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Hi, I’m Chris.

I am an award-winning early career scholar and Provost Dissertation Fellow at Georgia State University specializing in American cancer rhetoric. 

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Check these out.

Mythologizing Madiba: Myth, Resistance, and the Globalized Post-Presidency in Barack Obama's Nelson Mandela Lecture Series Address. Howard Journal of Communications.


Instructor of Communication

Georgia State University

Courses Taught:
Communication & Diversity
Rhetorical Theory & Criticism
Media, Culture, and Society
Human Communication
Introduction to Mass Communication

TEACHING & TRAINING EXPERIENCE

Rhetorics of Cancer in America

In my dissertation, I contend that American cancer rhetoric is an expansive multimodal rhetorical formation that functions through constitutive means to create a veil of faux unity, a fabled and romanticized cancer community, that obfuscates, erases, silences, and justifies disparities in cancer care.

DISSERTATION


Robert Bostrom Young Scholar Award

Awarded at the 2019 Southern States Communication Association Conference for the “most outstanding paper submitted to the conference by a graduate student.”

AWARDS

Ph.D.|Georgia State University

M.A.|Texas State University

B.A.|DePaul University

EDUCATION


(Nov 2022). "Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?" The Wizarding World of Harry Potter as a Constructed Site of (Artificial) Collective Memory, Identity, and Resistance. Paper (co-authored with Virginia Massignan) presented at the annual National Communication Association Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana 

(May 2022). Constitutive Rhetoric & Negative Identification in Political and Popular Culture Discourses on Cancer. Paper presented at the 20th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in Baltimore, Maryland.
 
 

FEATURED PRESENTATIONS

Vice Chair - SSCA's American Society for the History of Rhetoric

Reviewer for

NCA, RSA, SSCA 

Immediate Past President -

CGSA at GSU

NCA & SSCA Division Member - 

Public Address

Political Communication

Health Communication 

SERVICE

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How Can I Help You?

With the rigor, quality, and creativity of an award-winning, peer-reviewed scholar, I can provide you, your business, or your campaign with the solutions to your communication-based needs, including:

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  • Message Development for Fundraising, Awareness, Persuasion, and Advocacy

  • Speech & Advertisement Writing

  • Traditional and/or Digital Media Strategy

  • Transforming Your Existing Communication Strategy/Vision into Specific and Attainable Media Goals

  • Audience Analysis 

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