SusanSchultzHuxman,Ph.D.
EducationDegree
Major
DegreeGrantingInstitution
1982 B.A.
English(summacumlaude)
BethelCollege
1986 M.A.
Communication
UniversityofKansas
1988 Ph.D.
Communication
UniversityofKansas
ProfessionalAppointments:
July,2011--
President,ConradGrebelUniversityCollege
Professor,UniversityofWaterloo,OntarioCanada
2004-2011
Director,ElliottSchoolofCommunication
WichitaStateUniversity,Wichita,KS,USA
AssociateProfessorofCommunication
2003-2004
InterimDirector,ElliottSchoolofCommunication
AssociateProfessorofCommunication
1998-2002
AssociateProfessor,ElliottSchoolofCommunication 1994-1997
Coordinator,MasterofArtsinCommunicationProgram
ElliottSchoolofCommunication,AssociateProfessor
1990-1994
Director,WSUOralCommunicationProgram
AssistantProfessorofCommunication
Previous:
1988-1990
Director,PublicSpeakingProgram
AssistantProfessorofSpeechCommunicationand
TheaterArts,WakeForestUniversity
AcademicAchievements,FirstTerm,ConradGrebel
Taughtthreegraduateclassesinthecourseoffouryears,oneforTheologicalStudies(PastorsSpecial
TopicsSeminaronOrganizationalIdentity),andtwoforPeaceandConflictStudies(LeadershipandCrisis
Communication);mentoredseveralgraduatestudents,andhad2academicbookspublished:Landmark
SpeechesonU.S.Pacifism,TexasA&MPress,2015;TheRhetoricalAct:Thinking,Speaking,andWriting
Critically,Cengage,2015.Thelatterisco-authoredwithKarlynKohrsCampbellandTomBurkholder.
RemainedactiveandparticipatedattheNationalCommunicationAssociationconference,twoofthefour
years,withpapersandadministrativeduties.
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Speeches,PreparedMessages,ConradGrebel,2011-2015
Asapubliccommunicator(speaking,writing,andvisualmessaging),myprimaryworkinvolves
celebrating,honoring,elevating,advocating,instructing,andengagingaudience/readersaroundthe
identity,mission,valuesandactivities,initiativesandaspirationsofConradGrebelUniversityCollege.I
aimtobecreativeandinspirationalintellingstoriesaboutGrebel’sfounders,faculty,students,church
andalumsupporters,etc.,toawidevarietyofconstituencies.Iworkveryhardatresearching,crafting,
andpolishingthesemessagesformaximumimpact—whethertheyaresermons,Sundayschoollessons,
chapelmeditations,annualreportmessages,advocacypieces,recognitionandawardceremonies,donor
cultivation,boardandchurchreports,recruitmentpitches,academicforums,President’sReportatBoard
andCollegeCouncilmeetings,thankyoumessaging,introductionsofspeakers,etc.Ispeakintothese
specialgenresofcommunicationandtoselectstakeholderseasily50+timesayear.Whatfollowsare
selectexamples(titles,dates,place)oftherangeofmypresidentialspeakingandothermessaging,most
drawnfromthelast6monthsonly.
Sermons,ChurchPresentations,ChapelMeditations(samples)
“ThePowerofPlace,”Sermon,TorontoUnitedMennoniteChurch,Nov.1,2015
“ReluctantProphetsforallSeasons,”Sermon,RockwayMennoniteChurch,Sept.20,2015
“PlantingSeedsofFaithfulness,”Sermon,StirlingAvenueMennoniteChurch,Feb15,2014
“GreatisThyFaithfulness:SocialJusticeStoriesforaLentenSeason,”Sermon,LeamingtonUnited
Mennonite,March22,2014
“ExtraordinaryandOrdinaryActsofGenerosity,”Sermon,St.Catherine’sUnitedMennoniteChurch,
March30,2014
“MennoniteEducationforourTimes,”Sermon,ElmiraMennoniteChurch,Oct.27,2013
“IntheWorld,ButNotofIt:HowMennonitesDefendTheirFaithinTimesofCrisis,”Sermon,Ottawa
Mennonite,Ottawa,ON,Feb.19,2012
“MyStoryandFaithJourney,”AdultSundaySchoolSession,WaterlooNorthMennoniteChurch,Aug.13,
2014
“ThreeStoriesforAdvent,”BanquetSpeech,Nov.26,2013,StirlingMennoniteChurch
“Themostinspiringactofkindness:WhatwelearnfromtheMitchellMarcosvideo,”ChapelMessage,
RockwayMennoniteCollegiate,Jan.28,2014
“DotheKindThing:MennoniteEducationatitsBest,”ChapelMessage,UMEI,Leamington,March28,
2014
SpecialLectures(samples)
“LeadingChangeandInnovativePractices,”ZoompresentationtoDr.KarenHarder’sMBAclass,Bluffton
University,BlufftonOhio,Nov.18,2015
“LandmarkSpeechesonU.S.Pacifism,”CommunitySupperPresentation,Oct.21,2015
“WhyChristianLiberalArtsCollegesstillMatter,”BlufftonForumSeries,Jan.12-14,2015
“MartinLutherKing,”SpecialGuestLecture,MarleneEpp’sHistoryofPeaceMovementsCourse,Oct.15,
2014
“SpeakingTruthtoPower:ProfilesofRhetoricalCourageforChurchandsociety,”TheBenjaminEby
Lecture,Chapel,Oct.10,2013
“SpeakinginDefenseoftheMarginalized:MennoniteRhetoricinWorldWarIasanEnactmentof
Paradox,”FacultyForum,BoardRoom,ConradGrebel,March30,2012
“FindingWomen’sVoice:ASnapshotHistoryofFemaleSubmissionandRebellioninPublicSpeaking,”
SpecialGuestLecture,Gender&MusicSpecialTopicsCourse,ConradGrebel,Dr.CarolAnnWeaver,Oct.
