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RONALD C. ARNETT, Ph.D.

Chair and Professor Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies

Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA 15282-1201

(412) 396-6460 [email protected]

EDUCATION

1983 M.Div. Bethany Theological Seminary, Oak Brook, Illinois Emphasis: Peace Studies 1978 Ph.D. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Major area: Interpersonal Communication Minor area: Philosophy 1975 M.A. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Major area: Interpersonal Communication Minor area: Counseling 1974 B.S. Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana Major area: Psychology

ENDOWED CHAIR APPOINTMENTS

2015– Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Patricia Doherty Yoder and Ronald Wolfe Endowed Chair in Communication Ethics

2010–2015 Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Henry Koren, C.S.Sp., Endowed Chair for Scholarly Excellence

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1993– Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Chair and Professor (Tenured)

Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies

Responsibilities: • Co-Founder, Communication Ethics Institute • Member, Board of Directors, Simon Silverman Phenomenology

Center • Member, Judicial Affairs Civility Committee (Civility: Community

Matters) 2006– • Chair, Search Committee for Dean of the School of Leadership &

Professional Advancement

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• Member, Core Curriculum Committee, 2005–2006 • Fundraising, including $120,000 for MARC Center for Excellence,

administrative office complex for the Affiliated Departments of Communication and English and $100,000 endowment to establish the Ketchum Institute for Public Communication

• Member, Faculty Handbook Committee, 2003– • Chair of English Department Chair Search Committee • Member, Mission Committee for Middle States Accreditation

Association • Member, Duquesne University Promotion and Tenure Committee,

2001–03 • Assisted in the development of M.A. in Rhetoric and Philosophy of

Communication and Ph.D. in Rhetoric programs • Director of Public Speaking and Business & Professional

Communication courses

Courses Taught: Communication Ethics, Interpersonal Communication,* Conflict Management in Organizations,* Communication Management,* Marketing Communication,* Strategic Corporate Communication,* Public Speaking, Business & Professional Communication, Communication and Professional Civility,** Evidence,** Hermeneutic Phenomenology,** Philosophy of Communication,** Doctoral Seminar: Communication Ethics,** Rhetoric/Philosophy of Interpersonal Communication,** Rhetoric/Philosophy of Integrated Marketing Communication,** Rhetoric/Philosophy of Crisis Management**

(*graduate/undergraduate course, **graduate course only) 1997–2001 Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Chair and Professor

Affiliated Departments: Communication & Rhetorical Studies (B.A., M.A.; Ph.D. Rhetoric, 1999) and English (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.)

1990–1993 Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana Professor of Communication Studies (Tenured) Responsibilities:

• Member of Graduate Council • Member of Publications Committee • Chair of Peace Studies Institute Committee • Founder and Advisor to Communication Studies Student Organization

Courses Taught:

Interpersonal Communication, Ethics and Free Speech, Public Speaking Communication for Instructors, Language and Thought,* Intercultural Communication, Freedom and Responsibility,* Human Conflict

(*graduate/undergraduate course)


1987–1990 Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana Vice-President/Dean of Academic Affairs and

Professor of Communication Studies Responsibilities:

• Chief academic officer • Director of graduate program • Responsible for department chairs and curriculum • Responsible for daily operation of academic program • Responsible for academic grant writing • Personnel officer for faculty: hiring, tenure, promotion, sabbatical,

salary recommendations to the President, and dispute resolution between faculty and students and the faculty themselves

• Executive Secretary of co-curricular program

Courses Taught: Language and Thought, Interpersonal Communication Freedom and Responsibility** (**graduate course)

Committees: • Chair or Executive Secretary of the following committees: Academic

Policies, Academic Standards, Faculty Executive, Faculty Development, Honors, Professional Studies, Graduate and Continuing Education Council, Governance Committee, Dean’s Advisory Council, Arts and Lecture series (weekly convocation and monthly evening presentations), and Academic Standards.

• Chaired monthly meetings with departmental chairs, weekly meetings with division chairs, and responsible for a number of other College committees.

• Town Task Force on Academic Excellence. • Teacher Education Committee. • President’s Management Council.

1984–1987 Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Chairperson, Associate Professor, Interpersonal Communication (Tenured)

Responsibilities: • Developed a student organization for majors • Re-worked curriculum with a liberal arts core and emphasis in

organizational and professional communication, communication and culture, and communication and conflict studies

• Hired five new faculty in rhetoric and interpersonal communication • Scheduling, public relations for the department, faculty evaluation,

liaison to upper administration and other departments


Courses Taught: Interpersonal Communication,* Organizational Communication,* Communication and Conflict,* Ethics of Human Communication,* Communication Theory,* Philosophy of Communication (*graduate/undergraduate course) Courses Developed: Organizational Communication, Communication and Conflict, Ethics of Human Communication

Committee Appointments:

• College Graduate Education Committee • College Faculty Development Committee • College Merger Committee • University Committee on Conflict Studies • University Committee on Ethics Institute

1977–1984 St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota Assistant and Associate Professor (Tenured)

Responsibilities: • Director of Introduction to Speech Communication • Founder and Faculty Advisor, Nonviolent Alternatives (NOVA),

which seeks to inform the university and community of latest information in conflict studies through forums, mediation workshops and lectures on conflict management

• Chair of St. Cloud State University Campus Ministry (1980–82): Led development of a board, the hiring of a new campus pastor, and placed the ministry on solid financial ground

• Coordinator of Departmental Faculty Development (1977–78): Member of various departmental and university committees, including tenure, promotion and hiring

Courses Taught: Communication Theory, Communication and Conflict (developed), Contemporary Public Address, Introduction to Speech Communication, Ethics and Free Speech, Interpersonal Communication and Family Communication

RELATED EXPERIENCE

1982–1989 Bethany Theological Seminary, Oak Brook, Illinois Adjunct Professor

Courses Taught: Introduction to Interpersonal and Public Dialogue, Advanced Pastoral Seminar on Organizational and Relational, Skills in Leadership, Conflict and Reconciliation and Narrative Ethics


1975–1976 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Resident Fellow Course Taught: Approaches to Humanness through Communication 1974–1977 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Teaching Associate

Courses Taught: Introduction to Speech Communication, Public Speaking, Small Group Communication

1972–1974 Bethel Center Church of the Brethren, Hartford City, Indiana Pastor

BOOKS

Kergel, David, Heidkamp-Kergel, Birte, Arnett, Ronald C., and Mancino, S, eds. Communication and Learning in an Age of Digital Transformation. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.

Arnett, Ronald C., Janie M. Harden Fritz, and Leeanne M. Bell McManus. Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference. Second edition, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2018. First edition, second printing, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2017. First edition (Ronald C. Arnett, Janie M. Harden Fritz, and Leeanne M. Bell), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009.

Arnett, Ronald C., and François Cooren, eds. Dialogic Ethics. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C., Annette M. Holba, and Susan Mancino, eds. An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics: Goods in Contention. New York: Peter Lang, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C., Sarah M. DeIuliis, and Matthew Corr. Corporate Communication Crisis Leadership: Advocacy and Ethics. New York: Business Expert Press, 2017.

Arnett, Ronald C. Levinas’s Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017. Winner of Philosophy of Communication Division’s award for Distinguished Book, National Communication Association, 2017 & Communication Ethics Division’s Top Book award, National Communication Association, 2017.

Arnett, Ronald C., Leeanne M. Bell McManus, and Amanda G. McKendree. Conflict between Persons: The Origins of Leadership. Second edition, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2017. First edition, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2014.

Arnett, Ronald C. and Pat Arneson, eds. Philosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014. Winner of


Communication Ethic Division’s Top Edited Book Award, National Communication Association, 2015.

Arnett, Ronald C. Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt’s Rhetoric of Warning and Hope. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. Winner of Communication Ethics Division’s Top Book Award for Communication Ethics, National Communication Association, 2013.

Arnett, Ronald C. and Annette M. Holba. An Overture to Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of Meaning. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. Winner of Philosophy of Communication Division’s award for Best Book, National Communication Association, 2013 & Winner of Everett Lee Hunt Book Award, Eastern Communication Association, 2013.

Roberts, Kathleen Glenister and Ronald C. Arnett, eds. Communication Ethics: Between Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.

Arnett, Ronald C. Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer’s Rhetoric of Responsibility. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. Winner of the Everett Lee Hunt Award for Scholarship, Eastern Communication Association, 2006.

Arnett, Ronald C. and Pat Arneson. Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age: Community, Hope, and Interpersonal Relationships. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Makau, Josina and Ronald C. Arnett, eds. Communication Ethics in an Age of Diversity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Anderson, Robert, Kenneth Cissna, and Ronald C. Arnett, eds. The Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation, Voice, and Community. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1994.

Arnett, Ronald C. Dialogic Education: Conversation About Ideas and Between Persons. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992; Reprinted, 1997.

Arnett, Ronald C. Communication and Community: Implications of Martin Buber’s Dialogue. Foreword by Maurice Friedman. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986. Winner of Book of the Year Award, Religious Speech Communication Association, 1988.

Arnett, Ronald C. Dwell in Peace: Applying Nonviolence to Everyday Relationships. Elgin, IL: Brethren Press, 1980; second printing, 1985. Nominated for Book Award, 1980. Chapter reprinted by permission in 3rd and 4th editions of Bridges Not Walls: A Book About Interpersonal Communication, ed. John Stewart. Excerpts reprinted in Speak Peace: A Daily Reader, edited by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford (Elgin: Brethren Press, 2017).


