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Education University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 2000-2003 Degree: Doctor of Philosophy, Speech Communication, May 2003. Dissertation: A Rhetorical History of the British Constitution of Israel: 1917-1948, advised by Celeste Condit. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1998-2000 Degree: Master of Arts, Speech Communication, May 2000. Thesis: Capital and Clash: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Muammer Qadafi's Green Book, advised by Thomas Lessl. University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia. 1994-1998 Degree: Bachelor of Arts, Speech Communication & Political Science, May 1998. Teaching Appointments Ohio University, School of Communication Studies Assistant Professor, Fall 2003- COMS 215 – Argumentative Analysis and Advocacy COMS 235 – Communication Theory COMS 342 – Persuasion COMS 351 – Courtroom Rhetoric COMS 352 – Political Rhetoric COMS 372T – Honors Tutorial in Communication COMS 430 – Communication and the Campaign (Health Campaigns) COMS 430 – Communication and the Campaign (Political Campaigns) COMS 442 – Responsibilities and Freedoms of Speech in Communication COMS 496A – Health Communication Internship COMS 496B – Organizational Communication Internship COMS 751 – Introduction to Health Communication (Graduate) COMS 780 – Public Understanding of Medicine (Graduate) COMS 844 – Topics in the Philosophy of Communication Visiting Professor, Ohio University in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University COMS 215 – Argumentative Analysis and Advocacy COMS 235 – Communication Theory COMS 353 – Rhetoric and Contemporary Culture University of Georgia, Department of Speech Communication Instructor, Summer 2003 Teaching Assistant, Fall 1998-Spring 2003 SPCM 1010 – Communication in Human Society (Co-Instructor with Jennifer Monahan) SPCM 1100 – Introduction to Public Speaking (Instructor of Record) SPCM 1500 – Introduction to Interpersonal Communication (Instructor of Record) SPCM 2300 – Business and Professional Communication (TA) SPCM 3300 – Introduction to Rhetorical Criticism (Instructor of Record) SPCM 3320 – Environmental Communication (Co-Instructor with Kevin DeLuca) Research Appointments Dissertation Completion Assistantship, University of Georgia, Fall 2002-Spring 2003 Research Assistant, University of Georgia, Fall 2000-Summer 2003 Consultant, University of Georgia, Summer 2000 Research Assistant, University of Georgia, Summer 1999 Grant Experience Primary Investigator, “Physician Public and Lay Public Understandings of Genetics Pilot Project.” May 2004-June 2005. $7,923. (unfunded). Co-Investigator, “College Student Tobacco Use Pilot Project,” Ohio Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation. February 2004-August 2005. $260,000 (unfunded). PI: Michael Adeyanju & Sharon Denham. Research Assistant, “Race and Public Communication about Human Variation,” National Institutes of Health: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project, National Center for Human Genome Research. June 2001-May 2004. $903,176. PI: Celeste M. Condit. Research Assistant, “Communicating Genetics Information to the Lay Public,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, October 1999-August 2003. $778,000. PI: Roxanne L. Parrott. Consultant, “Affect and Patterns of Communication.” $504,923. National Institute of Mental Health. (1997-1999). PI: Jennifer L. Monahan. Honors and Awards · Invited Reviewer, GE3LS – Democracy, Ethics and Genomics: Consultation, Deliberation & Modelling, sponsored by Genome Canada, the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, and the University of British Columbia · “Silver Level” Reviewer, Journal of the National Medical Association, 32 of 647 reviewers were named “Silver Level,” three were named “Gold Level · Certificate of Excellence for Outstanding Performance and Lasting Contribution, National Medical Association, 2004-2005 · Top 3 Paper in Health Communication, Western States Communication Association, 2004 · Biography selected for Who’s Who in the Social Sciences, 2004 · Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award in Humanities and Letters, University of Georgia, 2003 · Top 5 Paper in Health Communication, Eastern Communication Association, 2003 · University of Georgia Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award, 2002-2003 · Fellow, School of Speech Summer