RONALD C. ARNETT, Ph.D.
10017 Oakridge Drive Chair and Professor Wexford, PA 15090 Department of Communication (724) 934-4787 & Rhetorical Studies Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA 15282-1201 (412) 396-6460 [email protected]
EDUCATION
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 1983 M.Div. Bethany Theological Seminary, Oak Brook, Illinois Emphasis: Peace Studies 1974 B.S. Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana Major area: Psychology
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2015 – Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA
Patricia Doherty Yoder and Ronald Wolfe Endowed Chair in Communication Ethics
1993- Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Chair and Professor (Tenured) Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies 2010-2015 Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA
Henry Koren, C.S.Sp., Endowed Chair for Scholarly Excellence 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.)
Responsibilities:
• Co-Director, JUDICIUM Learning Community
• Co-Founder, Communication Ethics Institute
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• Member, Board of Directors, Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center
• Member, Judicial Affairs Civility Committee (Civility: Community Matters) 2006-present
• Chair, Search Committee for Dean of the School of Leadership & Professional Advancement
• 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 - present
• Chair of English Department Chair Search Committee
• Member, Mission Committee for Middle States Accreditation Association
• Member, Duquesne University Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2001-2003
• 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) 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
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(*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
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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 (1980-1982): 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 (1977-1978): 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
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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
Arnett, Ronald C. Levinas’s Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication
Ethics. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press (in press). 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., Leeanne M. Bell McManus, and Amanda G. McKendree. Conflict between
Persons: The Origins of Leadership. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2014. 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 Philosophy of 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.
Arnett, Ronald C., Janie M. Harden Fritz, and Leeanne M. Bell. Communication Ethics Literacy:
Dialogue and Difference. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009.
Roberts, Kathleen Glenister and Ronald C. Arnett, eds. Communication Ethics: 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
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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.
BOOK CHAPTERS
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. Ed. Kishor Vaidya. Winnipeg, CA: 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?. Ed. Kishor Vaidya. Winnipeg, CA: 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. Eds. Andrea Catellani, Ansgar Zerfass, and Ralph Tench (pp. 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. Ed. Brent Sleasman (pp. 3–27). Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 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. Ed. Józef Zaprucki (pp. 33–59). Jelenia Góra: Karkonoska Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa w Jeleniej Górze, 2014.
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Arnett, Ronald C. “Communicative Meeting: From Pangloss to Tenacious Hope.” In A Century
of Communication Studies: A Thematic History of the Discipline. Eds. Pat J. Gehrke and William M. Keith (pp. 261–285). New York, NY: Routledge.
Arnett, Ronald C. “A Rhetoric of Sentiment: The House the Scots Built.” In Philosophy of
Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other. Eds. Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson (pp. 25–54). Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Arnett, Ronald C. “Arendt and Saint Augustine: Identity Otherwise than Convention.” In
Augustine for Philosophers: The Rhetor of Hippo, the Confessions, and the Continentals. Ed. Calvin Troup (pp. 39–57). Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014.
Arnett, Ronald C. “Media Ethics: Revisiting Traditions as the Heart of the Public Sphere.” In
Ethics of Media. Eds. Mirca Madianou, Amit Pinchevski, and Nick Couldry (pp. 57–71). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Arnett, Ronald C. “The Bureaucrat as Problematic Other: Arendt’s Warning.” In Problematic
Relationships in the Workplace, Vol. 2, Ed. Becky L. Omdahl, and Janie Harden Fritz (pp. 145–162). 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. Ed. Jason Hannan (pp. 235–259). 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. Eds. S. Alyssa Groom and Janie Harden Fritz (pp. 161–180). Lanham, MD: Farleigh Dickenson 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, Vol. 1, Eds. Robert S. Fortner and P. Mark Fackler (pp. 20–40). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Arnett, Ronald C. “Situating a Dialogic Ethics: A Dialogic Confession.” In The Handbook of
Communication Ethics. Eds. George Cheney, Steve May, and Debashish Munshi (pp. 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. Eds. Clifford G. Christians and John Merrill (pp. 200–206). Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009.
Arnett, Ronald C. “Paulo Freire: Face Saving and Communication.” In Ethical Communication:
Moral Stances in Human Dialogue. Eds. Clifford G. Christians and John Merrill (pp. 115–120). Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009.
