Ph.D., 1983, Speech Communication, Penn State M.A., 1979, Speech & Dramatic Art, Univ. of Iowa B.A., 1977, Speech & Dramatic Art, University of Iowa
World Area Of Focus:
• International 25%-49%
Languages:
• French (elementary proficiency) • German (professional proficiency)
Specialization:
History and culture of U.S. national commemoration. I study U.S. national commemorative places and artworks located in the United States and abroad (the latter from the two world wars).
Relevant Experience:
Site and archival studies of U.S. national military cemeteries and monuments in western Europe. I have concentrated so far on the Suresnes, Meuse-Argonne, and St. Mihiel American Cemeteries and on the Montsec and Montfaucon Memorials in France.
Distinctions:
Paul Boase Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in Communication; Charles H. Woolbert Research Award from the National Communication Association; Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecturer of the National Communication Association; Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from the National Communication Association (twice); Outstanding Article Award from the Organization for the Study of Communication,Language, and Gender; Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the National Communication Association
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
four
Relevant Courses Taught:
• COMM 874 Rhetoric and Public Memory • COMM 875 Rhetorics of Place
Recent Publications:
• 2015 Blair, Carole. “’We Are All Just Prisoners Here of Our Own Device’: Rhetoric in Speech
• 2015 South Carolina Press, 2015. 31-58.
• 2015 Past, Present, Future. Eds. Amos Kiewe and Davis W. Houck. Columbia: University of
• 2015 Communication After Wingspread.” The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects:
• 2010 Blair, Carole. "Mark(et)ing “The Handbook”: Pedagogies of Legitimization, Neutral Expertise, and Convention." Accepted for publication in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, volume 7 (2010).
• 2008 Blair, Carole, Greg Dickinson, and Brian L. Ott. "Rhetoric/Memory/Place." Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials. Ed. Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott. Under contract: University of Alabama Press, 2008. Full manuscript submitted.
• 2007 Blair, Carole, V. William Balthrop, and Neil Michel. "Arlington-sur-Seine: War Commemoration and the Perpetual Argument from Sacrifice." Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argument. Ed. Frans H. van Eemeren. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Sic Sat, 2007.
• 2007 Blair, Carole. Rev. of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory, ed. REnee C. Romano and Leigh Raiford. University of Georgia Press. In Southern Cultures 13 (2007): 112-114.
• 2007 Blair, Carole, and Neil Michel. "The AIDS Memorial Quilt and the Contemporary Culture of Public Commemoration." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 10 (2007): in press.
• 2005 Blair, Carole. "Communication as Collective Memory." Communication As . . . : Perspectives on Theory. Ed. Greg Shepherd, Jeff St. John, and Ted Striphas. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005. 51-59.
• 2004 Blair, Carole, and Neil Michel. "The Rushmore Effect: Ethos and National Collective Identity." The Ethos of Rhetoric. Ed. Michael J. Hyde. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. 156-196.
• 2001 Blair, Carole. "Reflections on Criticism and Bodies: Parables from Public Places." Western Journal of Communication 65 (2001): 271-294.
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