Notes on Contributors

Lars Pynt Andersen is associate professor at the Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Copenhagen. His PhD dissertation studied the rhetorical strategies and genres of television advertising. He has published papers on the uses of irony and personification metaphor in advertising, on the rhetorical complexity in crisis communication, but also in the field of consumer culture, such as the "tween" consumer and the vicarious consumption of mothers. He is currently researching the construction of the "Nordic" and "Nordic values" as a global marketing strategy of Nordic culture, cuisine, fashion, and design.

James S. Baumlin is Distinguished Professor of English at Missouri State University, where he teaches the history of rhetoric, critical theories, and Renaissance literature. His publications include two monographs, a dozen co-edited collections, and over one hundred articles, book chapters, notes, and reviews.

Josh Boyd PhD Indiana University, is Associate Professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. His research on organizational rhetoric, with an emphasis on legitimacy, has appeared in Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Theory, Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Public Relations Research, and The Wall Street Journal. He also teaches and studies communication pedagogy, and he has won Purdue's top undergraduate teaching award.

Larry D. Browning PhD Ohio State 1973, is Professor of Organizational Communication and the William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of in Communication in the Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, and adjunct professor at Nord University, Business School, Bodø, Norway. His research includes the role of lists and stories in organizations, information communication technology and narratives, cooperation and competition in organizations, and grounded theory as a research strategy.

Christy M. Buchanan PhD University of Michigan, 1988, is a Professor of Psychology and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Advising at Wake Forest University. Her research and teaching addresses adolescent and young adult development, especially the impact of beliefs and expectations about adolescence, family, and culture. Her administrative responsibilities include the orientation of new students and academic support for undergraduates.

George Cheney PhD Purdue University, 1985, is Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and an adjunct professor at the University of Utah and the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research, teaching and service interests include organizational identity, workplace participation, professional ethics, globalization, human rights, sustainability, and peace. He has authored or co-authored ten books and over 100 articles and chapters. Currently, he working on a series of studies and commentaries on cooperatives and other alternative organizations, focusing on innovations in democratic participation and the full embrace of principles of sustainability.

W. Timothy Coombs PhD, is Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University and an honorary professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is a past recipient of the Jackson, Jackson, and Wagner Behavioral Research prize from the Public Relations Society of America, the 2013 Pathfinder Award from the Institute of Public Relations, and the Business Impact Award from the Association for Business Communication. He is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society. His co-authored crisis research has won multiple PRIDE awards from the Public Relations Division of the National Communication Association for books and articles.

Charles Conrad PhD University of Kansas, 1980, is a Professor of Communication at Texas A&M University. He teaches courses in organizational communication, organizational rhetoric, and communication, powerr and politics. His research currently focuses on the symbolic processes through which organizations influence popular attitudes and public policies. His most recent book is Organizational Rhetoric: Resistance and Domination and is writing a "close comparison" of organizational rhetoric and healthcare policymaking in the United States and Canada.

Jeffrey L. Courtright PhD Purdue University, is Associate Professor of Communication at Illinois State University. With more than 25 years in public relations education and research, he investigates the relationship between corporate reputation and message design across a variety of contexts, from environmental communication to community relations to international public relations. Dr. Courtright has studied both multinational corporations and nongovernmental organizations and published multiple research articles, of which several are with Dr. Peter Smudde. With Smudde, he also has published the books Inspiring Cooperation and Celebrating Organizations (2012) and Power and Public Relations (2007).

Scott Davidson currently lectures in the School of Media, Communication, and Sociology at the University of Leicester. Before becoming an academic he worked as a lobbyist and voluntary sector campaigns manager. His PhD dissertation explored the mediation of population aging and older voters and he has published articles on the segmentation of audiences by age. More recently his research has focused on critically theorizing how public relations and lobbying practice should serve democratic societies.

Heidi Hatfield Edwards PhD, is a Professor of the School of Arts and Communication at Florida Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on communication and social issues, with emphasis in social responsibility, and the cultural and societal implications of communication regarding social issues. She is especially interested in how audiences use mediated messages, interpreting those messages and engaging with message creators, opinion leaders, and other audience members.

Denise P. Ferguson PhD, is Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Research at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California. Her research has been published in Public Relations Review, Public Relations Journal, Sociological Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Business Disciplines, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, Business Review Yearbook, and The Sage Handbook of Public Relations, and has been presented at International Communication Association, BledCom, International Public Relations Research, National Communication Association, and Public Relations Society of America annual conferences.

Benjamin D. Golant PhD Royal Holloway, University of London, is a research fellow at University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the use of language in organizing, in particular the role of rhetoric and narrative. He has published in Organization Studies, Human Relations, and Organization. Current empirical work focuses on rhetorics of identity and organizational change, and on the role of narrative for the constitution of knowledge communities.

Stephanie Gusler is a doctoral student in the University of Kansas's Clinical Child Psychology Program. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Radford University, then obtained her MA in Psychology at Wake Forest University in 2015. While at Wake Forest she worked as a graduate research assistant on the Democracy Fellows longitudinal study.

Peter M. Hamilton is an Associate Professor at Durham University Business School. He previously worked at Imperial College, London and the University of Central Lancashire. His main research interests are in the areas of organizational rhetoric, rhetorical agency, dirty work, and interactive service work. He has published in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management and Organization.

Katy J. Harriger PhD University of Connecticut, is Professor and Chair in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University. Her research and teaching interests focus on civic engagement of young people, American politics, and constitutional law.

E. Johanna Hartelius is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research areas cover the rhetoric of expertise, digital culture, immigration, and public memory. Within and across these areas, she examines how people construct privileged knowledge and experience to wield political power in public discourse. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Expertise (2011) and the editor of The Rhetorics of US Immigration (2015). She is the recipient of the 2013 Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award, and her scholarship has appeared in Argumentation and Advocacy, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Culture, Theory, and Critique, Management Communication Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Review of Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Southern Communication Journal.

Robert L. Heath PhD University of Illinois, is Professor Emeritus at the School of Communication University of Houston and Academic Consultant in the College of Commerce, Faculty of Management and Marketing at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Heath is one of the academic pioneers in examining the history and theoretical foundations of strategic issues...