Education
- University of Denver, Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Communication Ethics with a cognate in Gender & Interpersonal Communication
- University of Arkansas, Master of Arts in Public Communication
- University of Arkansas, Bachelor of Arts in Communication
Research Interests/Areas of Focus
First Amendment & freedom of speech
Appointments
- Professor, Rider University, 2020-Present
- Associate Professor, Rider University, 2014-2020
- Visiting Fellow of Law at Harris-Manchester College, Oxford University, Summer 2013
- Assistant Professor, Rider University, 2008-2014
- Congressional Workshop Director, Junior Statesmen Foundation at Georgetown
University 2010 (Summer) - Instructor, Junior Statesmen Foundation at American Samoa Community College, 2007-2009 (Summer)
- Instructor, Junior Statesmen Foundation at Yale University, 2005-2009 (Summer)
Courses Taught
- Undergraduate
- COM 104: Speech Communication
- COM 105: Communication, Culture, and Media
- COM 201: Communication Theory
- COM 203: Introduction to Social Media
- COM 204: Advanced Speech Communication
- COM 205: Theories of Persuasion
- COM 237: Rhetoric in the Digital Age
- COM 251: Interpersonal Communication
- COM 252: Intercultural Communication
- COM 253: Organizational Communication
- COM 290: Professional and Strategic Communication
- COM 301: Communication Law
- COM 304: Rhetoric for Law and Politics
- COM 307: Political Communication
- COM 322: Argumentation and Advocacy
- COM 350: Team and Group Communication
- COM 391: Communication Criticism
- COM 393: International Communication
- COM 400: Senior Seminar
- COM 452: Seminar in Communication Studies
- Graduate
- COMM 507: Presentation Strategies
- COMM 531: Legal and Ethical Issues for Professional Communicators
- COMM 560: Communication Issues for Leaders
- COMM 563: Digital Media Communication
- COMM 565: Relational Communication: Interpersonal, Group,
- Intercultural
- COMM 599: Capstone Seminar
- PMBA 8000: Executive Communications
Selected Publications
Books
- David R. Dewberry, Advanced Public Speaking: Theory and Techniques Based on the Rhetorical Canons. Cognella, 2021.
- David R. Dewberry, The American Political Scandal: Free Speech, Public Discourse, and Democracy (Robert Denton’s Communication, Media, and Politics Series). Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. This book won the 2016 James Madison Prize in First Amendment Studies from the Southern States Communication Association.
Journal Articles
- David R. Dewberry, “First Amendment Audits: Comparing the Arguments for the Right to Record on the Street to Arguments in Case Law.” Argumentation & Advocacy 57 (2021), 85-102.
- David R. Dewberry, “The False Dichotomy of Message Desirability in Third-Person Effect Scholarship” in Qualitative Research Reports in Communication (2019), 1-8.
- David R. Dewberry, Ann E. Burnette, Rebekah L. Fox, and Pat Arneson, “Teaching Free Speech Across the Communication Studies Curriculum,” First Amendment Studies 52 (2018), 1-16.
- David R. Dewberry, “Checking the Checking Value in the Teapot Dome Scandal,” Communication Law Review 15 (2015), 36-55.
- David R. Dewberry, “The Third-Effect Goes to Congress,” Southern Communication Journal (2014), 279-292.
- David R. Dewberry and Jonathan H. Millen, “Musical Rhetoric: Popular Music in Presidential Campaigns,” Atlantic Journal of Communication 22 (2013), 81-92.
- David R. Dewberry and Catherine L. Langford, “Silencing Spectacles: Freedom of Speech on Trial.” Free Speech Yearbook 46 (2012), 97-106
- David R. Dewberry and Rebekah Fox, “Easy as 1, 2, 3: Rick Perry and Self-Deprecation as Image Restoration.” Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric 2 (2012), 1-10.
- Pat Arneson and David R. Dewberry, “Mapping Free Speech Scholarship in the Communication Discipline: 1969-2006,” Free Speech Yearbook, 44 (2006), 199-228.
- David R. Dewberry, “In the Line of Fire: Reconsidering the Holmes of Schenck and the Holmes of Abrams,” Free Speech Yearbook, 43 (2005), 17-29.
Selected Awards
- Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression, National Communication Association, 2013
- James Madison Prize in First Amendment Studies, Southern States Communication Association, 2010 & 2016
Editorial Appointments
- Book Review Editor, Argumentation & Advocacy, 2016-2018
- Editor, First Amendment Studies, 2012-2015
- Editor, Communication Law Review, 2004-2011
- Editorial Board, Communication and Democracy, 2021-Present
- Editorial Board, First Amendment Studies, 2015-2021
- Editorial Board, Communication Law Review, 2011-Present
Creative Works
Rhetoric-O-Rama (podcast)
- Season 3: The Rhetoric of Various Discourse Communities
- Episode 1: The Rhetoric of Movie Reviews
- Episode 2: The Rhetoric of the Anti-Political Correctness Movement
- Episode 3: The Rhetoric of Sports Commentary
- Episode 4: The Rhetoric of Men’s Hair
- Episode 5: The Rhetoric of Cookbooks
- Episode 6: The Rhetoric of Propaganda
- Episode 7: The Rhetoric of True Crime
- Episode 8: The Rhetoric of Girl Boss
- Episode 9: The Rhetoric of Using Marijuana
- Episode 10: The Rhetoric of Addiction
- Episode 11: The Rhetoric of Leaked Celebrity Sex Tapes
- Season 2: Rhetoric & Religion
- Episode 1: What is Homiletics?
- Episode 2: What is Apocalyptic Rhetoric?
- Episode 3: What is the Jeremiad?
- Episode 4: What are Fire and Brimstone Sermons?
- Episode 5: What is Buddhist Rhetoric?
- Episode 6: What is Hagiography?
- Episode 7: What is Televangelism?
- Episode 8: What is Traditional African American Preaching?
- Episode 9: What is Taoist Rhetoric?
- Episode 10: What is Blasphemy?
- Season 1: Classical Rhetoric
- Episode 1: What is Rhetoric? Episode 2: What are the Rhetorical Canons?
- Episode 3: What is Deliberative Rhetoric?
- Episode 4: What is Epideictic Rhetoric?
- Episode 5: What is Forensic Rhetoric?
- Episode 6: What is the Rhetorical Situation?
- Episode 7: What is Stasis?
- Episode 8: What is Logos?
- Episode 9: What are the Topoi?
- Episode 10: What is Pathos?
- Episode 11: What is Ethos?