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Professional Organizations and Research Opportunities

The Department of Rhetoric, Writing and Public Discourse offers a wide variety of ways for students to become involved in public conversations as well as to present their scholarship. These include professional organizations as well as local research conferences. A few are listed here. For more information, contact the current chair of RWPD, Matthew Bost, at bostmw@whitman.edu.

• The ³Ô¹ÏÍø Undergraduate Research Conference
• Whitman is also a regular participant in the Annual Pacific Northwest Race, Rhetoric, and Media Undergraduate Research Symposium, an invited regional conference for Pacific Northwest Undergraduate programs in rhetoric and media including ³Ô¹ÏÍø, the University of Puget Sound, Willamette University, and Lewis & Clark College. The symposium rotates between its participant schools.

Recent Rhetoric Student Research Presentations

• Emma Dulaney, "Framing the (Un)grievable American Citizen: Black Precarity and the Katrina-Event," National Communication Association Annual Convention, Winner of the James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award, November 2017.
• Samantha Grainger-Shuba, "This is Not a Legal Proceeding: Deconstructing the New Title IX," National Communication Association Annual Convention, Winner of the James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award, November 2016.
• Meredith Ruff, “Rude Noises: Homocore, Unsettling the Symbolic, and Enjoying Abjection," Southern States Communication Association, Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference, April 8, 2016. (Winner of ³Ô¹ÏÍø's David Nord Award, given for projects designed to address critical issues facing queer communities through a variety of creative and scholarly mediums)
• Vicky Su, "The Dilemma of the Tiger Mother: The American Dream and Tokenism," presented at the Western States Communication Association Undergraduate Scholars Conference, February 27, 2016.