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Academic Papers Presented at Conferences
 

“Women and Work: From Glass Ceiling to Labyrinth.” Paper presented at the Special Topics Conference on Business Discourse in affiliation with the Association for Business Communication, 2009.

“Storytelling as Powerful Rhetorical Strategy in Business Communication.” Paper presented at the Management Communication Association Conference, 2008.

“Negotiating the Labyrinth: How Women Gain Knowledge, Take Control, and Achieve Success in the Workplace.” Paper presented at the Association for Business Communication Conference, 2008.

"The Perfect Storm: Organizations Creating Accessibility in the Workplace." Paper presented at the Association for Business Communication, 2007.

"Confessions of an Educator: Uncovering the Complexities of Teaching Diversity Management." Paper presented at the Management Communication Association Conference, 2005.

"The Value and Method of Teaching Diversity as Competitive Advantage in Business School." Proposed paper for the Hawaii International Conference on Business, 2003.

"Uses and Abuses of Race in Public Discourse in the Matter of the Nomination of Lani Guinier." (co-author with Mark Lawrence McPhail). Paper presented at the National Communication Association annual convention, 2000.

"Speaking Truth To Power: Re-Negotiating the Public Sphere Through a Rhetoric of Interbraiding." Paper presented at the Feminist Studies Division of the National Communication Association annual convention, 1998.

"Demonizing Democracy: Racial Resistance to Lani Guinier's Rhetoric of Interbraiding." Paper presented at the National Communication Association annual convention, 1998.

"Learning From Students in the Classroom: A Transformational Feminist Pedagogy." Paper presented at the National Communication Association annual convention, 1998.

"Contradiction in Academia: The Irony of Praxis." Paper presented at the Western States Communication Association annual convention, 1998.

"Complicating 'Positionality': Knowing Self and Other." Paper presented at the SCA Gender Conference, 1997.

"An Epistemological Reframing of the Black Woman Intellectual: Constructing An Aesthetic of Representation through Dialogue." Paper presented for the Organization for Research on Women and Communication division at the Western States Communication Association convention, 1997.

"The Rhetoric of Third Cinema: Woman as Site for the Construction of Self and Nationhood as Depicted in The Home and the World." Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association annual convention, 1996. Top Student Paper Award

"The Role of Graduate Teaching Instruction in Graduate Education: A Site of Contradiction." Presentation at the Speech Communication Association summer convention, 1996.

"An Analysis of an African American Woman's Testimonio in the Classroom: Developing a Community of Coherence." Paper presented at the Western States Communication Association annual convention, 1996.

"Reconceptualizing Majority Rule: The Non-Confrontational Rhetoric of Lani Guinier." Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association annual convention, 1995.

"Mary Church Terrell and the Rhetoric of Identity Formation: Managing the Paradox of African American Womanhood." Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association annual convention, 1995.

"Subaltern Positionality and Representation: Shirley Chisholm Constituting a Rhetoric of Agency." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western States Communication Association, 1995.

"Lani Guinier and a Remedy for Race Consciousness: Reconstructing Democracy Through a Rhetoric of Conversation." Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association annual convention, 1994.

"Negotiating the Problem of Rhetorical Status for African American Women: Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm Constituting A Rhetorical Contradiction of Value." Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association annual convention, 1994.

"Transcending the Problem of Rhetorical Status for African American Women: Barbara Jordan as Constituting a Rhetoric of Collaboration." Paper presented at the Western States Communication Association Convention, 1994. Top Four Competitive Paper in Rhetoric and Public Address

"Rhetorical Paradox in Mary Church Terrell's 'What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States'." Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association annual convention, 1993.

"Mary O'Brien and Kenneth Burke: A More Humane Perspective of Rhetorical Theory." Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association annual convention, 1993.

"Empowerment, Hegemony, and the African American Woman." Paper presented at the SCA Gender Conference, 1992.

"Mary Church Terrell's Rhetorical Construction of an Ideology of Sisterhood." Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association of Ohio annual convention, 1992. Winner of the Debut Panel Competition