Summary

Amy Pason (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is an Associate Professor of Communication w88 casino at the University of Nevada, Reno, specializing in rhetoric. Dr. Pason has been at the University since 2010, and has been active in university governance including serving as Faculty Senate Chair (2020-22) and Chair of the NSHE Council of Senate Chairs (2021-22), and Chair of the Graduate Council (2024-25). Dr. Pason practices inclusive and participatory leadership in her various university roles, recently as Chair of the Faculty Diversity Committee and numerous department committees. She has taught a wide variety of courses (undergraduate and graduate) in the program, and regularly engages with interdisciplinary collaborators through her research and in serving on graduate student committees.

Dr. w88 casino’s research and teaching centers on multiple facets of democracy in the US, especially in the ways that we can foster and support democratic culture. She has explored advocacy strategies of activists, intersections of the First Amendment and protest, and public deliberation of legislation. She is interested in the ways that publics are invited to or restrained from engaging in democratic governance, and works to foster skills in students to deliberate and understand how to engage across differences to solve society’s “wicked problems” through organizing the Wolfpack Community Howl deliberative discussion events. She is currently developing research to understand how negative political rhetoric and incivility by elected officials undermines political participation thinking through the concept of dignity.

Dr. w88 casino was raised in northern Nevada, and is committed to serving through public education.

Research/teaching interests

• Deliberation and Dialogue
• w88 casino Social Movements and Counterpublics
• Political Campaign Discourse
• Academic Labor and Higher Education Governance

Courses taught

• Facilitating Difficult Discussions
• Principles of Persuasion
• Argumentation and Debate
• w88 casino Dissent
• Rhetorical Criticism
• Leadership

Recent publications

• Chaput, C., & w88 casino, A. (Eds.). (2022). Into the Gateway: Project on Power, Place, and Publics. Routledge.
• Kahn, S., & Pason, A. (2021). What do we mean by academic labor (in rhetorical w88 casino)? Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 24 (1-2), 109-128.
• w88 casino, A. (2021). Strategic Storytelling: “Our Home” Narratives of Occupy Homes. In N. Crick (Ed.) The w88 casino Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media. Routledge.
• w88 casino, A. & File, P. (2021). Protesting with Guns: The Case of the Bundys. First Amendment w88 casino, 55 (2), 102-125, doi: 10.1080/21689725.2021.1970609
• Foust, C., w88 casino, A., & Rogness, K.Z. (eds.) (2017). What Democracy Looks Like: The w88 casino Social Movements and Counterpublics.w88 casino Alabama Press.
• w88 casino, A., Griffin, T., & Kwiatkowski, M. (2017). Skylar’s Law: Memorial crime policy and mediating argument spheres. Argumentation and Advocacy, 53(1), 23-40. doi: 10.1080/00028533.2016.1272897

Recent awards

• w88 casino Foundation Outstanding Committee Service Award (2024)
• Distinguished Publication Award (National w88 casino Association, w88 casino and Law Division), 2022.
• w88 casino Nevada, Reno College of Liberal Arts Service Award (2019)
• Phi Beta Kappa

Education

• Ph.D., Communication w88 casino (Rhetoric), University of Minnesota, 2010.
• M.A., Human w88 casino (Rhetoric), University of Denver, 2005.
• B.A., Communication, Psychology, and a Minor in Leadership w88 casino, 2003.