Northwestern University Program in Rhetoric, Media, and Publics
The Northwestern University PhD in Communication Studies (Rhetoric and Public Culture) is transitioning to an expanded doctoral program in Rhetoric, Media, and Publics. This program is located in the Department of Communication Studies and administrated through the School of Communication, while also drawing on faculty and resources in the arts and sciences college and journalism school at Northwestern.
The PhD program in Rhetoric, Media, and Publics is grounded in the humanistic tradition of rhetoric and its focus on the study of politics, philosophy, and the arts. Students learn to analyze the production and circulation of meaning in a range of texts, practices, and institutions through varied modes of qualitative inquiry, and to engage audiences and communities directly in the production of knowledge. The stakes of this inquiry are profoundly social and political as well as formal and aesthetic. The program teaches students to approach public media as sites for political contestation, for the representation and interrogation of ethics and power, and for imagining personhood and collective life. We seek to understand how global inequalities are both perpetuated and challenged as audiences, communities, and publics are called into being through communication practices over time.
The expanded program continues many features of the PhD in Communication Studies, including the funding package. Everyone who is admitted will receive financial support of roughly $34,000 per year for five years, plus tuition waivers. Students have teaching, teaching assistant, or research assistant assignments in their second, third, and fifth years.
Additional information is available at the Northwestern website (https://phdcommunication.northwestern.edu/). The Graduate School application portal is open, and the deadline is December 9. Contact information for the new Director of Graduate Studies, Professor James Hodge, is available at <https://english.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/hodge-james.html>. Administrative inquiries can go to commstudies@ northwestern.edu.
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Robert Hariman
Professor and Departmental Coordinator of Graduate Study
Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
2240 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-3545
847-425-7561 (h); 515-779-9706 (cell)
r-hariman2@northwestern.edu
robert.hariman@comcast.net
rhariman@gmail.com
http://www.nocaptionneeded.com
The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo24204721.html)