Bates CV 07202023

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Benjamin R. Bates
Professor of Health Communication
Presidential Research Scholar
School of Communication Studies

418 Schoonover Center for Communication
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
Education
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 2000-2003
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy, Speech Communication, May 2003.
Dissertation: A Rhetorical History of the British Constitution of Israel: 1917-1948,
advised by Celeste Condit.
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1998-2000
Degree: Master of Arts, Speech Communication, May 2000.
Thesis: Capital and Clash: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Muammer Qadafi's Green
Book, advised by Thomas Lessl.
University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia. 1994-1998
Degree: Bachelor of Arts, Speech Communication & Political Science, May 1998.
Professional Experience
Administrative and Governance Appointments
Vice-Chair of the Faculty Senate, Ohio University, June 2020-May 2022

The Faculty Senate, as sanctioned by the Ohio University Board of Trustees, is an
elected representative body that acts on behalf of all faculty on matters related to
University planning, governance, and resource allocation. As Vice Chair, I:
 Presided at meetings of the Senate, and otherwise fulfilled the duties and
obligations of the chair, at the request of the chair or in the event of their absence.
 Coordinated academic policy and procedures affecting faculty and students with
the Office of the Provost, Enrollment Management, Registrar, Financial Aid, and
other administrative units to promote student service and financial efficiencies
while protecting academic freedom and educational and research excellence.
 Served as the voting chair of the University Curriculum Council supervising: the
addition, relocation, and deletion of academic programs and degrees; the schedule
of program review and the review process itself; after formal review, the quality
and priority of existing academic programs; addition, deletion, and changes in
courses; academic program or department name changes and addition, deletion,
and changes of master curriculum file, and major codes; academic requirements;
and, implementation and maintenance of the General Education program.
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 With the Provost (co-chair of the Academic Policy and Process Group) created
policies for new academic calendaring; documenting teaching effectiveness and
providing alternative evidence in a COVID period; Adjusting research,
scholarship, and creative activity requirements for promotion and tenure;
Clarifying final examination expectations and processes for remote learning;
Recommended class attendance policies to account for isolation and quarantining;
Accommodating incomplete grades for both experiential and classroom-based
learning; and, Admissions procedures for transfer assurance guidelines, remote
laboratory courses, home schooling evidence, and transcription and grading
requirements. Special foci on crafting policies for student-centered and COVID-
adjusted scholarships and financial aid procedures; withdrawal dates, fee
adjustments, advising and registration dates; and, standards for academic
probation, dean’s list requirements, and Latin honors.
Chair, Institutional Review Board, Office of the Vice President for Research, Ohio
University, July 2020- present; Vice-Chair, July 2010-June 2020
As Chair of the Social-Behavioral Research Institutional Review Board, I am
responsible for assuring that all research involving human participants will comply
with the Terms of Assurance for Protection of Human Subjects for Institutions within
the United States and that research is guided by the ethical principles regarding
research involving human participants as set forth in the Belmont Report and related
guidance materials. Specifically, I:
 In the context of COVID-19 created, in cooperation with the Chair of the
Biomedical Research IRB, policies and procedures for conducting safe and
effective face-to-face research.
 Maintain a thorough understanding of federal regulations pertaining to human
subject protections, IRB Policies and Procedures, and other applicable
institutional policies, state, and local regulations and assure that regulations and
policies are applied in all IRB matters with a commitment to foster ethically and
scientifically sound human subject research.
 Review adverse event reports and unanticipated problems/protocol deviations to
determine if the event affects the safety of subjects and, the conduct of the trial.
 Determine courses of immediate action to address the safety of subjects; and if
necessary and in consultation with the Institutional Official, convene an
emergency meeting of the IRB with the assistance of the Office for Research
Compliance.
 Develop and revise, as appropriate, policies and procedures in conjunction with
the Institutional Official and the Office of Research Compliance. As appropriate,
the revisions are reviewed and approved by the IRB fully convened meeting.
 Evaluate, with the Institutional Official and the Office of Research Compliance,
whether the number of IRBs and members of each Board is appropriate to the
volume and types of human research being reviewed, so that reviews are
accomplished in a thorough and timely manner.
