I received a surprise email from my former professor, Dr. Ruth Anne Clark, earlier this semester. Dr. Clark was in charge of teaching me how to be a teaching assistant and instructor when I first came to graduate school at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in (wait for it) 2001. That semester I had been…
Madison Krall’s paper was featured on the Top Student Papers in Theatre, Film, and New Multi-Media panel at the National Communication Conference this year. Entitled “Dirty Dancing’s Stagnating Subplot: Critiquing the Commemorative Control of Film for U.S. Public Memory,” Madison’s research in this project ties into her dissertation work exploring the regulatory history of women’s…
Ben’s paper, “Theorizing Intersectional Stigma Management Communication at the Crossroads: LGBTAIQ+ and Autistic Subjectivities,” was featured on the Disability Issues Caucus Top Paper Session at the National Communication Association Conference this year. This research comes out of Ben’s dissertation work and draws from 30 interviews Ben did with individuals who are both LGBTQIA+ and autistic…
I have always liked tea, but the pandemic and lots of time at home near a teapot has developed in me something like a burning, chemical love for tea. Add to that not one but two tea advent calendars for the holidays and I’ve become a tea-enthusiast to-the-brim (har, har, har). My favorites are English…
The Chemical Rhetoric group was incredibly honored this year to receive the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine‘s Article of the Year Award for our article, “Mapping Nature’s Scientist: The posthumous demarcation of Rosalind Franklin’s Crystallographic Data.” Check out this beautiful plaque! Many thanks to ARSTM for the organization’s support.
Dr. Melissa Parks won the 2020 Dissertation Award in Environmental Communication from the National Communication Association for her dissertation, “From Redwoods Preservation to Genomic Restoration: Genocentric Ecologies in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries.” Woot, woot! Read about the award and Melissa’s research, here.
On September 10, 2020, I was honored to give the keynote address for Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science’s 5th Annual Women in Science and Healthcare (WiSH) Symposium. This was especially exciting in this particular year because the symposium was celebrating what would have been crystallographer Rosalind Franklin’s 100th birthday, and Rosalind Franklin’s niece,…
This fall, Dr. Benjamin Mann began a new position as a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Communication at Dixie State University in the College of Humanities and Social Change. In this position, Ben serves as a full-time faculty member, instructor of Communication courses, and researcher. Find out more about this position and Ben’s research and teaching, here…
This fall, Dr. Melissa Parks began her tenure as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Humanities and Social Change Center. There she is working with an interdisciplinary team of scholars to explore issues of social change related to the environment, science, technology, and the broader culture. You can find out more…
Last spring, Madison learned that she had been awarded a 2020-2021 Steffensen Cannon Fellowship to support her dissertation research on regulatory rhetoric and the mid-twentieth century thalidomide disaster. See our departmental announcement of Madison’s award, here. Find out more about the competitive Steffensen Cannon Fellowship, here. The fellowship was established at the University of Utah…