The Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies is delighted to announce our 2025 award winners.
Ethan Vroom received the Leadership Award. Claire Binkley and Emma Walsh were Academic Achievement Award winners.
Congratulations, Ethan, Claire, and Emma!
Photos: Claire Binkley and Emma Walsh (left) and Dr. Barney with Ethan Vroom (right)
Wednesday, April 9, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Jepson 118
Continuing community building from spring 2024, we welcome back award-winning journalists, Tania Rashid, Elizabeth Flock, and Neil Brandvold for “Chronicles of Courage II: Reporting on Difficult Subjects in Difficult Times.” Elizabeth Flock will share her reporting on giving birth in Gaza and anti-abortion clinics. Tania Rashid will share her reporting on the student-led protests and fall-out in Bangladesh. Neil Brandvold will share his reporting on migrants detained in Panama and the prison state in El Salvador.
Sponsored by the Gottwald Speaker’s Fund, the Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies, the Department of Journalism, and the School of Arts & Sciences.
Join the Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies for a book talk with Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University.
Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Rerighting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana invites us to look at media and culture from a decolonial perspective. Through African epistemologies and knowledge systems, this book examines media by highlighting how African languages, cultures, and traditions can completely shift how we think of knowledge. It is an offering to anyone curious about the relationship between culture, language, and media. By focusing on African language media in Ghana, such as film, television, and radio, the book emphasizes the importance of espousing a decolonial politic and praxis in the process of co-creating knowledge with indigenous communities. It succinctly connects the struggles of global majority countries and demonstrates how (neo)colonialism and imperialism impede the work toward liberatory futures. It deconstructs subalternity and marginality within the nation-state, demonstrating its fixity and malleability in the processes of cultural production.
April 1, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
University of Richmond, Weinstein Hall, Brown Alley Room 313
231 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
With its innovative bridging between an emphasis on critical/ethical thinking and a focus on the practical role of communication in public life, the Department of Rhetoric Communication Studies empowers students to find fulfilling careers and professional and educational experiences across a wide diversity of subjects. Our RHCS students have gone on from UR to make exciting, creative, and vital contributions to civic culture.
Malcolm Ogden, visiting assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies, published the chapter "The Weird Internet and Speculative Knowledge" in the De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures.
Malcolm Ogden, visiting assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies, presented "AI, grammar, and consciousness: A media genealogical analysis of Grammarly" at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S): Reverberations.
Timothy Barney, professor of rhetoric and communication studies, was awarded the 2025 Mednick Faculty Fellowship Award from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Collegesin the amount of $2,800 for the project, "Mapping the Ford Foundation," a digital humanities initiative co-led with Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and American studies. The University of Richmond selects one faculty member annually to apply for the grant.
Ignatius G.D Suglo, assistant professor of rhetoric & communication studies, was elected to the board of directors of the West African Research Association (WARA).
Rhetoric and communications professor Paul Achter is quoted.
Nicole Maurantonio, associate provost of academic affairs and professor of rhetoric & communication studies, authored this piece.
Nicole Maurantonio, associate provost of academic affairs and professor of rhetoric & communication studies, authored this piece.
Rhetoric and communications professor Tim Barney is quoted in this piece, which was also published on Yahoo! News.
The University of Richmond's Scholarship Repository shares faculty publications with a world-wide audience. The map below shows where articles from RHCS faculty are being read around the globe.
Mailing Address:
Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies
402-C Weinstein Hall
231 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8263
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Department Chair: Paul Achter
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Robin Mundle