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Josue David Cisneros
My research connects the areas of Rhetorical Studies and Intercultural Communication. Rhetorical Studies focuses on public and persuasive communication, like speeches or news media, and Intercultural Communication focuses on how communication is shaped by and shapes culture. In my research I bring these areas together to focus on public rhetoric about identity and culture. In other words, I am interested in the ways that social identities like race/ethnicity, citizenship, and national identity are defined, maintained, and redefined through public communication. Most of my publications have explored these interests through studies of rhetorics of race and immigration.
My research has appeared in journals such as Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Argumentation & Advocacy, Communication Quarterly, and Quarterly Journal of Speech. My book “The Border Crossed Us”: Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity was published in 2014. I have also received several awards for my research, including the Daniel Rohrer Memorial Outstanding Research Award (from the American Forensics Association) and the Wrage-Baskerville Award (from the National Communication Association’s Public Address Division).
I teach courses in the areas of rhetorical theory, public advocacy, and intercultural communication, including Social Movement Communication, Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, and Intercultural Rhetoric.
My research has appeared in journals such as Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Argumentation & Advocacy, Communication Quarterly, and Quarterly Journal of Speech. My book “The Border Crossed Us”: Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity was published in 2014. I have also received several awards for my research, including the Daniel Rohrer Memorial Outstanding Research Award (from the American Forensics Association) and the Wrage-Baskerville Award (from the National Communication Association’s Public Address Division).
I teach courses in the areas of rhetorical theory, public advocacy, and intercultural communication, including Social Movement Communication, Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, and Intercultural Rhetoric.
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The RSA 15:
Suzanne Berg, Newman University
Betsy Brunner, University of Utah
Josue David Cisneros, University of Illinois
Doug Cloud, Colorado State University
Michael Eisenstadt, University of Kansas
Kelly Jakes, Wayne State University
Michelle Kearl, IUPU-FW
Dominic Manthey, Pennsylvania State University
Jade Olson, University of Maryland
Milene Ortega, Georgia State University
Erin J. Rand, Syracuse University
Alyssa Samek, California State University Fullerton
Jessica Shumake, University of Arizona
Ian Summers, University of Utah
Justine Wells, University of South Carolina
To cite this paper in APA: RSA 15 (2016). Whither Social Movement in Rhetorical Studies? A White Paper. Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America conference, Atlanta, GA, May 26-29, 2016. For inquiries, please contact Christina Foust (cfoust@du.edu)
Though we can read “social movement” into the record of rhetorical studies, participants raised a number of questions: What is at stake in the loss of “social movement” in rhetorical studies? For rhetorical critics who see the value of “social movement” (in interdisciplinary connections and public relevance, for instance), what must be done to rehabilitate the term? More particularly, what is the relationship between social movement as a phenomenon, noun, or “thing” and others’ treatments of social movement as a verb, process, or indicative of meaning change? How might reclaiming “social movement” for rhetorical studies invigorate work across different disciplinary domains, and the public? This white paper is the product of conversations provoked by these questions.
The RSA 15:
Suzanne Berg, Newman University
Betsy Brunner, University of Utah
Josue David Cisneros, University of Illinois
Doug Cloud, Colorado State University
Michael Eisenstadt, University of Kansas
Kelly Jakes, Wayne State University
Michelle Kearl, IUPU-FW
Dominic Manthey, Pennsylvania State University
Jade Olson, University of Maryland
Milene Ortega, Georgia State University
Erin J. Rand, Syracuse University
Alyssa Samek, California State University Fullerton
Jessica Shumake, University of Arizona
Ian Summers, University of Utah
Justine Wells, University of South Carolina
To cite this paper in APA: RSA 15 (2016). Whither Social Movement in Rhetorical Studies? A White Paper. Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America conference, Atlanta, GA, May 26-29, 2016. For inquiries, please contact Christina Foust (cfoust@du.edu)
Though we can read “social movement” into the record of rhetorical studies, participants raised a number of questions: What is at stake in the loss of “social movement” in rhetorical studies? For rhetorical critics who see the value of “social movement” (in interdisciplinary connections and public relevance, for instance), what must be done to rehabilitate the term? More particularly, what is the relationship between social movement as a phenomenon, noun, or “thing” and others’ treatments of social movement as a verb, process, or indicative of meaning change? How might reclaiming “social movement” for rhetorical studies invigorate work across different disciplinary domains, and the public? This white paper is the product of conversations provoked by these questions.