National Communication Association Convention in the Language and Social Interaction Division, for which she received the Top Student Paper Award. She also presented at NCA on a positive communication pedagogy panel discussing 鈥淭he Socratic Seminar Activity鈥� and participated in the panel, 鈥淪urviving Graduate Programs While Navigating Family Dynamics.鈥� Jeanette developed and facilitated the CMCI One College Seminar and Pedagogy Workshop, 鈥淭eaching in Interdisciplinary Spaces,鈥� with Anthony Pinter and Kevin Sweet.
Logan Rae Gomez, PhD student, presented two papers at the National Communication Association Conference in the Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Division and the Feminist and Women Studies Division: 鈥�(Re)Mapping Gendered Violence: Placing Shame as Colonial Dehumanization鈥� and 鈥淭aking the Time to #SayHerName: Lived Experience, State-Sanctioned Violence and Lives that Matter听in听Time鈥�. At the conclusion of NCA 2019, Logan became the immediate past chair of the Student Section and was elected as the 3rd Vice Chair of the Women鈥檚 Caucus.
Laurie Gries,听Assistant Professor, was an invited speaker on a spotlight panel on visual communication at the听2019 National Communication Association Conference. Upon invitation, she also participated in the 2019 Conference on Rhetorical Theory held in October at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. Her co-authored article 鈥淭he Racial Politics of Circulation: Trumpicons and White Supremacist Doxai鈥� was published in听Rhetoric Review听38:4, 417-431.
Sean Kenney,听MA student, presented one paper at the NCA conference in the Organizational Communication Division entitled,听鈥淢obilizing non-normative approaches to queer diversity & inclusion initiatives鈥� with co-author Kathryn Joan Leslie.
Timothy Kuhn, Professor, won an award for the year鈥檚 best-edited book from the National Communication Association鈥檚 Organizational Communication division. The book, co-edited with Consuelo V谩squez of the University of Quebec at Montreal, is entitled听Dis/Organization as communication: Exploring the disordering, disruptive, and chaotic properties of communication,听and includes several chapters by present and former CU faculty, colleagues, and visiting scholars.
Kathryn Joan Leslie,听PhD student, presented two papers at the NCA conference in the Organizational Communication Division:听 鈥淐onfessing discrimination as organizational practice: A communicative relationality approach to gender discrimination at work鈥�, and 鈥淢obilizing non-normative approaches to queer diversity & inclusion initiatives鈥� with co-author Sean C. Kenney.
Emily Loker,听PhD student,听presented a paper co-authored with Kellie Brownlee at the National Communication Association conference, 鈥淪urviving PhDepression as Women and Graduate Students: A Collaborative Feminist Autoethnography on Mental Health in Academia.鈥� Emily also presented 鈥淣arratives in Action: Setting the Agenda for future Occupational Narrative Research.鈥�
Jo Marras Tate,听PhD student, presented a paper at NCA alongside Urooj Raja titled 鈥淧rotecting our Oceans with Virtual Reality: An Empirical Examination of how VR content Could Affect Level of Concern鈥� in the Environmental Communication Division鈥檚 poster session. Jo is publishing alongside colleagues Vincent Russell, Rachel Larsen and Ellie Busch, a book chapter in #TalkingPoints: Twitter, the public sphere, and the nature of online deliberation听titled 鈥淕oing 鈥淩ogue鈥�: National Parks, discourses of American identity and resistance on Twitter.鈥�
Myles Mason,听PhD student, presented two papers at NCA鈥� 鈥溾�業鈥檓 Calling the Police鈥�: Affective Encounters of #LivingWhileBlack鈥� and 鈥淭he Race of Publicity, or, the Publicity of Race鈥濃�攁nd participated in the 鈥淪urviving the University in a Neoliberal Context鈥� panel. Before NCA, Myles also passed his comprehensive exams with revisions.