27,2012
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CeremonialSpeaking(samples)
“SettingtheGrebelTablewithaDiversityofUtensils,”OpeningAll-CollegeConvocationAddress,Great
Hall,Sept10,2015
“The3R’sRedefined,”RockwayMennnoniteCollegiateGraduationSpeech,June20,2015
“IntheBulbthereisaFlower,”OpeningAll-CollegeConvocationAddress,GreatHall,Sept.1,2014
“OnConcreteBlocksandQuiltBlocks:BuildingCommunityfortheNext50Years!”OpeningAll-College
ConvocationAddress,GreatHall,Sept.4,2013
“DropyourNetsandFollowMe,”RosternJuniorCollege,AnnualGeneralMeetingandFundraising
Banquet,Keynotespeaker,Saskatoon,SK,Nov.16,2013
“ProvisionsfortheJourney,”CommencementAddress,CanadianMennoniteUniversity,Winnipeg,
Manitoba,April22,2012
“HiddeninPlainSight,”CommencementAddress,BethelCollege,N.Newton,KS,May19,2012
TributeRemarksatRetirementCelebrationsforHildiFroeseTiessen,TomYoderNuefeld,LenEnns,Carol
AnnWeaver,andJimPankratz
KeynoteAddress(sample)
“LeadershipandCrisisCommunication:WhitherFaith?”PlenarySpeakerattheCanadianCouncilof
ChristianCharities(4C’s)Conference:Orthopraxy:InfusingFaithintoPractice.”Mississauga,ON,Sept.25,
2013
“FromCareerRiskstoLife-EnrichingReturns:InspiringStoriesforthe4GCrowd,”Keynotepresentation,
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MEDA,NiagaraFalls,ON,Nov.4 ,2012,SheratonatTheFalls
Columns(sample)
“GrebelGrowsLeadersforChurchandSociety,”GrebelNow,President’scolumn,Nov.2015
“ExtendingtheGrebelTableto2020,”GrebelNow,President’scolumn,May2015
“AdvancingPeaceisWhatweDo,”GrebelNow,President’scolumn,Fall2014
“TheGrebelVisionat50Years,”CanadianMennonite(July29,2013):4-5
“AVisionofMennoniteEducationforourTimes,”rpt.ofSermoninCanadianMennonite(Sept.2,2013):
pp.4-7.
“ProfilesinEducation,”CanadianMennonite(Sept.2,2013).IwasInterviewedalongwiththetwoother
CanadianUniversityfemalepresidents.ColumnbyGinnyHostettler
“Forward,”inMarlenEpp’s,BridgingMind&Spirit:ConradGrebelUniversityCollege,1963-2013.pp.6-8.
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Our50 anniversarybook.
Introductions,OpeningRemarks(sample)
Remarks,President’sDonorReception,GreatHall,Nov.15,2015
Remarks,Scholarship&BursaryReception,DiningHall,Oct.18,2015
GreetingsandIntroductionstoConradGrebelParentsandFamilies,Move-InDay,Sept.7,2015
RemarksatAnnualGeneralMeetings,Oct.4,2015
Remarksat70’sAlumniReunion,Oct.4,215
SpecialWelcomeandthreestoriesaboutGrebel/WaterlooInnovation,CentreforPeaceAdvancement
Gallery,Sept.22,2015
DistinguishedAlumniServiceAwardPresentation,GreatHall,Sept24,2015
Remarksat“NextChapter”AcademicExpansionBuildingDedication,Atrium,June22,2014
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Remarksat10 AnnualLeboldFundraisingDinner,DiningHallJune26,2014
RemarksatMSCUCentreforPeaceAdvancementOpening,Sept.21,2014
OpeningRemarksatallConradGrebelgraduationexercises,2011-2015
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Videomessages(sample)
VideowelcometoConradGrebel,President’sGreeting,Grebelwebsite
Videoannouncementremindingstudentsaboutcelebratinggraduation
Videogreetingstoalumniandsupportersthroughquarterlye-mailmobile-friendlyblasts.
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Videorecordingfor50 AnniversaryBook,May27,2013
Radiomessage
Radioprogram.Recordedlive-to-tape,15-minuteinterviewwithmeonthetopicofwhyConradGrebel
UniversityCollegeisagoodinvestment.Partof:“Faith&FinanceConversationSeries,”sponsoredby
MennoniteFoundationofCanada.Faith-FM,Kitchener,Ontario,Sept16,2015,originalbroadcast.
Additionalre-broadcaststhroughoutthefall.
Workshops(sample)
CoordinatedallCollege“MediaAwarenessWorkshop,”withUWprofessionalsforConradGrebel
employees,March13,2015.
SpecialBrochures(sample)
“WhyMennoniteEducationMatters.”ThepresidentsofourCanadianHigherEducationinstitutions(Brian
Born,CherylPauls,SaraWengerShenkandmyself,whoservedasmanagingeditor)createdan
educationalidentitypieceinwhichweoffered5reasonsto“StepintoOurCulture.”Brochureusedfor
churchbulletininserts.Created2013.Co-brandedwithMCCanada.UsedeachtimeIpreach!
SCHOLARSHIP
Publications
Books
Huxman,S.S.(2015).LandmarkSpeechesonU.S.Pacifism.TexasA&MUniversity(TAMU)Press.
Campbell,K.K.&Huxman,S.S.&Burkholder,T.(2015).TheRhetoricalAct:Thinking,Speaking&Writing
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Critically.5 ed.Cengage.
