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Department of Communication Studies
Bailey Hall, Room102
1440 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-7574
bimanole@ku.edu
785-864-9018

Education

2000 - Ph.D. Speech Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1992 - M.A. English and American Literature
New York University

1990 - B.A. Professional Writing
Carnegie Mellon University

Academic employment

University of Kansas

2012 - present
2017 - present
2009 - 2012
2007 - 2009

Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies Department Chair
Director of Graduate Studies

2006 - 2012, Associate Professor
2000 - 2006, Assistant Professor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fall 1995 - Spring 2000, Assistant Course Director
Fall 1994 - Spring 2000,Teaching Assistant

University of Wisconsin at Madison

Fall 1992 - Spring 1994,Teaching Assistant
Fall 1993, Project Assistant

Research

Journal articles

Goodwin, Jean, and Innocenti, Beth. “The Pragmatic Force of Making an Argument.” Topoi 38.4 (2019): 669-680.
Innocenti, Beth. “Foiling Kamesian Belletristic Theory in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Scotland.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 22.1 (2019): 51-72.
Kauffeld, Fred J., and Innocenti, Beth. “A Normative Pragmatic Theory of Exhorting.” Argumentation 32.4 (2018): 463-483.
Innocenti, Beth, and Kathol, Nichole. “The Persuasive Force of Demanding.” Philosophy and

* Formerly Beth Innocenti Manolescu

Rhetoric 51.1 (2018): 50-72.

Innocenti, Beth, and Miller, Elizabeth. “The Persuasive Force of Political Humor.” Journal of Communication66.3 (2016): 366-385.
Innocenti, Beth. “A Normative Pragmatic Model of Making Fear Appeals.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 44.3(2011): 273-90.
Innocenti, Beth. "Countering Questionable Tactics by Crying Foul." Argumentation and Advocacy 47.3 (2011): 178-88.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, and Milford, Mike. "Bernard Lamy's L'Art de Parler Addresses ReligiousExigencies." Rhetorica 26.4 (2008): 417-38.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. "Shaming in and into Argumentation." Argumentation 21.4 (2007): 379-95.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. "Religious Reasons for Campbell's View of Emotional Appeals in Philosophy of Rhetoric." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 37.2 (2007): 159-80.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. "A Normative Pragmatic Perspective on Appealing to Emotions in Argumentation. "Argumentation 20.3 (2006): 327-43.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. "Norms of Presentational Force." Argumentation and Advocacy

41.3 (2005): 139-51.

Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. "Kames's Legal Career and Writings as Precedents for Elements of Criticism."Rhetorica 23.3 (2005): 239-59.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. “Formal Propriety as Rhetorical Norm.” Argumentation 18.1 (2004): 113-25.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. “Traditions of Rhetoric, Criticism, and Argument in Lord Kames’s Elements of Criticism.” Rhetoric Review 22.3 (2003): 225-42.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. “George Mackenzie on Scottish Judicial Rhetoric.” Rhetorica 20.3 (2002): 275-88.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. “Motives for Practicing Criticism as a ‘Rational Science’ in Lord Kames’s Elements of Criticism.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 5 (2001): 11-20. Reprinted in Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years. Eds. Richard Leo Enos and David E. Beard. West Lafayette: Parlor Press, 2007. 296-307.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. “Clerics Competing For and Against ‘Eloquence’ in Mid- Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 30.1 (2000): 47-67.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. “Style and Spectator Judgment in Fisher Ames’s Jay Treaty Speech.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 84.1 (1998): 62-79.
Innocenti, Beth. “Towards a Theory of Vivid Description as Practiced in Cicero’s Verrine Orations.” Rhetorica 12.4 (1994): 355-81.

Book chapters

Innocenti, Beth. “Constructing effective arguments.” In Teaching Critical Thinking: A Resource for Instructors. Ed. J. Anthony Blair. Windsor: Windsor Studies in Argumentation, 2019. 213-224.
Innocenti, Beth. “Whately on Pragmatics of Arguing.” In Rhetoric: Concord and Controversy. Eds. Antonio deVelasco and Melody Lehn. Long Grove: Waveland Press, 2012. 287-94.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. "Campbell's View of Argument as Comparison Advances his Religious Agenda." In Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual. Ed. Patricia Bizzell. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2006. 109-13.

Annotated bibliography

Innocenti, Beth. “Argumentation.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Communication. Ed. Patricia Moy. New York: Oxford University Press. First published 2011. Revised 2014, 2017.