Institute, "Globalization and Media Studies," Northwestern University, Summer, 2002 · Top 5 Paper in Political Communication, National Communication Association, 2002 · Owen J. Peterson Award in Rhetoric and Public Address, Southern States Communication Association, 2002 · Bostrum Award finalist, Southern States Communication Association, 2002 · Top 4 Paper in Mass Communication, Eastern Communication Association, 2001 · Bostrum Award finalist, Southern States Communication Association, 2000 · Top Paper in Popular Communication, Southern States Communication Association, 2000 · Top Paper in Gender Studies, Southern States Communication Association, 2000 · Mary E. Jarrard Award finalist, Carolinas Communication Association, 1999 · Alton Williams Scholar. Department of Speech, Theatre, and Dance, University of Richmond, 1997-1998
Research Publications (21) Bates, B.R. (Accepted). Care of the self and patient participation in genetic discourse: A Foucauldian reading of the Surgeon General’s “My Family Health Portrait” program. Journal of Genetic Counseling. Bates, B.R. (Accepted). Senator Bill Frist and the medical jeremiad. Journal of Medical Humanities. Harter, L.M., Bates, B.R., & Carmack, H. (In Press). Narrative constructions of health care issues and polices: The case of President Clinton’s apology-by-proxy for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Health care: Issues and policy. (Ed. F. Columbus). Hauppage, NY: Nova Science. Bates, B.R. (2005). Public culture and public understanding of genetics: A focus group study. Public Understanding of Science, 14, 47-65. Bates, B.R., Lynch, J.A., Bevan, J.L., & Condit, C.M. (2005). Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks: A focus group study of public opinion about genetics research. Social Science & Medicine, 60, 331-44. Dubriwny, T.N., Bates, B.R., & Bevan, J.L. (2004 [issued 2005]). Lay understandings of race: cultural and genetic definitions. Community Genetics, 7, 185-195. Bates, B.R., Poirot, K., Harris, T.M., Achter, P.J., & Condit, C.M. (2004). Evaluating direct-to-consumer marketing of race-based pharmacogenomics: A focus group study of public understandings of applied genomic medication. Journal of Health Communication, 9, 541-59. Condit, C.M., Parrott, R.L., Bates, B.R., Bevan, J.L., & Achter, P.J. (2004). Exploration of he impact of messages about genes and race on lay attitudes. Clinical Genetics, 66, 402-8. Bates, B.R. (2004). Geneticization and Medical Education: A Pilot Study. Internet Journal of Genomics and Proteomics, 1, http://www.ispub.com/ ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijgp/vol1n2/genetic.xml. Bates, B.R. (2004). Audiences, metaphors, and the Persian Gulf War. Communication Studies, 55, 447-63. Bates, B.R. & Harris, T.M. (2004). The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis and public perceptions of biomedical research: a focus group study. Journal of the National Medical Association, 96, 1051-1064. Bates, B.R. (2004). Social implications of algorithmic management in cases of cystic hygroma. Southern Medical Journal, 97, 622-3. Bates, B.R. (2003). Ashcroft among the senators: Strategies, tactics, and justification in the 2001 Attorney General hearings. Argumentation and Advocacy, 39, 254-273. Condit, C.M., Templeton, A., Bates, B.R., Bevan, J.L., Harris, T.M. (2003). An exploration of attitudinal barriers to delivery of race-targeted pharmacogenomics among informed lay persons. Genetics in Medicine, 5, 385-92. Bates, B.R., Templeton, A., Achter, P.J., Harris, T.M., & Condit, C.M. (2003). What does "a gene for heart disease" mean? A focus group study of public understandings of genetic risk factors. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 119A(1), 156-161. Condit, C.M., Bates, B.R., Galloway, R.W., Givens, S.B., Haynie, C., Jordan, J., Stables, G.W., & West, H.M. (2002). Recipes or blueprints for our genes? How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88, 303-325. Bates, B.P., Bates, B.R., and Northway, D. (2002). PQRST: A mnemonic to improve nurse-physician communication. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 3, 23-25. Bates, B.R. (2002). The New York Yankees and the conservative use of space. Ethnologies, 24(1), 201-224. Bates, B.R. (2002). Inherency, strategy, and academic debate. Rostrum, 76(5), 15-18. Bates, B.R. & Garner, T. (2001). Can you dig it? Audiences, archetypes, and John Shaft. Howard Journal of Communications, 12, 137-158. Bates, B.R. (1996). Inherency: An argument in evolution. MIFA Unauthorized Debate Journal, 1, 6-14. Reviews (2) Bates, B.R. (In Press, 2005). [Review of the book Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders]. Journal of the National Medical Association. Bates, B.R. (2002). [Review of the book Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid]. Southern Communication Journal, 68, 70-71. Works Under Review (16) Bates, B.R. Public deliberation requires argument, and that’s a good thing. Manuscript requested for special issue of Journal of Integrative Analysis. Bates, B.R. Organizational identification and politicizing professional associations: A case study of Senator Bill Frist, M.D.’s 1998 Hayes Martin Memorial Lecture to the American College of Surgeons. Manuscript under review for Rhetoric and Public Affairs. Bates, B.R., Romina, S.M., Ahmed, R., & Hopson, D. The effect of source credibility on potential patients’ perceptions of message quality. Manuscript under review for Medical Informatics & the Internet in Medicine. Bates, B.R., Romina, S.M., Hopson, D., Ahmed, R., & Rathbun, A. The effects of differing levels of readability on potential patients' perceptions of the readability, truthfulness, trustworthiness and completeness of health information. Manuscript under review for Studies in Communication Sciences. Condit, C.M., & Bates, B.R. The impact of health messages on attitudes and understandings of genetics and race. First revision submitted, Clinical Genetics. Bates, B.R., & Stroup, K. The eternal sunshine of the solar anus: A schizoanalytic perspective on critical methodology. Manuscript under review for Rhetoric Review. Bates, B.R. Care of the self and American physicians’ place in the “War on Terror”: A Foucauldian reading of Senator Bill Frist, M.D. Manuscript under review for Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Condit, C.M., & Bates, B.R. Rhetorical criticism. Chapter for Handbook of applied communication research (Eds. K.L. Cissna & L.R. Frey). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Bates, B.R. “The laws of nature require the obliteration of the unfit”: Eugenical logics in German and American sterilization law. Chapter for Exterminating narratives: Identifying and resisting genocidal cultural logics (Ed. T. Libretti). Ahmed, R. & Bates, B.R. Should gender specific medicine’s recommendations be applied to the college student population?: An exploratory study. Manuscript under review for Journal of American College Health. Harris, T.M., Samp, J.A., Bates, B.R., & Edwards, K.S.A comparison of student attitudes towards race relations. Manuscript under review for Communication Education. Bates, B.R. & Panetta, E.M. Learning or perception? An analysis of the 2000 presidential debates. Manuscript under review for Argumentation & Advocacy. Namageyo-Funa, A., Bernhardt, J.M., Carlson, L., Bates, B.R., Nabring, R.L., & Condit, C.M. Perceptions of trust in human genetics communication sources. Manuscript revised and resubmitted to American Journal of Medical Genetics. Bates, B.R. Race, inversive performance, and public pedagogy in White Man’s Burden. Manuscript under review for Whiteness, Performance, Pedagogy (eds. L. Cooks & T.M. Harris). Bates, B.R. Articulating a vocabulary for international conflict: The circulation of the World War II/Holocaust analogy in the 1999 Kosovo intervention. Manuscript under review for Political Communication. Colloquia (5) DeLuca, K.,M., Lawrence, W.Y., Bates, B.R., Lawrence, W.Y., & Powers, S. Discussion panel to be presented to the Visual Communication division at the National Communication Association, November. Lawrence, W.Y., Wills Toker, C.M., Bates, B.R., & Simons, C.D.C. (2004). Looking back to the rhetorical tradition to prepare future communicators. Discussion panel presented as part of the National Communication Association’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Series, November. Bates, B.R. (2002). “Not some grainy newsreel”: Bill Clinton and the World War II analogy in the Kosovo intervention. Colloquium presented to the graduate faculty of the University of Georgia, September. Bates, B.R. (1999). Coconstitutive rhetoric: The case of the 1978-9 Iranian Revolution. Colloquium presented to the graduate faculty of the University of Georgia, November. Presentations at Learned Societies (40) Bates, B.R., & Stroup, K. The eternal sunshine of the solar anus: A schizoanalytic