VITA for Davis W. Houck

VITA for Davis W. Houck

Curriculum Vitae

Davis W. Houck

August, 2009

GENERAL INFORMATION

University Address:Division of Media and Communication Studies

School of Communication

College of Communication

University Center C, Suite 3100

FloridaStateUniversity

Tallahassee, FL32306-2664

Phone: (850)-644-1607; Fax: (850)-644-8642

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Professional Preparation

1992-1995Doctor of Philosophy, PennStateUniversity, University Park, PA. Major: Speech Communication. Dissertation: Rhetoric as currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the great depression. Dissertation supervisor: Richard Gregg.

1989-1992Master of Arts, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA. Major: Rhetoric and Communication. Advisor: Carole Blair.

1985-1989Bachelor of Arts, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH. Major: Speech Communication. Minor: Economics. Honors Thesis: The rhetoric of Reaganomics. Thesis supervisor: Amos Kiewe. Graduated with Honors.

Professional Experience

2004-presentAssociate Professor – Department of Communication, College of Communication, Florida State University. Responsible for teaching 2/2 load, M.A. and Ph.D. advising and directing, active research agenda, and service.

2000-2004Assistant Professor – Department of Communication, College of Communication, Florida State University. Responsible for teaching 2/2 load, M.A. and Ph.D. advising and directing, active research agenda, and service.

1996-1999Assistant Professor – Department of Communication, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University. Responsible for teaching 3/2 load, M.A. advising and directing, active research agenda, and service.

Honors and Awards

Martin Luther King Distinguished Service Award, FloridaStateUniversity (2007).

Faculty inductee, Golden Key National Honor Society (2007).

One semester sabbatical, FloridaStateUniversity (fall 2007).

Volunteer of the Year, Boys and Girls Clubs of the Big Bend (2005).

FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address, submitted for Pulitzer Prize, 2003.

Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association (2002).

Herbert C. Hoover Fellow, Herbert C. Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA (1997).

Edwin Erle Sparks Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Speech Communication, PennStateUniversity (1994-1995).

Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis (1991).

Outstanding Scholarship, Department of Rhetoric and Communication, University of California, Davis (1991).

Jeffrey Horn Scholarship, Department of Rhetoric and Communication, University of California, Davis (1990).

David M. Guldin Outstanding Student-Athlete Memorial Award, College of Wooster (1989).

Delbert Lean Prize, Department of Speech Communication, College of Wooster (1989).

All-American Golf Team, Golf Coaches Association of America (1988 and 1989).

Academic All-American Golf Team, Golf Coaches Association of America (1988 and 1989).

Membership in Professional Organizations

National Communication Association

Southern States Communication Association

TEACHING

Courses Taught[1]

SPC 3210 Contemporary Human Communication

SPC 2600 Public Speaking

SPC 5614 Criticism of Contemporary American Public Address

COM 5546 Political Communication

SPC 4540 Persuasion

COM 4930 (Topics) Rhetoric and the Civil Rights Movement

COM 4930 (Topics) Race and Rhetoric

COM 6400 (Topics) Race and Rhetoric

SPC 5340 Historical-Critical Methods

COM 5546 Political Communication

SPC 3233 Classical Rhetoric

SPC 4680 Rhetorical Criticism

* SPC 5340 Historical-Critical Methods of Research

* SPC 4680 Rhetorical Criticism

* SPC 3233 Classical Rhetoric

* SPC 4540 Persuasion

* SPC 2600 Public Speaking

* SPC 5655 Political Rhetoric

* COM 6400 (Topics) Rhetoric, Sport and the Body

# Rhetoric and the Sophists

# Rhetorical Criticism

# Political Communication

# Introduction to Communication and Rhetoric

# Rhetoric, Sport, and Society

# Classical Rhetorical Theory

# Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

# Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (graduate)

# Rhetorical Criticism (graduate)

# The Rhetoric of Hate (graduate)

Chair of Doctoral Dissertation Supervisory Committees

Charles Ryor, coursework in progress (anticipated date of graduation: 2012).

Stephen Andon, preparing for comprehensive examinations (anticipated date of graduation: 2010).

William H. Lawson, hooded December 2008. Dissertation title: No Small Thing: A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote.

Matthew A. Grindy, hooded February 8, 2008. Dissertation title: Rhetoric, Public Memory and the Civil Rights Movement: The Case of Emmett Louis Till.

Frederick L. Battenfield, hooded May 2004, Department of Sport Management. Dissertation title: An Ethnographic Study of the Culture of Communication in the Sports Information Office in a Division 1-A Athletic Program (co-directed with Aubrey Kent).

Dan Maguire, comprehensive exams taken 2004, never completed.

*Timothy Yap, hooded May 2002. Dissertation title: Reading the Surrey Gardens Tragedy: Trauma, Ethos, and the Rhetoric of Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

*Julia Kruse, hooded August 2000. Dissertation title: Escalation and Politicization of Soccer Hooliganism in European Newspapers: A Comparative Study from a Dramatistic Perspective (co-directed with Marilyn Young).

Member of Doctoral Dissertation Supervisory Committees

Sally Bishai, dissertation prospectus defended July 2009 (anticipated date of graduation: 2010).

Scott Gage, doctoral candidate, Department of English (anticipated date of graduation: 2011).

Leah Cassorla, doctoral student, Department of English (anticipated date of graduation, 2011).

Nicholas Quinton, doctoral candidate, Department of History (anticipated date of graduation: 2011).

Mihaela Nocasian, hooded August 2005. Dissertation title: Creating Community over the Net: A Case Study of Romanian Online Journalism.

Clark Haptonstall, hooded May 2005, Department of Sport Management. Dissertation title: Measuring the Effectiveness of Mediated and Non-mediated Communication Among Heisman Trophy Voters.

Chair of Master’s Thesis Supervisory Committees

Steven Mike Gentine, graduated August 2009. Title of thesis: A Case Study in Radical Persuasion: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Congressional Challenge of 1964-1965.

William H. Lawson, graduated May 2005. Title of thesis: A Righteous Anger in Mississippi: Genre Constraints and Breaking Precedence.

*Abraham Iqbal Khan, graduated May 2002. Title of thesis: Deconstructing the Stripper: Towards a Critical Description of a Nude Dance Club.

Member of Master’s Thesis/Creative Project Supervisory Committees

Joseph Delbert Davenport, graduated May 2009.

Erin Schmidt, graduated August 2009.

Mark Baseman, graduated May 2006.

Wilfredo Alvarez, graduated May 2005

Heather St. John, graduated May 2004.

*Kimberly Stone, graduated May 2001.

#Jenna Felder, graduated May 1998.

#Deborah Walker, graduated May 1998.

#Christie Ramirez, graduated May 1998.

#Julee Payne, graduated May 1997.

Member of Master’s Examination Committees

*Kelli Holsendolph, graduated December 2005.

*Landon Scott Bell, graduated May 2001.

*Samantha O’Neil, graduated May 2001.

*Kimberly Stone, graduated May 2001.

Chair of Bachelor’s Supervisory Committees

Lucy Voss, graduated May 2002. Thesis title: Body Image in the Fitness Community on a College Campus.

Member of Bachelor’s Thesis Supervisory Committees

Padrah Reichman, graduated May 2005.

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES[2]

Refereed Journal Articles

Houck, D. W. (2006). On or about June 1988. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 9, 132-37. Argues that archival research is often biased given what resources are made available and to whom.

Houck, D. W. (2004). FDR’s Commonwealth Club address: Redefining individualism, adjudicating greatness. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 7, 259-82. Re-evaluates FDR’s famous campaign speech in light of new archival evidences.

Houck, D. W. (2004). Reading Ed King’s jaw—or, reading, writing and embodying civil rights. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 7, 67-90. Review essay argues that rhetoric needs to be expanded to include notions of embodiment and how that played out in civil rights protests and media reporting.

Houck, D. W., & Davenport, J. (2004). Redeeming 9-11. The Long Term View, 6, 123-30. Argues that media representations of the Second Gulf War ought to be understood in the context of media representations of 9-11. Davenport was an undergraduate Honor’s student at FSU at time of publication.

*Houck, D. W. (2002). “It helps to be a Don if you’re going to be a Deirdre”: Revisiting the rhetoric of economics. Argumentation & Advocacy, 39, 130-40.

*Houck, D. W., & Nocasian, M. (2002). FDR’s first Inaugural Address: Text, context, and reception. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 5, 649-678. Nocasian was a doctoral student at FSU at time of writing.

*Houck, D. W. (2000). Transforming democracy: The politics of cyberpolitics. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 3, 471-84.

*Houck, D. W. (2000). Rhetoric as currency: Herbert Hoover and the 1929 stock market crash.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 3, 155-81.

#Houck, D. W. (1999). Historical continuity and the politics/rhetoric of democracy: Solonian reforms and the Council of 400. Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 4, 1-11. [Reprinted and anthologized in 2008].

#Houck, D. W. (1998). Enacting the RomanRepublic: Reading Pliny’s panegyric rhetorically.Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 3, 33-43. [Reprinted and anthologized in 2008].

#Houck, D. W. (1997). Reading the body in the text: FDR’s 1932 speech to the Democratic National Convention. Southern Communication Journal, 63,20-36.

#Houck, D. W. Presidential rhetoric without qualifiers: Beyond the modern and rhetorical divide. Southern Communication Journal, 62, 257-62.

#Houck, D. W. “By any means necessary”: Re-reading Malcolm X’s Mecca conversion.Communication Studies, 44, 285-98.

#Houck, D. W. The death and rebirth of Len Bias: An archaeological analysis. Hayward Conference on Rhetorical Criticism 24, 1-24.

#Kiewe, A., & Houck, D. W. (1989). The rhetoric of Reaganomics: A redemptive vision. Communication Studies, 40, 97-108.

Refereed Books

Houck, D. W., & Grindy, M. A. (2008). Emmett Till and the Mississippi press. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. Argues for a new understanding of the Till murder and subsequent trial based on a longitudinal study of Mississippi newspapers in 1955. Grindy was a doctoral student at FSU at time of publication.

Reviewed to date in Southern Quarterly, and Rhetoric & Public Affairs.

*Houck, D. W., & Kiewe, A. (2003). FDR’s body politics: The rhetoric of disability. College Station, TX: TexasA&MUniversity Press. Argues that FDR’s elections in 1928, 1930, and 1932 were fundamentally about his embodied performances on the campaign trail used to contravene popular understandings of infantile paralysis. Kiewe is professor at SyracuseUniversity.

Reviewed in The Review of Politics, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, The Journal of American History, The American Historical Review, American Literature, Mexia Daily News, and Rhetoric & Public Affairs.

*Houck, D. W. (2002). FDR and fear itself: The first inaugural address. College Station, TX: TexasA&MUniversity Press.

Reviewed in Library Journal, Presidential Studies Quarterly, The Historian, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Argumentation & Advocacy, Rhetoric & Public Affairs,The State (Columbia, SC), The Houston Chronicle, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Times Union (Albany, NY) and The Record (Bergen County, NJ).

*Houck, D. W. (2001). Rhetoric as currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the great depression. College Station, TX: TexasA&MUniversity Press.

Reviewed in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Argumentation & Advocacy, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (review essay), The Journal of American History, The Journal of Economic History, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Choice.

*Kiewe, A., & Houck, D. W. (1991). A shining city on a hill: Ronald Reagan’s economic rhetoric, 1951-1989. New York: Praeger, 1991.

Reviewed in The Quarterly Journal of Speech,and Business Library Review.

Invited Book Chapters

Houck, D. W. (contracted 2008). Ira Harkey. In Ownby, T., Wilson, C. R., & Abadie, A. J. (Eds.). The Mississippi encyclopedia (4 pp.). Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. Biographical essay on Pascagoula Chronicle publisher and civil rights progressive, Ira Harkey.

Houck, D. W. (2006). Crouching Tiger hidden blackness: Tiger Woods and the disappearance of race. In Raney, A. A., & Bryant, J. (Eds.). Handbook of sports and media (pp. 469-84). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Analysis of how and why golf superstar Tiger Woods systematically attempted to downplay race following Master’s victory in 1997.