 Review IRB administrative personnel and budget on an annual basis with the
Institutional Official to suggest modifications in space, facilities, and staff as
necessary to accommodate the volume and types of research reviewed.
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Coordinator for Global Outreach, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University,

July 2017-June 2020
As Coordinator for Global outreach, I was responsible for developing international
and global teaching, research, and service opportunities for students and faculty.
Accomplishments include
 In cooperation with the Graduate College, negotiated a Document of
Understanding with the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan to participate
in the US-Pakistan Knowledge Corridor PhD Scholarship Program. This program
permits Ohio University to access over $1,100,000,000 (one billion, one hundred
million) as part of an effort to educate 10,000 Pakistani scholars as the doctoral
level at US universities in next ten years to train its faculty resources in identified
subject areas.
 In cooperation with the Silk Road Initiative in the People’s Republic of China, I
secured an invitation for the Scripps College for potential building of a new
facility and a joint program between OU and a new Tier 1 University in China.
This included the offer to build Scripps a $20 million facility to our specifications.
 Successfully wound-down the Ohio U-Bangkok U doctoral program. Students
(successfully completed their dissertations and were represented by appropriate
faculty at their defenses; delivered, at the 2018 commencement, the graduate
address for the joint programs.
 Deepened our relationship with the University of Manizales in Colombia; initiated
first candidate for capacity-building for U de M faculty; planned the
Communication in the Americas IV symposium.
 Increased the involvement of COMS and the Scripps College in programming that
involves the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador; coordinated delegation
from PUCE to OU and Scripps in Spring 2018; eight research projects among
Scripps, the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, and PUCE were initiated;
includes development of $139,342 in external funding.
 Initiated relationship with the University Teknologi Mara (in Malaysia) for
communication units at Ohio University; provided supporting documentation to
allow UiTM to invite COMS faculty to serve on doctoral committees.
 In partnership with the Education USA Foundation in Nepal, secured interest and
contact information for 2300 Nepalese prospective students at both the
undergraduate at graduate levels. The School’s approximately $2,500 investment
in this activity produced a return equivalent to $62,100 for the University, with a
specific return to the Scripps College.
 Secured invitation from Education USA Foundation in India for Scripps College
recruiting in India’s virtual fair. This is an invitation only online event that
connected the Scripps College and COMS to approximately 8,000 high-income,
high-English Indian students interested in graduate programs in the United States.
Income generation of $216,000 in leads for an expense of ~$1,000.
 In partnership with the US Education Foundation in Pakistan, planned and
executed recruiting for high-income, high-English Pakistani students interested in
undergraduate and graduate study in the United States. Were the only US
university participating that has been identified for communication and media
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rather than for business and engineering. Income generation and will be
equivalent to returning $137,700 in leads for an expense of ~$3,500.
 With other Scripps faculty recruited students into study away programs in
Ecuador, including the public health program, the biological sciences program by,
and the communication program.
Associate Director for Graduate Studies, School of Communication Studies, Ohio
University, July 2010-2017
As Associate Director, I was responsible for managing 40+ graduate students as
teaching personnel and overseeing curriculum activity in the School associated with
graduate education. In this role, I oversaw and evaluated all Communication Studies
graduate students as employees of the University. School accomplishments that I led
as Associate Director include:
 In anticipation of a move to Responsibility Centered Management by Ohio
University, creation and enactment of plans to (a) increase our School’s credit
hour production through maximizing weighted student credit associated with
graduate student enrolment and (b) encourage the generation of weighted student
credit hour enrolments in patterns that recognize and reward faculty involvement
in advising and mentoring
 Re-articulation, with the regional campus coordinator, of the regional campus MA
program from a blended format to an online education format to better serve
working students and to increase revenue production
 Expansion of undergraduate Communication Studies online offerings to a full
major in the online bachelor’s degree completion program offered through e-
Learning OHIO by creating memoranda of understanding for new courses in
Interpersonal Communication and in Small Group Communication and
overseeing their implementations and the expansion of both Public Speaking and
Introduction to Human Communication to scalable classes.