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Campbell,K.K.&Huxman,S.S.(2009).TheRhetoricalAct:Thinking,Speaking&WritingCritically.4 ed.
Belmont,CA:Wadsworth/CengageLearning..
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Campbell,K.K.&Huxman,S.S.(2003).TheRhetoricalAct:Thinking,Speaking,&WritingCritically.3 ed.
Belmont,CA.:Wadsworth/Thomson.
Huxman,S.S.(1991).PublicSpeaking:ARepertoireofResources.NewYork:McGraw-Hill,CollegeCustom
Series.
ArticlesinScholarlyJournals
Huxman,S.S.(Fall2014).“SpeakingTruthtoPower:ProfilesofRhetoricalCourageforChurchand
Society,”TheConradGrebelReview,vol.32,no.3:222-249.
Huxman,S.S.(Spring2007).“ResponsetoSearchingforSacredGround:AReviewofPenner’s
SearchingforSacredGround:TheJourneyofChiefLawrenceHart,”MennoniteLife,vol.62,no.1.
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Huxman,S.S.&Biesecker-Mast,G.(Winter,2004).“InTheWorldButNotofIt:Religious
TraditionsasResourcesforRhetoricalInvention,”Rhetoric&PublicAffairs,539-550.
Huxman,S.S.(Fall,2000).“PerfectingtheRhetoricalVisionofWoman’sRights:ElizabethCadyStanton,
AnnaHowardShaw,&CarrieChapmanCatt.”Women’sStudiesinCommunication,307-336.
Huxman,S.S.(1997).“TheTragi-ComicRhetorical`Dance’ofMarginalizedGroups:TheCase
ofMennonitesintheGreatWar.”SouthernCommunicationJournal,62/4,305-318.
Iorio,S.H.&Huxman,S.S.(1996).“MediaCoverageofPoliticalIssuesandtheFramingofPersonal
Concerns.”JournalofCommunication,46,97-115.
Huxman,S.S.(1996).“MaryWollstonecraft,MargaretFuller,andAngelinaGrimke:Symbolic
ConvergenceandaNascentRhetoricalVision.”CommunicationQuarterly,44,16-28.
Huxman,S.S.&Bruce,D.(1995).“TowardaDynamicGenericFrameworkofApologia:A
CaseStudyofDowChemical,Vietnam,andtheNapalmControversy.”CommunicationStudies,
46,57-72.
Huxman,S.S.(1993).“MennoniteRhetoricinWorldWarI:ACaseStudyintheConflictBetween
IdeologicalCommitmentsandRhetoricalChoices.”TheJournalofCommunicationandReligion,
16,41-54.
Huxman,S.S.(1993).“MennoniteRhetoricinWorldWarI:LobbyingtheGovernmentfor
FreedomofConscience.”TheMennoniteQuarterlyReview,67,282-303.
Huxman,S.S.(1988).“MennoniteRhetoricinWorldWarI:KeepingtheFaith.”MennoniteLife,
43,15-20.
BookChapters
Huxman,S.S.(2008).“PassingtheTorchforWoman’sRights:ElizabethCadyStanton,AnnaHowardShaw,
andCarrieChapmanCatt.”InMartinMedhurst(Ed.).ARhetoricalHistoryoftheUnitedStates.
vol5.(pp.355-384).MichiganStateUniversityPress.
Huxman,S.S.&Allen,M.(2004).“ScientistsandStorytellers:TheImperativeofPairingQualitative&
QuantitativeApproachesinCommunicationResearch.”InSharonIorio(Ed.)QualitativeResearch
inJournalism:TakingittotheStreets.(pp.175-192).LawrenceErlbaum.
Huxman,S.S.(2004).“Exigencies,Explanations,andExecutions:TowardaDynamicTheoryoftheCrisis
CommunicationGenre.”InDanMillarandRobertHeath(Eds.).RespondingtoCrisis:ARhetorical
ApproachtoCrisisCommunication.(pp.281-298).LawrenceErlbaum.
Huxman,S.S.(1993).“JuliaWardHowe:PatrioticCrusaderforWoman’sRightsand
WorldPeace.”InKarlynKohrsCampbell(Ed.).WomenPublicSpeakersintheUnitedStates,18001925:ABio-CriticalSourcebook.(pp.434-447).Westport,Ct:GreenwoodPress.
Huxman,S.S.(1991).“TheWoman’sJournal1870-1890:TheTorchbearerforSuffrage.”In
MarthaSolomon(Ed.).AVoiceofTheirOwn:TheWomanSuffragePress,1840-1910.(pp.87109).UniversityofAlabamaPress.
Huxman.S.S.&Linkugel,W.A.(1988).“AccusationsandApologiesfromaGeneral,aSenator,anda
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Priest.”InHalfordRyan(Ed.).OratoricalEncounters:SelectedStudiesandSourcesofTwentiethCenturyPoliticalAccusationsandApologies.(pp.29-52).Westport,Ct:GreenwoodPress.
ArticlesinConferenceProceedings&ReferenceWorks
Huxman,S.S.&Bruce,D.(1995).“TheOriginofCorporateApologia:DowChemicalandthe
NapalmControversy.”InSallyJackson(Ed.).ProceedingsoftheNinthSpeech
Communication/AmericanForensicsAssociation,SCA/AFA,ConferenceonArgumentation.(290295).SpeechCommunicationAssociation.
Huxman,S.S.,&Iorio,S.H.(1994).“HelpingNewspapersBecomeMoreResponsiveto
CommunityConcerns:AnIn-DepthInterviewResearchProjectwithSedgwickCountyResidents.”
ERICClearingHouseonReading,English,andCommunicationSkills,U.S.Dept.ofEducation,
Bloomington,IN.ED367023-CS508480.
