In Event: Scholar to Scholar V

Scholar to Scholar Sessions

Sara Baker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

'A Thorn in the Flesh': Exploring the Spiritual Causes of Illness - Slavica Kodish, Eckerd College

A Descriptive Analysis of Water Privatization: Examining Sites of Resistance in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America - Deborah Callister, University of Utah

A Discourse of Material, Symbolic and Emotional Change: The Rhetoric of Reclamation and the Construction of the Postmodern Sublime - Joshua Ewalt, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

A Rhetorical Criticism Exploring the Roles of President Gordon B. Hinckley during His Speeches on the American Response to the 9/11 Attacks and the Invasion of Iraq - Tyler Thornton, University of Oklahoma

A Social Constructionist Critique of Conservation Psychology - Kenneth Sibal, Ohio University

Advancing Online Community: The Internet, Artificial Intelligence, and Religion - Christin Phelps, North Carolina State University

Analysis of an Evangelical Podcast - Zoe Hess Carney, Texas A&M University

Aristophanes' Clouds: An Ethical Consideration of Rhetoric - Sean Larson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Broadcasting Religion? Constituting religious counterpublics in GodTube - Bethany Keeley, University of Georgia

Brother 'Killer' Kane: Resistance, Identification, and the Intersection of Punk Music and Religious Values in New York Doll - Scott Church, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Leading American Company Culture - Christine Ray, University of Tennessee; Michelle Violanti, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Deploying Discourses of Nature, Citizenship and Race: An Exploration of Why Community Vacant Lot Gardens Have Been Engaged as an Urban Revitalization Strategy in Chicago - Christine Dunford, Northwestern University

Diffusion of Alternative Energy Products: Reasoned action, cognitive dissonance, social proof, and reciprocity - Anne Grace Lilly, San Diego State University

Eco-Evangelism: Apocalyptic Discourses and Civil Religion in the Environmental Movement - Katherine Cruger, University of Colorado, Boulder

Empowering the spiritual listener: An invitational approach to spirituality in the media - Mallorie Ann Bruns, Colorado State University

God Hates Fags: The religious rhetoric of Westboro Baptist - Christy Mesaros-Winckles, Bowling Green State University

Imagining a Green Public Culture in China - Jingfang Liu, University of Southern California; G. Thomas Goodnight, University of Southern California

In Christ's Persona: A Rhetorical Analysis of Christian Heavy Metal Music - Jeremy Vincent Adolphson, Northern Illinois University

Narrowing the Rift: Conversionist Approach to the Debate of Christ's Role in Culture - Kasey Clawson, Duquesne University

Nature Conservation or Human Protection: Messages of Italian and American Park Signage - Richard J. Doherty, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Remembering Identities: Accessing Media Literacy for Religious Communities - William Riddell, Stockton Christian Life College

Seeking a More Positive Discourse on Climate Change: Review of Emotional Appeals in Environmental and Climate Change Discourse - Amy Chadwick, Penn State University

Talking About What is Distant and Not so Distant: A Temporal View of Sustainability in Communication Studies - Luis Felipe Gomez, Texas State University, San Marcos

Divine Messengers: an Interpretation of the Evangelical Dialectic on Climate Change - Amy King, CPCC

The Relationship between Religion and the Adolescent Decision to Use Drugs - Mike Allen, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Kelly Tenzek, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Jihyun Kim, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Lindsay Timmerman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Susanne Jones, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; William Donohue, Michigan State University; Daniel Ryan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Monique Turner, University of Maryland

The Use of Social Marketing Concepts to Develop Ocean Sustainability Campaigns - Cynthia Bates, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Virunga Gorilla Murders: Identification, Image Events, and Eco-Rhetoric - Carlos Tarin, University of Colorado, Boulder

Toward a New Model for Campaign Discourse: A Narrative Critique of the 2008 Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency - Gregory D. Cook, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

You Know, God, Sometimes You Ask Me To Do the Hardest Things: An Eliadean Interpretation of Michel Tremblay’s Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra - Matt Saltzberg, University of Missouri, Columbia

Trying to Survive the Big House? Christian Religious Organizations as Third Party Unobtrusive Control - Brittany Peterson, University of Texas, Austin

Quentin Schultze, Calvin College

Ronald Arnett, Duquesne University

Valeria Fabj, Lynn University

Matthew J. Sobnosky, Hofstra University

Stephen Depoe, Univ of Cincinnati

Todd Norton, Washington State University

Cindy Spurlock, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Jessica Thompson, Colorado State University

Michael Waltman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Timothy Sellnow, University of Kentucky

Erich Hayes, University of Oklahoma

Stephanie Coopman, San Jose State University