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In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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Thomas Benson

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus
t3b@psu.edu
University Park , PA 16802

Education

B.A., Hamilton College, 1958
M.A., Cornell University 1961
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1966

Websites

http://www.personal.psu.edu/t3b

Professional Bio

Thomas Benson is a rhetorical scholar with expertise in rhetorical criticism and theory. His research focuses on public address, presidential rhetoric, political communication, visual rhetoric, rhetoric of film, and rhetoric of technology. He is the former editor of Communication Quarterly, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, and founding editor of The Review of Communication and CRTNET (Communication Research and Theory Network), a listserv for students and scholars of human communication. He has received several awards for his scholarship, such as the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association, the Everett Lee Hunt Award, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Eastern Communication Association, and the Distinguished Research Fellow. His service and mentoring have also been nationally commemorated through multiple Presidential Citation Awards, the Meritous Service Award, and the National Communication Association’s Mentor Award.