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ERIK GARRETT Curriculum Vita Communication & Rhetorical Studies 4310 Tesla 340 College Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Duquesne University 773-732-3078 (cell) Pittsburgh, PA 15282 [email protected] PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION AND EXPERIENCE EDUCATION Ph.D. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, April 2007. Departments of Philosophy and Communication. Dissertation: A phenomenological investigation of the child-animal bond.” Co-Directors: William McBride & Felicia Roberts M.A. Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, Dec 2000. Philosophy. Thesis: “Encountering the Other in the Life-World: A comparison of the notion of intersubjectivity in Husserl and Sartre.” Director: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat B.A. Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, May, 1998. Triple major in Philosophy, History and Political Science. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor, Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Duquesne University 2013-present Assistant Professor, Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Duquesne University Fall 2006-2013 Lecturer Lewis University Summers 2001-2005 Teaching Assistant and Instructor Purdue University Fall 2000-Spring 2005

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ERIK GARRETT Curriculum Vita

Communication & Rhetorical Studies 4310 Tesla

340 College Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Duquesne University 773-732-3078 (cell)

Pittsburgh, PA 15282

[email protected]

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION AND EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, April 2007. Departments of Philosophy and

Communication. Dissertation: “A phenomenological investigation of the child-animal

bond.” Co-Directors: William McBride & Felicia Roberts

M.A. Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, Dec 2000. Philosophy. Thesis: “Encountering the

Other in the Life-World: A comparison of the notion of intersubjectivity in Husserl and

Sartre.” Director: Marilyn Nissim-Sabat

B.A. Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, May, 1998. Triple major in Philosophy, History and

Political Science.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor, Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Duquesne University

2013-present

Assistant Professor, Communication & Rhetorical Studies, Duquesne University

Fall 2006-2013

Lecturer Lewis University

Summers 2001-2005

Teaching Assistant and Instructor Purdue University

Fall 2000-Spring 2005

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SCHOLARSHIP

BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS

Garrett, E. (2013). Why do we go to the zoo? Communication, animals, and the cultural-

historical experience of zoos. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Paperback

edition issued in 2015.

Garrett, E. (2018). El barrio de la colina: Dos estudios de fenomenologia urbana. Fundacion

Williams al Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Current book project on the topic of Urban Phenomenology

PUBLISHED REFEREED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

Sudnick, Kati & Garrett, E. (in press, February, 2020). Weekend Update: Education for a

gullible American. In Tallman, R. & Southworth, J. (Eds). Saturday Night Live and philosophy.

New York: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, Blackwell Publishing.

Garrett, E. (2019),‘”Digiphrenia and the divided technological self: A critical mapping of

modern technological diachronic time,” Explorations in Media Ecology, 18(3), pp. 235–247, doi:

10.1386/eme.18.3.235_1.

Garrett, E. (2018). “Heinrich Popitz and the power of violence and technical action in the

revolutionary and information ages,” Human Studies, 41(3), 493-502.

Garrett, E. & Regina, A. (December, 2016). Phenomenology and the phantom stadia

phenomenon: Forbes Field and Comiskey Park remembered. In Herbeck, D. & Drucker, S.

(Eds). Communication and the baseball stadium: Community, commodification, fanship, and

memory. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

Garrett, E. (September, 2015). Childhood homelessness: A Phenomenological reflection. In D.

Chawla & S. H. Jones (Eds). Storying home: Place, identity, and exile. Lanham, MD:

Lexington Books, pp 49-68.

Ucok-Sayrak, O. & Garrett, E. (2013). Grounding globalization: Theory, communication, and

service-learning. In L. Nganga, J. Kambutu & W. Russell III (Eds.), Exploring Globalization

Opportunities and Challenges in Social Studies: Effective Instructional Approaches. New York:

Peter Lang Publishing.

Garrett, E. (2012). The essential secret of indirect communication. Review of Communication.

12(4).

Garrett, E. (2011). The rhetoric of antiblack racism: Lewis R. Gordon's radical phenomenology

of embodiment. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 19(1), 6-16.

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Garrett, E. (2010). “Existential identity questions.” Ronald Jackson (Ed.) Encyclopedia of

Identity, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press, pp. 271-275.

Scigliano, D. & Garrett, E. (2010). Raising your voice – Joint education and public relations e-

learning advocacy project. In J. Sanchez & K. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference

on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (pp. 1194-

1198). Chesapeake, VA: AACE

Melson, G., Kahn, P., Beck, A., Friedman, B., Roberts, T., Garrett, E., & Gill, B. (2009).

Children’s behavior toward and understanding of robotic and living dogs. Journal of Applied

Developmental Psychology, 30(2), 92-102.

Cantrill, J., Durfee, J., Garrett, E. & Rochester, G. (2007). Exploring a sense of self-in-place to

explain the impulse for urban sprawl. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and

Culture, 1(2), 123-145.

Myers, Jr. O. E., Saunders, C. D. & Garrett, E. (2004). What do children think animals need?

Developmental trends. Environmental Education Research 10(4) 545-562.

Myers, Jr. O. E., Saunders, C. D. & Garrett, E. (2003). What do children think animals need?

Aesthetic and psycho-social conceptions. Environmental Education Research 9(2) 305-325.

BOOK REVIEWS

Garrett, E. (2013). “Review of The creolizing subject: Race, reason, and the politics of purity.”

Journal of Race and Policy 9(1) 90-94.

INVITED ARTICLES

Garrett, E. (2015). Project passenger pigeon Pittsburgh: A portrait of teaching across

disciplines. In A. Rosenthal & Domike, S. (Eds). Moving targets: Exhibition and Catalog, p.

