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Roy Schwartzman

**RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS (representative, not exhaustive): Communication, Pedagogy, Holocaust Studies, Propaganda, Argumentation, Computer-Mediated Communication, Figurative Language, Service Learning, Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetoric and Social Theory, Philosophy of Communication, Classical Rhetoric, American Public Address, Political Communication, Cultural Studies, Business and Professional Communication. **EDUCATION: Ph.D., University of Iowa (1994), Communication Studies, Concentration in Rhetorical Studies, Dissertation title “Racial Science, Nazism, and the Genesis of Genocide” (winner, National Communication Association Outstanding Dissertation Award); M.A., University of Georgia (1984), Speech Communication; A.B., University of Georgia (1982), summa cum laude with highest honors in philosophy and Phi Beta Kappa.

There are 7 included publications by Roy Schwartzman :

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Beyond Consumerism and Utopianism: How Service Learning Contributes to Liberal Arts Ideals 2002 264 The authors place service learning within the liberal arts tradition of empowering others to help themselves. Such a contextualization supplements visions of students as consumers or customers and education as a means to gain economic advantage in a...
Catering to customers or cultivating communicators? Divergent educational roles of communication centers 2011 110 To remain sustainable in an atmosphere of shrinking budgets and curricular retrenchment, oral communication instruction via communication centers on college and university campuses must satisfy several constituencies. How can communication centers me...
Engenderneered Machines in Science Fiction Film 1999 389 The fear that human creations might backfire and attack their creators has been a mainstay of science fiction at least since Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein. The misgivings become particularly acute when human-engineered imitations of human beings (i.e.,...
The Forum: Peer Review as the Enforcement of Disciplinary Orthodoxy 1997 518 Recently Omar Swartz (1997) solicited further discussion regarding Blair, Brown, and Baxter's article "Disciplining the Feminine" that appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech three years ago. I remember reading Blair, Brown, and Baxter's article ...
Letter to the Brother I Never Had: Pa[i]ra-/Dia-/Logically Talking Back to Ono 1997 246 This piece addresses the scholarly concept of voices by combining the personal voice of an epistle with the impersonal propositional format characteristic of Wittgenstein's philosophical writing. The resultant hybrid genre of academic prose examines ...
The “net worth” of applied learning: How Holocaust survivors counter educational consumerism 2010 245 Shrinking financial support for higher education has renewed interest in market-based approaches that define education as a consumer transaction. This model fails to acknowledge many character-based dimensions of experiential learning. Testimonies fr...
“Refining the Question: How Can Online Instruction Maximize Opportunities for All Students? 2007 277 Although research on computer-assisted and online instruction abounds, researchers have expressed concern about the lack of theoretical frameworks for these studies (Timmerman & Kruepke, 2006). While ample research documents learning outcomes in indi...