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In honor of Civic Learning Week, we explore the promise of civics education to help us move through disagreements about teaching race, gender and other hot-button issues.
Our guest this week argues that the "free speech problem" on college campuses is manufactured by a small group of media and political figures with powerful platforms.
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This year’s Burke Prize winner is Kelly Williams Nagel, a doctoral candidate in communication arts and sciences for her essay, Unraveling Lost Cause Historiography: Places for Encounter at the Robert E. Lee Statue in Richmond, Virginia.”
“The reviewers praised this paper for its sophisticated application of contemporary rhetorical theory to a timely case study and its incisive engagement with both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on contested spaces of public memorialization,” said Brad Vivian, professor of communication arts and sciences and Burke Prize judging coordinator.
Additionally, the judging committee recognized two papers with honorable mention distinction: Assigning Guilt and Dispersing Blame: Conspiracy Discourse and the Limits of Law in the Nuremberg Trials, by Allison Neibauer and “(In)Visibility in the Daughters of Bilitis: From Tactical Activism to Radical Separatism,” by Jeff Nagel. Niebauer and Nagel are both doctor