BOOK CHAPTERS

Arnett, Ronald C. “A Banality of Evil: Precarity as the Offspring of Individualism.” In Hyperprecarity: Social-Cultural Transformations in European Societies. Edited by Rolf Hepp, Robert Riesing, and David Kergel. Wiesbaden: VS Springer, 2020

Arnett, Ronald C. “Individualism as a Moral Cul-de-sac.” In The Semiotics of Lifeworld Existentials: Between Necessity and Choice, edited by Zdzisław Wąsik, Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik, and Józef Zaprucki, 1–23. Jelenia Góra, Poland: Karkonoska Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa w Jeleniej Górze, 2019.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Dialogic Pragmatics and Complex Objects: Engaging the Life and Work of Gregory Bateson.” In From Pragmatics to Dialogue, edited by Edda Weigand and Istvan Kecskes, 171–88. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communication Ethics: Origins and Trajectories.” In Communication and Media Ethics, edited by Patrick Lee Plaisance, 31–52. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communication Ethics Research: Evolution and Thoughtful Response.” In Communication and Media Ethics, edited by Patrick Lee Plaisance, 391–406. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Lecture as Testimony: In a Technological Age.” In The Digital Turn in Education: International Perspectives on Learning and Teaching in a Changing World, edited by David Kergel, Birte Heidkamp, Patrik Kjaersdam Telléus, Tadeusz Rachwal, and Samuel Nowakowski, 119–28. Berlin: Springer, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Dialogic Ethics: A Pragmatic Hope for This Hour.” In Dialogic Ethics, edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren, 265–82. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C., Susan Mancino, and Hannah Karolak. “Emmanuel Levinas: The Turning of Semioethics.” In Communicology for the Human Sciences: Lanigan and the Philosophy of Communication, edited by Andrew R. Smith, Isaac E. Catt, and Igor Klyukanov, 179–200. New York: Peter Lang, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Language as the Originative House of Dialogic Ethics.” In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Dialogue, edited by Edda Weigand, 307–17. New York: Routledge, 2017.

Arnett, Ronald C., and Hannah Karolak. “Innovation as Otherwise than Convention: The ‘Here I Am’ of Communal Learning.” In Public Relations and Social Media for the Curious, edited by Kishor Vaidya. Winnipeg: The Curious Case of Academic Publishing, 2016.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communication & Rhetorical Studies: The Practical Liberal Art of the 21st Century.” In Communication for the Curious: Why Study Communication?, edited by Kishor Vaidya, 154–74. Winnipeg: The Curious Case of Academic Publishing, 2015.


Arnett, Ronald C. “Public Relations: Levinas’ Call for Ethics and Justice.” In Communication Ethics in a Connected World: Research in Public Relations and Organisational Communication, edited by Andrea Catellani, Ansgar Zerfass, and Ralph Tench, 33–52. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2015.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Dialogue: Countering the Plague of Self-Assurance.” In Creating Albert Camus: Foundations & Explorations of His Philosophy of Communication, edited by Brent Sleasman, 3–27. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communicative Meeting: From Pangloss to Tenacious Hope.” In A Century of Communication Studies: A Thematic History of the Discipline, edited by Pat J. Gehrke and William M. Keith, 261–85. New York: Routledge, 2015.

Arnett, Ronald C., and Susan Mancino. “Communication Ethics as Performative Tolerance: Sustaining a Village.” In Tolerance and Crossculture Communication: The Schwenkfelder Confession in Fedor Sommer’s Work, edited by Józef Zaprucki, 33–59. Jelenia Góra: Karkonoska Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa w Jeleniej Górze, 2014.

Arnett, Ronald C. “A Rhetoric of Sentiment: The House the Scots Built.” In Philosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other, edited by Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson, 25–54. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Arendt and Saint Augustine: Identity Otherwise than Convention.” In Augustine for the Philosophers: The Rhetor of Hippo, the Confessions, and the Continentals, edited by Calvin Troup, 39–57. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2014.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Media Ethics: Revisiting Traditions as the Heart of the Public Sphere.” In Ethics of Media, edited by Mirca Madianou, Amit Pinchevski, and Nick Couldry, 57–71. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Bureaucrat as Problematic Other: Arendt’s Warning.” In Problematic Relationships in the Workplace, Volume 2, edited by Becky L. Omdahl and Janie M. Harden Fritz, 145–62. New York: Peter Lang, 2012.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Hans-Georg Gadamer: Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Interplay of Understanding and Meaning.” In Philosophical Profiles in the Theory of Communication, edited by Jason Hannan, 235–59. New York: Peter Lang, 2012.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communication Ethics as Janus at the Gates: Responding to Postmodernity and the Normativity of Crisis.” In Communication Ethics and Crisis: Negotiating Differences in Public and Private Spheres, edited by S. Alyssa Groom and Janie Harden Fritz, 161–80. Lanham: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communication Ethics: The Wonder of Metanarratives in a Postmodern Age.” In The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics, Volume 1, edited by Robert S. Fortner and P. Mark Fackler, 20–40. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.


Arnett, Ronald C. “Situating a Dialogic Ethics: A Dialogic Confession.” In The Handbook of Communication Ethics, edited by George Cheney, Steve May, and Debashish Munshi, 45–63. New York: Routledge, 2011. Winner of the Top Edited Volume Award, NCA Communication Ethics Division, 2011.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Emmanuel Levinas: Priority of the Other.” In Ethical Communication: Moral Stances in Human Dialogue, edited by Clifford G. Christians and John Merrill, 200–06. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Paulo Freire: Face Saving and Communication.” In Ethical Communication: Moral Stances in Human Dialogue, edited by Clifford G. Christians and John Merrill, 115–20. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Courage versus Authority.” In Ethical Communication: Moral Stances in Human Dialogue, edited by Clifford G. Christians and John Merrill, 109–14. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Provinciality and the Face of the Other: Levinas on Communication Ethics, Terrorism—Otherwise than Originative Agency.” In Communication Ethics: Between Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality, edited by Kathleen Glenister Roberts and Ronald C. Arnett, 69–88. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Hannah Arendt: Dialectical Communicative Labor.” In Perspectives on Philosophy of Communication, edited by Pat Arneson, 67–84. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2007.

Arnett, Ronald C. “A Conversation about Communication Ethics with Ronald C. Arnett.” In Exploring Communication Ethics: Interviews with Influential Scholars in the Field, edited by Pat Arneson, 53–68. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

Arnett, Ronald C., Pat Arneson, and Leeanne M. Bell. “Communication Ethics: The Dialogic Turn.” In Exploring Communication Ethics: Interviews with Influential Scholars in the Field, edited by Pat Arneson, 143–84. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Professional Civility.” In Problematic Relationships in the Workplace, Volume 1, edited by Janie M. Harden Fritz and Becky L. Omdahl, 233–48. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.

Arnett, Ronald C., Amanda McKendree, Kathleen Glenister Roberts, and Janie M. Harden Fritz. “Persuasion in the School of Business: Construction of a Basic Course in Business and Professional Communication.” In Teaching Ideas for the Basic Communication Course, Volume 10, edited by Barbara Hugenberg and Lawrence W. Hugenberg. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 2006.

Arnett, Ronald C. “A Dialogic Ethic ‘Between’ Buber and Levinas: A Responsive Ethical ‘I.’” In Dialogue: Theorizing Difference in Communication Studies, edited by Rob Anderson, Leslie Baxter, and Kenneth Cissna, 75–90. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2004.


Arnett, Ronald C., and Janie M. Harden Fritz. “Sustaining Institutional Ethos and Integrity: Management in a Postmodern Moment.” In Institutional Integrity in Health Care, edited by Ana Smith Iltis, 41–72. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Paulo Freire’s Revolutionary Pedagogy: From a Story-Centered to a Narrative-Centered Communication Ethic.” In Moral Engagement in Public Life: Theorists for Contemporary Ethics, edited by Sharon L. Bracci and Clifford G. Christians, 150–70. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

Arnett, Ronald C. “What Is Dialogic Communication? Friedman’s Contribution and Clarification.” In Classics in the Person-Centered Approach, edited by David Cain, 159–70. Herefordshire: PCCS Books, 2002.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Therapeutic Communication: A Moral Cul de Sac.” In The Dilemma of Anabaptist Piety: Strengthening or Straining the Bonds of Community?, edited by Stephen L. Longenecker, 149–59. Bridgewater, VA: Penobscot Press, 1997.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Defining Communication: A Practical Act.” In Toward the 21st Century: The Future of Speech Communication, Volume 6, edited by Julia Wood and Richard Gregg, 113–28. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 1995.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Language of the Faith and Every Day Life.” In Anabaptist Currents: History in Conversation with the Present, edited by Carl F. Bowman and Stephen L. Longenecker, 171–80. Bridgewater: Penobscot Press, 1995.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Existential Homelessness: A Contemporary Case for Dialogue.” In The Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation, Voice and Community, edited by Rob Anderson, Kenneth Cissna, and Ronald C. Arnett, 229–46. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 1994.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Status of Communication Ethics Scholarship in Speech Communication Journals from 1915 to 1985.” In Conversations on Communication Ethics, edited by Karen Greenberg, 55–72. Norwood: Ablex Publishing Company, 1991.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

Arnett, Ronald C. “Ethics, Rhetoric, and Culture.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, edited by Jon Nussbaum, 1–26. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Hannah Arendt: Story-Laden Action.” In An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics: Goods in Contention, edited by Ronald C. Arnett, Annette M. Holba, and Susan Mancino, 21–25. New York: Peter Lang, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C. “David Hume: Power of Sensations.” In An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics: Goods in Contention, edited by Ronald C. Arnett, Annette M. Holba, and Susan Mancino, 233–37. New York: Peter Lang, 2018.


Arnett, Ronald C. “Thomas Reid: Common Sense.” In An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics: Goods in Contention, edited by Ronald C. Arnett, Annette M. Holba, and Susan Mancino, 407–11. New York: Peter Lang, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Adam Smith: Sentiment and Commercial Life.” In An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics: Goods in Contention, edited by Ronald C. Arnett, Annette M. Holba, and Susan Mancino, 462–66. New York: Peter Lang, 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Phenomenology.” In International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods, edited by Jörg P. Matthes, Christine S. Davis, and Robert F. Potter, 1–9. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Cultural Relativism and Cultural Universalism.” In International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication, edited by Young Yun Kim, 1–9. Wiley Online Library, 2017.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Dialogue Theory.” In International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, edited by Robert T. Craig, 531–43. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communication Ethics.” In Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, edited by Henk ten Have, 1:669–76. Switzerland: Springer, 2015.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Rhetoric and Ethics.” In Concise Encyclopedia of Communication, edited by Wolfgang Donsbach, 533–34. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Embeddedness/Embedded Identity.” In Encyclopedia of Identity, edited by Ronald L. Jackson, 241–43. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010. Winner of the “Outstanding Reference Source” Award, American Library Association, 2011.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Historicity.” In Encyclopedia of Identity, edited by Ronald L. Jackson, 328–31. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010. Winner of the “Outstanding Reference Source” Award, American Library Association, 2011.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Rhetoric and Ethics.” In International Encyclopedia of Communication, edited by Wolfgang Donsbach, 4242–46. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell/International Communication Association, 2008.

