Paul B. Stewart
Associate Professor of Communication

Director of First Year Seminar Program
E-mail: StewartP@roberts.edu
Office: (585) 594-6332

At RWC since: 1995

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Education:
Ph.D. (Communication), University of Maryland, 2001

M.A. (Communication), Wichita State University, 1988 

B.S., Greenville College, 1985

Specialty areas:

History of American public discourse; rhetorical theory; rhetorical criticism; communication ethics

Current Research Interests:

Petitioning; public discourse and the public sphere

Sample of RWC Courses:

CMC 101 Principles of Speech

CMC 202 Introduction to Mass Communication

CMC 207 Argumentation and Debate

Sample Publications/Presentations:

• “Conceptualizing Closure:  Restricting Restrictions of the Public Sphere,”  paper presented at panel at the New York State Speech Communication Association Convention, 2001.

• “Humiliation of the Word:  The Intersection of Jerusalem and Athens,”

  paper presented at the New York State Speech Communication Association Convention,  1998.

• “Beyond the Rainbow:  Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition Speech,” with Martha Solomon.  Great Speeches for Criticism and Analysis.  eds. Lloyd Rohler & Roger Cook.  1993.