71.

REFEREED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

Garrett, E. (2019, June). “Weapons of Math Destruction:” A Media Ecological Discussion. Panel

Paper presentation at the Media Ecology Association annual meeting in Toronto, Canada.

Garrett, E. (2019, June). Levinas, Existentialism and the Struggle with Time Immemorial. Paper

presented at the Diverse Lineages of Existentialism Conference on behalf of the North American

Levinas Society in Washington DC.

Garrett, E. (2019, April). Root Shock: A Case Study of Vulnerability and Resilience in

Pittsburgh’s Historic African Hill District. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the

Eastern Communication Association in Providence, RI.

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Garrett, E. (2019, April). Teaching Burke Into the Future: Creating Approaches for Engaging

Undergraduates. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication

Association in Providence, RI.

Garrett, E. (2019, April). Perspectives on Building and Dwelling: Opening the City by Richard

Sennett. Roundtable presentation at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication

Association in Providence, RI.

Garrett, E. (2018, November). Zoos as Places of Environmental Connection and Play in the

City. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association in Salt

Lake City, UT.

Garrett, E. (2018, November). Digiphrenia and the Divided Technological Self: A Critical

Mapping of Modern Technological Space. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National

Communication Association in Salt Lake City, UT.

Garrett, E. (2018, November). A Phenomenological Account of Objects of Memory: Can there

Be "Happy Objects" after the "Object Turn? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the

National Communication Association in Salt Lake City, UT.

Garrett, E. (2018, October). Alphonso Lingis Reader Book Session. Paper presented at the

annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences in State College, PA.

Garrett, E. (2018, August). Levinas and the Memory of Displacement. Paper presented at the

annual meeting of the North American Levinas Society in Cullowhee, NC.

Garrett, E. (2018, May). Talking with Objects: Which is More Phenomenological – Affect

Theory or Object-Oriented Ontology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the

Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists in Montreal, Canada.

Garrett, E. (2018, May). Schutz, Husserl, and Levinas on Strangeness and Being. Paper

presented at the Alfred Schutz Circle triennial meeting in Konstanz, Germany.

Garrett, E. (2018, April). The Media Ecology of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ PNC Park. Roundtable at

the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association in Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2018, April). Kenneth Burke’s Pittsburgh Connections. Paper presented at the annual

meeting of the Eastern Communication Association in Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2017, November). Revolutionary Burke. Roundtable at the annual meeting of the

National Communication Association, Dallas, TX.

Garrett, E. (2017, November). The Transformative Power of Martin Luther King Jr’s. Rhetoric

of Love and Justice in Moving from Chaos to Community. Paper presented at the annual meeting

of the National Communication Association, Dallas, TX.

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Garrett, E. (2017, October). Book Review: Heinrich Popitz: Phenomena of Power. Paper

presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences,

Memphis, TN.

Garrett, E. (2017, July). A Levinasian Critique of “Fake News”: Responsibility and

Signification. Paper presented at the North American Levinas Society annual meeting, Chicago,

IL.

Garrett, E. (2017, June). Kenneth Burke, Nietzsche and Battlefields of Thought. Paper presented

at the triennial conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, East Stroudsburg, PA.

Garrett, E. (2017, March). Urban Communication in Contexts I: What is Urban Communication?

Roundtable at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Boston, MA.

Garrett, E. (2017, March). Community Engagement and Technology: Liminal or Aporetic

Place? Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Boston, MA.

Garrett, E. (2017, March). Kenneth Burke’s Parlor of US Politics: Freedom To… and Freedom

From… Roundtable at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Boston, MA.

Garrett, E. (2017, March). Urban Phenomenology. Paper presented at the Issues in

Contemporary Phenomenology Conference, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Garrett, E. (2016, November). Jane Jacobs at 100: Civic Activist and Theorist of Urban Studies

and Communication. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication

Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Garrett, E. (2016, November). Scapegoating and Victim-Blaming: The Past Is Still the Present.

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Philadelphia,

PA.

Garrett, E. (2016, November). Communication’s Civic Callings: Invoking Burke’s Civic Vision.

Roundtable at the meeting of the National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Garrett, E. (2016, October). Jacobs and Husserl: Activist Orientations in the City. Paper

presented at the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Salt Lake

City, Utah.

Garrett, E. (2016, July). The immigrant as stranger: Strangeness, proximity, and fecundity in

Levinas. Paper presented at the joint meeting of the North American Levinas Society and the

Société internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas (SIREL), Toulouse, France.

Garrett, E. (2016, May). Phenomenology and urban sustainability. Paper presented at the

meeting of the International Coalition of North American Phenomenologists, Phoenix, AZ.

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Garrett, E. (2016, April). The rhetorical importance of public space in low-income urban

communities. Urban Communication Foundation former grant winners’ panel presented at the

meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore, MD.

Garrett, E. (2016, April). Towards a phenomenology of urban edges. Paper presented at the

meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore, MD.

Garrett, E. (2016, March). The legacy of the rhetoric of The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Continued

trained incapacity in housing segregation. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern

Communication Association, Baltimore, MD.

Garrett, E. (2015, November). Jane Jacobs between philosophy of communication and media

ecology. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, Las

Vegas, NV.

Garrett, E. & Robison, S. (2015, November). Raising awareness, creating empathy. Workshop

presentation at the Homeless Children Education Fund Annual Summit, Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2015, October). The destruction of diversity: Towards a phenomenological

explication of gentrification. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology

and the Human Sciences, Atlanta, GA.