 Creation of a four-year rotation of courses to assist with graduate student course
planning and faculty equity and access for teaching opportunities
 Conversion of the Ph.D. in Communication Studies and the M.A. in
Organizational Communication graduate programs from a quarter system to a
semester system
 Proposal and implementation of an interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate Program
in Clinical Informatics in coordination with the College of Health Science and
Professions
 Proposal of a Preparing Future Faculty Certificate Program in coordination with
the Patton College of Education
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee of the Faculty Senate, Ohio University,
2016-2017
The Promotion and Tenure Committee oversees appeals related to promotion and
tenure. The committee also considers a broad range of issues related to promotion and
tenure policies and procedures.
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Chair, Educational Policies and Student Affairs Committee of the Faculty Senate,
Ohio University, 2015-2016
The Educational Policies and Student Affairs Committee considers issues related to
the curriculum, educational policies (including catalog language), and broader issues
concerning students. The committee also forms the primary link between the
University Curriculum Council and Faculty Senate.
 With University College established process and procedures for approval of
experimental degree programs and “stackable” certificates
 With Undergraduate Admissions clarified internal transfer processes from
regional campuses and centers to the Athens campus, as well as procedures for
non-traditional high school completion equivalencies for admission
 With Office of Civil Rights, created initial draft of policy for disability and
accessibility services in online teaching environments
 With the President of the Senate, articulated sections of the Ohio University
Faculty handbook to be compliant with Ohio Administrative Code
Scripps College Chair, Faculty & Staff Giving Campaign, Central Committee, Ohio
University, 2012-2015
The “Promise Within” Campaign was the faculty-staff portion of Ohio University’s
2012-2015 fundraising campaign. As a member of the Central Committee, I was the
Scripps College representative and responsible for promoting internal participation in
“The Promise Within.” As the Scripps College Chair, I:
 Assisted University Advancement in planning campaign events and initiatives
 Educated the College and University community about the importance of
supporting the Promise Within campaign
 Identified specific designations within the College to target for external support
 Increased Faculty/Staff participation rates in the Scripps College from 12%
(2012) to 60% (2015)
 Increased Faculty/Staff total giving in the College from $250,000 (2001) to $1.9
million (2015); this $1.9 million can be compared to total University faculty-staff
giving of $3.7 million
Chair, Professional Relations Committee of the Faculty Senate, Ohio University,
2012-2014
The Professional Relations Committee initiates and recommends, reviews, and
monitors policies on all matters that affect the professional activities of the faculty of
the University. As Chair of the Committee, I was responsible for recommending all-
University guidelines for the administration of personnel practices and professional
activities as necessary and reviewing the procedures and practices of each school and
college, with the exception of tenure cases. Senate accomplishments that I led as
Chair include:
 Creation of a Clinical Faculty track for practitioners in the College of Health
Science and Professions to support recruitment and retention of preceptors
 Implementation of evaluation procedures for non-tenure track faculty
 Authorization of multi-year contracts for clinical and non-tenure track faculty
 Authorization of promotion in rank of non-tenure track faculty
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 Expansion of benefits to include educational benefits for domestic partners

Course Director, Argumentative Analysis and Advocacy, School of Communication
Studies, Ohio University, August 2009-June 2021
As Course Director, I:
 Planned, coordinated, and implemented a five-week professional seminar for
experienced teaching assistants each year to train graduate students as skilled
teachers of argumentation
 Guided textbook selection processes involving other faculty and teaching staff
 Created, with input from TAs, a common syllabus template and transformed
the argumentation class from an oral skills-only class to a course emphasizing
both oral and written argumentation
 Observed teaching assistants in the classroom and provided feedback and
specialized assistance to help students improve their teaching.
Teaching Appointments
Summary of Educational Philosophy

In the classroom and out, it is my goal to assist students in their development into active
citizens in their communities. When a student enters a classroom, what they learn from an
educator must contribute to their ability to participate in their community. I believe that
teaching communication as an art and a practice allows me to provide students with tools
for participation in their communities and a forum for enacting such participation. Please
see the full statement of educational philosophy at the end of this c.v.
