Dr. Mari Lee Mifsud

Awarded Visiting International Educator Grant for Spring 2015 to bring in Dr. Petra Aczél, Director of the Institute for Behavioral and Communication Studies, Corvinus University of Budapest. 2014

University of Richmond Summer Fellowship, “Rhetoric and the Gift.” 2013

University of Richmond Summer Fellowship, “Rhetorical Imagination in a Homeric Figure.” 2012

Selected Participant in Giambattista Vico, The Humanist Tradition, Emory University, Institute for the History of Philosophy, Directed by Donald Phillip Verene. 2011

University of Richmond PETE Summer Grant, new course development, “Introduction to Rhetorical Theory.” 2011

University of Richmond Summer Fellowship, “Rhetoric and Civic Life.” 2009

University of Richmond Summer Fellowship for “Rhetoric, Democracy, Economy.” 2005

PETE Summer Stipend, “Rhetoric and Law.” 2004

University of Richmond Summer Fellowship for Encountering Homeric Rhetoric. 2001

University of Richmond PETE Grant for revisions of History of Public Address. 1999

University of Richmond Faculty Research Grant, Newberry Library Research. 1999

University of Richmond Faculty Enrichment Grant for summer travel to India. 1999

University of Richmond Travel Grant, Ontario Society for the Study of Argument Conference. 1999

Visiting Educator Grant, Whitman College. Awarded to bring Henry W. Johnstone, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Classics, and co-founder and editor of the journal Philosophy and Rhetoric. Co-sponsored with the Department of Classics. 1998

Johnston Visiting Endowed Chair, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Address, Whitman College. 1997

Dissertation Support Grant. PSU College of Liberal Arts. $1500 awarded for the leasing of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae CD-ROM and purchase of Pandora Search Software. 1995

Visiting Scholar, Barrett Honors College, Arizona State University, planned for spring 2016.

Visiting Scholar, University of Copenhagen, Department of Media, Communication, and Cognition. 2013. Lead a graduate faculty seminar on my published research. Presented a public lecture to the University on “Rhetoric and the Gift.”

University of Richmond Commencement, Honored as faculty mentor for Christopher “Buddy” Cassidy, a top honors award winner in the senior class, 2011

Visiting Scholar, Emory University Philosophy Department, Giambattista Vico Institute, reading Homer and Rhetoric in The New Science, hosted by Donald Phillip Verene, May 2010

University of Richmond Distinguished Educator Award, 2008

University of Richmond Commencement, Honored as faculty mentor for Viola Trebicka, the top honors award winner in the senior class and Mace carrier, 2004

Inducted into Academic Hall of Fame, Mercer Area Junior and Senior High School, 1985 graduate, 2002

Sigma Phi Epsilon Honored Teacher, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, Keynote Speaker 2001

Delta Delta Delta Sorority Honor for Excellence in Teaching 1999, 2000

Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Honor for Excellence in Teaching 1999

American Society for the History of Rhetoric Service Award 1998

Outstanding Dissertation Award, Rhetoric and Deliberation in Homer, American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 1997.

Outstanding Student Paper Award, "Telemachus Learns to Deliberate," ASHR, NCA. 1996

Outstanding Student Paper Award, "Plato's Rhetorical Psykê," ASHR, NCA. 1995

Gorden Hostettler Scholarship. $1000. Top Graduate Student Honor. CSU. 1991

“On Homer and Historiography in Rhetorical Studies: A Response to Nathan Crick, Rhetoric and Power,” paper on competitively selected panel, American Society for the History of Rhetoric, National Communication Association Convention, Las Vegas, 11/15

“On Net-work in Ancient Greek Myth and Rhetoric,” paper on competitively selected panel, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division, National Communication Association Convention, Las Vegas, 11/15.

“Rhetoric and the Gift,” Barrett Honors College, Arizona State University Visiting Scholar, fall 2015, scheduling in process.

“Theorizing Homeric Rhetoric: An Alloiostrophic Performance,” Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division, National Communication Association, Chicago 11/14

“Exploring Rhetoric Beyond Techne: On Henry Johnstone, Homer, and the History of Rhetoric,” Rhetoric Society of American Conference, San Antonio, 5/14

“Rhetoric as Gift/Giving: Exploring Homeric Myth in Aristotle’s Rhetorical Theory,” paper on competitively selected panel, American Society for the History of Rhetoric, National Communication Association, Washington D.C. 11/13

“Homeric Alloiosis: A Rhetorical Style for Inventing Another Way,” paper on competitively selected panel, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division, NCA, Washington D.C., 11/13

“Rhetoric and the Gift,” University of Copenhagen Visiting Scholar Lecture, Department of Media, Communication, and Cognition. 10/13.

“Exploring Homeric and Aristotelian Cultures of Rhetorical Citizenship.” Rhetoric in Society Conference 4, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1/13

“Pluck Away the Parasites! The Rhetoric of Weaving as Ruling in Lysistrata 567-586,” American Society for the History of Rhetoric, National Communication Association, Orlando Fl., 11/12

“Rhetorics of Exception: A Critique of Aristotle.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 5/12

“Gift Rhetoric in Polis Culture: Lysistrata’s Appeals to Mutual Benefaction.” American Society for the History of Rhetoric, Panel Presentation. National Communication Association Convention. New Orleans, LA. 11/11

“Genuine Discourse: Jane Sutton’s The House of My Sojourn: Rhetoric, Women, and the Question of Authority.” Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division, Panel Presentation and Organizer. National Communication Association Convention. 11/11

“Questions of Method in Homeric Rhetoric,” Rhetoric and Communication Studies Forum. 4/11

“The Exception(al) and Rhetorics of Non-Sovereignty: A Critique of Aristotle.” Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric. Montreal. 6/10

American Society for the History of Rhetoric

International Society for the History of Rhetoric

Rhetoric Society of America

National Communication Association

Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation

International Association for Greek Philosophy