ARTICLE PUBLICATIONS

Arnett, Ronald C. “Marie Hochmuth Nichols: Rhetoric and Character.” Pennsylvania Scholars Series: Marie Hochmuth Nichols (2019): 2–17.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Response: Dialogic Listening as Attentiveness to Place and Space.” International Journal of Listening 33, no. 3 (2019): 181–87.


Arnett, Ronald C. “Gadamer: Ethics and the Dialogic Character of Play.” Language and Semiotic Studies 4, no. 2 (2018): 19–35.

Canar, Burcu, Briankle G. Chang, and Ronald C. Arnett. “Interview with Ronald C. Arnett: Philosophy of Communication as a Form of Literature.” Moment Journal: Journal of Cultural Studies 5, no. 1 (2018): 126–29.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Book Review of Philosophy for Multisensory Communication and Media by Keith Kenney.” Mass Communication and Society 21, no. 1 (2018): 142–44.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Book Review of Signs, Meaning, and Experience: Integrational Approaches to Linguistics and Semiotics by Adrian Pablé and Christopher Hutton.” Language and Dialogue 7, no. 3 (2017): 459–66.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Book Review of Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric, by Scott Stroud.” Rhetoric and Public Address 20, no. 1 (2017): 190–93.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communicative Ethics: The Phenomenological Sense of Semioethics.” Language and Dialogue 7, no. 1 (2017): 80–99.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Field of Communication in the United States.” Res Rhetorica 2 (2017): 80–82.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Dialogic Education in an Age of Administrative Preening.” Journal for the Association of Communication Administration 35, no. 2 (2016): 45–52.

Arnett, Ronald C. “An Immemorial Obligation: Countering the Eclipse of the Other.” Journal of Communication and Religion 39, no. 2 (2016): 7–21.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Philosophy of Communication: Qualitative Research, Questions in Action.” Qualitative Research Reports in Communication 17, no. 1 (2016): 1–6.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Educational Misdirections: Attending to Levinas’s Call for Ethics as First Principle.” Atlantic Journal of Communication 24, no. 1 (2016): 3–16.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Levinas: Leadership without Template or Code.” Leadership and the Humanities (2016): 38–51.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Awakening Communicative Justice: Attending to the Precariat.” Social Transformations 1 (2016): 1–43.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Dialogic Necessity: Acknowledging and Engaging Monologue.” Ohio Communication Journal 53 (2015): 1–10.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Creative Praxis of Philosophy of Communication.” Review of Communication 15, no. 4 (2015): 341–45.


Arnett, Ronald C. “Ventriloquism as Communicative Music.” Language under Discussion 2, no. 1 (2015): 41–44.

Arnett, Ronald C., David DeIuliis, and Susan Mancino. “Existential Signs as Primordial Data: An Enigma Wrapped in Hypertextuality.” Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 6, no. 1 (2015): 3–20.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Book Review of Adaptive Rhetoric: Evolution, Culture, and the Art of Persuasion, by Alex C. Parrish.” Language and Dialogue 5, no. 2 (2015): 334–39.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Civic Dialogue: Attending to Locality and Recovering Monologue.” Journal of Dialogue Studies 2, no. 2 (2014): 71–92.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Book Review of Buber and Education: Dialogue as Conflict Resolution, by W. John Morgan and Alexandre Guilherme.” Journal of Dialogue Studies 2, no. 1 (2014): 115–18.

Flinko, Sarah M., and Ronald C. Arnett. “The Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Scholarship in the Classroom.” Journal of the Association for Communication Administration 33, no. 1 (2014): 35–46.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Wonder of Communicative Encounter: The Shifting Landscape of Dialogic Education.” Spiritan Horizons: A Journal of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit 9 (2014): 120–30.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Philosophy of Communication as the Carrier of Meaning: Adieu to W. Barnett Pearce.” Qualitative Research Reports in Communication 14, no. 1 (2013): 1–9.

Fritz, Janie Harden, Naomi Bell O’Neil, Ann Marie Popp, Cory Williams, and Ronald C. Arnett. “The Influence of Supervisory Behavioral Integrity on Intent to Comply with Organizational Ethical Standards and Organizational Commitment.” Journal of Business Ethics 114, no. 2 (2013): 251–63.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Fulcrum Point of Dialogue: Monologue, Worldview, and Acknowledgement.” American Journal of Semiotics 28, nos. 1/2 (2012): 105–27.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Biopolitics: An Arendtian Communication Ethic in the Public Domain.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 9, no. 2 (2012): 225–33.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Beyond Dialogue: Levinas and Otherwise Than the I–Thou.” Language and Dialogue 3 (2012): 140–55.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Civic Rhetoric––Meeting the Communal Interplay of the Provincial and the Cosmopolitan: Barack Obama’s Notre Dame Speech, May 17, 2009.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 14, no. 4 (2011): 631–71.


Arnett, Ronald C. “Father Henry Koren: Communication Ethics and Existential Revelation.” Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture 46, no. 2 (2011): 140–52.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Leisure and the Communicative Praxis of Craft.” Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture 46, no. 1 (2011): 21–36.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Existential Civility: Leaning Forward into the Rapids.” Spiritan Horizons 6 (2011): 39–48.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Multiplicity, Complexity, and the Necessity of Limits: A Review of Thomas W. Cooper’s Fast Media, Media Fast.” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 26, no. 2 (2011): 176–78.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Review of Dialogically Speaking: Maurice Friedman’s Interdisciplinary Humanism, by Kenneth P. Kramer.” Journal of Communication 61, no. 2 (2011): E5–E7.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Religious Communication Scholarship: Going Nowhere Correctly.” Journal of Communication and Religion 33, no. 2 (2010): 221–46.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Defining Philosophy of Communication: Difference and Identity.” Qualitative Research Reports in Communication 11, no. 1 (2010): 57–62.

Arnett, Ronald C., Leeanne M. Bell, and Janie M. Harden Fritz. “Dialogic Learning as First Principle in Communication Ethics.” Atlantic Journal of Communication 18, no. 3 (2010): 111–26.

Arnett, Ronald C., Celeste Grayson, and Christina McDowell. “Dialogue as ‘Enlarged Communicative Mentality’: Review, Assessment, and Ongoing Difference.” Communication Research Trends 27 (2008): 3–25.

Arnett, Ronald C., Amanda McKendree, Janie Harden Fritz, and Kathleen Glenister Roberts. “Partnering with the Business School: The Business and Professional Communication Course.” Business Communication Quarterly 71 (2008): 346–50.

Arnett, Ronald C., Pat Arneson, and Annette Holba. “Bridges Not Walls: The Communicative Enactment of Dialogic Storytelling.” Review of Communication 8, no. 3 (2008): 217–34.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Pointing the Way to Communication Ethics Theory: The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgement.” Review of Communication 8 (2008): 21–28.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Interpretive Inquiry as Qualitative Communication Research.” Qualitative Research Reports in Communication 8, no. 1 (2007): 29–35.

Arnett, Ronald C., Janie Harden Fritz, and Annette M. Holba. “The Rhetorical Turn to Otherness: Otherwise than Humanism.” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 3 (2007): 115–33.

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Arnett, Ronald C. “Mid-Career Moves: Professional and Personal Identity.” Spectra 43 (October 2007).

Arnett, Ronald C., Pat Arneson, and Leeanne M. Bell. “Communication Ethics: The Dialogic Turn.” Review of Communication 6 (2006): 62–92.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Through a Glass, Darkly.” Journal of Communication and Religion 29 (2006): 1–17.

Arnett, Ronald C. “A World Come of Age: Bonhoeffer’s Rhetoric of Responsibility.” Journal of Communication and Religion 28 (2005): 350–60.

Fritz, Janie M. Harden, Ronald C. Arnett, Russell Ferrara, and D. Ritter. “Moving Forward, Looking Back: The Specialist/Generalist Model as Disciplinary Guide for the 21st Century.” Communication Annual 61 (2005): 1–13.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Responsive “I”: Levinas’ Derivative Argument.” Argumentation and Advocacy 40 (2003): 39–50.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Paulo Freire’s Revolutionary Pedagogy: From a Story-Centered to a Narrative-Centered Communication Ethic.” Qualitative Inquiry 8 (2002): 489–510.

Arnett, Ronald C. “‘Educational Rhetoric’ in a Public Age.” Pennsylvania Scholars Series: Carroll C. Arnold (2002): 69–86.

Arnett, Ronald C., and Janie M. Harden Fritz. “Communication and Professional Civility as a Basic Service Course: Dialogic Praxis between Departments and Situated in an Academic Home.” Basic Communication Course Annual 13 (2001): 174–206.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Dialogic Civility as Pragmatic Ethical Praxis: An Interpersonal Metaphor for the Public Domain.” Communication Theory 11 (2001): 315–38.

Arnett, Ronald C., and Janie M. Harden Fritz. “Departmental Excellence: Constituencies in Tension.” Journal of the Association for Communication Administration 28 (1999): 19–26.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Metaphorical Guidance: Administration as Building and Renovation.” Journal of Educational Administration 37 (1999): 80–87.

Arnett, Ronald C., and Alvin Dueck. “Review—‘Between Jerusalem and Athens: Ethical Perspectives on Culture, Religion, and Psychotherapy.’” Mennonite Quarterly Review 73 (1999): 142.

Fritz, Janie M. Harden, Ronald C. Arnett, and Michele Conkel. “Organizational Ethical Standards and Organizational Commitment.” Journal of Business Ethics 20 (1999): 289–300.


Arneson, Pat, and Ronald C. Arnett. “The Praxis of Narrative Assessment: Communication Competence in an Information Age.” Journal of the Association for Communication Administration 27, no. 1 (1998): 44–58.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Interpersonal Praxis: The Interplay of Religious Narrative, Historicality and Metaphor.” Journal of Communication and Religion 21, no. 2 (1998): 141–63.

Arnett, Ronald C., and Pat Arneson. “Educational Assessment as Invitation for Dialogue.” Journal of the Association for Communication Administration 26 (1997): 81–94.

Arnett, Ronald C., and Pat Arneson. “Interpersonal Communication Ethics and the Limits of Individualism.” The Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronic de Communication 6 (1996): 1–17.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Ethical Congruence: Classroom Accessibility.” Journal of Mediated Communication (December 1994).

