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Christy Gardner Assistant Professor Religion in the Public Sphere, Rhetoric and Social Movements On faculty since 2004 M215 (630) 752-5257 christine.j.gardner@wheaton.edu Education Ph.D., Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Philosophy in Communication Studies M.A., University of Washington (Seattle, WA), Communications B.A., Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, WA), History

Courses Taught

Public Speaking (COMM 101)
Messages, Influence & Culture (COMM 253)
Communication Criticism (COMM 312)
Rhetoric of AIDS (COMM 454)

Membership in Professional Societies

National Communication Association (NCA)
Rhetoric Society of America (RCA)

Research

International Communications
Media Studies
Rhetoric
Sociology of Culture

Honors

Academic

Dissertation Honors Award, School of Communication, Northwestern University
University Fellow, Northwestern University
Harvey Fellow, Mustard Seed Foundation
Teaching Assistantship, Northwestern University
National Merit Commended Scholar
Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges
Washington Scholar, State of Washington
Free Methodist Scholar, Seattle Pacific University
General Honors Program, Seattle Pacific University
Valedictorian, King’s High School
American Academy of Achievement member
Veterans of Foreign Wars “Voice of Democracy” National Radio Broadcasting Contest, 2nd Place

Professional

Communicator of Excellence, “The Sweatshop Dilemma,” The Christian Science Monitor, Washington Press Association (1997), National Federation of Press Women (1997)
Communicator of Excellence, “Winning the War but Losing the Peace,” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, International Association of Business Communicators (1996)

Recent Publications and Presentations

Selected Publications

Gardner, C. J. (2006, August 18, 2006). God’s Protection. The Wall Street Journal.

Gardner, C. J. (2001, February 19). Tangled in the Worst of the Web. Christianity Today cover story.

Gardner, C. J. (1999, August 9). Redeeming Sudan’s Slaves. Christianity Today cover story.

Gardner, C. J. (1999, June 14). Severe Mercy in Oregon: How Two Dying Patients Dealt with a New Right—When to Die. Christianity Today special news report.

Conference Presentations

Gardner, C. J. “Saving Lives or Promoting Promiscuity? A Rhetorical Analysis of the Condom in Evangelical Discourse on AIDS in Africa.” Paper accepted for presentation at the Rhetorical Studies section of the Religious Communication Association of the National Communication Association annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 2006.

Gardner, C. J. “A Fire in God’s Temple: Rhetorical Agency in Rwanda’s Abstinence Youth Clubs.” Paper accepted for presentation at the Association for Rhetoric and Communication in Southern Africa, National Communication Association annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 2006.

Gardner, C. J. “Just Say Yes, But Wait: Evangelical Sexual Abstinence Producers in the United States.” Paper presented at the Rhetoric Society of America conference, Memphis, Tennessee, 2006.

Gardner, C. J. “My Body, My Choice: Media Framing of Reproduction, 1980-2003.” Paper presented at the Mass Communication Division of the National Communication Association annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005.

Gardner, C. J. “Someday My Prince Will Come: Fairy Tale Narrative and the Rhetoric of Choice in the American Evangelical Sexual Abstinence Movement.” Paper presented at the Rhetorical Studies section of the Religious Communication Association of the National Communication Association annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005.

Invited Presentations

Gardner, C. J. “Just Say Yes, But Wait: Evangelical Abstinence Producers in the United States.” Invited by Robert Wuthnow to present at the Religion and Public Life workshop, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 2005.

Gardner, C. J. “Abstinence and AIDS in Africa.” Presented at the Student Global AIDS Campaign, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, 2005.                  

Gardner, C. J. “Evangelicalism and Gender.” Guest lecturer for Sociology of Religion course, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, 2005.