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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
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