Arnett, Ronald C. “Interpersonal Ethics: Aristotle’s Critique and Contribution to Contemporary Literature.” Iowa State Journal (Summer 1993).

Arnett, Ronald C. “A Communication Perspective on Academic Freedom: Implications for Public Speaking.” Iowa Journal of Communication (Summer 1992).

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Practical Philosophy of Communication Ethics and Free Speech as the Foundation for Speech Communication.” Communication Quarterly 38, no. 3 (1990): 208–17.

Arnett, Ronald C. “What is Dialogic Communication? Friedman’s Contribution and Clarification.” Person-Centered Review 4 (1989): 42–60.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Educating for Peace Leadership: A Call to Service.” Manchester College Bulletin of the Peace Studies Institute 19 (1989): 32–33.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Teacher/Scholar: A Continuing Tradition,” Manchester College Bulletin 81, no. 3 (1989).

Arnett, Ronald C. “Brother James: The First of the Brethren?” Messenger (February 1989).

Arnett, Ronald C. “Compilation of the Index, 1978–1988.” Journal of Communication and Religion 11 (1988): 35–39.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communication Ethics and the Basic Texts: An Uncommon Theoretical Relationship.” Speech Association of Minnesota Journal 15 (1988): 23–48.

Arnett, Ronald C. “A Choicemaking Ethic for Organizational Communication: The Work of Ian I. Mitroff.” Journal of Business Ethics 7 (1988): 151–62.


Arnett, Ronald C. “The Status of Communication Ethics Scholarship in Speech Communication Journals, 1915–1985.” Central States Speech Journal 38 (1987): 44–61.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Hurried Professor: What is Our Disciplinary Responsibility?” Speech Association of Minnesota Journal 14 (1987): 1–11.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Martin Buber’s Theopolitical Rhetoric of Religious Socialism.” Journal of Communication and Religion 10 (1987): 12–23.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Logos in the Fellowship of Communication.” Brethren Life and Thought 31 (1986): 47–52.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Bonhoeffer’s Moral Rhetoric of Contextual Peacemaking.” Religious Communication Today 8 (1985): 44–53.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Bonhoeffer: A ‘Practical’ Theology for Communication and Conflict in the Church.” Peace Studies Bulletin 13 (1985): 22–24, 29–33.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Marketing a Communication Degree: An Ethic of Choice Making.” Speech Association of Minnesota Journal 12 (1985): 26–38.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Reflections on the Ethics of Nonviolent Coercion.” Manchester College Bulletin of the Peace Studies Institute 13 (1983): 23–28.

Arnett, Ronald C., and Gordon Nakagawa. “The Assumptive Roots of Empathic Listening: A Critique.” Communication Education 32 (1983): 368–78.

Arnett, Ronald C. “A Teacher and Friend: A Dedication for Dr. Paul W. Keller.” Manchester College Bulletin of the Peace Studies Institute 13 (1983): 0–2.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Rogers and Buber: Similarities, Yet Fundamental Differences.” Western Journal of Speech Communication 46 (1982): 358–72.

Arnett, Ronald C. “A Dialogical Examination of Conflict Assumptions.” Speech Association of Minnesota Journal 9 (1982): 31–38.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Review of ‘Between Public and Private: Lost Boundaries of the Self.’” Homiletic 7, no. 2 (1982): 23.

Arnett, Ronald C. “A World in Need of Dialogue.” Brethren Life and Thought 26 (1981): 230–36.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Toward a Phenomenological Dialogue.” Western Journal of Speech Communication 45 (1981): 210–12.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communication as Dialogical Interpretation.” Speech Association of Minnesota Journal 7 (1980): 14–20.


Arnett, Ronald C. “Review and Critique of ‘Developing Teachable Small Group Communication Behaviors.’” Homiletic 4 (1979): 39–40.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Nonviolent Peacemaking: A Look at Assumptions.” Peace and Change 5 (1979).

Arnett, Ronald C. “Self-Fulfillment and Interpersonal Communication?” Religious Communication Today 1 (1978): 23–28. Received Article Award for 1979, Religious Speech Communication Association.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Conflict Viewed from the Peace Tradition.” Brethren Life and Thought 23 (1978): 93–103.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Systemic Approach to Human Communication: A Synthesis of the Works of Ruesch, Bateson, Watzlawick and Haley.” Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC), April (1977).

INVITED NEWSLETTER/OTHER PUBLICATION CONTRIBUTIONS

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communication Ethics in an Era of Resistance.” Special Issue of Ethica: The Newsletter for the NCA Communication Ethics Division, special issue, vol. 28 (2017).

INVITED PROFESSIONAL ESSAYS

Arnett, Ronald C. Foreword. In Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith, edited by Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, xi–xii. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016.

Arnett, Ronald C. Afterword. Philosophies of Communication: Implications for Everyday Experience, Eds. Melissa Cook and Annette Holba. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.

Arnett, Ronald C. Foreword. In Philosophical Leisure: Recuperative Praxis for Human Communication, by Annette Holba. Indiana: Marquette University Press, 2007.

Arnett, Ronald C. Foreword. Peace Works: Young Peacemakers Project Book II, Kathleen Fry-Miller, Judith Myers-Walls, and Janet Domer-Shank. Elgin, IL: Brethren Press, 1989.

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS, PANELS, AND WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS

“From Surviving to Thriving: Effective Marketing Strategies for Your State Association” (roundtable participant). National Communication Association, Baltimore, MD, November 14–17, 2019.

“Education on Scottish Shores: Communication Ethics and the Unity of Contraries.” National Communication Association, Baltimore, MD, November 14–17, 2019.

“Rhetoric and Hermeneutics after Ricoeur: A Provocation and Conversation” (roundtable participant). National Communication Association, Baltimore, MD, November 14–17, 2019.


“Boundary Situations and Dialogue in the Work of Karl Jaspers.” Semiotic Society of America, Portland, OR, October 9–13, 2019.

“The Civilian Conservation Corps: Communication Ethics in Action.” Pennsylvania Communication Association, Reading, PA, September 27–28, 2019.

“Bateson’s Dialogic Pragmatics: The Relational Nature of Learning and Knowledge.” International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA), Milwaukee, WI, July 24–27, 2019.

“Adam Smith: Mitigating Commercial Life.” 4th International Philosophy of Communication Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 12–14, 2019.

“A Philosophy of Difference: Ethics, Rhetoric, and Culture.” Eastern Communication Association, Providence, RI, April 10–14, 2019.

“Adam Ferguson: A Pragmatic and Inclusive Philosophy of Communication.” Eastern Communication Association, Providence, RI, April 10–14, 2019.

“Administrative Responsiveness: A Case Study.” Eastern Communication Association, Providence, RI, April 10–14, 2019.

“Creating Our Future through Service and Leadership” (roundtable participant). Eastern Communication Association, Providence, RI, April 10–14, 2019.

“Resisting & Responding: Administrators’ Perspectives on Trends Shaping the Future of the Discipline” (roundtable participant). Eastern Communication Association, Providence, RI, April 10–14, 2019.

“Temporal Light and Shadows: The Rhetoric of the Sacred.” Eastern Communication Association, Providence, RI, April 10–14, 2019.

“Communication Ethics: From Steps to an Ecology of Mind to Ecological Community.” National Communication Association, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8–11, 2018.

“Dialogic Pragmatics and Complex Objects: Engaging the Life and Work of Gregory Bateson.” National Communication Association, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8–11, 2018.

“Exploring the Ethics and Importance of Ideological Diversity in Communication Studies” (roundtable participant). National Communication Association, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8–11, 2018.

“Grooming Future State Association Leaders: Writing and Re-writing the Playbook” (roundtable participant). National Communication Association, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8–11, 2018.


“A Banality of Evil: Precarity as the Offspring of Individualism.” Pennsylvania Communication Association, Greensburg, PA, October 5–6, 2018.

“Reifying Immediacy: The Storytelling of Sir Walter Scott.” Semiotic Society of America, Berea, KY, October 3–7, 2018.

“Articulating Relational and Existential Ground for Ecosemiotics: David Hume (1711–1776).” Ecosemiotic Paradigm for Nature & Culture: Transdisciplinary Explorations in the Cybernetics of Learning, Adapting, Understanding & Knowing, Mikołów, Poland, July 9–12, 2018.

“A Communication Ethic of Tenacious and Pragmatic Hope: The Scottish Enlightenment Reconsidered.” 15th National Communication Ethics Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 6–8, 2018.

“Integrating An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics: Goods in Contention into the Communication Curriculum.” Short Course with Annette M. Holba and Susan Mancino. Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 25–29, 2018.

“Considering Corporate Communication and Communication Ethics with Corporate Communication Crisis Leadership: Advocacy and Ethics.” Short Course with Sarah M. DeIuliis and Matthew Corr. Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 25–29, 2018.

“Social Media and Academia: Engaging the Meaningful” (with Matthew P. Mancino). Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 25–29, 2018.

“David Hume: Power of Sensations.” Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 25–29, 2018.

“Adam Smith: Sentiment and Change.” National Communication Association, Dallas, TX, November 16–19, 2017.

“Play: Semiosis and Signification.” Semiotic Society of America, Puebla, Mexico, October 25–29, 2017.

“Considering Corporate Communication Crisis Leadership: Ethics and Advocacy” (with Sarah DeIuliis). Pennsylvania Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, September 29–30, 2017.

“Resistance in the Scottish Enlightenment.” 3rd Biennial Philosophy of Communication Conference: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Pittsburgh, PA, June 5–7, 2017.

“Communication Ethics: The Interplay of Cultural Relativism and Cultural Universalism.” Southern States Communication Association, Greenville, SC, April 5–9, 2017.


“Philosophy of Communication: Reid’s Explication of Common Sense as a Performative Third.” Eastern Communication Association, Boston, MA, March 29–April 3, 2017.

“Freedom to Learn, Freedom from Unnecessary Distraction: Constructive Communication Association.” Eastern Communication Association, Boston, MA, March 29–April 3, 2017.

“Drummond: The Communicative Interplay between Communication Ethics and Infrastructural Creativity.” National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 10–13, 2016.

“Resisting the Cyborg of Individualism: The Scottish Enlightenment Call of Self-Interest.” National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 10–13, 2016.

“The Things Themselves.” Semiotic Society of America, Delray Beach, FL, September 28–October 2, 2016.

“Semioethics: Unmasking Phenomenological Commitments.” 14th National Communication Ethics & International Association for Dialogue Analysis Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1–4, 2016.