Ohio University
Professor with tenure, School of Communication Studies, Fall 2015-present
Barbara Geralds Schoonover Professor of Health Communication, Summer
2014-2023 (three-year term appointments)
Kohei Miura Visiting Professor, Chubu University, Japan, Summer 2019
Associate Professor with tenure, School of Communication Studies, Fall 2009-2015
Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies, Fall 2003-Summer 2009
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Social Medicine, Heritage College of Osteopathic
Medicine, Spring 2013-present
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Health in the Context of
Development in Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Faculty Group), Fall 2009-present
Affiliate Faculty, Center for African Studies, Summer 2009-present
Affiliate Faculty, School of Communication Arts (International Program), Bangkok
University, 2005-2020
Affiliate Faculty, Communication and Development Studies Program, Center for
International Studies, Fall 2008-present
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Affiliate Faculty, Political Communication Certificate Program, College of Arts &

Sciences and Scripps College of Communication, Fall 2008-present
Athens Campus Courses
COMS 1030 – Introduction to Public Speaking (25)
COMS 1100C – Communication Among Cultures (Community-Engaged)
COMS 2150 – Argumentative Analysis and Advocacy (large lecture [75] and
standard class [25])
COMS 2350 – Communication Theory (25)
COMS 240 – Introduction to Health Communication (45)
COMS 303 – Rhetorical Analysis and Criticism (25-40)
COMS 3400 – Introduction to Health Communication (25-40)
COMS 3601 – Courtroom Rhetoric (25-30)
COMS 3520 – Political Rhetoric (25-30)
COMS 3530 – Rhetoric and Contemporary Culture (175)
COMS 3720T – Honors Tutorial in Communication (tutorial)
COMS 3600 – Intro to Rhetoric and Public Advocacy (25-40)
COMS 3620 – Rhetorical Inquiry and Criticism (30)
COMS 3660 – Cultural Studies and Beer
COMS 4340 – Communication and the Campaign (Health Campaigns) (25-30)
COMS 4400 – Communication and the Campaign (Political Campaigns) (25-30)
COMS 4420 – Responsibilities and Freedoms of Speech in Communication (25)
COMS 450 – Capstone Course in Communication (Science Communication) (10)
COMS 4800 – Capstone Course in Communication (Rhetoric of Beer) (20)
COMS 4800 – Rhetoric of the Presidential Primaries (20)
COMS 496A – Health Communication Internship
COMS 496B – Organizational Communication Internship
COMS 496C – Public Advocacy Internship
COMS 700B – Professional Seminar: Issues in the Academy
COMS 700D/7003 – Communication Pedagogy: Argumentation
COMS 700E – Communication Pedagogy: Communication Theory
COMS 7020 – Integrated Theory in Communication I (graduate seminar)
COMS 7050 – Research Design and Analysis II (quantitative, graduate seminar)
COMS 7310 – Rhetorical Criticism (graduate seminar)
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COMS 7320 – Communication Historiography Methods (graduate seminar)

COMS 7350 – Advanced Techniques in Rhetorical Criticism
COMS 745/8310 – Rhetoric and Public Culture (graduate seminar)
COMS 751/7400 – Introduction to Health Communication (graduate seminar)
COMS 780A – Public Understanding of Medicine (graduate seminar)
COMS 780N – Rhetoric and Social Change (graduate seminar)
COMS 8340 – Rhetorical Criticism
COMS 8410 – Rhetoric and Popular Culture (graduate seminar)
COMS 8420 – Health Communication and Culture (graduate seminar)
COMS 8440 – Health Communication in Society (graduate seminar)
COMS 8440 – Public Understanding of Health and Healing (graduate seminar)
Ohio University Without Boundaries (Online professional and continuing education)
C-Change Online Capacity Building Center, Module 2, Focusing and Designing
(part of a five-module package of on-line courses for capacity
strengthening resource package for social/behavioral change
communication campaigns)
UNICEF C4D, Communication for Development, Foundational Module 2.2,
Social Change, Media & Communication (with Rafael Obregon) (part of a
three-module e-learning package developed for UNICEF)
International Teaching
Chubu University, Japan
Ohio University in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University
COMS 235 – Communication Theory
COMS 353 – Rhetoric and Contemporary Culture
Bangkok University/Ohio University Doctoral Program in Communication
