Office: Johnston Hall, Room 225
Phone: 414-229-6396
e-mail: kolson@uwm.edu
Degrees:
Ph.D., Communication Studies, Northwestern University
M.A., Speech Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Communication, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Research Interests:
My research uses rhetorical criticism and argumentation to examine (usually) contemporary texts, images, movements, and debates with public consequences. I am interested in empowering critical citizens.
Teaching Interests:
COMMUN 362 Theory and Practice of Argumentation and Debate
COMMUN 667 Great American Speakers and Issues (1945 - Present)
COMMUN 672 Communication and Social Order
COMMUN 772 Rhetorical Leadership and Ethics
COMMUN 872 Rhetorics of Constituting Communities and Social Controversy
Recent Publications:
Goodnight, G. Thomas, and Kathryn M. Olson. "Shared Power, Foreign Policy, and Haiti, 1994: Public Memories of War and Race." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9 (2006): 601-634.
Olson, Kathryn M. "Democratic Enlargement's Value Hierarchy and Rhetorical Forms: An Analysis of Clinton's Exercise of a Post-Cold War Symbolic Frame to Justify Military Interventions." Presidential Studies Quarterly 34 (2004): 307-340.
Olson, Kathryn M., and Clark D. Olson. "Beyond Strategy: A Reader-Centered Analysis of Irony's Dual Persuasive Uses." Quarterly Journal of Speech 90 (2004): 24-52. (2005 NCA Golden Monograph Award)
Olson, Kathryn M., and G. Thomas Goodnight. "Speaking in Community and Ingenium: The Case of the Prince William County Zoning Hearings on Disney's America." In New Approaches to Rhetoric, edited by Patricia Sullivan and Stephen R. Goldzwig, 31-59. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004. (2005 AFA Daniel Rohrer Research Award)
The Racine Group. "White Paper on Televised Political Campaign Debates." Argumentation and Advocacy 38 (2002): 199-218.
Olson, Kathryn M. "Detecting a Common Interpretive Framework for Impersonal Violence: The Homology in Participants' Rhetoric on Sport Hunting, 'Hate Crimes,' and Stranger Rape." Southern Communication Journal 67 (2002): 215-244. (2002 SCA Rose B. Johnson Article Award)
Olson, Kathryn M., and G. Thomas Goodnight. "Entanglements of Consumption, Cruelty, Privacy, and Fashion: The Social Controversy over Fur." Quarterly Journal of Speech 80 (1994): 249-76. (1995 NCA Golden Monograph Award)
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