“Precarity: A Communicative Impetus for Change and the Scottish Enlightenment.” SUPI Conference on Precarious Places: Social, Cultural and Economic Aspects of Uncertainty and Anxiety in Everyday Life, Warsaw, Poland, April 6–8, 2016.

“The Confrontation of Anti-Semitism in 20th Century Rhetorical Theory.” Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore, MD, March 31–April 3, 2016.

“Levinas: Communication Ethics as Originative Gesture.” National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV, November 19–22, 2015.

“Camus and Existential Dialogue.” National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV, November 19–22, 2015.

“Conflict and Communication Ethics.” National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV, November 19–22, 2015.

“Communication Ethics: A Response to the State of Higher Education.” National Communication Association Pre-Conference: Public Intellectuals and the Space of Communicative Praxis, Las Vegas, NV, November 18, 2015.

“Impersonal and the Sacred: Igniting Personal Responsibility.” Pennsylvania Communication Association Pre-Conference—Patterns of Connection: Gregory Bateson, American Pragmatism and European Philosophy, York, PA, October 8–9, 2015.

“Levinas and the Turning of Semioethics.” Semiotic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1–4, 2015.


“Adieu to Levinas.” North American Levinas Society Conference, West Lafayette, IN, July 27–30, 2015.

“Emmanuel Levinas and Communication Ethics: The Trace as Sacred Ground.” 2nd Biennial Philosophy of Communication Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 3–5, 2015.

“Public Relations: Levinas’s Call for Ethics & Justice.” Integrated Marketing Communication Conference, University of North Carolina—Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, May 28–30, 2015.

“Arendt and the Increasing Power of the Bureaucrat.” Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 22–26, 2015.

“Deliberating Assessment: Contemporary Considerations” (with Janie Harden Fritz). Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 22–26, 2015.

“Philosophy of Communication in Application: Pedagogical Implications.” Southern States Communication Association, Tampa, FL, April 8–12, 2015.

“Drummond: The Communicative Interplay between Communication Ethics and Infrastructural Creativity.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 20–23, 2014.

“Being (T)here.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 20–23, 2014.

“Communicative Justice: Levinas and the Precariat.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 20–23, 2014.

“Narratives Described, Romanticized, Reified, and Lost: Sir Walter Scott and the Scottish Enlightenment.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 20–23, 2014.

“Calls to Conscience/Consciousness in the Neoliberal Academy: A Roundtable Discussion.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 20–23, 2014.

“On Particular Soil: The Rhetoric of Common Sense.” Semiotic Society of America, Seattle, WA, October 1–5, 2014.

“Transforming a Culture: Philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment.” Pennsylvania Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, September 25–27, 2014.

“An Unending Obligation: Justice and the Ethical Parvenu.” North American Levinas Society, Ocean City, MD, May 18–21, 2014.

“Technology over Place: Emmanuel Levinas and the Privileges of Enrootedness.” Media Ecology Association, Ryerson University, Canada, June 19–22, 2014.

“Conflict between Persons: The Origin of Leadership.” Eastern Communication Association, Providence, RI, April 24–27, 2014.


“Philosophy of Communication and Educational Dwellings in 18th-century Scotland.” Eastern Communication Association, Providence, RI, April 24–27, 2014.

“Communicative Meeting: From Pangloss to Tenacious Hope.” National Communication Association, Washington, DC, November 21–24, 2013.

“Lessons in Leadership” (roundtable participant). National Communication Association, Washington, DC, November 21–24, 2013.

“Teaching the Conflict Course as ‘Street Smarts’ for Leadership.” Short Course with Leeanne Bell McManus, Amanda Grace McKendree, and Susan Carr. National Communication Association, Washington, DC, November 21–24, 2013.

“Making Connections in Teaching and Learning” (with Sarah Flinko). National Communication Association, Washington, DC, November 21–24, 2013.

“From Nothingness to Affirmation: Dialogic Engagement with Openness and Existential Semiotics” (with David DeIuliis and Susan Carr). Semiotic Society of America, Dayton, OH, October 24–27, 2013.

“Dialogue: Countering the Plague of Self-Assurance.” Albert Camus & Philosophy of Communication: Making Sense in an Age of Absurdity Pre-Conference to the Pennsylvania Communication Association, Erie, PA, October 17–18, 2013.

“Levinas and Responsibility: Possessed otherwise than Murdoch’s News of the World.” North American Levinas Society, Pittsburgh, PA, July 28–31, 2013.

“Precarity: Critical Discourse and Response to the Abyss.” International Communication Association, London, UK, June 17–21, 2013.

“Educational Misdirections: Attending to Levinas’s Call for Ethics as First Principle.” Life and Phenomenology: Celebrating Algis Mickūnas at 80 in honor of Professor Algis Mickūnas international conference, Kaunas, Lithuania, June 13–15, 2013.

“Attending to the ‘Confluence’ of Opinion in Conflict.” Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 24–28, 2013.

“Roundtable on Future Confluence in Burkean Analysis” (roundtable participant). Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 24–28, 2013.

“Philosophy of Communication: Foundation & Explorations.” Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 24–28, 2013.

“Historical Testimony: The Communicative Call of Impending Social Crisis.” Southern States Communication Association, Louisville, KY, April 10–14, 2013.


“Revelatory Space and Leper Scholars.” Southern States Communication Association, Louisville, KY, April 10–14, 2013.

“Levinas’s Ethical Echo: Listening in and to Precarity.” National Communication Association, Orlando, FL, November 15–18, 2012.

“Beyond Problematic Relationships in the Workplace.” National Communication Association, Orlando, FL, November 15–18, 2012.

“Conflict in an Age of Ethical Dispute.” Short Course with Leeanne Bell McManus and Amanda Grace McKendree. National Communication Association, Orlando, FL, November 15–18, 2012.

“The Ethics of Civil Discourse: An Exploration and Invitation.” National Communication Association, Orlando, FL, November 15–18, 2012.

“Understanding the Academic Career.” National Communication Association, Orlando, FL, November 15–18, 2012.

“The Primacy of the Face: Mediated Communication.” Semiotic Society of America, Toronto, ON, November 1–4, 2012.

“Levinas: Philosophy of Communication and the Face of the Other.” Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Rochester, NY, November 1–3, 2012.

“The Rhetoric of Common Sense.” Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, May 25–28, 2012.

“Education, Mispriorities, and Levinas’s Call for Uprightness.” North American Levinas Society, Anchorage, AK, May 13–15, 2012.

“Communication Ethics and Conflict: Different Grounds of the Good” (with Leeanne M. Bell McManus and Amanda G. McKendree). Eastern Communication Association, Cambridge, MA, April 26–29, 2012.

“Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of Meaning.” Short Course (with Annette Holba). Eastern Communication Association, Cambridge, MA, April 26–29, 2012.

“Reflections on Benjamin Ginsberg’s The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters.” Distinguished Teaching Fellows, Communication Pedagogy and the Status of Higher Education. Eastern Communication Association, Cambridge, MA, April 26–29, 2012.

“Adieu to Levinas.” Southern States Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, April 11–15, 2012.


“Roundtable: Cosmopolitan Hermeneutics: Responses to Global Communication” (roundtable participant). Southern States Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, April 11–15, 2012.

“Communication and Persuasion: Gollum and Mr. Murdoch.” International Communication Association, Lille, France, March 7–9, 2012.

“Ricoeur and Levinas: Witnessing as Communication.” National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 16–20, 2011.

“Rhetoric as Situated Discourse: Heidegger’s Rectorate Address.” National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 16–20, 2011.

“Voices of Similarity and Difference: Exploring Horizons of Intellectual Schools of Thought” (with Janie M. Harden Fritz). National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 16–20, 2011.

“Philosophy of Communication and the Voice of Story: Umberto Eco.” National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 16–20, 2011.

“The Radical Emancipatory Potential of Educating Students in Communication and Conflict” (with Janie M. Harden Fritz). Radical Emancipation: Confronting the Challenge of Secularism, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Fall Conference, South Bend, IN, November 10–12, 2011.

“Responding to Conflict: The Hope for Leadership and Learning” (with Leeanne Bell McManus and Amanda McKendree). Radical Emancipation: Confronting the Challenge of Secularism, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Fall Conference, South Bend, IN, November 10–12, 2011.

“Emmanuel Levinas: Semiotics and the Meaning of the A Priori.” Semiotic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, October 27–30, 2011.

“Plenary Session: Can or Should a Phenomenologist Have a Worldview?” Semiotic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, October 27–30, 2011.

“Levinas and Justice: The Name of the Rose.” Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, October 21–24, 2011.

“The A Priori Pragmatics of Levinas’s Impersonal Attentiveness.” Human Understanding: The Matrix of Communicology and Culture, 5th ICI Summer Conference, Jelenia Góra, Silesia, Poland, July 15–22, 2011.

“Integrated Marketing Communication and the Interplay of Brand Architecture and Sustainability: When Less Yields More” (with Heather Blum and S. Alyssa Groom). Integrated Marketing Communication Conference, University of North Carolina—Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, June 2–4, 2011.


“Beyond Dialogue: Levinas and Otherwise than the I–Thou.” International Association for Dialogue Analysis, Université de Montréal, QC, April 26–30, 2011.

“Communication and Conflict: Civility and Difference” (with Leeanne Bell and Amanda McKendree). Eastern Communication Association, Arlington, VA, April 13–17, 2011.

“Roundtable: Evil in the Philosophy & Ethics of Communication.” Southern States Communication Association, Little Rock, AR, March 23–27, 2011.

“Assessment as Dramatic Confession: Performative Elements of Communication Administration” (with Janie M. Harden Fritz). Southern States Communication Association, Little Rock, AR, March 23–27, 2011.

“The Scottish Enlightenment’s Rhetorical Challenge to Individualism.” Southern States Communication Association, Little Rock, AR, March 23–27, 2011.

“Sustainability and Academic Excellence: Rebuffing Anachronistic Comforts.” Southern States Communication Association, Little Rock, AR, March 23–27, 2011.

“Responding to Interpersonal Conflict: The Humility and Hope of Leadership” (with Leeanne Bell and Amanda McKendree). Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Fall Conference, South Bend, IN, November 18–20, 2010

“Civic Rhetoric––Meeting the Communal Interplay of the Provincial and the Cosmopolitan: Barack Obama’s Notre Dame Speech, May 17, 2009.” National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, November 13–17, 2010.