Garrett, E. (2015, September). Singing in steel: Postindustrial communicative experiences of

meaning and resistance. Paper presented at European Communication Research Association,

Zagreb, Croatia.

Garrett, E. (2015, August). Sustaining community in design: A phenomenological case study of

Pittsburgh. Paper presented at International Summer Conference on Environmental Aesthetics,

Lahti, Finland.

Garrett, E. (2015, July). Memorials as places of trauma: Pittsburgh‘s freedom corner and the

absence of face. Paper presented at the North American Levinas Society annual meeting, Purdue

University, West Lafayette, IN.

Garrett, E. (2015, June). Exploding discourse: A communicative poetics. Paper presented at the

Caribbean Philosophical Association annual meeting, Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Garrett, E. (2015, May). The facticity of segregated design: A genetic phenomenology of place

and race. Paper presented at the International Coalition of North American Phenomenologists

annual meeting, Brock University, Canada.

Garrett, E. (2015, April). Deliberating along the cowpath with the one dimensional man. Paper

presented at the Eastern Communication Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Garrett, E. (2014, November). Burke and Mumford a dialogue in the city. Paper presented at the

National Communication Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

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Garrett, E. (2014, November). Literature as equipment for rhetoric. Roundtable at the National

Communication Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Garrett, E. (2014, November). Doing philosophy of communication with Calvin O. Schrag: A

roundtable on the influence of a philosopher on the field of communication. Roundtable at the

National Communication Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Garrett, E. (2014, July). Burke and (Anti)Urban Technologies: Re-Imaging the City. Paper

presented at the triennial meeting of the Kenneth Burke Society, St. Louis, MO.

Garrett, E. (2014, May). Husserl’s Blackbelt: Using Martial Arts to Understand Kinesthetic

Empathy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North

American Phenomenologists, St. Louis, MO.

Garrett, E. (2014, May). (No)Selves and Others: Book Session – Levinas and Asian Thought

(Duquesne University Press, 2013). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the North

American Levinas Society, Ocean City, MD.

Garrett, E. (2014, April). Dissent in the City: Oppression in “Freedom Corner.” Paper presented

at the annual meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Providence, RI.

Garrett, E. (2013, November). “A Feast of Discourse:” Transcendence and Catharsis in the

Phaedrus and Symposium. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National

Communication Association, Washington DC.

Garrett, E. (2013, October). Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics: The Interrelation of

Phenomenology, Social Sciences and the Arts (eds Michael Barber and Jochen Dreher) Springer,

2014 Book Session. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the

Human Sciences, Eugene, OR.

Garrett, E. (2013, June). Husserl and McLuhan unplugged: Harmonizing Phenomenology and

Media Ecology. Paper presented at the meeting of the Media Ecology Association, Grand

Rapids, MI.

Garrett, E. (2013, May). Following the migration of “erotic birds:” Embodying the symbolic in

Alfred Schutz’s theory of literature and relationships. Paper presented at the meeting of the

Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists, Ramapo, New Jersey.

Garrett, E. (2013, May). Toward a phenomenology of urban education: Action, advocacy, and

reflexivity research in Hazelwood. Presentation at the Duquesne Educational Leadership

Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E., & Hopson, R. (2013, May). The (mis) education of Hazelwood: A phenomenological

tragedy. Presentation at the meeting of the Phenomenology Roundtable, Chicago, IL.

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Garrett, E. (2013, April). Burke, Ellison and the rhetorical order of race an engagement with

Bryan Crable’s - Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide. Paper

presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2013, April). Roundtable on future confluence in Burkean analysis. Presentation at

the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2012, November). What is phenomenology? Presentation at Preconference on

“Phenomenology, Cognitive Science, and Narrative” presented at the National Communication

Association, Orlando, FL.

Garrett, E. (2012, November). Victims No More, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat’s radical new vision of

humanity. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human

Sciences, Rochester, New York.

Garrett, E. (2012, November). Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology: Towards a

phenomenology of development and maturity. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for

Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Rochester, New York.

Garrett, E. (2012, July). Ethnographic applications of C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary on a

Pittsburgh inner- city basketball court. Paper presented at the meeting of the Caribbean

Philosophical Association, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

Garrett, E. (2012, May). Levinasian environmental topographies. Paper presented at the

meeting of the North American Levinas Association, Anchorage, AK.

Garrett, E. (2012, April). The rhetorical importance of public space in low-income urban

communities. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association,

Boston, MA.

Garrett, E. (2012, April). Camping out with KB: A Burkeian analysis of the Occupying Wall

Street Movement. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association,

Boston, MA.

Garrett, E. (2012, April). A discussion of the demands of change: Kenneth Burke and a rhetoric

of transitions. Roundtable presentation at the meeting of the Eastern Communication

Association, Boston, MA.

Garrett, E. (2012, April). Stephen Biko and Africana philosophy of communication. Paper

presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Boston, MA.

Garrett, E. (2011, November). Who speaks for the Earth? Burkean analysis of Marcellus Shale

rhetoric. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, New

Orleans, LA.

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Garrett, E. (2011, November). The linguistic erasure of phenomenology: Reading the Husserl-

Heidegger break via the rhetoric of Heidegger’s Rectory Address. Paper presented at the

meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.

Garrett, E. (2011, November). Eek! There is a mouse in the delivery room: Disney’s

advertisement strategy to increase its presence in the delivery room. Paper presented at the

meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.

Garrett, E. (2011, October). The symbolic (caged) animal. Paper presented at the meeting of the

Semiotic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2011, October). Race and the city park. Paper presented at the meeting of the

Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.

Garrett, E. (2011, September). Caribbean rhetorical phenomenology: Towards a

non-relativistic embodied reasoning. Paper presented at the meeting of the Caribbean

Philosophical Association, New Brunswick, NJ.