COMS/CA 6300 – Persuasive Communication
COMS 640/CA 640 – History of Rhetorical Theory
COMS 741/CA 690 – Introduction to Health Communication
COMS/CA 7050 Research Design and Analysis II
Ohio University and the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
STDYTDR – Tropical Disease Research Program and International Research
Training Course in Ecuador (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023)
Course menu under my supervision has included communication-
related courses, including: COMS 4100 – Cross-cultural
Communication; COMS 4800 – Communication Studies Capstone;
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COMS 4900 – Special Topics in Communication Studies; MDIA 4900

– Special Topics in Media Arts & Studies; JOUR 4900 – Special
Topics in Journalism; VICO 4900 – Special Topics in Visual
Communication. Other courses under my supervision have included:
HLTH 4930 – Independent Studies in Health; T3 4103c –
Undergraduate Service Learning in Ecuador; INST 6930 –
Development, Communications, & Latin American Culture; INST
6940 – Practicum in Community Outreach: Health Issues in Ecuador,
as well as applied preceptorship opportunities for the Heritage College
of Osteopathic Medicine (BIOS courses also offered under direction of
Mario Grijalva)
Ohio University in collaboration with University of Botswana
STDYBOTS – HIV/AIDS in Africa: Botswana Study Abroad
Course menu included: INST 601 - Seminar in Development; INST
690 - Independent Study in International Studies; COMS 480 - Topics
in Communication; COMS 496ABC - Communication Internship;
COMS 780N - Topics in Communication; COMS 790 -
Interdisciplinary Seminar; EDCE 610 - Field Experience in
Counseling; and, EDCE 621 – Readings and Research in Community
Counseling
Ohio-Leipzig European Center
Capstone course on Social Marketing, 2013
Capstone course on Health Communication, 2012
University of Georgia
Instructor, Department of Speech Communication, Summer 2003
Teaching Associate, Department of Speech Communication, Fall 1998-Spring 2003
SPCM 1010 – Communication in Human Society
SPCM 1100 – Introduction to Public Speaking
SPCM 1500 – Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
SPCM 2300 – Business and Professional Communication
SPCM 3300 – Introduction to Rhetorical Criticism
SPCM 3320 – Environmental Communication
Research Appointments
Summary of Research Philosophy

I self-describe as an applied rhetorician working in the field of health communication.
Above the study of communication acts as persuasive devices, I value the exploration of
the ethical and social implications of communication acts. Because researchers are
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members of a larger community of scholars and of humans, I believe the applied

rhetorician has the responsibility to contribute positively to their communities. Moreover,
applied rhetoricians must be prepared to speak to that community and to audiences that
can act as agents of change. Please see the full statement of research philosophy at the
end of this c.v.
Associated Investigator, El Centro de la Investigación para Salud en América Latina,
[Center for Research on Health in Latin America], Universidad Pontificia
Católica del Ecuador [Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador], 2020-present
International Ethics Advisory Group Affiliate, Center for Culture-Centered Approach
to Research and Evaluation (CARE), Massey University, 2019-present
Affiliate Faculty, Translational Biomedical Sciences Doctoral Program, Graduate
College, Ohio University, Fall 2017-present
Affiliate Faculty, Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute, Ohio University Heritage
College of Osteopathic Medicine, Spring 2016-present
Affiliate Faculty, Appalachian Rural Health Institute/ Appalachian Institute to Advance
Health Equity Science, Ohio University, 2012-present
Research Team Member, C-Change (Communication for Social Change)/Partnership
for Health and Development Communication, Ohio University as a member of the
Agency for Educational Development-led project for the United States Agency
for International Development, Spring 2007-2012
Content Development Team Member, Design and Delivery of a UNICEF Learning
Course on Communication for Development (C4D), United Nations Children’s
Fund. PI: David Mould, June 2010-July 2011.