Proceedings

Essays

Kauffeld, Fred, and Innocenti, Beth. “Inducing a Sympathetic (Empathic) Reception for Exhortation.” Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 18-21 May 2016. Eds. P. Bondy and L. Benaquista. Windsor, ON: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2016. 1-15.
Goodwin, Jean, and Innocenti, Beth. “The Pragmatic Force of Making Reasons Apparent.” Argumentation and Reasoned Action: Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, vol. 2. Eds. D. Mohammed and M. Lewinski. London: College Publications, 2016. 449-462.
Innocenti, Beth. “Arguing by Apostrophizing.” Argumentation: Cognition and Community. Ed. Frank Zenker. CD-ROM. Windsor, ON: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2011.
Innocenti, Beth. “Analyzing Repetition in Argumentation.” Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. Eds. Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, David Godden, and Gordon Mitchell. CD-ROM. Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2011. 868-74.
Innocenti, Beth. "Crying Foul to Counter Questionable Tactics." Argument Cultures. Ed. Juho Ritola. CD-ROM. Windsor, ON: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2009.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. "Evaluating Fear Appeals." Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground. Eds. Hans V. Hansen, Christopher W. Tindale, J. Anthony Blair, Ralph H. Johnson, and David M. Godden. CD-ROM. Windsor, ON: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2007.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. "Shaming into Argumentation." Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. Eds. Frans H. van Eemeren, J. Anthony Blair, Charles A. Willard, and Bart Garssen. Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2007. 925-28.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. "Norms of Forcibleness." The Uses of Argument: Proceedings of a Conference at McMaster University, 18-21 May 2005. Ed. David Hitchcock. Hamilton: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2005. 336-45.

Responses

Innocenti, Beth. "Commentary on ‘Compassion, authority and baby talk: Prosody and objectivity.’” Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 18-21 May 2016. Eds. P. Bondy and L. Benaquista. Windsor, ON: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2016. 1-4.
Innocenti, Beth. "Commentary on: K. O'Halloran’s 'Reading group discourse: a Corpus-based analysis of argumentation and collaboration.'" Argument Cultures. Ed. Juho Ritola. CD-ROM. Windsor, ON: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2009.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. “Commentary on Dima Mohammed: ‘Argumentative Activity Types and the Account of the Empirical Aims of Argumentative Discourse.’” Dissensus and the Search for Common Ground. Eds. Hans V. Hansen, Christopher W. Tindale, J. Anthony Blair, Ralph H. Johnson, and David M. Godden. CD-ROM. Windsor, ON: Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2007.

Book reviews

Innocenti, Beth. Rev. of Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric, by Paddy Bullard. Rhetorica 32.1 (2014): 85-88.
Innocenti, Beth. Rev. of The Politics of Eloquence: David Hume’s Polite Rhetoric, by Marc Hanvelt. Hume Studies 38.1 (2012): 119-122.
Innocenti, Beth. Rev. of Outward Visible Propriety: Stoic Philosophy and Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics, by Lois Peters Agnew. Argumentation and Advocacy 45.4 (2009): 228-30.
Innocenti, Beth. Rev. of Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric, by Susan Miller. Quarterly Journal of Speech 95.2 (2009): 231-34.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. Rev. of Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety, by Stephen J. McKenna. Quarterly Journal of Speech 93.1 (2007): 117-19.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. Rev. of Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone, by Joseph S. Meisel. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5.4 (2002): 780-82.

