Bruce J. Weaver, Professor of Speech Communication

Ph.D. The University of Michigan,
Rhetoric and Public Address,

Dissertation: The French Revolution and the Polarization of the House of Commons, 1790-1793: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Parliamentary Debate.

M.A. Kansas State University

B.A. Moravian College

Current Courses:

Public Speaking - SPCH 241
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication - SPCH 201
Argumentation and Advocacy - SPCH 301
Rhetoric and Public Communication - SPCH 206
Public Relations - SPCH 306
Communication Theory - SPCH 322
Persuasion - SPCH 351
Studies in Free Speech - SPCH 301
Environmental Communication - SPCH 311

Selected Research:





"What to Do with the Mountain People?": The Darker Side of the Successful Campaign to Establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." The Symbolic Earth: Discourse and Our Creation of the Environment. Cantrill and Oravec, Eds., University of Kentucky Press, 1996

"Rhetoric and the Demise of Reform: A Study of British Dialogue Pamphlets, 1789-1793" The Michigan Association of Speech Communication Journal, 1995.