Suglo elected to board of directors at WARA
Ignatius G.D Suglo, assistant professor of rhetoric & communication studies, was elected to the board of directors of the West African Research Association (WARA).
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Media, Culture and Decolonization
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
Rhetorical Togetherness
Join us for this exceptional opportunity to engage with groundbreaking work in comparative rhetoric!
Dr. LuMing Mao, Professor of Rhetoric, University of Utah
Rhetorical Togetherness: Centering China and Mapping a World.Student Success
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.
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Faculty Highlights
Barney Published
Timothy Barney, professor of rhetoric and communication studies, published “The Ghosts of Development: Speech, Money, and Global Subject-Making at the Ford Foundation and the Kenya Women Finance Trust” in Foreign Policy Rhetorics in a Global Era: Concepts and Case Studies.
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Ogden Published
Malcolm Ogden, visiting assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies, published "Perfumed platforms, or the common scents of post-Fordism" in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.
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Barney Published
Timothy Barney, professor of rhetoric and communication studies, published “’The Angel of Sarbandan’: Ford Foundation Philanthropy, Transnational Development Rhetoric, and the Scalar Geopolitics of 1950s Iran” in Rhetoric & Public Affairs.
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UR faculty awarded more than $2 million for research in the sciences and humanities
Projects focusing on climate change, disease control, and AI recently received funding.
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Student reporting during the election
Professor Tom Mullen leads UR journalists in their pursuit to provide news reports on local, state, and U.S. races to national and international outlets.
RHCS Faculty in the Media
Decades on, Delbert Africa’s surrender still provides powerful image of US racism and Black victimhood
Nicole Maurantonio, associate provost of academic affairs and professor of rhetoric & communication studies, authored this piece.
Decades on, Delbert Africa’s surrender still provides powerful image of US racism and Black victimhood
Nicole Maurantonio, associate provost of academic affairs and professor of rhetoric & communication studies, authored this piece.
Va. law enforcement leaders ‘confident’ in public safety coverage plans for future campaign rallies
Rhetoric and communications professor Tim Barney is quoted in this piece, which was also published on Yahoo! News.
River City Roundup
Rhetoric & communications professor Greg Cavenaugh is featured.
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Department Chair: Paul Achter
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