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.
Rhetoric student Lindsey Frank, '23, wins Female Athlete of the Year Award
Lacrosse & Field Hockey and Two Sport Atlantic 10 First Team All-Conference Player Lindsey Frank, '23, was named the 2023 Female Athlete of the Year at the RVA Sports Awards.
Frank exemplifies all the positive aspects of sport and has made a positive impact on the Richmond community in 2022. Congrats, Lindsey!
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Faculty Highlights
Ravynn Stringfield, visiting assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies, published "How Writing and Motherhood Coexist for Author Taylor Harris" in shondaland.
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Photogrammar, a project led by Lauren Tilton, associate professor of digital humanities; and Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics; along with colleagues in the Digital Scholarship Lab at UR and American Studies at Yale University, was awarded the American Studies Association's 2022 Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities.
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Timothy Barney, chair and associate professor of rhetoric and communication studies, delivered an invited talk at the Biennial Public Address Conference in October 2022 at the University of Kansas called "'The Angel of Sarbandan': Ford Foundation Philanthropy, Transnational Development, and the Scalar Geopolitics of 1950s Iran."
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Linda Hobgood, director of the Speech Center and rhetoric and communications studies faculty member, was a recent panelist for a program entitled, “Pat Nixon: Unheralded First Lady,” sponsored by the First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE).
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A NASCAR-focused internship with FOX Sports yields experience in news production
These courses offer a chance for students to experience a number of topics they might not otherwise study.
Grammy-nominated artist Mad Skillz, artist-in-residence at the University of Richmond, and liberal arts professor Erik Nielson will offer a session of their “Voice of Hip Hop” class to the wider Richmond community.
Statistics professor Taylor Arnold and digital humanities professor Lauren Tilton have received a nearly $325K grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a project to build open-source software for collecting and analyzing digital images.
RHCS Faculty in the Media
Ravynn K. Stringfield, visiting assistant professor of media studies, authored this piece.
Timothy Barney, chair and associate professor of rhetoric and communication studies, authored this piece, which first appeared in The Conversation and has been republished by nearly 50 additional outlets.
Timothy Barney, chair and associate professor of rhetoric and communication studies, authored this piece.
Scholarship Repository Readership
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.
Contact Us
Mailing Address:
Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies
402-C Weinstein Hall
231 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173
Phone: (804) 289-8263
Fax: (804) 287-6496
Department Chair: Timothy Barney
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Robin Mundle