B.S., The College at Brockport

Graduate Certificate, Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh

M.A. and Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Rhetorical criticism; political communication.

• “Anarchist Women and the Feminine Ideal: Voltairine de Claire, Emma Goldman and Lucy Parsons.” Co-authored with Catherine H. Palczewski and Linda Horwitz. The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Reform and the Perfecting of American Society, Vol. 5 of Rhetorical History of the United States. Ed. Martha Watson and Thomas Burkholder. Michigan State UP. 2008

• “Digitizing and Globalizing Indigenous Voices: The Zapatista Movement.” Critical Perspectives on the Internet, Ed. Greg Elmer, Lanham, MD: Rowman Littlefield: 2002. 105-126.

• “Academic/Activist, Theory/Practice: Academic Studies on Ecofeminist Activism.” Book Rev. Women’s Studies Quarterly. Vol. 14.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2001): 279-283.

• “One Cause, Two Paths: Militant vs. Adjustive Strategies in the British and American Suffrage Movements.” Communication Quarterly. 48.3 (Summer 2000): 240-255.

• Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the ‘Sex Question,’ a book that explores the influence of Goldman, an early twentieth-century anarchist-feminist and prominent radical orator, on the transformation of gender roles in America.

• Donald H. Ecroyd and Caroline Drummond Ecroyd Teaching Excellence Award, Eastern Communication Association, 2005.
• State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000.

Rhetoric of social movements, focusing on representations of gender and culture; History and social influence of American feminism.

• Director of the College Honors Program, The College at Brockport, 2009-present.
• Past chair and program planner for the following Eastern Communication Association Interest Groups: Kenneth Burke (2004-06), Voices of Diversity (1999-2000), and Rhetoric and Public Address (1997-98).