Carole Blair
Professor
Rhetorical Studies
Current Research: book project on the Civil Rights Memorial and Memorial Center, in Montgomery, Alabama; Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial, in Suresnes, France
Recent Publications: "Communication as Collective Memory." Communication As . . . : Perspectives on Theory. Ed. Greg Shepherd, Jeff St. John, and Ted Striphas. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005. 51-59.
"The Rushmore Effect: Ethos and National Collective Identity" (with Neil Michel). The Ethos of Rhetoric. Ed. Michael J. Hyde. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. 156-196. Recipient of the National Communication Association's 2005 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award.
Courses Regularly Taught: Rhetoric and Social Controversy, Communication and Social Memory, Rhetorical Criticism (graduate), Rhetorics of Place (graduate), Rhetoric and Public Memory (graduate)
Future/Projected Courses: advanced rhetorical criticism course (undergraduate), practicum in rhetorical criticism (graduate)
Areas of Specialization: the rhetorical and cultural significance of U.S. commemorative places and artworks; rhetoric and public memory