Arnett, Ronald C. “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Courage versus Authority.” In Ethical Communication:
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Moral Stances in Human Dialogue. Eds. Clifford G. Christians and John Merrill (pp. 109–114). Columbia, MO: 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:
Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality. Eds. Kathleen Glenister Roberts and Ronald C. Arnett (pp. 69–88). New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
Arnett, Ronald C. “Hannah Arendt: Dialectical Communicative Labor.” In Perspectives on
Philosophy of Communication. Ed. Pat Arneson. West Lafayette, IN: 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. Ed. Pat Arneson (pp. 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. Ed. Pat Arneson (pp. 143–184). New York: Peter Lang, 2007. Arnett, Ronald C. “Professional Civility.” In Problematic Relationships in the Workplace, Vol.
1. Eds. Janie M. Harden Fritz and Becky Omdahl (pp. 233–248). 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, Vol. Eds. 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. Eds. Rob Anderson, Leslie Baxter, and Kenneth Cissna (pp. 75–90). Thousand Oaks, CA: 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. Ed. Ana Smith Iltis. Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (pp. 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. Eds. Sharon L. Bracci and Clifford G. Christians. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.
Arnett, Ronald C. “What is Dialogic Communication? Friedman’s Contribution and
Clarification.” In Classics in the Person-Centered Approach. Ed. David Cain (pp. 159–170). Herefordshire, England: PCCS Books, 2002.
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Arnett, Ronald C. “Defining Communication: A Practical Act.” In Toward the 21st Century: The
Future of Speech Communication, Vol. 6. Eds. Julia Wood and Richard Gregg. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1995.
Arnett, Ronald C. “Language of the Faith and Every Day Life.” In Anabaptist Currents: History
in Conversation with the Present. Ed. Carl F. Bowman and Stephen L. Longenecker. Bridgewater, Virgina: Penobscot Press, 1995.
Arnett, Ronald C. “Existential Homelessness: A Contemporary Case for Dialogue.” In The
Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation, Voice and Community. Eds. Rob Anderson, Kenneth Cissna, and Ronald C. Arnett (pp. 229–246). Cresskill, NJ: 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. Ed. Karen Greenberg. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Company, 1991.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Arnett, Ronald C. “Phenomenology.” In International Encyclopedia of Communication Research
Methods. Ed. Christine S. Davis. Wiley Online Library (in press). Arnett, Ronald C. “Cultural Relativism and Cultural Universalism.” In International
Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication. Ed. Young Yun Kim. Wiley Online Library (in press).
Arnett, Ronald C. “Cultural Relativism and Cultural Universalism.” In International
Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication. Ed. Young Yun Kim. Routledge (in press).
Arnett, Ronald C. “Dialogic Theory: Confession, Hypertextuality, and Meaning.” In
International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. Ed. Robert T. Craig. Wiley-Blackwell, (in press).
Arnett, Ronald C. “The Communication Ethics of Bioethics.” In Encyclopedia of Global
Bioethics. Ed. Henk ten Have. Springer, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_109-1 Arnett, Ronald C. “Rhetoric and Ethics.” In Concise Encyclopedia of Communication. Ed.
Wolfgang Donsbach. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015: 533–534. Arnett, Ronald C. “Embeddedness/Embedded Identity.” In Encyclopedia of Identity. Ed. Ronald
L. Jackson (pp. 241–243). Sage, 2010. Winner of the “Outstanding Reference Source”
Award, American Library Association, 2011. Arnett, Ronald C. “Historicity.” In Encyclopedia of Identity. Ed. Ronald L. Jackson (pp. 328–
331). Sage, 2010. Winner of the “Outstanding Reference Source” Award, American
Library Association, 2011.
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Arnett, Ronald C. “Rhetoric and Ethics.” In International Encyclopedia of Communication. Ed.
Wolfgang Donsbach (pp. 4242–46). Wiley-Blackwell/International Communication Association, 2008.
ARTICLE PUBLICATIONS
Arnett, Ronald C. “An Immemorial Obligation: Countering the Eclipse of the Other.” Journal of Communication and Religion, 39.2 (in press).
Arnett, Ronald C. “Philosophy of Communication: Qualitative Research, Questions in
Action.” Qualitative Research Reports in Communication (2016). Arnett, Ronald C. “Educational Misdirections: Attending to Levinas’s Call for Ethics as First
Principle.” Atlantic Journal of Communication, 24.1 (2016): 3–16. Arnett, Ronald C. “Levinas: Leadership without Template or Code.” Leadership and the
Humanities (2016): 38–51. Arnett, Ronald C. “The Dialogic Necessity: An Acknowledging and Engaging Monologue.”