Tiara Na鈥檖uti,听Assistant Professor, won the 2019 New Investigator Award from NCA鈥檚 Critical/Cultural Studies Division and the Early Career Award from the Asian Pacific American Caucus/Asian Pacific American Studies Division of NCA鈥攚here she also earned the Top Article Award from the American Studies Division for her essay 鈥淎rchipelagic Rhetoric: Remapping the Marianas and Challenging Militarization from 鈥楢 Stirring Place.鈥�
Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Associate Professor, received the 2019 National Communication Association Environmental Communication Division Robert Cox Award in Environmental Communication & Civic Engagement. Her former CUB advisee,听Constance Gordon听(now an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University), received the 2019 National Communication Association Environmental Communication Division Top Dissertation Award for her work titled, 鈥淭roubling 鈥楢ccess鈥�: Rhetorical Cartographies of Food (In)Justice and Gentrification.鈥�
Vincent Russell,听PhD student, published an article, co-authored with Dr. Spoma Jovanovic, 鈥溾�� in the听Carolinas Communication Annual. He also published a听听颈苍听Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement.听Vincent received the inaugural Top Student Paper Award from the National Communication Association鈥檚 (NCA) Public Dialogue and Deliberation Division for 鈥淧ublicity and Transparency for Social Justice and Equity in Denver Participatory Budgeting,鈥� co-authored with Therese Gardner. Also at NCA, he gave a panel presentation on positive communication pedagogy titled 鈥淯sing Standup Comedy to Discuss Blackface and Critical Race Theory.鈥� Vincent and Therese Gardner presented 鈥淕raduate鈥揢ndergraduate Partnerships: A New Model for Community-Based Research鈥� at the Engaged Scholarship Consortium in Denver, and they presented 鈥淢oney, Speech, and Power: Participatory Budgeting as a Path to Free Expression in Public Spending鈥� at Finding Expression in Contested Spaces: Free Speech Conference in Greensboro, NC. Lastly, Vincent passed his comprehensive exams.
Jayne Simpson,听PhD Student, presented 鈥淭ake a Knee" and Resistance Scholarship: Protest and Sports in Organizational Communication鈥� at the 2019 National Communication Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. She also completed the requirements for the CU 麻豆影院 Certificate in College Teaching (CCT) through the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Peter Simonson, Professor and Department Chair, published an article in the听Journal of Communication听(with Junya Morooka, 麻豆影院 alum Bing Xiong, and PhD candidate Nathan Bedsole) entitled 鈥溾�澨�
Leah Sprain,听Associate Professor, published an article in the听Journal of Applied Communication听with 麻豆影院 alum Lydia Reinig entitled听. They also published 鈥淐ultural discourses of public engagement in energy system transformation鈥� in the edited book听.
Ted Striphas,听Associate Professor, delivered the keynote address at the 鈥淎utomating Culture鈥� symposium, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in November. Additional information about the event and the talk is听.
Hunter Thompson,听PhD Student, presented four papers at NCA: 鈥淲hither Counterpublic Theory In Rhetoric鈥檚 Examination of Social Movement Studies?鈥�;听 鈥淜eep Austin Queer'd: An Ethnographic Exploration of Rhetoric within Queerbomb's Public Modalities鈥�;听 鈥淔ictions of the Queer Past, Frictions in the Queer Present, Flourishing Queer Memory: Tensions Around Queer Counterpublic Memory in the Specter of Stonewall鈥�; and 鈥�(Homo)-normative Investments: Temporality, Embodiment, and Utopia in "Its Time."
Karen Tracy, Professor Emeritus, received the Julia T. Wood Teacher/Scholar Award from the听Pennsylvania Communication Association in October, 2019.
Bernardita M. Yunis Varas,听PhD student, received the Top Student Paper Award from NCA鈥檚 Latina/o Communication Studies Division/La Raza Caucus for her paper 鈥淧erforming My Latina Body in White Academia: White Supremacy, the Wolf in Ally鈥檚 Clothing.鈥� She also presented two other papers at the convention: 鈥淲here Are You From?" Racial Ambiguities and Shape Shifting as Performances of Survival,鈥� and 鈥淲hen 鈥楢llies鈥� are Enemies: Latinxs Surviving the White Savior.鈥�
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