Dissertation Completion Assistantship, University of Georgia, Fall 2002-Spring 2003
Research Assistant, University of Georgia, Fall 2000-Summer 2003
Consultant, University of Georgia, Summer 2000
Research Assistant, University of Georgia, Summer 1999
Honors and Awards
Research Recognition
 Presidential Research Scholar, Office of the President, Ohio University, 2021. The
award “recognizes faculty members who have garnered national and international
prominence in research, scholarship and creative activity and who demonstrate clear
promise for continued, significant productivity in their research/creative activity.”
 ECA Article of the Year, Eastern Communication Association, 2021 (with Heather
Stassen for “Renewing vows: A diachronic analysis of <marriage> as ideograph,”
Qualitative Research Reports in Communication)
 ECA Distinguished Research Fellow, Eastern Communication Association, 2013
 Past Presidents’ Award, Eastern Communication Association, given to “an
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outstanding ECA member” who has “contributed a significant body of research to the
communication discipline” and possesses “a significant record of continuing service
to ECA,” 2012
 Scholar Spotlight Panel: The Teaching, Research and Service of Benjamin R. Bates,
Eastern Communication Association, 2014
 2012 Distinguished Edited Book Award, Applied Communication Division, National
Communication Association, 2013
 Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award in Humanities and Letters,
University of Georgia, 2003
 University of Georgia Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award, 2002-2003
 Fellow, School of Speech Summer Institute, "Globalization and Media Studies,"
Northwestern University, Summer, 2002
 Owen J. Peterson Award in Rhetoric and Public Address, Southern States
Communication Association, 2002
 Bostrum Award finalist, Southern States Communication Association, 2002
 Bostrum Award finalist, Southern States Communication Association, 2000
 Mary E. Jarrard Award finalist, Carolinas Communication Association, 1999
 Alton Williams Scholar. Department of Speech, Theatre, and Dance, University of
Richmond, 1997-1998
Top Paper Awards
 Top 4, Rhetoric & Public Address, Southern States Communication Association,
2022
 Top Paper, Intercultural Communication, Eastern Communication Association, 2020
 Top 4, Rhetoric & Public Address, Eastern Communication Association, 2020
 Top 3, Political Communication, Eastern Communication Association, 2020
 Top 3, Health Communication, Eastern Communication Association, 2019
 Top 3, Theory & Methodology, Eastern Communication Association, 2019
 Top 4, Kenneth Burke Society, National Communication Association, 2013
 Top 3, Applied Communication, Eastern Communication Association, 2013
 Top 3, Health Communication, Eastern Communication Association, 2012.
 Top Paper, Caucus on Disability Issues, National Communication Association, 2011.
 Top Paper, Rhetoric & Public Address, Eastern Communication Association, 2011.
 Top 2, Rhetoric & Public Address, Eastern Communication Association, 2011.
 Top Paper, Applied Communication, Eastern Communication Association, 2008.
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 Top Paper, Health Communication, Central States Communication Association, 2007.

 Top 3, Visual Communication, National Communication Association, 2006.
 Top Paper, Rhetoric & Public Address, Eastern Communication Association, 2006.
 Top 5, Health Communication, Eastern Communication Association, 2006.
 Top 3, Health Communication, Western States Communication Association, 2004
 Top 5, Health Communication, Eastern Communication Association, 2003
 Top 5, Political Communication, National Communication Association, 2002
 Top 4, Mass Communication, Eastern Communication Association, 2001
 Top Paper, Popular Communication, Southern States Communication Association,
2000
 Top Paper, Gender Studies, Southern States Communication Association, 2000
Teaching and Mentoring Recognition
 ECA Distinguished Teaching Fellow, Eastern Communication Association, 2017.
 Outstanding Faculty Mentor, School of Communication Studies, Scripps College of
Communication, Ohio University, 2021.