Ohio Communication Journal, 53 (2015): 1–10. Arnett, Ronald C. “Awakening Communicative Justice: Attending to the Precariat.” Social
Transformations, 1 (2015): 1–43. Arnett, Ronald C. “The Creative Praxis of Philosophy of Communication.” Review of
Communication, 15.4 (2015): 341–345. Arnett, Ronald C. “Ventriloquism as Communicative Music.” Language Under Discussion,
2.1 (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, 6.1 (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 5.2 (2015): 334–339. Arnett, Ronald C. “Civic Dialogue: Attending to Locality and Recovering Monologue.” Journal
of Dialogue Studies 2.2 (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, 2.1 (2014): 115–118.
Flinko, Sarah M. and Ronald C. Arnett. “The Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Scholarship in
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the Classroom.” Journal of the Association for Communication Administration 33.1 (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): 120–130. Arnett, Ronald C. “Philosophy of Communication as the Carrier of Meaning: Adieu to W.
Barnett Pearce.” Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 14.1(2013): 1–9. Fritz, Janie Harden, Naomi Bell O’Neil, Ann Marie Popp, Cory Williams, & Ronald C. Arnett.
“The Influence of Supervisory Behavioral Integrity on Intent to Comply with Organizational Ethical Standards and Organizational Commitment.” Journal of Business
Ethics, 114.2 (2013): 251–263. Arnett, Ronald C. “The Fulcrum Point of Dialogue: Monologue, Worldview, and
Acknowledgement.” The American Journal of Semiotics, 28.1/2 (2012): 105–127. Arnett, Ronald C. “Biopolitics: An Arendtian Communication Ethic in the Public Domain.”
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 9.2 (2012): 225–233. Arnett, Ronald C. “Beyond Dialogue: Levinas and Otherwise Than the I-Thou.” Language and
Dialogue, 3 (2012): 140–155. 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, 14.4 (2011): 631–671. Arnett, Ronald C. “Father Henry Koren: Communication Ethics and Existential Revelation.”
Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, 46.2 (2011): 140–152.
Arnett, Ronald C. “Leisure and the Communicative Praxis of Craft.” Listening: Journal of
Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, 46.1 (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, 26.2 (2011): 176–178.
Arnett, Ronald C. “Review of Dialogically Speaking: Maurice Friedman's Interdisciplinary
Humanism, by Kenneth P. Kramer.” Journal of Communication, 61.2 (2011): E5–E7. Arnett, Ronald C. “Religious Communication Scholarship: Going Nowhere Correctly.” Journal
of Communication and Religion, 33.2 (2010): 221–246.
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Arnett, Ronald C. “Defining Philosophy of Communication: Difference and Identity.”
Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 11.1 (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, 18.3 (2010): 111–126.
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): 346–350.
Arnett, Ronald C., Pat Arneson, and Annette Holba. “Bridges Not Walls: The Communicative
Enactment of Dialogic Storytelling.” Review of Communication, 8.3 (2008): 217–234. Arnett, Ronald C. “Interpretive Inquiry as Qualitative Communication Research,” Qualitative
Research Reports in Communication, 8.1 (2007): 29–35. 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., Janie M. Harden Fritz, and Annette Holba. “The Rhetorical Turn to
Otherness: Otherwise than Humanism.” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and
Social Philosophy, 3 (2007): 115–133. Arnett, Ronald C. “Mid-Career Moves: Professional and Personal Identity.” Spectra, 43 (16,
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): 350–360. Arnett, Ronald C., Janie M. Harden Fritz, 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.
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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.” The Pennsylvania Scholar 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): 315–338. Arnett, Ronald C., and Janie M. Harden Fritz. “Departmental Excellence: Constituencies in
Tension.” ACA Bulletin, 28 (1999). Arnett, Ronald C. “Metaphorical Guidance: Administration as Building and Renovation.”
Journal of Educational Administration, 37 (1999). 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, Arnett, Ronald C., and Michele Conkel. “Organizational Ethical
Standards and Organizational Commitment.” Journal of Business Ethics, 20 (1999): 289–300.
Arnett, Ronald C., and Pat Arneson. “The Praxis of Narrative Assessment: Communication
Competence in an Information Age.” Journal of the Association for Communication
Administration, 27 (1998): 44–58. Arnett, Ronald C. “Interpersonal Praxis: The Interplay of Religious Narrative, Historicality and
Metaphor.” Journal of Communication and Religion, 21.2 (1998): 141–163. Arnett, Ronald C., and Pat Arneson. “Educational Assessment as Invitation for Dialogue.”