ArticlesinUniversityPublications
Iorio,S.H.&Huxman,S.S.(1995).“PersonalConcernsandPoliticalIssues.”InV.A.Keel(Ed.).
Communication:ReconnectingtheCommunity.Wichita,Ks.:TheHugoWallCenterforUrban
Studies.
ProfessionalReportsandManuals
Huxman,S.S.(2010).MediaLiteracyPrimerforMiddleSchools:FocusonSocialMedia.Workbook
preparedforUSD259,WichitaKansasPublicSchoolSystem,aspartofCommunitiesinSchoolsgrant.
Huxman,S.S.(2005).PRSAWorkshop:CrisisManagement,MediaRelations,History/CurrentPRIssues
CourseHandbook.Workbookpreparedandpurchasedbyareapublicrelationspractitionersas
partofAccreditedPublicRelations,APR,training.
ScholarlyPapers&Panels
Huxman,S.S.(Dec.1,2015,submitted).Panelorganizer,Chair&Respondent,for“Persuasion,Peaceand
thePublicPlatform:Challenges&OpportunitiesforMennoniteVoices.”SubmittedtotheGlobal
MennonitePeacebuildingConference&Festival,June9-16,2016,ConradGrebelUniversity
College.AssembledInterdisciplinaryexpertsinpeace,theology,history,rhetoric,media,etc.,
includingAllanRudyFroese,AMBS,PerryBush,Bluffton,JasonMoyer,MaloneUniversity,Dave
Balzer,CanadianMennoniteUniversity,MarathanaProthro,Bluffton,andLisaSchirch,Eastern
MennoniteUniversity.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.21,2014).Chair,Panel“PoliticalSoilandFemaleVoice:Small-townAmericaand
IntersectionswiththeProgressiveRhetoricofJaneAddams,MareetHaldeman-JuliusandJane
Grant,”NationalCommunicaitonAssociation,Chicago.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.21,2014).“OnTextbooks,Teaching,andtheTrivium:TheKarlynKohrsCampbell
Way.”InvitedPaperonSpotlightPanel:“ACelebrationoftheCareerofKarlynKohrsCampbell,
NationalCommunicationAssociation,Chicago.
Huxman,S.S.(Spring2014).“DonnParson:MasterGardnerofStudentsforHalfaCentury.”Invited
Papers,SpotlightPanel,CentralStatesCommunicationAssociation,Minneapolis,MN.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.22,2013).“MarthaonMentoring&ModelingwithaDifference,”Panel,The
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ConsumateBricoleur:CelebratingtheScholarshipLeadershipandMentorshipofMartha
SolomonWatson,NationalCommunicationAssociation,Washington,DC.
Mellinger,M.&Huxman,S.S.(Feb.2013).“BestPracticesofAICResearchPartnerships:ACaseStudyof
theSpiritualCareofSeniorsinvolvingConradGrebel,UniversityofWaterloo,ResearchInstitute
onAging,andSchlegelRetirementVillages.”
Huxman,S.S.(April52013).“WilLinkugel:TeacherandMentor.”InvitedPapersSpotlightPanelinHonor
ofWilA.Linkugel.CentralStatesCommunicationAssociation,KansasCity,Mo.
Dick,M.L.&SchultzHuxman,S.(June2011).“PeaceProseoutofParadox:TheConstitutiveRhetoricof
ChiefLawrenceHart.”CompetitivepaperpresentedattheInternationalEmpowermentandthe
SacredConference,LeedsUniversity,Leeds,UK.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2010).“CaseStudiesinPresidentialRhetoric.”PublicAddressDivision.Panel
Chair,NationalCommunicationAssociation(NCA),SanFrancisco.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2009).“TheProteanandParadoxicalAspectsofAcademicMotherhood:ARhetorical
ExaminationofEnactmentandSubversion.”PanelPresentation.“MosaicsofMotherhood:
EmpoweringDiscoursesofStabilityandChange.”Women’sCaucusandFamilyCommunication
Division.NationalCommunicationAssociation(NCA),Chicago,November.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2009).“RhetoricSurroundingFirstandSecondWaveWoman’sRights,Suffrageand
TitleIX.”Respondent,PublicAddressdivisionPanel,NCA.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2009).“GlobalRhetoricandTheRhetoricofGlobalization.”Chair,PublicAddress
DivisionPanel,NCA.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2008).“HillaryandHistory:WhyReportingonStereotypicalMediaCoverage[Still]
Matters,”PanelPresentation:“Hillary08:FeministOpportunitiesandChallenges,”Women’s
Caucus,NCA,SanDiego,CA.
Huxman,S.S.(May2008).“Stanton’sVexingRhetoricalConstitution:TheEnactmentof`ebbandflow’;
SubversionandTranscendencein`SolitudeofSelf.’”CompetitivePaperacceptedfor
presentationatRhetoricSocietyofAmerica,(RSA)SeattleWashington,May23-26.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2007).“ReligiousTraditionsasSourcesofRhetoricalInvention.”Session
OrganizerforReligiousCommunicationDivision,NCA.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2007).“TheMarieHochmuthNicholsAwardSpotlightonScholarship.”Session
Organizer,RespondentforPublicAddressDivision,NCA.
Huxman,S.S.(Feb.2006).“SpeakinginDefenseoftheMarginalized:Tragi-ComicRhetoricalStories
ofConvictionandCouragethatConfound.”KeynoteAddress,FaithWorksandCommunication,
BlufftonCollege.Bluffton,Ohio.SponsoredbyPathways,LilyEndowment.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2005).“AssessingtheHealthofCrisisCommunicationScholarship:What
CoheresfromApologiatoCrisisManagementTheories.”Panelorganizer,chair,NCA,Boston.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2004).“APrismaticViewofCrisisCommunication”EasternCommunication
Association,ECA,Pre-conferenceonCrisis,Boston,Mass.April.
