Assistant Professor of Communication
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8784

E-mail: MartinS@ripon.edu

Education

• Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
• M.A., Colorado State University
• A.B., Ripon College

Awards and Honors

• May Bumby Severy Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Ripon College
• Robert G. Gunderson Award for the Outstanding Debut Paper in Public Address Division, National Communication Association
• The Ninth Annual Kenneth Burke Essay Contest, Honorable Mention, for essay titled The CIO's Comic Book Campaign, Penn State University
• Sparks Fellowship, Penn State University
• Phi Beta Kappa, Ripon College

Recent Publications

• "Establishing Counter-Hegemony through Narratives: The Comic Books of the Congress of Industrial Organizations," in Who Says? Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness and Community, University of Pittsburg Press (2007).
• "Anti-Conspiracy and Anti-Propaganda Rhetoric in Joe Worker and the Story of Labor: The Use of the Comic Book Form." Journal of the Wisconsin Communication Association (Summer 2000).
• "Stock Issues-Based Policy Speech Small Group Exercise," Communication Teacher 14 (Winter 2000).

Current Courses Taught

• Public Speaking
• Rhetorical Theory
• Rhetorical Criticism
• Political Communication
• American Public Address