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration, 2 (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).
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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, 38.3 (1990): 208–217.
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,
81.3 (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): 151–162. 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
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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. “The Assumptive Roots of Emphatic Listening: A Critique.” Communication
Education, 32 (1983): 368–378. 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): 358–372. 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, 2 (1982): 23. Arnett, Ronald C. “A World in Need of Dialogue.” Brethren Life and Thought, 26 (1981): 230–
236. Arnett, Ronald C. “Toward a Phenomenological Dialogue.” Western Journal of Speech
Communication, 45 (1981): 210–212. 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, (1979). 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
Reusch, Bateson, Watzlawick and Haley.” Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC), April (1977).
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INVITED PROFESSIONAL ESSAYS
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
“Communicative Ethics: The Phenomenological Sense of Semioethics,” 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,” Semiotics Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA,
October 1–4, 2015. “Adieu to Levinas,” North American Levinas Society Conference, West Lafayette, IN, July 27–
30, 2015.
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“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, 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 Convention, 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,” Semiotics 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.
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“Communicative Meeting: From Pangloss to Tenacious Hope,” National Communication
Association, Washington, D.C., November 21–24, 2013. “Lessons in Leadership” Roundtable, National Communication Association, Washington, D.C.,
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 annual convention, Washington, D.C., November 21–24, 2013.
“Making Connections in Teaching and Learning” (with Sarah Flinko), National Communication
Association, Washington, D.C., November 21–24, 2013. “From Nothingness to Affirmation: Dialogic Engagement with Openness and Existential
Semiotics” (with David DeIuliis and Susan Carr), Semiotics 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, Pennsylvania, October 17–18, 2013.
“Levinas and Responsibility: Possessed otherwise than Murdoch’s News of the World,” North
American Levinas Society annual conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 28–31, 2013.
“Precarity: Critical Discourse and Response to the Abyss,” International Communication
Association annual conference, London, England, 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
annual conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 24–28, 2013. “Roundtable on Future Confluence in Burkean Analysis,” Eastern Communication Association
annual conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 24–28, 2013. “Philosophy of Communication: Foundation & Explorations,” Eastern Communication
Association annual conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 24–28, 2013. “Historical Testimony: The Communicative Call of Impending Social Crisis,” Southern States
Communication Association annual conference, Louisville, Kentucky, April 10–14, 2013.
“Revelatory Space and Leper Scholars,” Southern States Communication Association
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conference, Louisville, Kentucky, April 10–14, 2013. “Levinas’s Ethical Echo: Listening In and To Precarity,” National Communication Association
annual conference, Orlando, Florida, November 15–18, 2012. “Beyond Problematic Relationships in the Workplace,” National Communication Association
annual convention, 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 annual convention, Orlando, FL, November 15–18, 2012.
“The Ethics of Civil Discourse: An Exploration and Invitation,” National Communication
Association annual conference, Orlando, Florida, November 15–18, 2012. “Understanding the Academic Career,” National Communication Association annual conference,
Orlando, Florida, November 15–18, 2012. “The Primacy of the Face: Mediated Communication,” Semiotics Society of America annual
meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 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 15th Biennial Conference,
Philadelphia, PA, May 25–28, 2012. “Education, Mispriorities, and Levinas's Call for Uprightness.” North American Levinas Society
annual conference, 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 annual convention, Cambridge, MA, April 26–29, 2012.
“Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of Meaning,” Short Course (with Annette Holba),
Eastern Communication Association annual convention, 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 annual convention, Cambridge, MA, April 26-29, 2012.
“Adieu to Levinas,” Southern States Communication Association annual convention, San
Antonio, TX, April 11–15, 2012. “Roundtable: Cosmopolitan Hermeneutics: Responses to Global Communication,” Southern
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States Communication Association annual convention, San Antonio, TX, April 11–15, 2012.
“Communication and Persuasion: Gollum and Mr. Murdoch,” Communicating in a World of
Norms, Information and Communication in Contemporary Globalization, International Communication Association annual conference, Lille, France, March 7–9, 2012.