Zupi, D. & Garrett, E. (2011, June). The sound of irreplaceability: The jazz funeral and New

Orleans. Paper presented at the meeting of the Phenomenology Roundtable, Duquesne

University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2011, May). Permanence and Change and the Book of Change – I Ching. Paper

presented at the meeting of the Kenneth Burke Society Triennial Conference, Clemson

University, Clemson, SC.

Garrett, E. (2011, May). Alfred Schutz, equality and the meaning structure of city parks. Paper

presented at the meeting of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists,

Arlington, VA.

Garrett, E. (2011, April). Towards a phenomenology of Avatar perception. Paper presented at

the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Arlington, VA.

Garrett, E. (2011, April). Nontraditional role power and the family: The case of stay at home

dads. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Arlington, VA.

Garrett, E. (2011, April). A Phenomenology of Power: A Case Study in Pittsburgh Parks. Paper

presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Arlington, VA.

Garrett, E. (2011, April). Sources of Significance: A critical engagement. Roundtable

presentation at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Arlington, VA.

Garrett, E. (2010, November). Burkean spiritual directional transcendence as a corrective of

neurophenomenology? Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication

Association, San Francisco, CA.

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Garrett, E. (2010, November). The “Glocalization” of service-learning. Paper presented at the

meeting of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.

Garrett, E. (2010, October). Intercultural phenomenological communication: A

phenomenological analysis of structural loss in an inner-city Pittsburgh neighborhood. Paper

presented at the meeting of the Society of Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Montreal,

Canada.

Garrett, E. (2010, July). Levinas and the ethics of the communicative sphere: Speaking

rebellious freedom with an obedient voice. Paper presented at the meeting of SIREL and the

North American Levinas Society, Toulouse, France

Garrett, E. (2010, June). The phenomenology of Lewis R. Gordon and the critique of post-racial

rhetoric. Paper presented at the meeting of the Phenomenology Roundtable, Philadelphia, PA.

Garrett, E. (2010, May). Communication urban narrative service-learning project. Paper

presented at the meeting of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists,

Brock, Canada.

Garrett E. (2010, April). “Dreams of Electric Sheep:” Technology and sacrifice. Paper presented

at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore, MD.

Garrett E. (2010, April). Breaking interdisciplinary Decadence: Lewis R Gordon’s philosophy

of communication. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association,

Baltimore, MD.

Garrett, E. (2010, April). Focus on the future: Creating an agenda for the future of Kenneth

Burke. Roundtable presentation at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association,

Baltimore, MD.

Garrett, E. (2010, April). Kenneth Burke – Relational scholar: Extending the Burkeian system.

Roundtable presentation at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore,

MD.

Garrett, E. (2009, November). Consumption and production in globalization rhetoric. Paper

presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.

Garrett, E. (2009, November). Interruptions and echoes: Levinas on interpersonal and

environmental ethics. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication

Association, Chicago, IL.

Garrett, E. (2009, October). Playing with gestures: Toward a genetic and generative

phenomenology of childhood gestures. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society of

Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Arlington, VA.

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Garrett, E. (2009, October). Using service-learning pedagogy to generate environmental

awareness in an urban university. Paper presented at the meeting of the Pennsylvania

Communication Association, Latrobe, PA.

Garrett, E. (2009, June). Phenomenology and media ecology: Spaces of meaningful

communication in the lifeworld. Paper presented at the meeting of the Phenomenology

Roundtable, Providence, RI, June, 2009.

Garrett, E. (2009, May). Achieving a phenomenological rhetoric. Paper presented at the meeting

of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists, Ramapo, New Jersey.

Garrett E. (2009, April). Toward a phenomenological-existential rhetorical understanding of the

Other. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia,

PA.

Garrett, E. (2009, April). Defining moments in retrospective: Intersections of the work of

Kenneth Burke and philosophy of communication. Roundtable presentation at the meeting of the

Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Garrett E. (2008, November). The logos of logo: The ethical concerns of branding. Paper

presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA.

Garrett, E. (2008, November). “Eating off my dog’s bowl – Burke and phenomenology on

Animal Bodies.” Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association,

San Diego, CA.

Garrett, E. (2008, November). Embodying the tradition. Paper presented at the meeting of the

National Communication Association, San Diego, CA.

Garrett, E. (2008, October). Phenomenology and visitor studies: Gazing at gazers. Paper

presented at the meeting of the Society of Phenomenology and the Human Sciences in

conjunction with the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,

Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2008, June). Giving an account of transcendence. Paper presented at the triennial

meeting of the Kenneth Burke Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Garrett, E. (2008, April). Philosophers of life: Kenneth Burke and Henri Bergson. Paper

presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2007, November). What it is like to be a bat: Playing in the ethical spaces between

facts and conceptual schemes.” Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication

Association, Chicago, IL.

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Garrett, E. (2007, November). Roundtable on the works of Lewis Gordon (Panel Organizer and

presenter). Roundtable presentation at the meeting of the National Communication Association,

Chicago, IL.

Garrett, E. (2007, November). Communication and child development – Genetic phenomenology

and imagination.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the

Human Sciences in conjunction with the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and

Existential Philosophy, Chicago, IL.

Garrett, E. (2007, June). Toward a rhetorical understanding of Husserl’s phenomenological

approach.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Phenomenology Roundtable, Milwaukee, WI,

June, 2007.

Garrett, E. (2007, June). Towards a genetic phenomenology of language: Levinas and

Kierkegaard and the originary responsibility of indirection. Paper presented at the meeting of the

North American Levinas Society, West Lafayette, IN,.

