Tim Havens
Many college students love to watch TV. Professor Tim Havens conducts research about TV, with a particular focus on race. Read more about Tim HERE
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Congratulations to the winners of the Samuel L. Becker, John Waite Bowers, and /Donald C. Bryant Awards:
* Sangeet Kumar
* David Morris
* Kristen Norwood
* Sarah Spring
The Becker, Bowers, and Bryant Awards are for outstanding scholarship in media, interpersonal and/or rhetorical studies and are awarded each year based on a graduate student’s paper.
Congratulations to the 2009-10 winners of the Douglas Ehninger Prize for Teaching Excellence:
* Sangeet Kumar
* Daniel Munksgaard
Rhetoric and reality in the health-care debate
Guest Opinion in The Daily Iowan
by Professor Bruce Gronbeck
Meet our two newest faculty members
February 9 - Niko Poulakos
"Hunger for the event: On the possibilities of rhetoric to transform the terrain of understanding"
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Upcoming PhD Defense
Samantha Joyce
“Race Matters: Race, telenovela representation, and Discourse in Contemporary Brazil”
Monday March 29, 2010
3:00 pm
Room 209 Becker Bldg. – The Green Room
Kristen Norwood
“Here and Gone: Competing Discourses in the Communication of Families with a Transgender Member”
Monday April 26, 2010
12:15 pm
Room 209 Becker Bldg. – The Green Room