“Ricoeur and Levinas: Witnessing as Communication,” National Communication Association
annual convention, New Orleans, LA, November 16–20, 2011. “Rhetoric as Situated Discourse: Heidegger’s Rectorate Address,” National Communication
Association annual convention, New Orleans, LA, November 16–20, 2011. “Voices of Similarity and Difference: Exploring Horizons of Intellectual Schools of Thought”
(with Janie M. Harden Fritz), Academic Voices: Ethics, Academic Responsibility, and Training Future Scholars in a Mediated Age, National Communication Association annual convention, New Orleans, LA, November 16–20, 2011.
“Philosophy of Communication and the Voice of Story: Umberto Eco,” National Communication
Association annual convention, 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,” Worldviews, Semiotic Society
of America annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 27–30, 2011. “Plenary Session: Can or Should a Phenomenologist Have a Worldview?,” Worldviews,
Semiotic Society of America annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 27–30, 2011. “Levinas and Justice: The Name of the Rose,” Society for Phenomenology and the Human
Sciences 50th annual conference, 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
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Wilmington, June 2–4, 2011 “Beyond Dialogue: Levinas and Otherwise than the I-Thou,” Dialogue and Representation,
International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) 13th annual conference, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 26–30, 2011.
“Communication and Conflict: Civility and Difference” (with Leeanne Bell and Amanda
McKendree), Eastern Communication Association annual convention, Arlington, VA, April 13–17, 2011.
“Roundtable: Evil in the Philosophy & Ethics of Communication,” Southern States
Communication Association annual convention, 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 annual convention, Little Rock, AR, March 23–27, 2011.
“The Scottish Enlightenment‘s Rhetorical Challenge to Individualism,” Southern States
Communication Association annual convention, Little Rock, AR, March 23–27, 2011. “Sustainability and Academic Excellence: Rebuffing Anachronistic Comforts,” Southern States
Communication Association annual convention, 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 annual convention, 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 annual convention, San Francisco, CA, November 13–17, 2010.
“Interpersonal Footprints: A Genetic Phenomenological Reading of Levinas’s Biography,”
Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences 49th annual conference, Montreal, Quebec, 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 annual convention, Baltimore, MD, April 22–25, 2010. “‘Southern Contributions to the Ethico-Philosophical Turn’: Ethics and Philosophy of
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Communication Interest Group Founding Session,” Southern States Communication Association annual convention, Memphis, TN, April 2010.
“Administrative Creativity in Times of Resource Scarcity,” Southern States Communication
Association annual convention, Memphis, TN, April 7–11, 2010. “Labor, Craft, and the Task of the Professional Educator,” National Communication Association
annual convention, Chicago, IL, November 11–15, 2009. “Interpersonal Communication: Justice and the Neighbor,” National Communication
Association annual convention, Chicago, IL, November 11–15, 2009. “Religious Communication Scholarship: Going Nowhere Correctly,” National Communication
Association annual convention, Chicago, IL, November 11–15, 2009. “Communication Embedded Gesture as First Principle,” Society of Phenomenology and The
Human Sciences Conference, Arlington, VA, October 29–November 1, 2009. “Communication and Collaboration in Your Changing Department: Perspectives Across the
Curriculum.” Southern States Communication Association annual convention, Norfolk, VA, April 2009.
“Nuts, Bolts, and Communication Administration: Establishing a Toolbox of Everyday Advice.”
Southern States Communication Association annual convention, Norfolk, VA, April 2009.
“The Other: Levinas’s Historical Tracing,” Eastern Communication Association annual
conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 2009. “Philosophy of Communication,” Eastern Communication Association annual conference,
Philadelphia, PA, April 2009. “Communicating Otherwise than Convention: Reading Arendt through Levinas,” National
Communication Association annual conference, San Diego, CA, November, 2008. “Arendt and Augustine as the First Existentialist,” National Communication Association annual
conference, San Diego, CA, November, 2008. “Public Speaking and the Development of Public Discourse through Worldviews,” Pennsylvania
Communication Association annual conference, 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
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Communication Association annual convention, 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 annual convention, 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 (The Dialogue of Cultures). Nov. 29–Dec. 1, 2007
“Voice and Banality: Hannah Arendt's Counter to Adolf Eichmann,” National Communication
Association annual convention, Chicago, IL, 2007. “The Rhetoric of Care: Levinas, Faith, and Special Education,” National Communication
Association annual convention, Chicago, IL, 2007. “Professional Civility as Communicative and Rhetorical Practice in Organizations: Social Style
Grounded in Substance” (with Janie Harden Fritz), National Communication Association annual convention, Chicago, IL, 2007.