Garrett, E. (2007, April). The hope of Sartrean theory and a rhetorical analysis of the ‘New

Documentary.’” Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication Association,

Providence, RI.

Garrett, E. (2006, November). Leaping lemurs: A phenomenological examination of empathy

and play in a child’s zoo visit. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication

Association, San Antonio, TX.

Garrett, E. (2006, October). Petting a pet: Toward a phenomenology of a child’s experience of

touch. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human

Sciences in conjunction with the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential

Philosophy, Philadelphia, PA.

Garrett, E. (2006, March). “Hope Now”: Theoretical foundations for the resistance of

globalization and the “new” documentary.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Globalization

and Resistance Conference of the Graduate Student Conference of the English & Philosophy

Ph.D. Program, West Lafayette, IN.

Garrett, E. (2005, November). Kenneth Burke on psychoanalysis. Paper presented at the meeting

of the National Communication Association, Boston, MA.

Garrett, E. (2005, October). Horizons of empathy: Child’s play and the kinesthetic aspects of the

animal-child bond. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the

Human Sciences Meeting in conjunction with the Society for Phenomenology and Existential

Philosophy, Salt Lake City, UT.

Garrett, E. (2005, June). Positioning Burke in the circle of discourse on empathy. Paper

presented at the triennial meeting of the Kenneth Burke Society Conference, State College, PA.

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Garrett, E. (2005, May). Wilson Harris – Moving the novel beyond the rhetoric of a science of

persuasion. Paper presented at the meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association

Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Garrett, E. (2005, May). A phenomenological investigation of the child-animal bond: The

kinesthesia of child’s play. Paper presented at the meeting of the Phenomenology Roundtable,

Chicago, IL.

Melson, G., Kahn, P., Beck, A. Friedman, B., Garrett, E. & Roberts, T. (2005, April). Robots as

dogs?: Children's interactions with the robotic dog AIBO and a live Australian shepherd. Paper

presented at the conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2005, Portland, OR.

Garrett, E. (2005, March). Existential communication: A dialogue between Levinas and

Kierkegaard. Paper presented at the meeting of the Southern States Communication Association

Conference, Baton Rouge, LA.

Garrett, E. (2004, November). Husserlian phenomenology: A reflexive site for entering

ethnographic spaces. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication

Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

Cantrill, J., Durfee, J. & Garrett, E. (2004, November). A sense of self-in-place and the impulse

for urban sprawl. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association

Conference, Chicago, IL.

Garrett, E. (2004, May). The essential secret of indirect communication and the field of

communication studies: Is a Kierkegaardian revolution needed? Paper presented at the meeting

of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.

*Top Paper Award Winner*

Garrett, E. (2004, April). The maieutic and mimetic of an essential secret: Kierkegaard’s notion

of indirect communication and its relevance for existential-psychoanalysis. Paper presented at

Purdue University Philosophy Graduate Student Colloquia Series, West Lafayette, IN.

Garrett, E. (2003, November). Sartre and post post-modern identity. Paper presented at the

biannual meeting of The North American Sartre Association, West Lafayette, IN, Nov, 2003.

Garrett, E. (2003, July). A Laingian analysis of our modern condition of madness. Paper

presented at the meeting of the Phenomenology Roundtable, Providence, RI.

Garrett, E. (2002, November). The narrative of the urn: Therapeutic praxis and empathy. Paper

presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans,

LA.

Garrett, E. (2002, July). Phenomenology and empathy: Mikhail Bakhtin and the philosophy of

the act. Paper presented at the meeting of the Phenomenology Roundtable, Providence, RI.

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Garrett, E. (2002, May). Burkean form as ethic. Paper presented at the Triennial meeting of The

Kenneth Burke Society, New Orleans, LA.

Garrett, E. (July, 2001). Burke, phenomenology, and race. Paper presented at the meeting of the

Phenomenology Roundtable, Providence, RI.

PRESENTATIONS : INVITED

Garrett, E. (2019, April). Doing Phenomenologically Informed Research in Sociology. Invited

Workshop at the annual meeting of the Midwest chapter of the American Sociological

Association in Chicago, IL.

Garrett, E. (2016, October). The language of disability. Invited paid plenary speaker for the

Seventh Annual McGinley-Rice Symposium, “The Face of Disability,” Duquesne University

School of Nursing. Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2016, July). The strangeness of the strange: The immigrant as stranger in Schutz,

Husserl, and Levinas. Invited end of year closing lecture for the Socialwissenschaftliches Archiv

at the Universitat Konstanz. Konstanz, Germany.

Garrett, E. (2016, March). Revisiting the stranger: Strangeness and proximity in Schutz,

Husserl, and Levinas. Sponsored by a grant from the Williams Foundation. Universidad de

Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina (also conducted a graduate seminar).

Garrett, E. (2016, March). Towards an urban phenomenology: A case study of race and

segregation in a modern American city. Sponsored by a grant from the Williams Foundation.

Universidad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina (also conducted an undergraduate

seminar).

Garrett, E. (2016, March). Memorials as places of trauma: Pittsburgh’s “Freedom Corner” and

the absence of face. Sponsored by a grant from the Williams Foundation. Universidad Nacional

de General Sarmiento. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Garrett, E. (2015, July). Understanding and changing public littering behavior. Clean

Pittsburgh’s Litter and Illegal Dumping Roundtable. Convened by Mayor Peduto’s Office.

Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2014, November). Dangerous cities: Doing radical urban phenomenological

research. Center for Interpretative and Qualitative Research, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh,

PA.