 Outstanding Faculty Teacher, School of Communication Studies, Scripps College of
Service Recognition
 Top OHIO Faculty Newsmaker, 2018, University Communications and Marketing
and the Office of the Provost named one of the Top 10 Ohio faculty ranked by public
media consultation appearances in 2017
and the Office of the Provost named one of the Top 10 Ohio faculty ranked by public
 Top OHIO Faculty Newsmaker, 2016, University Comalmmunications and
Marketing and the Office of the Provost, named one of the Top 10 Ohio faculty
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ranked by public media consultation appearances in 2015

and the Office of the Provost, named one of the Top 10 Ohio faculty ranked by public
 Ann Campbell Brown Distinguished Service Award, 2012, Office of Nationally
Competitive Awards, chosen for dedication, commitment and service to ONCA and
the students it serves, Ohio University
 Invited Reviewer, GE3LS – Democracy, Ethics and Genomics: Consultation,
Deliberation & Modelling, sponsored by Genome Canada, the W. Maurice Young
Centre for Applied Ethics, and the University of British Columbia
 “Silver Level” Reviewer, Journal of the National Medical Association, 2005 (32 of
647 reviewers were named “Silver Level,” three were named “Gold Level)
 Certificate of Excellence for Outstanding Performance and Lasting Contribution,
National Medical Association, 2004-2005
Additional Certifications
 COVID Vaccine Ambassador Certification, Johns Hopkins University, 2022
 Inclusive and Ethical Leadership, University of South Florida, 2022
 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace, University of South Florida, 2021
 HIPAA Information Privacy and Security, Collaborative Institutional Training
Initiative, August 2021
 Introduction to Export Compliance, Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative,
August 2021
 COVID-19 Contact Tracing Certification, Johns Hopkins University, 2020
 Community-Engaged Learning, Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, 2020
 Developing an Online/Remote Learning Experiential Education Course, California
State University, Center for Community Engagement, 2020
 Social and Behavioral Research Best Practices for Clinical Research, Collaborative
Institutional Training Initiative, 2020
 Data Driven Decisions: Understanding collective impact - locally, regionally and
internationally, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and
Community Engagement, December 2020
 Healthcare Compliance: Auditing and Monitoring, Office of the Inspector General,
Department of Health and Human Services, November, 2020
 Sharing Stories of Our Work: Engaging Ethical Practices to Lift up Diverse
Stakeholder Narratives in Research and Program Inquiry, International Association
for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, February 2020
 Information Privacy Security (IPS) - Faculty, Administrators and Students,
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Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, 2017, 208, 2020

 Human Research – Group 1. Biomedical l Research Investigators and Key Personnel,
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, 2017
 Human Research - Group 2. Social and Behavioral Investigators and Key Personnel,
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2017,
2020
Grant Experience
Pending
Co-Investigator, “Assessment of Current and Future Scenarios of COVID-19 in
Ecuador via Modeling, Seroprevalence, and Molecular Epidemiology of
SARS-CoV-2.” PI: Jaime Costales. Global Effort on COVID-19 (GECO)
Health Research, UK Research and Innovation. Total request: $850,000.
Pending.
Funded
Co-Investigator, “Community-Based Disease Research and Service-Learning
Program in Ecuador and Ohio.” PI: Mario Grijalva. 2022 US-Andean
Innovation Fund, 100,000 Strong in the Americas, Western Hemisphere
Affairs, US Department of State. Total request: $36,100. Fully funded.
Primary Investigator. “Community needs assessment in the city of
Cariamanga.” Eastern Communication Association/Urban Communication
Foundation, $2,500, 2021-2023. Fully funded.
Co-Investigator, “Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards COVID-19
among Ohio Residents A Cross-Sectional Survey,” (2020-2021). PI:
Mario Grijalva. Research and Scholarly Awards Committee,
Pilot/Feasibility Grant Program, Heritage College of Osteopathic
Medicine, Ohio University. Total request: $10,000. Fully funded.
