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Jason Black

Communication Studies

Education

Ph.D., Communication, University of Maryland (2006)

M.A., Communication Wake Forest University (2002)

B.S., Political Communication, Florida State University (1998)

CV

https://uncc.academia.edu/JasonEdwardBlack

Research Interests

  • Rhetoric & Social Change
  • Social Movements
  • American Indian resistance
  • LGBTQ discourse
  • Black liberation
  • Decolonization

Select Courses Taught (UNCC & Univ. of Alabama)

  • Rhetorical Criticism (grad, UNCC)
  • Rhetorical Theory (undergrad, UNCC)
  • Rhetoric and Social Change (grad, UNCC)
  • African American Oratory (undergrad, UNCC)
  • Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (grad, UA)
  • Critical & Cultural Theories (grad, UA)
  • Rhetorical Criticism (grad, UA)
  • Rhetoric & Social Change (grad, UA)
  • African American Rhetoric (undergrad/grad, UA)
  • Critical Whiteness Theory (undergrad/grad, UA)
  • Rhetoric, Race & Law (undergrad/grad, UA)
  • War & Protest Rhetoric (undergrad/grad, UA)
  • Native American Rhetoric (undergrad/grad, UA)
  • Legal Rhetoric (undergrad/grad, UA)
  • Rhetoric & Society (undergrad, UA)
  • Rhetoric of Social Protest (undergrad, UA)
  • Rhetorical Criticism (undergrad, UA)
  • Critical Decision Making (undergrad, UA)

Bio

Dr. Jason Edward Black (Ph.D., Univ. of Maryland) is professor and chair of Communication Studies at UNC Charlotte. His research and teaching involve rhetorical studies and social change, with an emphasis on Indigenous resistance and LGBTQIA activism. Black is the author of Mascot Nation: The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2018) and American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2015). He is also co-editor of Decolonizing Native American Rhetoric (Peter Lang, 2018) and of Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings (University of California Press, 2013). Black’s work appears in the Canadian Journal of Native Studies, American Indian Quarterly, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and in numerous chapters. Black is working on a project comparing Indigenous mascotting practices and decolonial resistance in Canada and the United States.

Black’s research, teaching, and service have been recognized by awards such as the Sport & Communication Book Award (NCA, 2019), the Alpha Chi Omega Professor of the Year (UNCC, 2018), Top Article Award in American Studies (NCA, 2017), the President’s Research Award (Univ. of Alabama, 2016), the Gender Scholar of the Year Award (Southern States Communication Association, 2015), the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award (Univ. of Alabama, 2012), the Board of Visitors Outstanding Teaching Award (Univ. of Alabama, 2011), the Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Award (Southern States Communication Association, 2008), the Knox Hagood Faculty Award (Univ. of Alabama, 2008),  the Ray Camp Faculty Award (Carolinas Communication Association, 2006), the Owen Peterson Award in Rhetoric & Public Address (Southern States Communication Association, 2004), and the Wrage-Baskerville Award in Public Address (National Communication Association, 2004).

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