Conference presentations

Innocenti, Beth, “Halting Retreats to Metadialogues” to be presented at the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation conference, Windsor, Canada, 2020.
Innocenti, Beth. “Making Norms of Argumentation Normative,” presented at the European Conference on Argumentation, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2019.
Innocenti, Beth, and Kay, Matthew. “The Rhetorical Erotics of Audre Lorde,” presented at the American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, 2018.
Innocenti, Beth. “Improvement and Colonialism in Lord Kames’s Elements of Criticism,” presented at the Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2018.
Innocenti, Beth. “Foiling Belletristic Rhetorics with Civic Debate in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Scotland,” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 2016.
Kauffeld, Fred, and Innocenti, Beth, “Inducing a Sympathetic (Empathic) Reception for Exhortation,” presented at the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation conference, Windsor, Canada, 2016.
Innocenti, Beth, and Miller, Elizabeth. “The Persuasive Force of Political Humor in Anna Howard Shaw’s ‘The Fundamental Principle of a Republic,’” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Las Vegas, NV, 2015.
Goodwin, Jean, and Innocenti, Beth, “The Pragmatic Force of Making Reasons Apparent,” at the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.
Kathol, Nichole, and Innocenti, Beth, “Right Makes Might: Persuasive Demanding by the February Sisters,” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, 2014.
Innocenti, Beth, and Kauffeld, Fred, “Connecting Commitments to Actions by Exhorting,” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, 2013.
Innocenti, Beth, and Goodwin, Jean, “The Persuasive Force of Identification,” presented at the Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2012.
Innocenti, Beth, “Lincoln Designing a Veneer of Reason in the Cooper Union Address,” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, 2011.
Innocenti, Beth, “Arguing by Apostrophizing,” presented at the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation conference, Windsor, Canada, 2011.
Innocenti, Beth, “A Rhetorical Theory of Fear Appeals,” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, 2010.
Innocenti, Beth, "Analyzing Repetition in Argumentation," presented at the Seventh Conference on Argumentation of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010.
Innocenti, Beth, "Whately on Pragmatics of Arguing," presented at the Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2010.
Innocenti, Beth, "Kauffeld on Persuasive Force," presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, 2009.
Innocenti, Beth, "Crying Foul to Counter Questionable Tactics," presented at the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation conference, Windsor, Canada, 2009.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "Making Responsible Fear Appeals," presented at the Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, Seattle, WA, 2008.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "Hugh Blair's Theorizing Responds to Religious Exigencies," presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, 2007.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "Religion's Role in the Decline of Topical Invention in Eighteenth- Century Scottish Rhetorics," presented at the Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Strasbourg, France, 2007.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "Evaluating Fear Appeals," presented at the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation conference, Windsor, Canada, 2007.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "Affectation, Declamation, and the Disappearance of Topical Invention," presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX, 2006.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "Shaming into Argumentation," presented at the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2006.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "A Normative Pragmatic Approach to Emotional Appeals in Argumentation," presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA, 2005.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "Religious Reasons for Campbell's View of Argument and Emotional Appeal," presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA, 2005.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "Scots Law in Kames's Elements of Criticism," presented at the Fifteenth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Los Angeles, CA, 2005.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "Norms of Forcibleness," presented at the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation conference, Hamilton, Canada, 2005.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "Whately on Rhetorical and Argumentative Force," presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, 2004.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "Identifying the Central Issues in Argumentation Theory," presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, 2004.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, "George Campbell on Argument and Style," presented at the Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, Austin, TX, 2004.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, “Political Participation in Eighteenth-Century History and Travel Literature: The Case of Lord Kames’s Sketches of the History of Man,” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Miami, FL, 2003.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, “Final Causes of Taste in Lord Kames’s Elements of Criticism” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, 2002.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, “Rhetoric and Ethics in Lord Kames’s Elements of Criticism” presented at the Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2002.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, “Pedagogical Purposes of Principles of Human Nature in Lord Kames’ Elements of Criticism” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA, 2001.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, “The Style of Scottish Judicial Rhetoric in George Mackenzie’s Pleadings (1672),” presented at the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Warsaw, Poland, 2001.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, “Emotional Appeals to the Taste of the Town in Eighteenth- Century Britain,” presented at the American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium,

Seattle, WA, 2000.

Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, “Motives for Practicing Criticism as a ‘Rational’ Science in Lord Kames’ Elements of Criticism,” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, 2000.Received Outstanding Student Paper award from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, “George Mackenzie on Judicial Eloquence in post-Restoration Scotland,” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, 1999.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, “An Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric for the Practice of Shakespeare Criticism: Lord Kames’ Elements of Criticism,” presented at the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1999.
Manolescu, Beth Innocenti, “Remember Religion when Reading mid-Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorics,” presented at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, New York, NY, 1998.

Grants and fellowships

Fall 2008 - Sabbatical leave
University of Kansas

2002 - New Faculty General Research Fund award
Kansas University Center for Research

Fall 1999, Fall 1998 - Graduate College Conference Travel Grant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fall 1999, Summer

1999, Fall 1998

Summer 1999, Summer

1995
Department of Speech Communication Conference Travel Grant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University Fellowship
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1997 - Dissertation Travel Grant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Honors and awards

2000 - Outstanding Student Paper Award
American Society for the History of Rhetoric

1998 - Ruth S. Bowman Award--outstanding graduate student in scholarship, teaching, and service

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1990 - Graduated with University Honors
Carnegie Mellon University

