Faculty
Elizabeth Gardner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Office Location:
Deane Hall 105
Office Available:
Public Discourse, Argumentation and Advocacy, Communication Criticism
Social change and the rhetorical construction of childhood
Biography/Details
Dr. Gardner graduated from Houghton College and earned a master’s degree and doctorate
in communication at the University of Maryland, where she was the managing director
of the Oral Communication Program for three years before joining the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ faculty
in fall 2016. In 2017 she received the American Society for the History of Rhetoric’s
Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her dissertation research examines the process of
social change in an anti-child labor campaign in the early 1900s.