“Communication Ethics, Religious Faith and Culture,” National Communication Association
annual convention, Chicago, IL, 2007. “Levinas's Phenomenology of Originative Saying: Listening/Attending to an Ethical Echo,”
National Communication Association annual convention, Chicago, IL, 2007. “Communicative Praxis and the Ethical Echo: Levinas’s A Priori Community,” Levinas Society
annual conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2007. Philosophy of Communication Reading Group: Intersection of Ideas and People. Led discussion
of Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition and Seyla Benhabib’s The Reluctant
Modernism of Hannah Arendt, Eastern Communication Association annual convention, Providence, 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 annual convention, San Antonio, TX, 2006.
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“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 annual convention, San Antonio, TX, November, 2006.
“Constructive but Derivative,” National Communication Association annual convention, San
Antonio, TX, 2006. “Communication Ethics as Site for Connection and Action: Metatheoretical Perspectives” (with
Janie Harden Fritz and Leeanne Bell), National Communication Association annual convention, San Antonio, TX, 2006.
“Learning as First Principle: The ‘Between’ of Dialogue and Communication Ethics” (with Janie
Harden Fritz and Leeanne Bell), Modernity: Yearning for the Infinite – annual conference, Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2006.
“Crisis Communication: Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Humanities as Method,” Eastern
Communication Association annual convention, Philadelphia, PA, 2006. “Communication Ethics and Organizational Leadership: Issues and Practices” (with Janie
Harden Fritz and Leeanne Bell), Central States Communication Association annual convention, Indianapolis, IN, 2006.
“Professional Civility,” National Communication Association annual convention, Boston, MA,
2005. “Habermas’s Turn toward Faith in the Public Square,” National Communication Association
annual convention, 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,” Joy in the Truth: The Catholic University in the Millennium – annual conference, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, 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 annual convention, Harrisburg, PA, 2005. “Communication Praxis and the Public Intellectual,” Oxford Centre for Social Values in
Education and Business Conference, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 2004.
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“Folksongs as Situated Voice in a Culture of Life” (with Janie Harden Fritz), Epiphanies of
Beauty—The Arts in a Post-Christian Culture – annual conference, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2004.
“Identity and Vision: Grounds, Challenges, and Implications for Religious Communication,”
Religious Communication Association Pre-Conference Seminar, National Communication Association annual convention, 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 annual convention, Chicago, IL, 2004.
“History of the Discipline,” Pre-Conference Seminar, National Communication Association
annual convention, 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 annual convention, Sewickley, PA, 2004.
“A Levinasian Perspective on the ‘War on Terror’,” Pennsylvania Communication Association
annual convention, Sewickley, PA, 2004. “Revisiting Levinas’s Question about Reciprocity,” National Communication Association annual
convention, Miami Beach, FL, 2003. “Hannah Arendt’s Communicative Wisdom: Disclaiming Modernity, Rejecting the Social,”
National Communication Association annual convention, 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 annual convention, Miami Beach, FL, 2003.
“Dr. Paul H. (Free Speech) Boase: His Scholarly Legacy” (with Pat Arneson), National
Communication Association annual convention, 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), Formation and Renewal – annual conference, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2003.
“Narrative as Pragmatic Performance” (with Janie Harden Fritz and Marie Baker), Eastern
Communication Association annual convention, Washington, DC, 2003. “Organizational ‘Spirit’ and Internet Technology” (with Janie Harden Fritz), Eastern
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Communication Association annual convention, Washington, DC, 2003. “Dialogic Ethics as Responsibility in Storytelling,” National Communication Association annual
convention, New Orleans, LA, 2002. “Civility—Hospitality and Radical Alterity,” Keynote Conversation: Panel on Justice and
Civility in a Difficult Time, National Communication Association annual convention, New Orleans, LA, 2002.
“Walking the Humanities into the Marketplace: A Communicative Call,” 6th International
Conference on Social Values, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, 2002. “The Metaphor of the Between: The Interface of Dialogue and Ethics,” Retirement Celebration
Panel: Honoring Richard Johannesen, Central States annual convention, Milwaukee, WI, 2002.
“Dialogue Ethics: The Intersection of Buber and Levinas,” Eastern Communication Association
annual convention, 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 annual convention, Atlanta, GA, 2001.