Garrett, E. (2014, October). Book Session on: Why do we go to the zoo? Communication,

animals, and the cultural-historical experience of zoos. Book session at the Society for

Phenomenology and the Human Sciences Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.

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Garrett, E. (2014, September). Husserl in the city: A Phenomenological reflection on childhood

homelessness. Keynote presentation of the Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network First

Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

Garrett, E. (2012, September). Gardening in the desert: Alternative organizing in an urban food

desert in the United States. Invited presentation at the workshop Discussing Theory Building at

the Intersections of Organizing, Communication, and the Public-Private Debate, Copenhagen

Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Garrett, E. (2005, January). Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a history of race relations in the

American South. Invited Lecture given at Lotnikow Polski PA #3, Turek, Poland.

Garrett, E. (2004, May). Respondent to Keynote Presentation - Calvin O. Schrag, Purdue Univ.:

"The philosophical task of the new millennium: A critical revisiting of the phenomenology of

Edmund Husserl," Meeting of the Phenomenology Roundtable, West Lafayette, IN.

Garrett, E. (1999, February). Dussel, Marx and positive activism. Presentation given at the Latin

American Liberation Thought: Educational and Activist Philosophies. Presented at the 4th

Annual Southwest Corridor Philosophy Conference, Romeoville, IL.

Garrett, E. (1998, February). Marx and environmental racism. Presentation given at the Ethics

and the Earth: Environmental Justice and the Philosophy of Nature. Presented at the 3rd Annual

Southwest Corridor Philosophy Conference, Romeoville, IL, Feb, 1998.

Garrett, E. (1997, February). Relevance of violence in a racist society. Presentation given ath the

Antiblack Racism and Fanonian Psychology. Presented at the 2nd Annual Southwest Corridor

Philosophy Conference, Romeoville, IL.

Garrett, E. (1996, June). The I Ching, feng shui, and fortune telling Paid workshop presentation

given at the Athena Center (Alternative learning center focusing on women's studies), Chicago,

IL. RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED

Community Engagement Pathways Grant (2016-2018)

Team member with Dr. Kathleen Roberts, and Kathy Glass receiving approximately $12,000.

The purpose of the grant is to redesign and evaluate the community engagement with the new

two-tier intentional model for the Honor’s College. We are teaming with the August and Daisy

Wilson Artist Community and the historical August Wilson house to provide a community

partner for student learning.

Williams Foundation Grant (2016)

Approximately $5000 awarded through the University of Buenos Aires. The purpose of the

grant is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between US and Argentinian scholars. It funded my

travel, presentation, and teaching at Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Universidad Nacional

de General Sarmiento during the first week of March in 2016.

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Duquesne University Gaultier Fellowship (2015)

$3000 University grant to support my research and teaching around the issue of community

engagement.

Duquesne University College of Liberal Arts NEH Grant (2014)

I was awarded a 2014 Duquesne University College of Liberal Arts NEH grant for “up to $5000

to support activities on campus for an interdisciplinary environmental conservation project

related to the passenger pigeon extinction.

Applied Urban Communication Research Grant (April 2011)

Awarded by the Urban Communication Association at the Eastern Communication Association

Annual Conference – $1000 seed money for new research project received, Arlington, VA

Community Engagement Scholar Grant (Fall 2009- Spring 2014)

Received funding to host two departmental MA students to do service-learning work. The grant

was funding from the VISTA program allocated by Duquesne University’s Office of Service-

Learning. Funding for two students of approximately $2000-$3000 per year.

Duquesne University College of Liberal Arts NEH Grant (2010)

I was awarded a 2010 Duquesne University College of Liberal Arts NEH grant for $5000. This

helped me organize and develop the 2010 Communication Ethics Conference, which yielded my

edited book project.

Purdue Research Foundation (Dissertation Grant)

July 2004 - July 2005. Estimated amount $15,000. “A Phenomenological Investigation of the

Child-Animal Bond” (Competitively selected grant with full year of funding given to a limited

number of doctoral students across departments in the university.)

Purdue Research Foundation Grant

May 2005. Estimated amount $2,500.

RESEARCH HONORS AND AWARDS RECEIVED

Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Scholarship Recognition.

Duquesne Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. Pittsburgh, PA, November, 2014.

International Communication Association Top Paper

Division of Philosophy of Communication, New Orleans, LA, May, 2004.

Scholarship for National Communication Association (NCA) Doctoral Honor’s Seminar

Division of Communication Theory, Norman, OK, July 2005.

(Stipend for tuition and transportation.)

Monroe Scholar Designation

Purdue University Communication Department, April 2005

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(Given to student scholars who have demonstrated professional engagement through

presentations and publications.)

Chancellor’s List

March 2005

Cambridge Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges,

1995-2000

De LaSalle Medallion for Service

Lewis University, 1998

Nominee Oxford University Rhodes Scholarship

1st student nominated for the award from the university

Lewis University, 1998

Distinguished Scholar Honors designation

1st student to receive this designation

Lewis University, 1998

Outstanding Senior Philosophy Department Award

Lewis University, 1998

St. Miguel Cordero Award

(Award for outstanding commitment to service and academics)

Lewis University, May 1997

TEACHING

GRADUATE STUDENT DISSERTATION WORK

Dissertation Chair

Arshia Anwer – Transnational public relations in postcolonial spaces: Making space for other

discourses in the Afghan public sphere (Spring 2016). Employed Assistant Professor (tenure

track) at Manhattan College

Alexander Regina – A Phenomenological Investigation of Sport Fandom through Hans-Georg

Gadamer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Fall 2017)

Chelsea Binnie – Four phases of subjectivity: A rhetorical and phenomenological analysis of