“Rhetoric and History as Heuristic Pragmatism: A Response to Gehrke’s The Ethics and Politics of Speech.” National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, November 13–17, 2010.

“Interpersonal Footprints: A Genetic Phenomenological Reading of Levinas’s Biography.” Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Montréal, QC, November 4–6, 2010.

“Interpersonal Communication as a Difficult Freedom: An Ethics as First Gesture, the Neighbor, and Justice.” Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas, Toulouse, France, July 4–9, 2010.

“Charting New Horizons for Conflict” (with Leeanne M. Bell). Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore, MD, April 22–25, 2010.

“‘Southern Contributions to the Ethico-Philosophical Turn’: Ethics and Philosophy of Communication Interest Group Founding Session.” Southern States Communication Association, Memphis, TN, April 7–11, 2010.


“Administrative Creativity in Times of Resource Scarcity.” Southern States Communication Association, Memphis, TN, April 7–11, 2010.

“Labor, Craft, and the Task of the Professional Educator.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 11–15, 2009.

“Interpersonal Communication: Justice and the Neighbor.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 11–15, 2009.

“Religious Communication Scholarship: Going Nowhere Correctly.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 11–15, 2009.

“Communication Embedded Gesture as First Principle.” Society of Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Arlington, VA, October 29–November 1, 2009.

“Communication and Collaboration in Your Changing Department: Perspectives Across the Curriculum.” Southern States Communication Association, Norfolk, VA, April 2009.

“Nuts, Bolts, and Communication Administration: Establishing a Toolbox of Everyday Advice.” Southern States Communication Association, Norfolk, VA, April 2009.

“The Other: Levinas’s Historical Tracing,” Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 2009.

“Philosophy of Communication,” Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 2009.

“Communicating Otherwise than Convention: Reading Arendt through Levinas,” National Communication Association, San Diego, CA, November 2008.

“Arendt and Augustine as the First Existentialist,” National Communication Association, San Diego, CA, November 2008.

“Public Speaking and the Development of Public Discourse through Worldviews,” Pennsylvania Communication Association, Penn State, Lehigh Valley, PA, October 2008.

“Communication Ethics as Janus at the Gates: Responding to Postmodernity and the Normativity of Crisis.” Keynote Address, 10th Annual Communication Ethics Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, June 13, 2008.

“Addressing Dark Times: Prudence and Communicative Reticence.” Southern States Communication Association, Savannah, GA, April 2–6, 2008.

“Communication Ethics: Making a Difference in the Marketplace of Ideas” (with Janie Harden Fritz and Leeanne Bell). Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1–4, 2008.


“Intercultural Communication Ethics: Before the Conversation Begins” (with Janie Harden Fritz and Leeanne Bell). Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture annual conference. November 29–December 1, 2007.

“Voice and Banality: Hannah Arendt's Counter to Adolf Eichmann.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2007.

“The Rhetoric of Care: Levinas, Faith, and Special Education.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2007.

“Professional Civility as Communicative and Rhetorical Practice in Organizations: Social Style Grounded in Substance” (with Janie Harden Fritz). National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2007.

“Communication Ethics, Religious Faith, and Culture.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2007.

“Levinas’s Phenomenology of Originative Saying: Listening/Attending to an Ethical Echo.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2007.

“Communicative Praxis and the Ethical Echo: Levinas’s A Priori Community.” Levinas Society, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2007.

“Philosophy of Communication Reading Group: Intersection of Ideas and People” (book discussion of Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition and Seyla Benhabib’s The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt). Eastern Communication Association, Providence, RI, April 2007.

“Building Relationships in the Marketplace Community: An Administrative Perspective.” Southern States Communication Association annual convention, Louisville, KY, April 2007.

“Examining Organizational Reputation and Competitiveness from the Inside Out: Theorizing ‘Early Warning Signs’ of Productivity Decline in Organizations” (with Janie Harden Fritz and Alyssa Groom). Reputation Institute Conference, Oslo, Norway, 2007.

“Persuasion in the School of Business: A Construction of a Basic Course in Business and Professional Communication” (with Janie Harden Fritz, Kathleen Glenister Roberts and Amanda McKendree). National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

“From Mission to Action: Praxis of Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation” (with Janie Harden Fritz and Kathleen Glenister Roberts, Leeanne Bell and Christy McDowell). National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, November 2006.

“Constructive but Derivative.” National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

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“Communication Ethics as Site for Connection and Action: Metatheoretical Perspectives” (with Janie Harden Fritz and Leeanne Bell). National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

“Learning as First Principle: The ‘Between’ of Dialogue and Communication Ethics” (with Janie Harden Fritz and Leeanne Bell). Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame annual conference, Notre Dame, IN, 2006.

“Crisis Communication: Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Humanities as Method.” Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.

“Communication Ethics and Organizational Leadership: Issues and Practices” (with Janie Harden Fritz and Leeanne Bell). Central States Communication Association, Indianapolis, IN, 2006.

“Professional Civility.” National Communication Association, Boston, MA, 2005.

“Habermas’s Turn toward Faith in the Public Square.” National Communication Association, Boston, MA, 2005.

“What/Who is the Polis?” The Academy and the Polis, annual conference sponsored by the Duquesne University Graduate Student Organization (GSO) and the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University Student Union, 2005.

“An Arendtian Perspective on Graduate Education: The Rhetoric Ph.D. program at Duquesne University.” Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame annual conference, Notre Dame, IN, 2005.

“The Rhetorical Turn: Eclipsing the Darkness of the Enlightenment” (with Janie Harden Fritz). Third International Conference on the Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, 2005.

“Storytelling as Textual Interpretation: Hasidic Tales.” Pennsylvania Communication Association, Harrisburg, PA, 2005.

“Communication Praxis and the Public Intellectual.” Oxford Centre for Social Values in Education and Business Conference, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 2004.

“Folksongs as Situated Voice in a Culture of Life” (with Janie Harden Fritz). Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame annual conference, Notre Dame, IN, 2004.

“Identity and Vision: Grounds, Challenges, and Implications for Religious Communication.” Religious Communication Association Pre-Conference Seminar, National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2004.

“Moving Forward, Looking Back: Replication and Extension of a Study of the Influence of Communication and Adherence to Expectations for Appropriate Business Conduct on


Recognition of Organizational Ethical Standards and Commitment to the Organization” (with Janie Harden Fritz and Cory Williams). National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2004.

“History of the Discipline.” Pre-Conference Seminar, National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2004.

“The Specialist/Generalist Model as Disciplinary Guide for the 21st Century” (with Janie Harden Fritz, Daniel Ritter and Russell Ferrara). Pennsylvania Communication Association, Sewickley, PA, 2004.

“A Levinasian Perspective on the ‘War on Terror.’” Pennsylvania Communication Association, Sewickley, PA, 2004.

“Revisiting Levinas’s Question about Reciprocity.” National Communication Association, Miami Beach, FL, 2003.

“Hannah Arendt’s Communicative Wisdom: Disclaiming Modernity, Rejecting the Social.” National Communication Association, Miami Beach, FL, 2003.

“From Private Conviction to Public Discourse: The Value of Rhetoric in Peace Studies Education” (with Pat Arneson and Daniel Ritter). National Communication Association, Miami Beach, FL, 2003.

“Dr. Paul H. (Free Speech) Boase: His Scholarly Legacy” (with Pat Arneson). National Communication Association, Miami Beach, FL, 2003.

“Engaging Leisure: Encouraging the Phenomenological Enactment of the Humanities in a Rhetoric Ph.D. Program” (with Janie Harden Fritz and Annette Holba). Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame annual conference, Notre Dame, IN, 2003.

“Narrative as Pragmatic Performance” (with Janie Harden Fritz and Marie Baker). Eastern Communication Association, Washington, DC, 2003.

“Organizational ‘Spirit’ and Internet Technology” (with Janie Harden Fritz). Eastern Communication Association, Washington, DC, 2003.

“Dialogic Ethics as Responsibility in Storytelling.” National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, 2002.

“Civility—Hospitality and Radical Alterity.” Keynote Conversation: Panel on Justice and Civility in a Difficult Time, National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, 2002.

“Walking the Humanities into the Marketplace: A Communicative Call.” 6th International Conference on Social Values, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2002.


“The Metaphor of the Between: The Interface of Dialogue and Ethics.” Retirement Celebration Panel: Honoring Richard Johannesen, Central States Speech Association, Milwaukee, WI, 2002.

“Dialogue Ethics: The Intersection of Buber and Levinas.” Eastern Communication Association, New York, NY, 2002.

“Rooting the Capstone Communication Ethics Course in Local Soil: The Case of Duquesne University” (with Janie M. Harden Fritz). National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA, 2001.

“Paper in Honor of Paul H. Boase: His Work in Freedom of Speech and Ethics.” National Communication Association, Atlanta, GA, 2001.

“Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age: Community, Hope and Interpersonal Relationships.” Central States Communication Association, Cincinnati, OH, 2001.

“Rhetoric and Philosophy of Interpersonal Communication.” Eastern Communication Association, Portland, ME, 2001.

“Secular, Religious, and Spiritual Vocabularies of Public Discourse: Can Integration Build the Engaged Community?” National Communication Association, Seattle, WA, 2000.

“The Teacher-Scholar of Pennsylvania: A Roundtable Symposium.” Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania, State College, PA, 2000.

“Professional Civility: Reclaiming the Legitimacy of Roles.” National Communication Association, Seattle, WA, 2000.

“Communication and Confession: Bonhoeffer’s Invitation to Community.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1999.

“Coloring Outside the Lines of Communication Requirement: Teaching a Course in Communication and Professional Civility to Physicians’ Assistants” (with Janie Harden Fritz), National Communication Association annual convention, Chicago, IL, 1999.

“Toward a New Construct Influencing Communication at Work: Work Friendship Orientation within the Narrative Organization” (with Janie Harden Fritz), National Communication Association annual convention, Chicago, IL, 1999.

“Bonhoeffer’s Warning: Community as Building, Renovation, Patience, and Endurance.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1999.

“Professional Civility.” Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania, State College, PA, 1999.


“Communication and Community in an Age of Diversity.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1999.

“Communication Ethics Praxis in an Information Age.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1999.

“The Praxis of Human Assessment: Communication Competence in an Information Age.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1999.

“Historicality and Appropriateness.” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1999.