“Paper in Honor of Paul H. Boase: His Work in Freedom of Speech and Ethics,” National
Communication Association annual convention, Atlanta, GA, 2001. “Dialogic Civility in a Cynical Age: Community, Hope and Interpersonal Relationships,” Central
States Communication Association annual convention, Cincinnati, OH, 2001. “Rhetoric and Philosophy of Interpersonal Communication,” Eastern Communication
Association annual convention, Portland, ME, 2001. “Secular, Religious, and Spiritual Vocabularies of Public Discourse: Can Integration Build the
Engaged Community?” National Communication Association annual convention, Seattle, WA, 2000.
“The Teacher-Scholar of Pennsylvania: A Roundtable Symposium,” Speech Communication
Association of Pennsylvania annual convention, State College, PA, 2000. “Professional Civility: Reclaiming the Legitimacy of Roles,” National Communication
Association annual convention, Seattle, WA, 2000. “Communication and Confession: Bonhoeffer’s Invitation to Community,” National
Communication Association annual convention, Chicago, Illinois, 1999. “Coloring Outside the Lines of Communication Requirement: Teaching a Course in
Communication and Professional Civility to Physicians’ Assistants” (with Janie Harden
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Fritz), National Communication Association annual convention, Chicago, Illinois, 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, Illinois, 1999.
“Bonhoeffer’s Warning: Community as Building, Renovation, Patience, and Endurance,”
National Communication Association annual convention, Chicago, IL, 1999. “Professional Civility,” Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania annual convention,
State College, PA, 1999. “Communication and Community in an Age of Diversity,” National Communication Association
annual convention, Chicago, IL, 1999. “Communication Ethics Praxis in an Information Age,” National Communication Association
annual convention, Chicago, IL, 1999. “The Praxis of Human Assessment: Communication Competence in an Information Age,”
National Communication Association annual convention, Chicago, IL, 1999. “Historicality and Appropriateness,” National Communication Association annual convention,
Chicago, IL, 1999. “Respect of the Other: Dialogic Civility as Public Narrative,” (with Pat Arneson) International
Communication Association annual convention, Montreal, Canada, 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 annual
convention, San Diego, CA, 1996. “Honoring Paul H. Boase: ‘Colleagues Pay Tribute,’” Speech Communication Association
annual convention, San Diego, CA, 1996. “Top Four Papers in Peace and Conflict Communication,” Speech Communication Association
annual convention, San Diego, CA, 1996. “Nontraditional Students: Communication Education for the Workplace,” Speech
Communication Association annual convention, San Diego, CA, 1996. “Educational Assessment as Invitation for Dialogue” (with Pat Arneson), Speech
Communication Association annual convention, San Diego, CA, 1996.
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“Ten Years of the SCA Commission on Communication Ethics,” Eastern Communication
Association annual convention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1995. “Communication Ethics: Ten Years--Retrospective and Prospective (Part 2),” Speech
Communication Association annual convention, New Orleans, LA, 1994. “Communication Problems or Opportunities in the Workplace,” Speech Communication
Association of Pennsylvania annual convention, State College, PA, 1994. “Interpersonal Cynicism: Ignoring the Historicality of Confirmation of Otherness,” Speech
Communication Association annual convention, New Orleans, LA, 1994. “Rediscovering Interpersonal Limits,” (Responsible Teaching: The Pursuit of Excellence and
Ethics), Speech Communication Association annual convention, 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 annual
convention 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 annual convention, Chicago, 1992. “Defining Communication: A Practical Act,” SCA Task Force on Goals and Questions for the
Future, Speech Communication Association, Atlanta, 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 annual convention, Chicago, 1991. “The Hermeneutic of Suspicion,” Central States Communication Association annual convention,
Chicago, 1991. “Response to Parker Palmer,” Conference on Communication and Christianity, Marquette
University, 1990.
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“The Rhetorical Link between Peace Studies and Communication Studies,” Speech
Communication Association annual convention, San Francisco, 1989. “Interpersonal Peacemaking: Implications from the Non-Creedal Religious Tradition,” Speech
Communication Association annual convention, San Francisco, 1989. “Scholarship as Conversation on the Small Liberal Arts Campus,” Central States Speech
Association annual convention, Kansas City, 1989. “Communication Ethics and Free Speech as Practical Philosophical Foundation of Speech
Communication,” Speech Communication Association annual convention, New Orleans, 1988.