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Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2004).“CrisisSeverity,CorporateFronts,andStrategicResponses:TrackingTired
TacticsintheFirestoneProductRecallCase.”CompetitivePaper,NCA,Chicago.
Huxman,S.S.(April2003).“They[r’eStillSpeaking]inDefenseofThemselves:A
Postmodernview`OntheGenericCriticismofApologia.’”Keynoteaddressatthefirstannual
“LinkugelLectureSeries,”Dept.ofCommunication,UniversityofKansas,Lawrence,KS.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2002).“Principles,Productions,andProblems:APrimerin
UnderstandingVisualRhetoric.”CompetitivePaper,NCA,NewOrleans.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2002).“`Events,DearCritics,Events’:ACodificationofthe
SituationalObstaclesoftheEarlyWoman’sRightsMovement.”CompetitivePaper,NCA,New
Orleans.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2002).“TeachingaHybridMediaLiteracyandRhetoricalCriticismCourse.”Invited
Paper,NCA,NewOrleans.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2002).Chair,“TopPapersinPublicAddress.”NCA,NewOrleans.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2001).“Exigencies,Explanations,andExecutions:TowardaDynamicTheoretical
FrameworkofCorporateCrisisCommunication.”TopPapersinPublicRelationsPanel,NCA,
Atlanta.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2001).HonorsPublicSpeaking:RadicalIdeaorRadicalRoot?Panelist,
NCA,Atlanta.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2001).“FeministStudiesandAmistad:CompetitivePapersinPublic
Address,Respondent,PublicAddressDivision,NCA,Atlanta.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.2000).“Clinton,Crisis,andCommunication:WhatClassicalRhetoricalTheoryTellsUs
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abouttheAugust17 Speech.”NCA,Seattle.
Huxman,S.S.(May1999).“WhathasApologiaTheorytoSayabouttheClintonInternScandal:Missing
LinksoftheClassicalRhetoricalTraditionSpeak.”InternationalCommunicationAssociation(ICA),
SanFrancisco,CA.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1998).“PreservingParadoxicalRolesasPatriotsandPacifists:TheCaseofMennonites
intheGreatWar.”NewmanUniversityandtheKansasHumanitiesCouncilPresent:WorldWarI
andtheTwentiethCenturyConference.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1998).“PerfectingtheRhetoricalVisionofWoman’sRights:ElizabethCadyStanton,
AnnaHowardShaw,andCarrieChapmanCatt.”NCA,NewYorkCity.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1998).“Clinton,Crisis,andCommunication:LessonsLearnedforaCyberspaceAge.”
ChairofPanel,NCA,NewYork.
Huxman,S.S.(April1998).“PlowingandSowingfortheHarvest:TheRoleofAnnaHowardShawinthe
Woman’sRightsMovement.”ConferenceinHonorofWilA.Linkugel.Lawrence,KS.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1997).“NineteenthCenturyWomen’sRightsActivists:CelebratingtheCentralityof
Women.”ChairofPanel,NCA,Chicago.
Huxman,S.S.(May1996).“MediaLiteracyintheCommunicationClassroom.”KansasState
CommunicationAssociation,KSCA,Wichita,KS.
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Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1995).“WhenWorldsCollide:MennonitesintheGreatWarandtheRhetoricof
Tragi-ComicFrames.”SpeechCommunicationAssociation(SCA),nowNCA,SanAntonio.
Huxman,S.S.&Bruce,D.(August1995).“RevisitingtheOriginofCorporateApologiaThroughaClassical
ArgumentFrame:DowChemicalandtheNapalmControversy.”SpeechCommunication
Association(SCA)inconjunctionwithAmericanForensicsAssociation(AFA)SummerConference
onArgumentation,Alta,Utah.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1994).“ASocio-RhetoricalExaminationoftheGestationalStageofWoman’sRightsas
CarriedbytheFemaleReformersoftheEnlightenment,Transcendentalism,andAbolitionism.”
SCA,NewOrleans,LA.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1994).“RevisitingtheOriginofCorporateApologia:Vietnam-EraRhetoricoftheDow
ChemicalCompany.”TopThreePapersinPublicRelationsPanel:SCA,NewOrleans,LA.
Huxman,S.S.(April1994).“CompetitivePapers:RhetoricalDimensionsofFictionalDiscoursebyand
aboutWomen.”PanelRespondent,CentralStatesSpeechAssociation,CSCA,OklahomaCity.
Huxman,S.S.&Iorio,S.H.(Aug.1993).“AttheEdgeofAgenda-Setting:AQualitativeStudyofPersonal
ConcernsandPoliticalIssuesDevelopment.”AssociationfortheEducationofJournalismand
MassCommunication,AEJMC,K.C.,Mo.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1993).“RediscoveringSpeechTopoiintheEntryLevelPublicSpeakingCourse.”Top
PaperAward,”BasicCourseDivision,PosterSession,SCA,Miami,Fla.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1993).“MennoniteRhetoricinWorldWarI:LobbyingtheGovernmentforFreedomof
Conscience.”SCA,Miami,Fla.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1993).“HelpingNewspapersBecomeMoreResponsivetoCommunityConcerns:An
In-DepthInterviewResearchProjectwithSedgwickCountyResidents.”SCA,Miami,Fla.
Huxman,S.S.(May1993).“DevelopingUndergraduateResearch:Means,MethodsandMerits.”Panel
Discussant,KansasStateCommunicationAssociation,KSCA,GreatBend,Ks.
