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Ken Chase Department Chair, Associate Professor Rhetoric and Dialogue, Communication Ethics On faculty since 1994 M212 (630) 752-5261 kenneth.r.chase@wheaton.edu Education Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Speech Communication M.A., California State University at Fullerton, Speech Communication B.A., Biola University (La Mirada, CA), Communications

Courses Taught

Public Speaking (COMM 101)
Argumentation and Debate (COMM 252)
Rhetorical Theory (COMM 302)
Communication Criticism (COMM 312)
Advanced Performance (COMM 353)
Senior Seminar (COMM 494)
Persuasion and Diversity (COMM 454)

Membership in Professional Societies

National Communication Association (NCA)
Religious Communication Association (RCA)

Research

Communication Ethics
Rhetorical Theory

Recent Publications and Presentations

2006. “A Meditation on Persuasion and the Other,” paper presented to the Ninth National Communication Ethics Conference, Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA), July.

2006. “Crisis and the Hope of Communication Ethics,” Ethica: The Newsletter of the National Communication Association’s Communication Ethics Division 19:6-8.

2006. “Christian Perspectives on Business Ethics: Faith, Profit, and Decision Making” (Guest Editor’s Introduction), Business and Professional Ethics Journal  23 (Winter):1-10.

2004 (November).“The Eloquence of Ethics: Frederick Douglass on Decoration Day, 1871,” paper presented to the National Communication Association annual convention, Chicago, IL.

2004 (June). “Moral Growth and a Pedagogy of Advocacy,” paper presented to the Eighth National Communication Ethics Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.

2004 (March). “Response to Medhurst: Bush Amidst the Culture Wars,” response paper presented to the 10th Annual Conference on Presidential Rhetoric, College Station, TX.

2003. “Introduction” (9-19) and “Christian Discourse and the Humility of Peace” (119-134) in Must Christianity Be Violent? Reflections on History, Practice, and Theology, eds. Kenneth R. Chase and Alan Jacobs, Brazos Press.

Select Web Publications

2002. “Christian Discourse in a Nietzschean Age: Mapping a Theological Location for Persuasion,” Houghton Institute for Integrative Studies electronic publication:  http://campus.houghton.edu/offices/acad_dean/Chase97_Christian_Discourse_in_a_Nietzschean_Age.htm.

2001. “Insufficiently Aspirational,” Ethica, the newsletter of the Communication Ethics Commission, 15.1.

“Publics, Apologetics, and Ethics: An Interview with Max L. Stackhouse,” conducted by Kenneth R. Chase on March 16, 2001.

“Global Justice in a Digital Age: An Interview with Albert Van Den Heuvel,” conducted by Kenneth R. Chase on January 26, 2001.