“A Communication Perspective on Academic Freedom: Implications for Public Speaking,”
Central States Speech Association annual convention, 1988. “Reagan's Rhetoric of the American Dream: Ethical Implications,” Speech Communication
Association annual convention, Boston, 1987. “Interpersonal Ethics: Aristotle's Critique and Contribution to Contemporary Literature,” Speech
Communication Association annual convention, 1987. “Interpersonal Communication Ethics: Psychologizing and Habits of the Heart,” Eastern
Communication Association annual convention, Atlantic City, 1986. “What is Dialogic Communication? Friedman's Contribution to and Clarification of the
Anderson/Arnett Article Exchange,” Speech Communication Association annual convention, Chicago, 1986.
“The Status of Communication Ethics Research,” Speech Communication Association annual
convention, Denver, 1985. “Ethical Issues in Organizational Communication: Implications of the Work of Ian I. Mitroff,”
Central States Speech Association annual convention, Indianapolis, 1984. “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Contextual Peacemaking Ethic,” Speech Communication Association
annual convention, Washington, D.C., 1983. “Dialogue in the Classroom,” Central States Speech Association annual convention, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, 1982. “Ethic of Interpersonal Communication Revisited,” Speech Communication Association annual
convention, Anaheim, California, 1981. “An Ethical Alternative to Empathic Listening: An Existential Phenomenological Approach,”
International Listening Association, Denver, 1981.
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“Dialogical Foundations of Conflict Resolution,” Speech Communication Association annual
convention, New York, 1980. “Ethics and Communication,” debated 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, Minnesota, 1978.
KEYNOTES AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Plenary Speaker, “Communicative Weight and Height: Semioethics,” Semiotics Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1–4, 2015.
Keynote Speaker, “Dialogic Ethics: A Pragmatic Hope for this Hour,” International Association
for Dialogue Analysis, Nancy France, August 27–29, 2015. Keynote Speaker, “Communication Ethics: Inviting Conflict in a World of Multiplicity”
International Symposium: Communication in the Millennium, East Stroudsburg, PA, May 12–15, 2015.
Invited International Speaker with Susan Mancino, “Communication Ethics and Performativity:
Sustaining a Village,” International Tolerance and Fedor Sommer Seminar, Silesia, Poland, October 13–15, 2014.
Keynote Speaker, Ohio Communication Association Conference, Franklin University,
Columbus, OH, October 3–4, 2014. Keynote Speaker, “Public Relations: Levinas’s Call for Ethics & Justice,” European Public
Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA), Brussels, Belgium, September 11–13, 2014.
Keynote Speaker, “The Precarity of the Polis,” Integrated Marketing Communication
conference, Wilmington, NC, June 6–8, 2013. Plenary Speaker, Civic Dialogue and Leadership conference at Texas A&M University, April 3–
6, 2014. Lambda Pi Eta Keynote, “The Ethics of Labor and Service,” Stevenson University, April 20–21,
2013. Invited Grazier Lecturer, “Doing Communication Ethics in Postmodernity,” University of South
Florida, April 18–20, 2013.
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“Spotlight on Ronald C. Arnett: Outstanding Scholar in Communication Theory,” Southern
States Communication Association annual convention, San Antonio, TX, April 11–15, 2012.
Guest Speaker, “Communication and Genuine Light,” Northern Arizona University, Phoenix,
AZ, March 31, 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
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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,
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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
“Walking the Humanities into the Marketplace: A Communicative Call.” Proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Social Values. Oxford Philosophy Trust/University Press of America, 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–present Advisory Board, Church, Communication, and Culture
Editorial Board, Journal of Dialogue Studies
Board Member, International Interdisciplinary Advisory and Editorial Board Editorial Board, Christianity and Communication Studies Network, 2014–present Editorial Board, Review of Communication, 2012–2014 Editor, Review of Communication, 2010–2012 Editor, Pennsylvania Scholars Series, 2006-present Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Identity, 2010 Editorial Board: Atlantic Journal of Communication, Journal of Applied Communication
Research, Review of Communication, Communication Teacher, Qualitative Research
Reports in Communication, and American Journal of Semiotics, Journal of Dialogue
Studies
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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 Reviewer, Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 2008 Reviewer: Communication Theory, Western Journal of Communication, Journal of
Communication, The Pennsylvania Communication Association Annual, and Journal of
Applied Communication Research, 2004 to present 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
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 International Communicology Institute Phi Kappa Phi
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External Committee Assignments and Elected Offices
Board Member, 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 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)
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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
2016 Paul 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 for the Philosophy of Communication Ethics 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. 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 Honoree, Centennial Scholar 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,
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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)