“Respect of the Other: Dialogic Civility as Public Narrative” (with Pat Arneson). International Communication Association annual convention, Montréal, QC, 1997.

“How the Ethical Behavior of Organizations Influences Employee commitment” (with Janie Harden Fritz). Forum meeting of Zenger Miller, 1997.

“Interpersonal Communication Ethics and the Limits of Individualism” (with Pat Arneson). National Communication Ethics Conference, Gull Lake, MI, 1996.

“The Future of Scholarship on Dialogue.” Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA, 1996.

“Honoring Paul H. Boase: ‘Colleagues Pay Tribute.’” Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA, 1996.

“Top Four Papers in Peace and Conflict Communication.” Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA, 1996.

“Nontraditional Students: Communication Education for the Workplace.” Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA, 1996.

“Educational Assessment as Invitation for Dialogue” (with Pat Arneson). Speech Communication Association, San Diego, CA, 1996.

“Ten Years of the SCA Commission on Communication Ethics.” Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995.

“Communication Ethics: Ten Years—Retrospective and Prospective (Part 2).” Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, 1994.

“Communication Problems or Opportunities in the Workplace.” Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania, State College, PA, 1994.

“Interpersonal Cynicism: Ignoring the Historicality of Confirmation of Otherness.” Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, 1994.


“Rediscovering Interpersonal Limits.” Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, 1994.

“A Post-Modernist View of Communication: A Need for Narrative.” Communication Ethics Conference, Kellogg Foundation, Michigan, 1994.

“Interdisciplinary: Liberal Studies, Environmental Studies and the Returning Adult Student.” 16th Annual Conference of the Association for Integrative Studies, 1994.

“Administration: Building and Construction.” Eastern Communication Association, Washington, DC, 1994.

“Language and Practical Theory.” Anabaptist Conference, Virginia, 1993.

“Ethical Congruence: Classroom Accessibility.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Kansas City, KS, 1993.

“Walls with Bridges: The Interpersonal Communication Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.” Speech Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1992.

“Defining Communication: A Practical Act.” SCA Task Force on Goals and Questions for the Future, Speech Communication Association, Atlanta, GA, 1991.

“Dialogic Contradictions: Forgotten Narratives and Technicians of Goodness.” Conference on Martin Buber and the Human Sciences, San Diego University, 1991.

“Suspicion and Homelessness: In Need of Dialogic Friendship.” International Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1991.

“The Hermeneutic of Suspicion.” Central States Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1991.

“Response to Parker Palmer.” Conference on Communication and Christianity, Marquette University, 1990.

“The Rhetorical Link between Peace Studies and Communication Studies.” Speech Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, 1989.

“Interpersonal Peacemaking: Implications from the Non-Creedal Religious Tradition.” Speech Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, 1989.

“Scholarship as Conversation on the Small Liberal Arts Campus.” Central States Speech Association, Kansas City, MO, 1989.

“Communication Ethics and Free Speech as Practical Philosophical Foundation of Speech Communication.” Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, 1988.

“A Communication Perspective on Academic Freedom: Implications for Public Speaking.” Central States Speech Association, 1988.


“Reagan’s Rhetoric of the American Dream: Ethical Implications.” Speech Communication Association, Boston, 1987.

“Interpersonal Ethics: Aristotle’s Critique and Contribution to Contemporary Literature.” Speech Communication Association, Boston, 1987.

“Interpersonal Communication Ethics: Psychologizing and Habits of the Heart.” Eastern Communication Association, Atlantic City, NJ, 1986.

“What is Dialogic Communication? Friedman’s Contribution to and Clarification of the Anderson/Arnett Article Exchange.” Speech Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1986.

“The Status of Communication Ethics Research.” Speech Communication Association, Denver, CO, 1985.

“Ethical Issues in Organizational Communication: Implications of the Work of Ian I. Mitroff.” Central States Speech Association, Indianapolis, IN, 1984.

“Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Contextual Peacemaking Ethic.” Speech Communication Association, Washington, DC, 1983.

“Dialogue in the Classroom.” Central States Speech Association, Milwaukee, WI, 1982.

“Ethic of Interpersonal Communication Revisited.” Speech Communication Association, Anaheim, CA, 1981.

“An Ethical Alternative to Empathic Listening: An Existential Phenomenological Approach.” International Listening Association, Denver, CO, 1981.

“Dialogical Foundations of Conflict Resolution.” Speech Communication Association, New York, NY, 1980.

“Ethics and Communication.” Debate against William Howell, Speech Association of Minnesota, 1980.

“Teaching as Christian Commitment.” Presented to Campus Ministry Board, St. Cloud State University, 1978.

“The Encounter Group as a Part of the Speech Communication Curriculum.” Speech Association of Minnesota, Bloomington, MN, 1978.

KEYNOTES AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Arnett, Ronald C. “Dialogic Philosophy: The Phenomenological Calling of Arendt, Levinas, and Buber and How Their Perspective Can Be of Relevance in Professional Conversations.” Invited lecture at Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway, May 2019.


Arnett, Ronald C. “Dialogic Philosophy: The Phenomenological Calling of Arendt, Levinas, and Buber and How Their Perspective Can Be of Relevance in Professional Conversations.” Keynote address at Ph.D. seminar, “Dialogic Phenomenology: Wonder and Performative Action,” Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, May 2019.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Levinas’s Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics.” Keynote address at Dialogic Responses of Late Modernity—An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Centre for Thought of John Paul II, Warsaw, Poland, July 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C. Wydział Anglistyki Distinguished Professors’ Lecturer, Erasmus+ Programme, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, March 2018.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Between Necessity and Choice: Revisiting Selfishness and Individualism.” Keynote address at 36th International Human Science Research Conference, Jelenia Góra, Poland, July 2017.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Temporal Light and Shadows: The Rhetoric of the Sacred.” Keynote address at Sacred Rhetoric Conference, Winebrenner Theological Seminary, Findlay, OH, May 2017.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Hannah Arendt and the Communicative Responsibility of Lampholders.” Keynote address at Lambda Pi Eta Induction Ceremony, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA, January 2017.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Dialogic Education in an Age of Administrative Preening.” Paul H. Boase Prize for Scholarship Lecture, Ohio University, Athens, OH, September 2016.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communicative Weight and Height: Semioethics.” Plenary address, Semiotic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2015.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Dialogic Ethics: A Pragmatic Hope for this Hour.” Keynote address, International Association for Dialogue Analysis, Nancy, France, August 2015.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communication Ethics: Inviting Conflict in a World of Multiplicity.” Keynote address, International Symposium: Communication in the Millennium, East Stroudsburg, PA, May 2015.

Arnett, Ronald C., and Susan Mancino. “Communication Ethics and Performativity: Sustaining a

Village.” Invited address, International Tolerance and Fedor Sommer Seminar, Silesia, Poland, October 2014.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Dialogic Necessity: Acknowledging and Engaging Monologue.” Keynote address, Ohio Communication Association, Columbus, OH, October 2014.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Public Relations: Levinas’s Call for Ethics & Justice.” Keynote address, European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA), Brussels, Belgium, September 2014.


Arnett, Ronald C. “The Precarity of the Polis.” Keynote address, Integrated Marketing Communication conference, Wilmington, NC, June 2013.

Arnett, Ronald C. Plenary address, Civic Dialogue and Leadership conference at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 2014.

Arnett, Ronald C. “The Ethics of Labor and Service.” Keynote address, Lambda Pi Eta Induction Ceremony, Stevenson University, Pikesville, MD, April 2013.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Doing Communication Ethics in Postmodernity.” Invited Grazier lecture, University of South Florida, April 2013.

Arnett, Ronald C. “Communication and Genuine Light.” Guest lecture, Northern Arizona University, Phoenix, AZ, March 2012.

Guest Speaker, “Existential Acknowledgment: Communicative Civility in an Age of Diversity and Difference,” The Pennsylvania State University, York Campus, York, PA, December 2010.

Guest Speaker/Plenary Address Respondent, Power to Transform the World Conference, Marquette University, July 19–21, 2010.

Workshop Leader, “Managing the Communication Program: A Workshop for Communication Administrators,” Eastern Communication Association annual convention, Baltimore, MD, April 2010.

Guest Speaker, “Communication Ethics in an Age of Narrative and Virtue Contention,” Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, March 2010.

Guest Speaker, Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference, Stevenson University, Baltimore, MD, February 10, 2009

Presenter, “Productivity and Communication: Otherwise than Convention,” Part I: Communication, Relationship, and Productivity, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), February 2008.

Presenter, Workplace Issues, Eastern Gas Roundtable, Moon Township, PA, May 2008.

Presenter, Conflict and Communication. Allegheny Valley School District, February 2008.

Keynote Speaker, Lambda Pi Eta Induction Ceremony. St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, April 2007.

Senior Media Ethics Scholar, Second U.S. Media Ethics Summit conference, February 2–March 2, 2007, Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN.

Guest Lecturer, “Erasmus,” Westmont College, CA, October, 2006.


Keynote Discussion Leader, “Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet” by Howard Gardner, annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati, OH, 2004.

Guest Speaker, “Communication for Today’s Workplace: Revisiting the Place of Candor and Honesty—A Discussion of Organizational Limits and Employee Expectations,” Equitable Gas Company Roundtable, Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA, 2003 and 2004.

Guest Speaker, Dialogue and Community Building Conference, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, 2002.

Leader, Seminar Series: “Communication Scholarship and the Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas,” National Communication Association annual convention, Atlanta, GA, 2001.

Keynote Speaker, “Dialogic Civility and Community Participation,” University of Memphis Urban Communication Conference, Memphis, TN, 2000.

Guest Speaker, “Year of Civility on Campus,” Edinboro University Speaker Series, 2001.

Guest Speaker, “Professional Civility in the Work Place,” Eastern Gas Compression Roundtable, Robert Morris College, Moon Campus, Coraopolis, PA, 2000.

Guest Speaker, “Marketing as Practical Philosophy: Moving Ideas into the Marketplace,” The Society for Marketing Professional Services, Rivers Club at Oxford Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000.

Guest Speaker, “Workplace Expectations,” Alcoa Administrative Retreat, Salt Fork Resort & Conference Center, Cambridge, OH, 2000.

Seminar Leader, “Engaging Ethics in Dialogue: Levinas and Radical Alterity,” National Communication Association, Seattle, WA, 2000.