AIMÉ CÉSAIRE and CAHIER D’UN RETOUR AU PAYS NATAL (Fall 2018)

Robert Foscia - Corporate Social Responsibility To-Come: A Derridean Interruption of

Transparency (Fall 2018)

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Maha Alshoaibi – Identity Negotiation, Saudi Women, and the Impact of the 2011 Royal Decree:

An Investigation of the Cultural, Religious, and Societal Shifts among Women in the Saudi

Arabian Public Sphere (Fall 2018)

Joshua Friedberg – Multifaith Families and their Narratives within Society (Spring 2019)

William Aungst – Communication and architecture: a rhetorical approach to domestic spaces,

public architecture, and contemporary humanness (Expected graduation date Summer 2019)

Rubaiya Amin – on nonviolence as a communicative strategy for social change (Expected

graduation date 2020)

Shivaun Corry

Mary Jeanette Eberhardinger

Dissertation Committee Member

Jennifer Jones – (Spring 2014)

Jill Dishart Leontiadis (Fall 2014)

Betsy Duwaldt (Fall 2016)

Margaret Mullen (Fall 2017)

Jenna Lo Castro (Fall 2017)

Johan Bodaski (Summer 2018)

Autumn Redcross (Spring 2019)

Tahirah Walker (Spring 2019)

Stephen Zweir (Spring 2019)

Hongchao Qian

Dorothy McClester

Jeffrey Lohr

Ryan McCullough

Outside Reader

Cate Morrison – (University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2013)

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COURSES TAUGHT AT DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY

Undergraduate Only

IHP 203W/ SL: Honors – Community and University

IHP 105: Honors Freshman Seminar II - Interreligious Dialogue

IHP 105: Honors Freshman Seminar II – Diaspora

IHP 105: Honors Freshman Seminar II – Bridges and Borders: The Rhetoric of Immigration

COMM 102: Introduction to Public Speaking

COMM 102C: Introduction to Public Speaking Learning Community

COMM 103: Exploring Interpersonal Communication

COMM 114: Exploring Intercultural Communication

COMM 114SL: Exploring Intercultural Communication (Service

Learning)

COMM 202: Introduction to Business & Professional

Communication

COMM 330: Integrated Marketing Communication Functions I -

Public Relations

COMM 330SL: Integrated Marketing Communication Functions I -

Public Relations (Service Learning)

Undergraduate and Master’s Level

COMM 311/511: Rhetoric of Digital Communication

COMM 342/542: Environmental Communication

COMM 407/507: Intercultural Communication

COMM 456W/515: Organizational Communication

COMM 461/561: Rhetorical Theory

Doctoral Level

COMM 610: Philosophy and Rhetoric of Cyberspace

COMM 611: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics

COMM 632: Hermeneutic Phenomenology Reading

REFEREED PRESENTATIONS RELATED TO TEACHING

• Garrett, E. (April, 2012). Service-learning as pedagogical praxis for transitioning

students towards maturity. Paper presented at the meeting of the Eastern Communication

Association, Boston, MA.

• Scigliano, D. & Garrett, E. (October, 2010). “Raising Your Voice” – Joint education and

public relations e-learning advocacy project. Virtual Paper Presented at the World

Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education,

Orlando, Fl.

• Garrett, E; Smith, T, Mann, J; Braun, Z; Donohoe, A; Pannebecker, C. (March, 2010)

Intercultural communication course looks at the impact of service-learning in an urban

environment. Poster Presentation at SPRING Southwest PA Regional Network for

Growth of Service-Learning Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.

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• Garrett, E., McDowell, C., Cesareo, F., & Fritz, J. (2008, April). Learning communities

as embodied mission praxis: The case of Duquesne University., Paper presented at the

meeting of the Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA.

• Garrett, E. (2007, November.)“Be true to thyself”: Existential theory as a philosophical

ground for plagiarism. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication

Association, Chicago, IL.

• Garrett, E. (2004, March.) “Bunbu itchi: Pen and sword in accord,” Paper presented at

the meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Cleveland, OH.

TEACHING GRANTS

$1500 SPRING (Southwestern PA Regional Network for the Growth of Service-Learning) Grant

for implementing service-learning in the classroom received for Fall 2008

TEACHING HONORS AND AWARDS

Duquesne University Creative Teaching Award. Spring 2010

Cambridge Who’s Who List of Scholars and Professionals Award. Fall 2008

Bruce Kendall Award Honorable Mention (for excellence in teaching)

Purdue University Communication Department, April 2005

SERVICE

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

External Program Reviewer

SUNY Oneonta, Department of Communication Studies, April 2013

External Tenure Review

Fall 2018

Offices Held

Board Member, Urban Communication Foundation, Dec 2014 - present

Chair, Society of Phenomenology and the Human Sciences 2010-2011, 2012-present

Chair, North American Levinas Society, 2018 - present

Board Member North American Levinas Society, 2015 - 2017

Board Member at Large, Society of Phenomenology and the Human Sciences 2009-2010

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Executive Member at Large, Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists

2009-2012

Vice-Chair Elect for the Semiotics Division, National Communication Association, Chicago, IL,

Nov 2007

Chair and Legislative Assembly Representative for the Semiotics Division, National

Communication Association, Nov 2008-Nov 2010

Co-Founder

The Phenomenology Roundtable 2001-present

Conference Organizer

North American Levinas Society, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2013

Communication Ethics Conference, biannual conference of the Communication Ethics Division

of the National Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2010

Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences Annual Meeting, with Society for

Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct 2008, and Rochester, NY, Nov

