{"id":3,"date":"2008-01-18T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T14:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalconfederacystudies\/faculty\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T09:48:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T14:48:45","slug":"faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalconfederacystudies\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PaulDr. Paul Achter
\n<\/strong>Dr. Paul Achter is an assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies. Before arriving at Richmond in 2004, Achter worked as a post-doctoral fellow and consultant on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant studying public responses to human genetics research. Dr. Achter’s past projects have explored race and race identity in political culture and in the entertainment media, and his essays have appeared several journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Speech, the Southern Communication Journal, and Politics and the Life Sciences. In 1999, he received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Georgia. He currently teaches courses in rhetorical theory, practice, and criticism.<\/p>\n

\"AndreaDr. Andrea Simpson
\n<\/strong>Dr. Andrea Simpson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. Her first book, The Tie that Binds<\/em> (New York University Press, 1998), won the Best Book of 1998 on Racial Identity\u001d award from the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association. Her current project involves research on women activists in the environmental justice movement. In addition to several book chapters on environmental justice, a book manuscript on gender and social movements is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

\"KevinDr. Kevin Kuswa
\n<\/strong>Dr. Kevin Kuswa received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of Texas at Austin after being named the 1999-2000 Graduate Student of the Year. His dissertation, advised by Dr. Ronald Walter Greene, concerns the interstate highway system in the United States and the way it constitutes various places, persons, and motions. Dr. Kuswa is presently the Director of Debate at the University of Richmond where the team has qualified to the NDT three years in a row for the first time in the school’s history. As a faculty member in RHCS, Dr. Kuswa teaches Rhetoric and Public Address and a Rhetoric of Terrorism class that has been profiled by CNN and Voice of America. His current research projects include the intersection between environmental security and environmental justice; the rhetoric of mass destruction; and critical pedagogy post 9\/11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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