Faculty & Staff Spotlight
Dr. George Yancy, professor of philosophy, was one of five winners chosen from 50 submissions in the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Public Philosophy opinion-editorial contest for his essay Walking While Black in the White Gaze, which was published in the New York Times. The award was presented during the organization’s Eastern Division meeting Dec. 27-30 in Philadelphia.
The Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies received many honors at the National Communication Association convention in Chicago from Nov. 19-21. Among them were:
Dr. Pat Arneson, associate professor, receiving two Top Book Awards. Her book Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation: Justice Will Be Made earned both the Philosophy of Communication Division’s 2014 Top Book Award and the Communication Ethics Division’s 2014 Top Book Award.
Dr. Ronald C. Arnett, chair and professor, published the concluding chapter, titled Communication Meeting: From Pangloss to Tenacious Hope, for the volume published in honor of the organization’s centennial, A Century of Communication Studies: The Unfinished Conversation.
Dr. Garnet Butchart, assistant professor, received the Top Paper Award from the Visual Communication Division for Meditation on the Semiotic Phenomenology of Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida Reflections on Photography.
Dr. Isaac Catt, visiting scholar, Simon E. Silverman Phenomenology Center and Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies, received the Top Published Book Chapter in Philosophy of Communication Award for Korzybski and Charles Sanders Peirce and the Top Paper award for The Two Sciences of Communication in Philosophical Context, from the Philosophy of Communication Division.