Huxman,S.S.(April1993).“CreatingDiverseVisionsWithintheWomen’sRightsMovement.”Central
StatesCommunicationAssociation-SouthernStatesCommunicationAssociationjointconference,
CSCA-SSCA,Lexington,KY.
Huxman,S.S.(April1992).“TeachingStrategiesforDealingwithStereotypesandInitialResistancein
CoursesTreatingGenderIssues.”CSCA,Cleveland,OH.
Huxman,S.S.(April1992).“Re-imaginingFeministTheoryandCriticism.”PanelRespondent,CSCA,
Cleveland,OH.
Huxman,S.S.(May1992).“MentoringinAcademia.”PanelDiscussant,KSCA,Manhattan,KS.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1991).“EmpoweringaPowerlessConstituency:TheNurturingRoleoftheWoman’s
Journal.”SCA,Atlanta,Ga.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1990).“RationalDiscourse:ExpandingIdentityofNineteenthCenturyWomenonthe
Margin.”CairandPanelRespondent,SCA,Chicago.
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Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1989).“MennoniteRhetoricinWorldWarI:ACaseStudyintheConflictbetween
IdeologicalCommitmentsandRhetoricalChoices.”SCA,SanFrancisco.CA.
Huxman,S.S.(April1989).“ABeaconofFeministRespectability:TheEnduringVoiceofTheWoman’s
JournalintheWoman’sSuffrageMovement.”CSCA.K.C.,Mo.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1988).“MaryWollstonecraft,MargaretFuller,andAngelinaGrimkeandtheCo-
optationofPopularCausestoLegitimizetheEarlyWoman’sRightsMovement.”SCA,New
Orleans,LA.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1987).“IntheLion’sDen:ARhetoricalAnalysisofEdwardKennedy’sAddressat
LibertyBaptistCollege.”SCA,Boston.
Huxman,S.S.(Nov.1986).“TheoryBuildingonAccusatoryDiscourse.”SCA,Chicago.
AWARDSANDRECOGNITIONFORRESEARCH,TEACHING,LEADERSHIP
(2014) Namedtothe“100FantasticCanadianChristianWomenLeaders,”Bridgeway
Foundation.
(2009) NominatedforWSUAdvancementinTeachingAward.
(2008-2009)
NominatedbygraduatingseniorsasaninfluentialteacheratWSUandaspecial
invitationtoattendcommencement
(2008)
NamedaClassof2008JournalismLeadershipInstituteFellowbytheAssociationof
SchoolsforJournalismandMassCommunication.
(2006)
WinneroftheBoardofTrusteesAcademyforExcellenceinTeachingAward,Wichita
StateUniversity
(2009-1996)
NominatedforboththeWSUAcademyofEffectiveTeachingandBoardof
TrusteesExcellenceinTeachingAwardseachoftheseyears.
(2004)
Who’sWhoAmongAmerica’sTeachers.Awardsmadebasedonnominationsbyan
institution’stop10%ofgraduatingseniors.
(2003) NominatedfortheJohnR.BarrierAwardforTeachingExcellence,
LASHumanitiesTeachingAwardatWSU.
(2001) GoldenKeyInternationalHonorSociety,Honorary
FacultyMemberRecognitionCeremony.”WSU.
(2001) “TopPaperAward,”PublicRelationsDivision,NCA.
(1999)“YoungAlumnusAward.”BethelCollege.Recognizedforoutstanding contributionsasateacher,scholar,andmentor.
(1999)
Selectedasa“LeadingScholarofAmericanPublicAddress”incompiling“Top100
th
Speechesofthe20 Century.”ProjectsponsoredbytheDept.ofRhetoric,Universityof
Wisconsin-Madison.SeeAmericanrhetoric.com
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(1998)
(1997)
(1997) (1996)
(1995) (1995)
Named“OutstandingCollegeSpeechTeacher,”KansasSpeechCommunication
Association
Electedasan“honorarymember”totheHonorSocietyofPhiKappaPhibyWSUFaculty
SelectionCommittee
Selectedasan“OutstandingWSUteacher”byMetropolitanAdvantageSeminar
Who’sWhoAmongAmerica’sTeachers.Awardsmadebasedonnominationsbyan
institution’stop10%ofgraduatingseniors.
EmoryLindquistHonorsProgramFacultyMentorAward.
ThesisAdvisorforthe“TopMaster’sThesisatWSU”--auniversity-widecontest
sponsoredbytheWSUgraduateschool.Studentwinner:MaryCarver,“Rhetoricofa
Readership:AnAnalysisofLetterstotheEditoroftheWoman’sJournal,1870-1890.”
(1994) NamedMortarBoardOutstandingEducatorAward,WSU.
(1994)"TopPaperAward,"PublicRelationsDivision,SCAfor"RevisitingtheOriginofCorporate Apologia:Vietnam-EraRhetoricoftheDowChemicalCompany."(co-author,Denice
BeattyBruce).
(1994)
ThesisAdvisorforthe“TopMaster’sThesisatWSU.Studentwinner:DeniceBruce,
“WoundedbyNapalm:Vietnam-EraApologeticRhetoricoftheDowChemical
Company.”
(1993)
"TopPaperAward,"BasicCourseDivision,PosterSessionofSCAfor"Rediscovering
SpeechTopoiintheEntryLevelPublicSpeakingCourse."
(1993) NominatedfortheJohnR.BarrierAwardforTeachingExcellence,University-wide
TeachingAwardatWSU.
