RONALD C. ARNETT, Ph.D. · 2017-02-02 · Ronald C. Arnett, Ph.D. Page 3 (*graduate/undergraduate course) 1987-1990 Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana Vice-President/Dean

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


(*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 (1980-1982): 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


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


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.


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:


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.


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.


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


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.


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.


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).


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


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).


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.


“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.


“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


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


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


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


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


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.


“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.


“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


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


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.


“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.


“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.


“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.


“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


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

“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


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


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)


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,


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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