Directory
- Title
- Teaching Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Writing Program
- Phone Email preferred. 831-459-4012
- Website
- Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 208
- Office Hours Fall 2023. Students: Canvas. All others: Email for appt.
- Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High St.
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Courses Crown Core, WRIT 20: The Nature of Written Discourse, WRIT 21: The Sentence in Context, WRIT 27: Writing about Genre, Writing 1: Introduction to Composition, WRIT 2: Rhetoric & Inquiry, WRIT 203: Theories and Practices for Teaching Writing, Summer session: WRIT 30
Research Interests
Rhetoric, organizational communication, activity theory, Peoples Temple, visual design of information
Biography, Education and Training
PhD, Syracuse University
MA, Ohio University
BA, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Honors, Awards and Grants
Winner, 2nd place,Thomas Robbins Awards for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements for "'Verbal Orders Don't go -- Write it!: Building and Maintaining the Promised Land." The Thomas Robbins Awards for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements were established in 2002 to recognize outstanding articles published in Nova Religio. The Robbins awards are administered by the Association for the Academic Study of New Religions (AASNR).
Selected Publications
"Verbal Orders Don't Go--Write It!": Building and Maintaining the Promised Land" (2018). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 22.2, 65–92.
The Value of the Archive (Oct. 2018). the jonestown report, Volume 20.
An Activity-Theoretical Approach to the Usability Testing of Information Products Meant to Support Complex Use” (2011). Usability and Complex Information Systems: Evaluation of User Interaction, Eds., Michael Albers and Brian Still. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 181-206.
With Dana Harrington, “Administrating Ourselves to Death: Historiography and the Ethics of WPA Narratives” (2006). Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession: Training the Next Wave in Rhetoric & Composition. Eds., Virginia Anderson and Susan Romano. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 347-61.