LEADERSHIPPOSITIONS:ACADEMIC&PROFESSIONAL(recentandselected)
(2011-current) President,ConradGrebelUniversityCollege
Member,Ex-officio,GrebelBoardofGovernors,ExecutiveCommittee,Program
Committee,Finance&DevelopmentCommittee;CampaignAdvisory,Building
Committee
Chair,GrebelCollegeCouncil
Chair,AdministrativeExecutive(Cabinet)
MemberAFIW(AffiliatedandFederatedInstitutionsofWaterloo)
Member,FacultySenate,UniversityofWaterloo
ElectedRepfromAFIWonUWSenateExecutive
Facilitator,variousGrebelStrategicPlanningInitiatives,2015-2020
(2011-current) LeadershipCommission,MennoniteChurch,Canada,member
PartnerSchool,MennoniteChurchEasternCanada(MCEC)
MennoniteEconomicDevelopmentAssociates(MEDA),member
(2014-current) BoardofDirectors,CentreforFamilyBusiness,(CFFB)WaterlooRegion
StrategicPlanningCommittee,CFFB
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(2004-2011)
(2010-2011)
(2010-2011)
(2007-2008)
(2008-2009)
(2008-2010)
(2005-2007)
(2007-2008)
(2005-2006)
(2005-2008)
(2005-2006)
(2004-2005)
Director,ElliottSchoolofCommunication,WichitaStateUniversity
Convener,ElliottSchoolofCommunicationProfessionalAdvisoryBoard,WSUandESC
EndowmentCouncil
Member,WesternDistrictConference,ExecutiveBoard
Member,AssociationofSchoolsinJournalismandMassCommunication,ASJMC,
PublicationsBoard
NamedASJMCJournalismLeadershipInstitute:DeansandDirectorsClassof2007-08
Chair,HonorsSteeringCommittee,TransformingHonorsEducationatWSU
Chair,CollegeofLiberalArts&SciencesTenure&PromotionCommittee;memberWSU
UniversityTenure&PromotionCommittee
Chair,KansasHealthFoundation(KHF)DistinguishedChairinStrategicCommunication
FacultySearchCommittee
Chair,EmoryLindquistHonorsProgramReviewCommittee,WSU
President,PublicAddressDivision,NationalCommunicationAssociation
LegislativeAssemblyDelegate,NationalCommunicationAssociation
Tenure&PromotionCommittee,CollegeofLiberalArts&Sciences,WSU
VicePresidentPublicAddressDivisionandProgramPlanner,NationalCommunication
Association
(2004) NationalProgramPlanner,ShortCourses,NationalCommunicationAssociation
(2003-2005)
FacultySenate,SocialScienceDivisionRepresentative,WSU
(2001-2007)MennoniteEducationAgency,BoardofDirectors,MCUSA;Chair,HigherEducation
Committee;FinancialAuditCommitteemember
(2004-2005)
HesstonCollege,PresidentialSearchCommittee
(2004-2010) FacultyAdvisor,LambdaPiEta,NationalCommunicationHonorSociety,Zeta
EtaChapter,ElliottSchoolofCommunication,WSU
(2003) Chair,CommunicationWeek,ElliottSchool,WSU
GRANTACTIVITY
Funded
(2010)CommunitiesinSchools,USD259,Wichita,KS.SocialMediaLiteracyProjectforMiddleSchools.
$3,200.PrincipleInvestigator(PI).
(2005) DistinguishedChairinStrategicCommunication,KansasHealthFoundation,$2,000,000
(2004) FacultyDevelopmentResearchGrant,KansasHealthFoundation,$70,000
(2004) TechnologyandGlobalLearningGrant,$14,000(DigitalScriptingService,
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BroadcastJournalism;APWireServicetoElliottHall.PI
(2004)Ethics&ExcellenceFoundationinJournalism.$36,000.DigitalPhotojournalismProject.PI.
(2004)BigDogMotorcycles.$7,000.EducationalElectronicMediaProject:DigitalTrainingModules.
(Funded—lettersofsupport)
(2007) AmyLauters,PI.“CommunicationUpwardBound.”U.S.Dept.ofEducation,TRIOProgram.$1.2
million
(2005) MikeBoyle,PI.“ReadytoReadEvaluationCampaign.”KansasHealthFoundation,$144,000.
(2004) RickArmstrong.PI.“TakeASecond,MakeADifference.”KansasHealthFoundation,$500,000.
InternalGrants/ResearchLeaves:
(2003) FacultySummerResearchFellowship,CurriculumDevelopment,WichitaStateUniversity.
AwardedbytheCollegeofLiberalArtsandSciences(LAS)intheamountof$4000for“Curriculum
DevelopmentinMediaLiteracyatWSU.”
(1998)FacultySabbaticalLeave.Springsemester.
(1997)FacultySummerResearchFellowship,WichitaStateUniversity.Awardedbythe
CollegeofLASandtheOfficeofResearchAdministration,ORA,intheamountof$3000for
“EstablishingtheRhetoricalVisionsofWoman’sRights.”
(1997)SabbaticalResearchLeaveProjectapprovedforspring1998:“Communication,Corporations,and
Crisis:CaseStudiesofResponsePatterns.”
(1991)Knight-RidderNewspapersInc.Miami,Fla.$3000.Co-principleinvestigatorfor
WichitaEagle/ElliottSchoolofCommunicationResearchProject.Finalreportentitled:"Personal
InterviewswithSedgwickCountyResidentsonCommunityConcerns."
(1991)FacultySummerResearchFellowship,WichitaStateUniversity.AwardedbytheUniversity
FacultySupportCommitteeandORAintheamountof$4000forthestudy:"ARhetorical
BiographyofJuliaWardHowe."