2012

Phenomenology Roundtable annual meeting 2004 at Purdue University, and 2011 at Duquesne

University

Conference Division Planner

Urban Communication Foundation, National Communication Association, 2015-present

Kenneth Burke Division, National Communication Association, 2017-2019

Kenneth Burke Division, Eastern Communication Association, Providence, RI, April 2014

Kenneth Burke Division, Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2013

Semiotics and Communication Division, National Communication Association, Chicago, IL,

Nov 2007

Preconference Organizer

Phenomenology, Cognitive Science, and Narrative, Philosophy of Communication Division,

National Communication Association, November, 2012

Journal / Press Peer Reviewer

Sage Press

Hospitality and Society

Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy

Environmental Philosophy

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Rowman and Littlefield International

Lexington Press

Oxford University Press

Philosophy & Rhetoric

Journal of Catholic Higher Education

Journal of Human Studies

Review of Communication

Atlantic Journal of Communication

Journal of Communication

Journal of Japanese Philosophy

Conference Peer Reviewer

North American Levinas Society

Société internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas (SIREL)

Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists

Society of Phenomenology and Human Sciences

Philosophy of Communication Division Eastern Communication Association (ECA)

Philosophy of Communication Division National Communication Association (NCA)

Kenneth Burke Division ECA

Kenneth Burke Division NCA

Judge

Virginia Press Women Communications Contest, Feb 2008

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE SERVICE ACTIVITIES

University Core Revision Design Day Team Leader Spring 2019

CIQR Advisory Board (Center for Interpretative and Qualitative Research), Duquesne University

– Committee Member 2014 - present

Project Passenger Pigeon Learning Community Keynote Speaker Organizer - 2014

Civil Leadership and Social Justice Minor Proposal Committee (ad hoc) Spring 2014 - 2015

Duquesne University Press Advisory Board Committee Fall 2014 – Fall 2017

University Distinguished Dissertation Committee 2013-2015

College of Liberal Arts Diversity Committee Spring 2013-2015

Founding Member of Duquesne – Hazelwood Community Partnership Advisory Committee

2009-2013

College of Liberal Arts Representative to CTE Creative Teaching Award Committee 2011-2013

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College of Liberal Arts Representative to Office of Community Engaged Teaching and Research

(CETR) (formerly Office of Service-Learning) Course Designation Committee 2011-present

Community Engaged Teaching and Research Office - CETR (formerly Office of Service-

Learning) Advisory Board Member 2011-present

Simon Silverman Board Member 2011-2016

Prepared Duquesne University White House Interfaith and Service Campus Challenge

Submission Summer 2011-Summer 2012

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Comprehensive Exams Committee Member Summer 2019

Director of Departmental Community Engaged Teaching and Research (formerly Service-

Learning) – Duquesne University Fall 2008-present

Supervisor Community Engagement Scholar Program for Department of Communication –

Duquesne University Summer 2009-Fall 2014

Exploring Intercultural Communication Course Director (COMM 114) Fall 2011-present

Co-leader Phenomenology Reading Group that meets once a week – Duquesne University, Fall

2006-2013

Search Committee New Faculty Hire – Duquesne University Fall 2011-Spring 2012

Conference Planner – Eleventh Biannual Communication Ethics Conference at Duquesne

University, Spring 2010

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference Planning Committee –

Duquesne University, Fall 2007-Fall 2008

Co-director for the basic courses: Business & Professional Communication, and Introduction to

Public Speaking – Duquesne University, Fall 2006-2008

Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies PhD Alumni Group Committee Member,

Fall 2006-2011

Served on Graduate school grade appeals committee for School of Liberal Arts – Purdue

University Spring 2004

Served as Graduate Committee Representative for Communication Department Graduate

Students’ Association Fall 2001-Spring 2002

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Served as Secretary for Communication Department Graduate Students’ Association Fall 2002-

Spring 2003

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/SERVICE

Nonprofit Board Membership

Center of Life- Hazelwood Fall 2013-present

Founding Member Advisory Board of Directors – Association for the Advancement of Science

Communication – 2010 to present

Specific Nonprofit Service Projects

Homeless Children’s Education Fund Summit VI organizing board member, 2015 and 2016

Pittsburgh Passenger Pigeon Partnership 2013-present

Hired by Dr. Jim Cantrill on an EPA grant studying perceptions of urban sprawl in Chicago Fall

2002 – Spring 2003

Communication Research Assistant at Brookfield Zoo studying the relationship visitors had with

animals, focusing on children’s conceptions of caring Summer 1998-Summer 2003.

Member/Researcher

Purdue Center for the Human-Animal Bond, 2004-2007

Volunteer

Pittsburgh Montessori Public School 2012-present

Homeless Children’s Education Fund 2011-present

Center of Life, Hazelwood 2009-present

Fishes and Loaves, Hazelwood 2012-present

August Wilson House, Hill District, Pittsburgh 2015-present

NCA Day of Service – worked in the 9th Ward of New Orleans before convention Nov 2011

Malcolm X College Soup Kitchen, 1999-2001, and Nov 2007

WQED Membership drive April 2007

SERVICE AWARDS

Winner of the 2016 Joseph Lagana Homeless Children’s Education Fund Volunteer of the Year

Award

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

National Communication Association

Eastern Communication Association

International Communication Association

Pennsylvania Communication Association

Kenneth Burke Society

Urban Communication Foundation

Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences

Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Phenomenology Roundtable

Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists

North American Levinas Society

Caribbean Philosophical Association

Semiotics Society of America

Media Ecology Association

International Association of Aesthetics

European Communication Research Association

Nordic Phenomenology Society

REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST