Assistant Professor Office: Reed House Office Phone: 724-847-6783 jsward@geneva.edu
Disciplines/Field of Instruction
Communication
Degrees Received
Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Duquesne University
M.A. in Rhetoric, Duquesne University
B.A. in English, Huntington University
Courses Taught
COM 215 - Argumentation and Debate
COM 225 - Culture and Communication
Selected Presentations/Publications
“The Pietistic Institution: A Problem of Organizational Identity” in Whole and Holy Persons: A Pietist Approach to Higher Education. Ed. Chris Gehrz. Westmont: InterVarsity Press.
Ward, J.S. and David Stern. “A Case for Interfaith Discourse” in Interfaith Dialogue in Practice: Christian Muslim, Jew. Ed. Daniel Brown. Kansas City: Rockhurst University Press, 2012.
“Third World Identity.” Encyclopedia of Identity Ed. Ronald L. Jackson. SAGE, 2010.
Book Review: Arthos, John. The Inner Word in Gadamer′s Hermeneutics. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009 in Journal of Communication and Religion 33.2, 2010.
Current Projects
Book: Authority and Personality in Mikhail Bakhtin′s “Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity”
Article: “Mediated Persona: Digital Time and Aesthetics”
Research Interests
Mediated Communication
Persuasion
Personality Development
Consulting Expertise
Partner & Content Strategist, Durable LLC
Awards & Distinctions Received
Dissertation of the Year Award, Religious Communication Assoc., 2014
Richard H. Thames Teaching Award, 2010
Top Panel Award, Central States Communication Association, 2014
Professional Society Memberships
Religious Communication Association (RCA)
Eastern Communication Association (ECA)
National Communication Association (NCA)
Miscellaneous, e.g., hobbies, sports, personal info, etc.