TEACHINGRESPONSIBLITIES
2012-2014
Grebel-UWaterlooGraduateLevel:MasterofTheologicalStudies(MTS)SpecialTopicsCourse:TheRole
ofRhetoricinCorporateIdentityFormation;MasterofPeaceandConflictStudies(MPACS)SpecialTopics
Course:LeadershipandCrisisCommunication
1990-2011
WichitaStateGraduateLevel:SeminarinRhetoricalCriticism,HistoricalandQualitative
ResearchMethods,InstructionalMethodsinOralCommunication,IssuesinCorporate
Communication,StrategicCommunication,AmericanPublicAddress,ManagementofCrisis
Communication.
UndergraduateLevel:CommunicationAnalysisandCriticism,
PublicSpeakingHonors,BasicPublicSpeaking,AmericanPublicAddress,
IssuesinCorporateCommunication,ManagementofStrategicCommunication,
PortfolioClass.
1988-90
WakeForestUniversityGraduateLevel:RhetoricalCriticismSeminar,ClassicalRhetoricalTheory
UndergraduateLevel:PresidentialRhetoric,RhetoricofWoman'sRights
RhetoricofSocialMovements,PublicSpeaking.
GraduateThesesDirected:
1988-2011
JudyMcClelland(1988)"TheatreasStagedRhetoric:ASocialist-FeministPerspectiveofCarolChurchill'sTop
Girls."/PeterShankland(1988)"GaryHart's`NewIdeas':ARhetoricofPurposeandChange."/William
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Shanahan(1989)"ASelf-ReflexiveExaminationofLiberty,orInterviewwithanAnarchist.”/RichardStafford
(1989)"Sanctuary:AnAnalysisofMovementRhetoric."/SandraBerkowitzStafford(1989)"IntheInterestof
JewishWomen:ARhetoricalAnalysisoftheAmericanJewess."/KaraLakkees(1993)"TheRhetoricof
KhruschchevandYeltsininAmerica:AnAnalogCriticismofTwoSpeeches.”/DeniceBruce(1993)"Wounded
byNapalm:Vietnam-EraApologeticRhetoricoftheDowChemicalCompany."/LindaCoulter(1994)"The
RhetoricofDeviance:AMarxist-FeministAnalysisofMail-OrderCatalogsForTallandLargeWomen."/
MaryCarver(1994)"RhetoricofaReadership:AnAnalysisofLetterstotheEditoroftheWoman'sJournal,
1870-1890."/LindaMadison(1995)"ACritiqueofPersonalInterviewingasaQualitativeResearch
MethodologyinCommunication.”/MarieDick(1995)“SteelMagnolias:APost-ModernFeministCritique.”
/RobertSimon(1997)“MotivatingPositiveSelf-Empowerment:AGenericAnalysisofContemporary
Rhetoric.”/EdieNash(1997)“TheRhetoricofC.S.Lewis:ApologiaThroughMetaphor.”/RoseBeilman
(1998)“TheFormandTheFitting:ABurkeanRhetoricalAnalysisofSelectedTwentiethCenturyAdaptations
ofSophocles’Antigone.”/KaraSterbens(1999)“NewPioneersforanActiveFaith:AComputer-Assisted
RhetoricalAnalysisofCoalitionspeeches.”/LynnLuthi(2001)“CorporateCommunicationinaPostIdeologicalAge.”/SherriGarris(2001)“Twenty-FiveYearsofScreams:EvolutionoftheSlasherFilm.”
/ChristineCrouse-Dick(2002)“SheDefined:AFeministFantasyThemeAnalysisofAdvertisementsTargeting
WomenDuringAllyMcBeal.”/LoriNelson(2002)“TiredArguments:ARhetoricalAnalysisofFirestone’sTwo
ProductRecallCrises.”/CharissaJarboeGale(2003)“HowWomenDiscussTheirMarriedNameChange:
PersonalInterviewsandQualitativeCommunicationResearch.”/LeslieBlythe(2004)“FBICrisis
CommunicationAfter9/11:RespondingtoAllegationsofIntelligenceFailure”/JessicaMyers(2005)
“PresidentBushandCrisisCommunicationPost9/11andtheAirlineIndustryDamageControlMessage”/
RachelSwartzendruber(2006)“TrailblazingorBackPeddling?ARhetoricalAnalysisoftheRoleofWomenin
theMennoniteChurch1970-1988.”/KateriGrillot(2007)“DestinationBranding,TheVegasCampaign,and
RhetoricalImplications.”/CynthiaGardner(2011)“CrisisCommunicationandtheAirlines:ACaseStudyof
IndustryTrends,1998-2008.”
GraduateComprehensiveExams:
MasterofArtsinCommunicationProgram,WSU,ComprehensiveExamCommittees(chairorreader):114.
SelectedAcademicProfessionalService Leadership:
President,PublicAddressDivision,NationalCommunicationAssociation(NCA)/ShortCourse
Reviews:
ConventionPlanner,NCA/NominatingCommittee,NCA,PublicAddressDivision/President,
Women’sCaucus,CentralStatesCommunicationAssociation,CSCA/Vice-Chair,Women'sCaucus
CSCA/NewsletterEditor,Women'sCaucus,CSCA/FinanceCommittee,CSCA/ProgramPlanner,
Women'sCaucus,CSCA/2ndVicePresident,KansasStateSpeechAssociationKSCA/Nominating
Committee,CSCA/GoldenAnniversaryMonographAwardCommittee,NCA/Chair,Respondent,
ManuscriptReviewerforPublicRelationsandPublicAddressDivisions,NCA.
Tenure&PromotionCases,otheruniversities/ManuscriptReviews,Women’sStudiesin
Communication/CommunicationStudies/SouthernCommunicationJournal/Rhetoric&Public
Affairs/ManagementCommunicationQuarterly/MennoniteLife/StudiesinAnabaptistMennonite
HistorySeries,EndorsementsforMennoMedia
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