1989 - 1990,Mortar Board
Carnegie Mellon University

Spring 1988, Spring
1987, Fall 1987

Dean’s List
Carnegie Mellon University

1986 - Carnegie Merit Scholarship
Carnegie Mellon University

Teaching

Teaching experience

University of Kansas

The Rhetorical Tradition
Rhetoric of Women’s Rights
Capstone: Protest Rhetoric
Special Topics: Public Communication Breakdowns
American Public Address: Puritans to 1900
Effective Business Communication
Persuasive Speaking
Argumentation
Seminar in Argumentation (graduate seminar)
Neoclassical Theories of Rhetoric (graduate seminar)
Contemporary Rhetorical Theories (graduate seminar)
Historical and Descriptive Research Methods (graduate seminar)
Introduction to Research Methods: Rhetorical Criticism (5-week graduate seminar)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Rhetorical Tradition
Verbal Communication
Public Speaking

University of Wisconsin at Madison

Argumentation and Debate
Public Speaking--writing intensive
Public Speaking
Rhetoric of Campaigns and Revolutions (grader)

Ph. D. dissertations directed and completed

Elizabeth Miller Smith, “Gazing at the Golden Age: The Role of Perspective in Counter-Memorial Display,” University of Kansas, 2019.
Susan S. Novak, “Countering Foundational Myths and Cultural Beliefs: The Reportage of Anna Politkovskaya,”University of Kansas, 2012.
Amy Beth Leyerzapf, “‘The Most Hazardous and Dangerous and Greatest Adventure on Which Man Has Ever Embarked’: The Frontier in Presidential Space Discourse, 1957-1963,” University of Kansas, 2011.
Michael C. Souders, “A God of Wealth: Religion, Modernity, and the Rhetoric of the Christian Prosperity Gospel, University of Kansas, 2011. Co-directed with Donn W. Parson.
Nichole Kathryn Kathol, “The Power of Christ Compelled Her: The Intersectional Identities and Cultural Logic of Bishop Alma B. White,” University of Kansas, 2010.
Lynnette G. Leonard, “A Rebel in Conservative Clothes: The Rhetorical Theory and Practice of Lydia H. H. Sigourney," University of Kansas, 2006.
Phillip J. Chidester, "Through the Blood: Death Metal and the Rhetoric of Song as a Transcendent Discursive/Presentational Form," University of Kansas, 2004.

M. A. theses directed and completed

Benton James Bajorek, “Baseball, Rituals, and the American Dream: An Analysis of the Boston Red Sox’s Response to the Boston Marathon Bombing,” University of Kansas, 2019.
Lindsey Shook, “Complicating Consent: A Study of the Rhetorical Strategies Employed to Interrupt Rape Myths in Prosecutor v. Kunarac,” University of Kansas, 2010.
Jaclyn Brooke Howell, "Symbolic Gender Role Reversal and Touchstone Criticism: The Feminist Rhetoric of Gloria Steinem," University of Kansas, 2009.
Phillip Samuels, "Fahrenheit 9/11: A Case Study in Counternarrative," University of Kansas, 2008.
Amy Beth Leyerzapf, "Of Barren Boulders and Glowing Granite: Natural Metaphors in Daniel Webster's Commemorative Orations," University of Kansas, 2007.
Ryan Weaver, "Will the Real Marshall Mathers Please Stand Up: Challenging Mailer's 'White Negro,' Realizing Hipsterphilia/phobia, and Rethinking Hip Hop Music," University of Kansas, 2006.
Jessica Borhart, "A Rhetorical Analysis of Images of Female Athletes on the Cover of Sports Illustrated," University of Kansas, 2005.

Undergraduate honors theses directed and completed

Katherine Sweeney, “George H.W. Bush and the Persian Gulf War,” University of Kansas, 2019.
Jason Dexter, "Normative Pragmatic Analysis of Political Ads," University of Kansas, 2005.

Teaching development

2018 - 2019, “Research in Departmental Curriculum” working group Center for Undergraduate Research University of Kansas

2014 - 2016, “Creating Sustained Change in Humanities Instruction” project Center for Teaching Excellence University of Kansas

2013 - 2014, Documenting and Advancing Learning project

Center for Teaching Excellence University of Kansas

2008 - "Reacting to the Past" conference, University of Kansas

2006 - Teaching Critical Thinking Workshop, Center for Teaching Excellence University of Kansas

2001, 2005 - Best Practices in Teaching Institute, Center for Teaching Excellence University of Kansas

~ 1997 Writing to Learn Workshop, University of Illinois

~ 1996 Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop, University of Illinois

Technical writing experience

1990-1992 Cornell University Medical Center, Paul V. Trad, M.D. New York, NY

Assisted in preparing books and articles about psychotherapy for children, adults, and caregiver-infant dyads. Wrote drafts of articles and case studies; selected, transcribed, and edited vignettes from videotaped individual and group clinical sessions exemplifying clinical theory and practice; formatted manuscripts; corrected proofs. Designed and produced a database for tracking articles and book reviews submitted for consideration for publication to the American Journal of Psychotherapy, formerly edited by Dr. Trad.