perspective on critical methodology. Manuscript under review for the Critical and Cultural Studies division at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA. Dubriwny, T.N., & Bates, B.R. Theorizing radical democracy through the negative: Two lessons from Lenina Huxley. Manuscript to be presented to the Association for the Study of Psychoanalysis in Communication at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA. Bates, B.R. Care of the self and American physicians’ place in the “war on terror”: A Foucauldian reading of Senator Bill Frist, M.D. Manuscript to be presented to the Public Address division at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA. Bates, B.R. Care of the self and patient participation in genetics discourse: a Foucauldian reading of the Surgeon General’s “My Family Health Portrait” program. Manuscript to be presented to the Health Communication division at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA. Harter, L.M., Bates, B.R., & Carmack, H. Narrative constructions of health care issues and policies: The case of President Clinton’s apology-by-proxy for the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Manuscript to be presented to the Applied Communication division at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA. Bates, B.R. (2005). Deliberation requires argument, and that’s a good thing. Invited presentation to GE3LS – Democracy, Ethics and Genomics: Consultation, Deliberation & Modelling, sponsored by Genome Canada, the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, and the University of British Columbia - Faculty of Graduate Studies, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Bates, B.R. (2005). “The laws of nature require the obliteration of the unfit”: Eugenical logics in German and American sterilization law. Manuscript presented to the Voices of Diversity interest group at the Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Ahmed, R. & Bates, B.R. (2005). Young adults’ understanding of gender specific medicine. Manuscript presented to the Health Communication division at the Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Bates, B.R. (2004). Public culture and public understanding of genetics: how the lay public uses cultural resources to interpret genetic science. Paper presented to the Social Issues Committee of the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada. Bates, B.R. & Harris, T.M. (2004). The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis and public perceptions of biomedical research: a focus group study. Paper presented to the African American Communication and Culture interest group at the 91st National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL. Bates, B.R. (2004). Paging Doctor Jeremiah: Senator Bill Frist and the recovery of physicians’ social ethos. Paper presented to the Public Address division at the 91st National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL. Bates, B.R. (2004). When monks become ministers: transformations of the priestly voice in presidential addresses to the American Society of Human Genetics, 1993-2003. Paper presented to the American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology at the 91st National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL. Bates, B.R. (2004). Race, inversive performance, and public pedagogy in White Man’s Burden. Paper presented to the Intercultural Communication interest group at the Central States Communication Association Annual Convention, Cleveland, OH. Bates, B.R. (2004). Genetics, public culture, and scientific literacy: A focus group study of public understanding of genetics. Paper presented to the Health Communication interest group at the Central States Communication Association Annual Convention, Cleveland, OH. Condit, C., Parrott, R., Harris, T., Templeton, A., Dubriwny, T., Lynch, J., Bates, B., Reeder, A., & Acosta-Alzura, C. (2004).Communication barriers make infeasible prescribing and diagnosing based on race as a proxy for genes (Genetic medicine will be more efficacious when based on the individual): A query by the Health and Heritage Team. Paper presented at the National Institutes of Health Roundtable on Race, Bethesda, MD. Bates, B.R., Lynch, J.A., Bevan, J.L., & Condit, C.M. (2004). Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks: A focus group study of public opinion about genetics research. Paper presented to the Health Communication interest group at the Western States Communication Association Annual Convention, Albuquerque, NM. Top 3 Paper. Samp, J., Harris, T.M., Bates, B.R., & Edwards, K. (2003).A comparison of student attitudes towards race relations. Paper presented to the African American Communication and Culture division at the 90th National Communication Association Convention, Miami Beach, FL. Bates, B.R. (2003).Announcements of candidacy as a genre. Paper presented to the Political Communication interest group at the 90th National Communication Association Convention, Miami Beach, FL. Bates, B.R., Poirot, K., Harris, T.M., Achter, P.J., & Condit, C.M. (2003).Direct-to-consumer marketing of race-based pharmacogenomics: A focus group study of public understandings of applied genomic medication. Paper presented to the Health Communication interest group at the Eastern Communication Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C. Top 5 Paper. Bates, B.R. & Panetta, E.M. (2002). Learning or perception? An analysis of the 2000 presidential debates. Paper presented to the Political Communication interest group at the 89th National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA. Top 5 Paper. Bates, B.R., Templeton, A., Achter, P.J., Harris, T.M., & Condit, C.M. (2002). What does "a gene for heart disease" mean? A focus group study of public understandings of genetic risk factors. Paper presented to the Genetics Services and Tests, Genetic Screening, and Public Policy section at the American Society of Human Genetics 52nd Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Bates, B.R. (2002). Audiences, metaphors, and the Persian Gulf War. Paper presented to the Rhetoric and Public Address interest group at the Southern States Communication Association Conference at Winston-Salem, NC. Owen J. Peterson Award winner, Bostrum Award finalist. Bates, B.R. (2002). On presidential persuasion to violence: Bill Clinton's use of analogy in the Kosovo intervention. Paper to be presented to the Political Communication interest group at the Southern States Communication Association Conference, Winston-Salem, NC. Bostrum Award finalist. Bates, B.R. & Panetta, E.M. (2001). The presidential debates and the perception of learning: Some 2000 data. Paper presented to the Political Communication interest group at the 88th National Communication Association Convention, Atlanta, GA. Bates, B.R. (2001). A rhetoric of silence: The silence and power of the Prophet Mohammed in Moustapha Akkad's The Message. Manuscript presented to the Religious Communication Association at the 88th National Communication Association Convention, Atlanta, GA. Bates, B.R. (2001). To read a "redskin" (or an "Indian" or a "warrior"): Collapsing polysemy to monosemy in the Maine high school mascot controversy. Paper presented to the Voices of Diversity, Theory & Methodology, and Nonverbal Communication interest groups of the Eastern Communication Association Annual Convention, Portland, ME, 2001. Bates, B.R. (2001). Not speaking for The Greatest Generation: Brokaw, Bakthin, Bourdieu and the limiting discourse of television news. Paper presented to the Mass Communication interest group of the Eastern Communication Association Annual Convention, Portland, ME, 2001. Top 4 Paper. Bates, B.R. (2000). The religious discourse of constitutions: A Burkeian discussion of the United States, Soviet, and Iranian constitutions. Manuscript presented to the Religious Communication Association at the 87th National Communication Association Convention, Seattle, WA, November 9-12. Bates, B.R. (2000). Bourdieu & De Certeau: Sociological possibilities in rhetorical theory. Paper presented to the Rhetoric Society of America Ninth Biennial Conference, Washington, DC, May 25-28. Bates, B.R. (2000). Rethinking Communication Accommodation Theory: Questioning the appropriateness of similarity attraction as the cause of communicative convergence. Manuscript presented to the Communication Theory Interest Group of the Eastern Communication Association Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, April 20-23, 2000. Bates, B.R. (2000). Constructing a new hero myth: Mythology, novelization, and perennial philosophy in Frank Herbert's Dune. Manuscript to be presented to the Mass Communication Interest Group of the Eastern Communication Association Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, April 20-23, 2000. Bates, B.R. (2000). Coconstitutive rhetoric: The case of the 