Summary

Amy w88 live casino (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, specializing in rhetoric. Dr. w88 live casino 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. w88 live casino 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 live 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 live casino was raised in northern Nevada, and is committed to serving through public education.

Research/teaching interests

• Deliberation and Dialogue
• w88 live 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 live casino Dissent
• Rhetorical Criticism
• Leadership

Recent publications

• Chaput, C., & w88 live casino, A. (Eds.). (2022). Into the Gateway: Project on Power, Place, and Publics. Routledge.
• Kahn, S., & w88 live casino, A. (2021). What do we mean by academic labor (in rhetorical studies)? w88 live casino and Public Affairs, 24 (1-2), 109-128.
• w88 live casino, A. (2021). Strategic Storytelling: “Our Home” Narratives of Occupy Homes. In N. Crick (Ed.) The w88 live casino Social Movements: Networks, Power, and New Media. Routledge.
• w88 live casino, A. & File, P. (2021). Protesting with Guns: The Case of the Bundys. First Amendment Studies, 55 (2), 102-125, doi: 10.1080/21689725.2021.1970609
• Foust, C., w88 live casino, A., & Rogness, K.Z. (eds.) (2017). What Democracy Looks Like: The w88 live casino Social Movements and Counterpublics.w88 live casino Alabama Press.
• w88 live 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 live casino Foundation Outstanding Committee Service Award (2024)
• Distinguished Publication Award (National w88 live casino Association, w88 live casino and Law Division), 2022.
• w88 live casino Nevada, Reno College of Liberal Arts Service Award (2019)
• Phi Beta Kappa

Education

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