 Professor of Comm Studies
Director of Oral Communication
Office: Chambers 2268
E-mail: katurner@davidson.eduPhone: 704.894.2528
Fax: 704.894.2071
Communication Studies
Davidson College
P.O. Box 7066
Davidson, NC 28035-7066
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Kathleen J. Turnerearned her B.A. in Speech Communication and English from the University of Kansas (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa,) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University, where she was a University Fellow. She is Professor of Communication Studies and Director of Oral Communication at Davidson, where she teaches COM 101: Principles of Oral Communication, COM 201: Introduction to Communication Studies and COM 495: Communication Theory and Research. She has held positions at such institutions as Denison University, the University of Notre Dame, and Tulane University, and served as Chair of the Department of Communication and the first Alpo and Marjorie Knight Crane Professor of Communication at Queens University of Charlotte. As a rhetorical analyst, Dr. Turner studies communication as a process of social influence, particularly in the areas of media, politics, popular culture, and women’s issues. Her teaching specialties include Critical Analysis of Media, History of Mass Communication, Visual Communication and Gender, Persuasion, Political Communication, Advertising, Mass Communication Law, and Political Communication. Dr. Turner is the author of Lyndon Johnson's Dual War: Vietnam and the Press, the first book in the field of communication to be published by the University of Chicago Press. She is the editor of Doing Rhetorical History: Concepts and Cases, published by the University of Alabama Press. Her publications also include a monograph on Mass Media and Popular Culture; chapters on Miami Vice and sixties protest music; and articles on the future of rhetorical studies, presidential libraries, Time's coverage of religion, social movements' efforts to influence news coverage, comic strips, and the history of product placement. An ongoing project is a book-length study of the images of women in comic strips.
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