Summer 1990 - Westinghouse, Communications System Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Analyzed and described hierarchical fields; converted technical definitions to friendly end user documentation; designed and wrote telecommunications systems manuals; reviewed documents with end users; developed and revised text to update documentation. Produced the following in-house publications: “Divisional Customer Database Field Glossary,” “Westinghouse Long Distance (Dial-1) Service User’s Guide,” “Communication Services Discounts.”

Teaching honors and awards

2007-2008 Donn W. Parson Graduate Faculty Mentorship Award, Department of Communication Studies University of Kansas

2006 W. T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas

2005 Recognition of Teaching Excellence, Center for Teaching Excellence University of Kansas

2004 - 2005 Donn W. Parson Graduate Faculty Mentorship Award, Department of Communication Studies University of Kansas

Service

Service to department

2017 - present, Director of Undergraduate Studies

2014 - present 2016, 2018

2013 - 2019

Advisory Committee member

Ad hoc Promotion Committee chair Ad hoc Awards Committee member

2013 - 2017 Departmental Honors coordinator

2012 - 2017

Undergraduate Committee member Colloquium Committee member

2017

2016

2013 - 2016

Department Chair Nomination Committee chair

Ad hoc Progress Toward Tenure Review Committee chair Parson Award in Argumentation and Debate Committee member

2002, 2004, 2014, 2015 - Linkugel Speech Contest judge

2012 - Basic Course Director Search Committee chair

2009 - 2012, Department Chair

Spring 2012 - Interim Basic Course Director

2009 - 2011, Documenting Learning Success Committee co-chair, member 2008-2009 Research Colloquium Committee member

2007 - 2009, Director of Graduate Studies

2007, Interpersonal Communication Search Committee member

2006 - 2009, Departmental Honors Coordinator

2006 - 2009, Lamda Pi Eta Contact

2006 - Communication Theory Search Committee chair

2005 - 2008,Rhetoric Writing Workshop co-moderator

2004 - 2007, Graduate Committee member

2004, 2005 Political Communication Search Committee member 2003-2004 Communication Studies Colloquium Committee member 2003-2004 Ad hoc Regents Center Advisory Committee member 2001-2006 Library Resources Committee chair

2001-2004, Open House Contact

2001-2004, Awards Committee member

2001-2003, Rhetoric Colloquium organizer

2000-2001, Library Resources Committee member

Service to college and university

Fall 2018-present, College Committee on Evaluation of Chairs and Directors, University of Kansas

Spring 2019 - KU Athletics faculty mentor, University of Kansas

Spring 2019 - University Scholars Program faculty mentor Honors Program, University of Kansas

Fall 2018-Spring 2019, College faculty mentor, University of Kansas

Fall 2014-2018

2017, 2018, 2019

KU Women’s Basketball faculty mentor, University of Kansas

KU Athletics mock interviewer, University of Kansas

Fall 2013 - Spring 2016, College Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure member, University of Kansas

Spring 2011 - Spring 2019

Scholar Works department liaison, University of Kansas

Spring 2011 - 2016, Open Access Advisory Board member, University of Kansas

Fall 2014 - Open Access Faculty Consultation Group member, University of Kansas

Spring 2014 - Graduate Research Competition judge, University of Kansas

Fall 2011 - 2014, Mortar Board faculty advisor

Spring 2014, Spring

2012, Fall 2011, Spring

2009, Fall 2006, University of Kansas, Academic Misconduct panelist, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Fall 2012 - Undergraduate Research Award reviewer, Center for Undergraduate Research, University of Kansas

2008 - 2009, University Honors Program Director search committee member, University of Kansas

2008 - 2009, Fall 2007, Committee on Graduate Studies member College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

2007 - "Structuring your Course for Student Learning," presented at the New Graduate Teaching Assistant Conference, Center for Teaching Excellence

2007 - Haglund Dissertation Award Committee judge Graduate School

2006 - "Teaching Matters: Department-Level Work on Improving Learning Across a Curriculum," co-presented at the Annual Teaching Summit Center for Teaching Excellence