Seminar Leader, “Redrawing Communication Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas and the Call of the Other,” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 1999.

Presentation, “Initiatives to the Faith, A People Story,” presented to the Plum Clergy Association, Cardinal Wright Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999.

Presentation, “Bridges Not Walls—A Story,” Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania, Lancaster, PA, 1996.

Presentation, Other Side of the Dialogue: Limits, Difficulties, and Praxis – “The Limits of Dialogue,” Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995.


Presentation, Pathways to Religious Communication: The Dilemma of the Contemporary Church –“Bonhoeffer and the Hurting Church,” Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995.

Presentation, “Values, Quandaries and the Adolescent,” presented to the Allegheny County Counselors’ Association Seminar, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995.

Presentation, “Communication and Conflict,” On Earth Peace Assembly, New Windsor, MD, 1994.

Workshop, “Dialogic Teaching: Conversation About Ideas,” Center for Teaching Excellence, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994.

Featured Speaker, Northern Plains Church of the Brethren District Conference, Dwell in Peace: Applying Nonviolence to Everyday Relationships, Waverly, Iowa, July 1981.

Numerous workshops, speaking engagements and consultations for business and social organizations in the area of conflict and communication.

PROCEEDINGS

Arnett, Ronald C. “Walking the Humanities into the Marketplace: A Communicative Call.” In Business Education and Training: A Value-Laden Process, Volume IX: Instructed by Reason (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Values), edited by Samuel M. Natale and Anthony F. Libertella, 176–89. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 2003.

“Ethics in a Narrativeless Moment,” Conference Proceedings of the 3rd National Communication Ethics Conference, May, 1994.

“Voices of Warning and Virtue: Conference Reflections,” Proceedings of Communication Ethics Conference, June 1992.

“Defining the Discipline,” Proceedings of Small College Communication Commission, April, 1991.

“Character Ethics,” Proceedings of Communication Ethics Association, Summer, 1990.

“A Response to Parker Palmer,” Proceedings of Religious Communication Association, Summer, 1990.

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion, 2013– Advisory Board, Church, Communication, and Culture Editorial Board, Language and Dialogue Editorial Board, Journal of Dialogue Studies


Board Member, International Interdisciplinary Advisory and Editorial Board Editorial Board, Christianity and Communication Studies Network, 2014– Editorial Board, Review of Communication Editorial Board, Qualitative Research Reports in Communication Editorial Board, American Journal of Semiotics Editor, Review of Communication, 2010–2012 Editor, Pennsylvania Scholars Series, 2006– Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Identity, 2010 Associate Editor, The Pennsylvania Communication Annual Reviewer, James T. Golden Outstanding Undergraduate Student Essay in Rhetoric Award, 2008 Reviewer, Undergraduate Rhetorical Theory paper competition, National Communication Association, 2007 Served on the editorial board of the first volume of The College Scholar Reviewer, Communication Yearbook, 1994 Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion, 1987–1991 Editorial Board Member, Person-Centered Review, 1988–1991 Editorial Board Member, Special Editions: Business Communication (Fall 1995), Western Journal of Speech Communication (Fall 1990), Communication Quarterly (Summer 1990) Editorial Board Member, Journal of Business Ethics, 1988–1997 Editor, Communication Ethics Newsletter, Speech Communication Association, 1985–1987 Editorial Board Member, Central States Speech Communication Journal, 1985–1987 Editorial Board Member, Religious Communication Today, 1984–1986 Manuscript Reviewer, Western Journal of Speech Communication Editor, Speech Association of Minnesota Journal, 1982–1984 Associate Editor, Speech Association of Minnesota Journal, 1980–1982

ORGANIZATIONAL INVOLVEMENT

Professional Memberships Arthur W. Page Society National Communication Association Eastern Communication Association Central States Communication Association Southern States Communication Association International Communication Association Pennsylvania Communication Association Religious Communication Association Rhetoric Society of America International Communicology Institute International Association for Dialogue Analysis Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences North American Levinas Society Canadian Communication Association Semiotic Society of America


Phi Kappa Phi External Committee Assignments and Elected Offices Vice President, Semiotic Society of America, 2019–2020 Scientific Committee, International Association of Dialogue Analysis Representative, Lilly Fellows Member, Nominating Committee, Semiotic Society of America, 2012–2014 Executive Director, Eastern Communication Association, 2010–2016 Executive Director, Pennsylvania Communication Association, 2007–present Incoming Chair/Program Planner, Association of Communication Administrators, Southern States Communication Association, 2008 Chair, Philosophy of Communication Division of Eastern Communication Association, 2006 Chair, Applied Communication Division of Eastern Communication Association, 2005 Member, Ad hoc Committee on Communication Ethics Scholarship, National Communication Association, 2005–2006 Member, Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award Review Committee, Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research, University of Illinois, 2003–present Member, Middle States Association Commission on Higher Education Self-Study Review of Fordham University, April 2006 Member, External Faculty in review of Excelsior College Communication curriculum, April 2006 President, Vice President, and 2nd Vice President, Religious Communication Association, 2000– 2005 President, Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania, 1998–1999 Chair, Peace & Conflict Division, Speech Communication Association Elected to Steering Committee of Interpersonal/Organizational Interest Council of Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania, 55th Annual Convention, State College, PA, October, 1994 Vice-Chair Elect, Speech Communication Association Peace Studies Commission, 1992 Commission Representative, Communication Ethics on SCA committee—“Research Questions for the 90’s,” 1990 Chairperson, Registration Committee, Speech Communication National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, 1986 Speech Communication Association Ethics Commission:

Founding member, 1984–present Appointed member of nominating committee, 1985 Writer of by-laws for the organization, 1985 Appointed Newsletter editor, 1985–1987 Chair, 1988–1989

Member, Executive Board of Speech Association of Minnesota, 1982–1984 Board of Governors, Speech Association of Minnesota, 1982–1984 Speech Advisory Council of Central States Speech Association, 1983–1984


INTERCULTURAL EXPERIENCES

International study abroad course taught in Scotland and England, Spring 2012 (2 weeks) International study abroad course taught in Scotland and England, Spring 2010 (2 weeks) French immersion course, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Summer 2009 (4 weeks) French immersion course, Montpellier, France, Summer 2007 (4 weeks) French immersion course, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Summer 2006 (6 weeks) French immersion course, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Summer 2004 (3 weeks) January term course taught in French speaking Canada, 1993 January term course taught in Soviet Union, 1989 Taught at Aalborg University in Denmark, Fall 1979

HONORS AND AWARDS

Distinguished Service Award, Eastern Communication Association, 2019. Distinguished Book Award from the Philosophy of Communication Division, Levinas’s

Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics, National Communication Association, 2017.

Top Book Award from the Communication Ethics Division, Levinas’s Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics, National Communication Association, 2017.

Distinguished Scholar Award, National Communication Association, 2017. International Communicology Institute Laureate Fellow Award, International Communicology

Institute, 2017. Paul H. Boase Prize for Scholarship, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, 2016. Top Edited Book Award for Communication Ethics from the Communication Ethics Division,

Philosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other, National Communication Association, 2015.

Top Book Award from the Communication Ethics Division, Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt’s Rhetoric of Warning and Hope, National Communication Association, 2013.

Best Book Award from the Philosophy of Communication Division, Overture to Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of Meaning, co-authored with Annette Holba, National Communication Association, 2013.

Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Duquesne University, 2013. Everett Lee Hunt Book Award, Overture to Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of

Meaning co-authored with Annette Holba, Eastern Communication Association, 2013. “Spotlight on Ronald C. Arnett: Outstanding Scholar in Communication Theory,” Southern

States Communication Association annual convention, San Antonio, TX, April 11–15, 2012.

Administrator of the Year Award, National States Advisory Council, National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 19, 2011

Fellow, Collegium of Fellows of the International Communicology Institute, 2011 Named Henry Koren, C.S.Sp., Endowed Chair for Scholarly Excellence, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2010 Elizabeth G. Andersch Award, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens, OH, May 26–27, 2010


Selected Faculty Member, National Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, June 1–5, 2009 Honoree, Centennial Scholar of Philosophy of Communication, Eastern Communication Association 100th Annual Convention, “Defining Moments: A Century of Communication,” Philadelphia, PA, April 23, 2009 “Scholar in Residence” and Keynote Address presentation, 10th National Communication Ethics Conference, Duquesne University, June 2008 Honoree, Scholarly Spotlight Panel on Arnett Scholarship, Eastern Communication Association annual convention, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008 Teaching Fellow (elected by previous recipients), Eastern Communication Association annual convention, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008 Research Fellow (elected by previous recipients), Eastern Communication Association annual convention, Providence, RI, 2007 Robert J. Kibler Service Award for visionary leadership, National Communication Association, 2006 Everett Lee Hunt Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer’s Rhetoric of Responsibility, Eastern Communication Association, 2006 Scholar of the Year Award, Religious Communication Association, 2005 Donald H. Ecroyd Research and Scholarship Award, Pennsylvania Communication Association annual convention, State College, PA, 2003 Carroll Arnold Distinguished Service Award, Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania annual convention, 2001 Eugene P. Beard Award for Leadership in Ethics for Faculty, Duquesne University, 1999 Article of the Year Award, “Interpersonal Praxis: The Interplay of Religious Narrative, Historicality, and Metaphor,” Religious Communication Association, 1999 Top Competitive Paper Award (with Pat Arneson), “The Praxis of Narrative Assessment: Communication Competence in an Information Age,” National Communication Association, 1997 Patron Saint for Saturday College Commencement (selected by student vote), Division of Continuing Education, Duquesne University, Summer 1997 Outstanding Alumnus and Interpersonal Communication Hall of Fame Inductee, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 1996 Commencement Speaker (student elected), Duquesne University Division of Continuing Education Book Award, Communication and Community: Implications of Martin Buber’s Dialogue, Religious Speech Communication Association, 1988 Outstanding Young Man of America Award, 1981 Distinguished Service Award, St. Cloud State University Programming Board, 1981 Commencement Speaker (selected by student senate), St. Cloud State University, Winter 1979– 1980 Teacher (competitively selected), Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, Fall, 1979 Merit Award for Contributions to the University, St. Cloud State University, 1980 Outstanding Article of the Year Award, “Self-Fulfillment and Interpersonal Communication,” Religious Speech Communication Association, 1979 One of five St. Cloud State University professors asked to participate in “Last Lecture” program (selected by student vote)

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