[eDebate] Pittsburgh welcomes Shanara Reid

[Andy Ellis]

Congrats and welcome to the district.

On 3/19/07, gordonm+ at pitt.edu <gordonm+ at pitt.edu> wrote:

>

> Pittsburgh is a city of confluences. Its picturesque skyline unfolds

> around merging rivers, and now, four current and former Directors of

> Debate come together in the city's most storied university to form an

> argumentation and debate dream team.

>

> This exciting development results from the University of Pittsburgh's

> appointment of Shanara Reid as its newest faculty member in the Department

> of Communication. Reid comes aboard as a tenure-steam Assistant Professor

> and Director of Debate, with responsibility for steering Pittsburgh's

> intercollegiate policy debate team and developing her groundbreaking

> scholarly research program. Joining Reid on the debate coaching staff is

> Associate Professor Gordon Mitchell, who will focus on public debate,

> debate outreach, publicity and development in his new role as Director of

> the William Pitt Debating Union.

>

> Pittsburgh's current Department Chair, Barbara Warnick, was formerly

> Director of Debate at Tulane University, while Professor John Lyne headed

> up the University of Iowa's debate program before joining the Pittsburgh

> faculty in the mid-1990s. The Pittsburgh quartet of Reid, Mitchell, Lyne

> and Warnick marks a convergence of debate program leadership and scholarly

> expertise in argumentation unsurpassed in the academy. Details on the

> roster of Pittsburgh's argumentation and debate dream team follow below

> the fold.

>

> * * *

>

> Shanara Reid

> Assistant Professor

> Director of Debate (2007-present)

>   Reid's University of Georgia doctoral dissertation explores how debaters

> use innovative forms of argumentation, such as hip hop music, to

> challenge prevailing norms of argument practice and press for a more

> racially inclusive intercollegiate policy debate community. She holds an

> M.A. in Communication from the University of Alabama and a B.A. in

> Political Science from Emory University. As one of the first generation

> of students to participate in the U.S. Urban Debate League program, Reid

> starred for Therrell High School in Atlanta, GA. While debating for

> Emory as an undergraduate student, she qualified for the elimination

> rounds and won individual speaking awards at many major national

> tournaments, reaching the quarterfinals of the Cross Examination Debate

> Association's national championship. Her numerous debate honors include

> Baylor's Debater of the Year Award and the Southeastern Regional Debate

> Critic of the Year Award. Reid's research on the rhetorical, cultural

> and political dimensions of hip hop music has been presented at national

> conferences and selected competitively for inclusion in the "New Voices"

> panel sponsored by the Critical/Cultural Studies Division at the

> National Communication Association (NCA). She has been recognized as one

> of the field's top young scholars, being invited to attend the NCA

> Doctoral Honors Seminar. This remarkable level of research achievement

> is matched in classroom excellence; Reid received the S.P.A.R.K.S.

> Teaching Award and the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award while at the

> University of Georgia.

>

> Gordon Mitchell

> Associate Professor

> Director of the William Pitt Debating Union (2007-presnt)

> Director of Debate, University of Pittsburgh (1995-2006)

>   A Pittsburgh native, Mitchell first cut his debate chops at Quaker

> Valley High School in Edgeworth, PA. As a college debater at

> Northwestern University he earned three NDT first-round bids, won top

> speaker at the NDT, and reached the final round of 14 major national

> tournaments. In 11 years as Director of Debate at the University of

> Pittsburgh, Mitchell guided teams to elimination rounds at major

> national tournaments including the NDT, CEDA Nationals, Towson Novice

> Nationals, Northwestern Novice Nationals, Northwestern, Wake Forest,

> Kentucky, and others. He also convened over 100 public debates and

> designed curriculum for multiple debate outreach programs, including

> those administered by the U.S. Department of State. Mitchell's research

> program specializes in public address and argument, rhetoric of science,

> and critical pedagogy. His book on the public argumentation surrounding

> the U.S. missile defense program won the NCA Winans-Wichelns Award for

> Distinguished Scholarship in Public Address. He edited the Proceedings

> of the First Diversity Recruitment and Retention in Debate Ideafest and

> has published numerous field-shaping articles on argumentation in The

> Quarterly Journal of Speech, Argumentation & Advocacy, Social

> Epistemology, Controversia, and The Rostrum. The University of

> Pittsburgh recognized Mitchell's work on public debate and debate

> outreach with the Bellet Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

> and the Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

>

> John Lyne

> Professor

> Director of Debate, University of Iowa (1985-1991)

>   As a debater for University High School in Bowling Green, KY and then

> Western Kentucky University, Lyne honed a command of argumentation

> helped make his paper on the semiotic dimensions of argument a key

> contribution to the inaugural 1981 Alta Argumentation Conference. For

> the next quarter century, Lyne's scholarly leadership helped shape the

> field. Building on his experience as co-founder of the University of

> Iowa's Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI), Lyne published

> "Social Epistemology as a Rhetoric of Inquiry" in Argumentation and

> "Argument in the Human Sciences" in the influential anthology,

> Perspectives on Argumentation. His research excellence in argumentation

> was recognized with the American Forensic Association's 1985 Daniel

> Rohrer Award; a distinction paralleled in intercollegiate policy debate

> by his team's second place finish at the National Debate Tournament.

> Also at Iowa, Lyne breathed life into the argumentation as a liberal art

> by teaching "Theory and Practice of Argument," a large undergraduate

> course that met a general education requirement. Most recently, Lyne

> used the lens of argumentation to reframe rhetoric of science's research

> trajectory in "Science, Common Sense, and the Third Culture," an article

> published in Argumentation & Advocacy.

>

> Barbara Warnick

> Professor and Chair

> Director of Debate, Tulane University (1977-1980)

>   Warnick, former editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, is one of the

> field's leading argumentation theorists and co-author of the acclaimed

> textbook, Critical Thinking and Communication: The Use of Reason in

> Argument. In articles for Communication Quarterly and Argumentation &

> Advocacy, Warnick used the conceptual scaffolding of argument schemes to

> inform critique of presidential addresses and analysis of practical

> reasoning. Her resourceful deployment of argumentation analysis to

> elucidate wide-ranging phenomena is also evident in articles on

> cross-cultural discourse and artificial intelligence for the

> Amsterdam-based journal Argumentation. Warnick has reviewed Jonsen and

> Toulmin's Abuse of Casuistry for Philosophy and Rhetoric, and

> contributed a groundbreaking treatment of Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's role

> in developing the theory of argumentation advanced in The New Rhetoric.

> Much of Warnick's most recent work focuses on rhetorical dynamics of

> online discourse. Her lead review essay for Argumentation & Advocacy

> entitled, "Analogues to Argument: New Media and Literacy in a Posthuman

> Era," explored how contemporary trends in online communication implicate

> the research agenda for argumentation studies. Following her stint

> leading Tulane's debate program, Warnick published an analysis of value

> debate propositions in The Journal of the American Forensics

> Association.

>

> * * *

>

> Gordon R. Mitchell

> Associate Professor of Communication / Director of Debate

> University of Pittsburgh

> CL 1117, 4200 Fifth Ave.

> Pittsburgh, PA 15260

> Phone: (412) 624-8531

> Fax: (412) 624-1878

> http://www.pitt.edu/~gordonm/

>

>

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