2006 - Best Practices Institute co-facilitator, Center for Teaching Excellence

2006 - Progress Toward Tenure Review panelist, University of Kansas

2005 - "Reflections on Retreats: Time for Considering the Intellectual Work of Teaching," Reflections From the Classroom 8 (2005-2006): 7-9. Center for Teaching Excellence

Fall 2005 - Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising member College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

2005 - Dissertation Prize Committee judge, Graduate School

2005, 2004 - Annual Teaching Summit breakout session facilitator, Center for Teaching Excellence

Spring 2002-Spring 2008, Department Teaching Ambassador, Center for Teaching Excellence

Service to discipline

2020 - 2022, Argumentation and Advocacy Editor, American Forensics Association

2000 - present, Manuscript reviewer, Editorial board member, Journal for the History of Rhetoric, 2020-present

Philosophy and Rhetoric, 2018 - present

Argumentation and Advocacy, 2007-2010, 2013-2019

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2010-2014 Ad hoc article reviewer

Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2019

Rhetorica, 2016, 2017, 2019

Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 2010, 2018, 2019

Research in Language, 2018

Informal Logic, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017

Communication, Culture and Critique, 2017 Western Journal of Communication, 2017 Philosophy and Rhetoric, 2012, 2017

Argumentation, 2007, 2014

Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2014

Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Argumentation of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2010

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2007, 2009

Communication Studies, 2006 Book manuscript reviewer

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014 Catholic University of America Press, 2007 Strata Publishing, 2004

State University of New York Press, 2001 Allyn & Bacon, 2000

2016, 2018 - Program Committee member

European Conference on Argumentation, 2016, 2018

2002~2019

2001~2016
Conference panel chair

European Conference on Argumentation, 2019

Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation conference, 2007, 2011, 2016 Great Plains Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2012

Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, 2002, 2010

National Communication Association annual conference, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 (and respondent)

Central States Communication Association annual conference, 2005

Conference paper reviewer

National Communication Association, 2001-2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 (American Society for the History of Rhetoric, Rhetoric and Communication Theory, Public Address)

American Forensic Association, 2011

Great Plains Society for the Study of Argumentation, 2011

American Society for the History of Rhetoric Research Symposium, 2009, 2011 Rhetoric Society of America, 2007, 2009

Central States Communication Association, Graduate Student Caucus, 2004

2014 - Workshop on Normative Pragmatics co-leader, with Jean Goodwin and Scott Jacobs, Wake Forest University Argumentation Conference

2013 - J. Anthony Blair Prize committee member, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation

2010-2012, Organizing Committee member Great Plains Society for the Study of Argumentation

2010-2012, Steering Committee member American Society for the History of Rhetoric

2011 - “But Why is the Force With Us” pre-conference workshop co-leader, with Jean Goodwin, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation

2011 - McGee Award committee member, Alta Conference on Argumentation, American Forensic Association

2010 - Programme Committee member, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation

2010 - “Wandering Scholar”, National Communication Association annual conference

2009 - J. Anthony Blair Prize committee member, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation

2008 - Conference panel participant, "Balancing Work and Life," How to be an Assistant Professor Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference

2007 - J. Anthony Blair Prize ad hoc reviewer, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation

2007 - Dissertation Award Committee member, American Society for the History of Rhetoric

2006 - Secretary (substituting for Jean Goodwin) Rhetoric and Communication Theory division National CommunicationAssociation

2003 - Permissions Statement Committee member, Rhetoric Society of America

2001 - 2003 Steering Committee member American Society for the History of Rhetoric

2001 Nominating Committee member Rhetorical and Communication Theory division National Communication Association

Service to community

2019 - Mentor for Kansas Women’s Leadership Institute

2010 - 2015, “Rhetoric of U.S. Woman’s Rights,” presented for the U.S. State Department Women’s Leadership Institute: Women’s Leadership from the Heartland program

2003 - “Rhetoric of the Sketch in Lord Kames's Sketches of the History of Man," presented at the British Seminar Series, Hall Center for the Humanities

2001 - Panelist for “My Grandma’s Vision, My Vigor, My Daughter’s Victory: The Changing Lives of Women in America”

Women’s History Month panel discussion
Women’s Transitional Care Services of Lawrence

1990 - 1992 Tutor for New York City high school students in English and writing

CHANCE

1986 - 1987 Tutor for minority undergraduate students in Calculus I C-MAP (Carnegie Mellon Action Program)