Houck, D. W. (2006). Sporting bodies. In Raney, A. A., & Bryant, J. (Eds.). Handbook of sports and media (pp. 543-58). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Argues that a focus on embodiment is pivotal in understanding how race, class and gender are represented in mediated treatments of sport.

#Houck, D. W. (1999). Charles Walter Hagen. In Garraty, J. A., & Carnes, M. C. (Eds.). American National Biography, Vol 9 (pp. 783-84). New York: OxfordUniversity Press.

Refereed Book Chapters

Parker-Brooks, M., & Houck, D. W. (In press). Showing love and telling it like it is: The rhetorical practices of Fannie Lou Hamer. In Parker-Brooks, M., & Houck, D. W. (Eds.). In her voice: The speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer (30 pp.). Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. Provides a brief biography, situates the speeches to follow, why they were selected, and argues that Hamer’s rhetorical power stems from a unique blend of the black Baptist preaching tradition, and the southern black vernacular. Parker-Brooks is visiting assistant professor at the University of Puget Sound.

Houck, D. W. (contracted in 2008). Textual recovery, textual discovery: Returning to our past, imagining our future. In Parry-Giles, S. P., & Hogan, J. M. (Eds.). Handbook of rhetoric and public address (39 pp.). Walden, MA: Blackwell. Argues that future efforts at recovery and discovery of important rhetorical texts can and should be informed by the discipline’s past, which is carefully reviewed.

Houck, D. W., & Dixon, D. E. (2009). Introduction: Recovering women’s voices from the civil rights movement. In Houck, D. W., & Dixon, D. E. (Eds.). Women and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965 (pp. ix-xxvii). Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. Previews the speeches contained in the book and delineates how and why women have been heretofore written out of many civil rights histories. Dixon is associate professor at Saint Joseph’s College.

Houck, D. W. (2007). “My that’s a big one”: Masculinity and monstrosity in Dirty Harry. In Picart, C. J. S., & Greek, C. (Eds.). Monsters in and among us (pp. 65-90). Madison, NJ: FarleighDickinsonUniversity Press. Using the lens of masculinity and monstrosity, argues that hero and villain are two sides of the same ‘70s era American typology.

Houck, D. W., & Dixon, D. E. (2006). Introduction. In Houck, D. W., & Dixon, D. E. (Eds.). Rhetoric, religion, and the civil rights movement 1954-1965 (pp. 1-15). Waco, TX: BaylorUniversity Press. Situates the speeches that follow and argues that the Judeo-Christian tradition was a vital resource for would-be persuaders for civil rights. Dixon is associate professor at Saint Joseph’s College.

Houck, D. W., & Nocasian, M. (2006). Dictator, savior, and the return of confidence: Text, context, and reception in FDR’s first inaugural address. In Benson, T. (Ed.). American rhetoric in the New Deal era (pp. 83-114). East Lansing, MI: MichiganStateUniversity Press. Argues that letters sent to FDR after the inaugural address provide an important critical window on the address. Nocasian was assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown at the time of publication.

*Houck, D. W., & Picart, C. J. S. (2003). Opening the text: Reading gender, Christianity, and American Intervention in Deliverance. In Blakesley, D. (Ed.). The terministic screen: Rhetorical perspectives on film and film theory (pp. 163-89). Carbondale, IL: Southern IllinoisUniversity Press.

*Houck, D. W. (2000). “Attacking the rim”: The cultural politics of dunking. In Boyd, T., & Shropshire, K. L. (Eds.). Basketball Jones: America above the rim (pp. 151-69). New York: New YorkUniversity Press.

#Houck, D. W. (1999). Rhetoric, science, and economic prophecy: John Maynard Keynes’s correspondence with Franklin D. Roosevelt. In Woodmansee, M., and Osteen, M. (Eds.). The new economic criticism (pp. 352-64). New York: Routledge.

#Blair, C., & Houck, D. W. (1994). Richard Nixon and the rhetorical personalization of crisis. In Kiewe, A. (Ed.). The modern presidency and crisis rhetoric (pp. 91-118). New York: Praeger.

Refereed Reviews

Houck, D. W. (2007). Rev. of The defining moment: FDR’s hundred days and the triumph of hope, by Alter, J. The Historian, 69, 519-20.

Houck, D. W. (2005). Rev. of Habits of the high-tech heart, by Schultze, Q. J. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 8, 169-71.

*Houck, D. W. (2002). Rev. of Selling the free market, by Aune, J. A. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 5, 182-86.

*Houck, D. W. (2001). Rev. of Critical reflections on the Cold War: Rhetoric and history, by Medhurst, M. J., & Brands, H. W., eds. Argumentation & Advocacy, 38, 51-54.

#Houck, D. W. (1998). Rev. of Beyond the rhetorical presidency, by Medhurst, M. J, ed. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 1, 129-32.

#Houck, D. W. (1995). Rev. of Knowledge and persuasion in economics, by McCloskey, D. N. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 81, 533-35.

Non-Refereed Journal Articles[3]

Houck, D. W. (2005). From Money to Montgomery: Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, and the freedom movement, 1955-2005. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 8, 175-76.

Houck, D. W. (2005). Introduction to Hugh Stephen Whitaker’s essay. Rhetoric &Public Affairs, 8, 189-90.

Houck, D. W. (2005). Killing Emmett. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 8, 225-62.

Presentations

Invited Papers at Conferences

Houck, D. W. (2008, April). “15 dollars per nigger”: James Forman, the Black Manifesto, and the rhetoric of publicity and confrontation. Paper presented at the Southern States Communication Association,Savannah, GA (regional).

Houck, D. W. & Dixon (2006, November). Rhetorical archaeology and the American civil rights movement. Paper presented at the National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX. Second Vice-President’s panel (national).

Houck, D. W. (2004, October). Reading Jim Kimble reading World War II war bonds. Paper presented at the Biennial Conference on Public Address, Washington, D. C. (national).

Houck, D. W., with Laracey, M., Henry, D., Lucas, S. and Parry-Giles. (2004, March). National task force on the theory and practice of the rhetorical presidency: A white paper. Paper presented at the Texas A&M Conference on Presidential Rhetoric: The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric, College Station, TX (national).

*Houck, D. W. (2003, April). Carry me home: Reading Diane McWhorter. Paper presented at the Southern States Communication Association, Birmingham, AL (regional).

*Houck, D. W. (2001, March). Hasian, the Holocaust and FDR. Paper presented at the Texas A&M Conference on Presidential Rhetoric: Immigration, College Station, TX (national).

*Houck, D. W. (2000, March). Harry Truman and the politics of race. Paper presented at the Texas A&M Conference on Presidential Rhetoric: Civil Rights, College Station, TX (national).

#Houck, D. W. (1999, March). Invited Respondent to Roderick P. Hart’s book, Campaign voices: Why elections succeed. Paper presented at the Texas A&M Conference on Presidential Rhetoric: Presidential Leadership, College Station, TX (national).

#Houck, D. W. (1998, March). Reading R.L. Ivie reading democratic orators. Paper presented at the Texas A&M Conference on Presidential Rhetoric: Public Discourse in Cold War America, College Station, TX (national).

Refereed Papers at Conferences

Parker-Brooks, M., & Houck, D. W. (Accepted 2009). Recovering Fannie Lou Hamer. Paper to be presented at the Southern States Communication Association, Memphis, TN. Vice President’s panel (regional).

Houck, D. W. (Accepted 2009). Textual recovery, textual discovery: “What’s going on here” and “what about it.” Paper to be presented at the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. Public Address division (national).

Houck, D. W. (2006, February). Killing Emmett: The murder of Emmett Till and the white Mississippi press. Paper presented at the Film and Literature Conference, Tallahassee, FL (international).

Houck, D. W. (2004, November). “My, that’s a big one”: Re-masculinizing Dirty Harry. Paper presented at the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL (national).

Houck, D. W. (2004, April). Notes from the archive. Paper presented at the Southern States Communication Association,Tampa, FL (regional).

*Houck, D. W. (2003, November). Redefining individualism, adjudicating greatness: FDR’s Commonwealth Club address. Paper presented at the National Communication Association,Miami, FL (national).