1978/9 Iranian Revolution. Manuscript to be presented to the Bostrum Awards Panel, Southern States Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, March 29-April 3, 2000. Bostrum Award finalist. Bates, B.R. (2000). Filming heroes for the (post)modern condition: Recasting Mythology in Frank Herbert's/David Lynch's Dune. Manuscript to be presented to the Popular Communication Interest Group of the Southern States Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, March 29-April 3, 2000. Top Paper in Popular Communication. Bates, B.R. (2000). Fractured men in fractured times: A mythopoetic discussion of (post)heroic masculinity in Farscape. Manuscript to be presented to the Gender Studies Interest Group of the Southern States Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA March 29-April 3, 2000. Top Paper in Gender Studies. Bates, B.R. (1999). A call for the novelization of debate: Bakhtin and the question of authoritative evidence. Paper presented to the Cross-Examination Debate Association at the National Communication Association 86th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, November 4-7. Bates, B.R. (1999). Morelogy: Negotiating multilogues between divergent justifications for collective action. Paper presented at the Carolinas Communication Association Meeting, Columbia, SC, October 15-16. Mary E. Jarrard Award finalist. Bates, B.R. (1999). Green Islam: Allah's Environmentalists. Paper presented to the Political Communication Interest Group at the Eastern Communication Association Annual Convention, Charleston, WV, April 29-May 2. Bates, B.R. (1999). Pornographic Communication. Paper presented to the Gender Studies Interest Group at the Southern States Communication Association-Central States Communication Association Joint Convention, Saint Louis, MO, April 7-11. Bates, B.R. (1998). Counter-inherent argumentation: A new standard for counterplans. Paper presented to the Cross-Examination Debate Association at the National Communication Association 85th Annual Convention, New York, NY, November 20-24. Public Media Interview with Andrea Gibson, Perspectives: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity at Ohio University, on the American Cancer Society Partnership at Ohio University, May 10, 2005. Interview with Brian Creamer, Athens Messenger, on developments in the 2004 presidential campaign related to the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act, October 20, 2004. Live interview (with John Bisney, CNN) to WNSY Radio Dino and Stacy (drive-time morning show), Columbus, OH on the role of vice presidential debates in elections, October 6, 2004. (WSNY is 4th highest in Columbus AHQ share) Taped interview to TVN News Radio 610, Columbus, OH on the “presidentiality” on Kerry’s and Bush’s debating styles, October 5, 2004. (WTVN is 3rd highest in Columbus AHQ share) Taped interview to WOUB-TV Newsdepth (11:00 AM news broadcast), Athens, OH, on expectations members of the public brought to the first presidential debate, October 1, 2004 Live interview to WCOL Radio Woody and the Wake-Up Call (drive-time morning show), Columbus, OH on the image of the presidency projected in the first presidential debate, October 1, 2004. (WCOL is 2nd highest in Columbus AHQ share) Taped interview to WTVN News Radio 610, Columbus, OH on the foreign policy ideologies of Bush and Kerry in the first presidential debate, October 1, 2004. Commentary on the first presidential debate, Ohio University DebateWatch, September 30, 2004. Used in Wendy van Sickle, “Delivery may be as important as content,” Athens Messenger, October 1, 2004, page 1. Taped interview to WOUB-TV NewsWatch (6:30 PM news broadcast), Athens, OH on the role of DebateWatches for the lay public, September 30, 2004 Service Professional Service
University Service Ohio University
University of Georgia
Internships, Tutorials, and Independent Studies Directed
Community Service
Graduate Advising and Outcomes
Forensics Forensics Program, Ohio University
Georgia Debate Union, University of Georgia
Redlands University Speech and Debate Society, University of the Redlands
University of Richmond Debate Team
Professional Affiliations · National Communication Association · American Society of Human Genetics · Southern States Communication Association (life member) · Eastern Communication Association (life member) · American Forensic Association (life member)
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