University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Diana Mădroane Presents: Enacting Rhetorical Citizenship in Alternative Media Dispositives: Illustrations and Challenges

What: Colloquium Talk “Enacting Rhetorical Citizenship in Alternative Media Dispositives: Illustrations and Challenges” When: Thursday, October 19 from 4-5:30 pm CT Where: Ewbank Room (6th Floor, Chair’s Suite), Vilas Hall In “Enacting Rhetorical Citizenship in Alternative Media Dispositives: Illustrations and Challenges,” Prof. Mădroane will present a framework for the analysis of discursive enactments of rhetorical …

Communication Science Professor Dr. Lyn Van Swol Honored with 2023 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award

The Communication Arts Department is delighted to announce that Communication Science Professor Dr. Lyn Van Swol has won a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. The Distinguished Teaching Awards have been granted since 1953, an honor recognizing the university’s finest educators. Dr. Van Swol has more than demonstrated her deservingness to be named among the awardees during …

Comm Arts and LSC Research Team Wins NSF Grant

Research Explores Mistrust in Health & Science Communication Although many of us may have a mistrust of institutions, history and lived experience have made these feelings particularly acute for Black Americans who have faced persistent institutional oppression.  How do you trust communication about science and health when those voices of authority have done real harm …

Nine Graduate Students Earn PhD

The Department of Communication Arts is proud to celebrate the cohort of graduate students who recently defended their doctoral dissertations. Over the past four months, nine scholars earned their doctorate in the department. Each did so following years of concerted effort. To earn a PhD in Communication Arts, one must first successfully complete a master’s …

Professors Marie-Louise Mares and Jonathan Gray Named ICA Fellows

The Department of Communication Arts is honored to announce that Professor Marie-Louise Mares and Professor Jonathan Gray have been named ICA Fellows. The International Communication Association (ICA) celebrated Dr. Mares and Dr. Gray last Saturday, May 28, at its annual conference, held this year in Paris. Fellow status in the ICA follows a rigorous nomination …

Professor Lori Lopez Receives H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship

The Department of Communication Arts is pleased to announce that Professor Lori Lopez is a 2022-23 winner of the H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship award. This award recognizes impressive research efforts of UW-Madison faculty within the first six years of their promotion to tenure. The Romnes Fellowship includes a $60,000 research award, to be spent over …

Professor Jonathan Gray wins Kellett Mid-Career Award

The Department of Communication Arts is pleased to announce that Professor Jonathan Gray is a 2022-23 winner of the Kellett Mid-Career Award. The Kellett Award recognizes mid-career faculty members, seven to twenty years past their first promotion to tenure, for their ongoing and impressive commitments to research. The honor includes a $75,000 research award, to …

Professor Allison Prasch featured on C-SPAN

In an interview with C-SPAN’s Peter Slen, Professor Allison M. Prasch previewed what we can expect to see in President Biden’s first State of the Union Address on March 1. She discussed the various challenges Biden must address tomorrow night, focusing on how he must speak to numerous domestic and international crises, including an ongoing …

Professor Darshana Mini wins Exceptional Service Award

The Department of Communication Arts is pleased to announce that Professor Darshana Sreedhar Mini is a 2022-23 winner of the UW-Madison Exceptional Service Support Program award. Dr. Mini joined the film faculty of the Department of Communication Arts in 2020 and has already had a significant impact on our department, campus, and the fields of …

Kai Prins wins Exceptional Service Award

The Department of Communication Arts is pleased to announce that Rhetoric, Politics & Culture grad student Kai Prins is a 2022 campus-wide TA teaching award winner. Kai was nominated and selected for the Exceptional Service Award in recognition of the way Kai went above and beyond in their work as a teaching assistant in CA260: …