Lindsay R. Calhoun, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor
Doctorate earned at University of Utah--August 2007.
Dissertation: Remembering Sand Creek:  Nation, Identity, and Collective Memory in Narrative and Performance
 
Joined Marshall faculty in August, 2008.
 
Scholarly Interests
International and Intercultural Communication, ethnic/sectarian conflict, post-structuralism/postmodernism, critical theory, cultural studies, performance studies, critical rhetoric, communication theory, ethnography, qualitative research methods.
Courses
CMM 207, Business and Professional Communication syllabus
CMM 322, Intercultural Communication syllabus
   
   
Publications
Islamic Martyrdom in the Post-Colonial Condition
Text and Performance Quarterly Special Edition Spring 2005: Religion and Performance
"Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand up?" Masking Whiteness, Encoding Hegemonic Masculinity in the Marshall Mather's LP 2000.
Howard Journal of Communication, Vol. 16, Number 4, 2005
 
Selected Presentations
2007 September 5-10 Middle East and Central Asia Studies Conference University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT: “One Cannot Not Communicate (Unless You are the US and Iran): An Interactionist Perspective on the Foreign Policy Situation Between the US and Iran.
 
2007 March Presentation to Graduate Research Methods class University of Illinois Springfield on dissertation, “The Sand Creek Massacre: Memory, Memorial and National Identity.”
 
2006 October Faculty Symposium, Illinois College: Presentation on dissertation, "The Sand Creek Massacre: Memory, Memorial, and National Identity"
 
2005 May 21-June 2 NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Counterterrorism in Central Asia, Tashkent Uzbekistan presentation on Martyrdom, Islam and collective identity
 
2005 February Western States Communication Conference: joint paper on Research in Interpretation and ethnicity in Forensics with Trish Stuhan
 
2004 National Communication Association Convention, Chicago IL November
Title: Engaging Narratives, Engaging History: An Inquiry into a Native American Epistemology
 
2004 University of Utah Graduate Humanities Conference, "Liminality in the Humanities," September 24-25: Islam in Dialogue with Nietzche and Aristotle.
 
2004 University of Utah Middle East and Central Asia Studies Conference, September 9-11: Islamic Martyrdom in the Post-Colonial Condition
 
2004 NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, July 15-18. Presented and developed a paper entitled "Islamic Martyrdom in the Post-Colonial Condition."
 
National Communication Association National Convention, November 2003, Miami FL: two competitive papers in communication research and theory.

National Formation and Collective memory in Islamic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa

"Mea Culpa:" The Contest Between the "Massacre" narrative and the "Battle" narrative in Constituting early collective memory of Sand Creek
 
September 2003, Association for Bahai Studies Conference: joint paper with Payam Foroughi; Martyrdom and the Collective Memory of Karbala, San Francisco, CA
 
February 2003, Western States Communication Association Conference Paper: Collapsing Time: Examining contemporary emerging collective memory narratives on the ongoing commemoration of the Sand Creek Massacre, Salt Lake City UT
 
National Communication Association Convention, November 2000, Seattle WA: two competitive papers in communication research and theory.

Joint Paper: L. Calhoun, L. Pajevic It is Easier to Build a Child than to Repair a Man: The Negotiation of Identity and Ethnicity at the Sarajevo Youth House

How to Communicate With the Outside World While Under Siege: How the Citizens of Bosnia and Hercegovina Carved a Discursive Homeland Out of War, 1992-1995
 
United States Air Force Academy, April 2000 Presentation on research completed in Bosnia and Hercegovina
 
Colorado Senate Committee on Health, Environment, Welfare and Institutions, May 1999 Presentation on University of Denver Graduate Student research and lobbying project to outlaw and prevent female genital mutilation.
 
Education
Ph.D. Communication Theory and Research, University of Utah, August 2007
 
Joint M.A. International and Intercultural Communication, Certificate in Human Rights, University of Denver, March 2001
 
B.A. Speech Communication, minor in Anthropology, Colorado State University, May 1998
 
 
 

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