Primary Investigator, “Interdisciplinary Needs Assessment in Cariamanga,
Ecuador.” Presidential Global Engagement Fund, Ohio University, 2020-
2021. Total request: $20,000. Approved for funding; COVID-suspended.
Co-Investigator, “Healthy Homes for Healthy Living (H3L),” 1804 Fund, Ohio
University, $26,750, 2018-2020. PI: Mario Grijalva (Heritage College of
Osteopathic Medicine), plus $33,722 match from Infectious and Tropical
Disease Institute, $20,148 match from Communication and Development
Studies, $25,000 match from Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador,
and $25,000 match from Scripps College. Total funding: $130,620. Fully
funded.
Primary Investigator. “C-Course mini-grant, COMS 1100 – Communication
Across Cultures,” Center for Campus and Community Engagement,
$1,000, 2019. Fully funded.
Co-Investigator, “Project LAUNCH for Appalachian Ohio,” Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration, ~$700,000/year, 2009-2014.
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PI: Dave Hunter (Ohio Department of Job and Family Services) and Jane
Hamel-Lambert (College of Osteopathic Medicine). Fully funded.
Co-Primary Investigator (with Yea-Wen Chen). “Enlight Faculty Mobility
Fund,” Scripps College of Communication/Enlight Foundation, $10,000,
2012-1013. Fully funded.
Primary Investigator, “Photo-Voice of Cancer Survivorship in Appalachia,”
Scripps College of Communication/American Cancer Society Partnership,
$3,500, 2011. Fully funded.
Co-Primary Investigator (with Frank Schwartz, College of Osteopathic
Medicine and John Bowditch, Game Research and Immersion Design
Lab), “Improving Self-Care for Type 1 Diabetes through Multimodal
Family Game Play,” Appalachian Rural Health Institute Diabetes
Research Initiative, $8,944 plus match from Scripps College of
Communication, $5,425, 2009-2010. Fully funded.
Consultant, “An integrated Approach to Mitigate and Manage the Effects of
Invasive Plants in Urban and Forest Landscapes in Ohio,” Ohio
Department of Natural Resources- Division of Forestry, $1,225,000, 2008-
2009. PI: Richard Cappell, ODNR. Fully funded.
Co-Primary Investigator (with B. L. Quick, School of Communication Studies),
“ODNR Firewise Communication Project,” Ohio Department of Natural
Resources, Division of Forestry, $31,388, 2006-2008. Fully funded.
Consultant (to S. Denham, College of Health and Human Services), “Diabetes
Education in Appalachia,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
2004-2006 (partial funding).
Research Assistant, “Race and Public Communication about Human Variation,”
National Institutes of Health: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the
Human Genome Project, National Center for Human Genome Research.
June 2001-May 2004. $903,176. PI: Celeste M. Condit.
Research Assistant, “Communicating Genetics Information to the Lay Public,”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, October 1999-August 2003.
$778,000. PI: Roxanne L. Parrott.
Consultant, “Affect and Patterns of Communication.” $504,923. National
Institute of Mental Health. (1997-1999). PI: Jennifer L. Monahan.
Research
Publications
Books
Bates, B. R., & Ahmed, R. (Eds.). (2012). Medical communication in clinical
contexts. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.
Awarded: 2012 Distinguished Edited Book Award, Applied Communication
Division, National Communication Association
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Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (Eds.). (2013). Health communication, and mass media:
An integrated approach to policy and practice. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Gower
Applied Research / Ashgate Publishing Group.
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Mendoza-Gordillo, M. J., Bates, B. R., & Vivat, B. (2023). The (im)possibility of
being a breastfeeding working mother: Experiences of Ecuadorian healthcare
providers. Frontiers in Communication, 8,
https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1153679
Bates, B. R., Finkelshteyn, S., & Odunsi, I. A. (2023). “We were having a rather long
conversation about the uproar”: Memorable messages about COVID-19
vaccinations in a mostly young, white sample. Journal of Communication in
Healthcare. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2023.2223437
Bates, B.R., Carrasco-Tenezaca, M, Mendez-Trivino, A.M., Mendoza, L.E., Nieto-
Sanchez, C., Baus, E.G., & Grijalva, M.J. (2023). Identifying barriers and
facilitators for Home reconstruction for prevention of Chagas Disease: An
interview study in rural Loja province, Ecuador. Tropical Medicine &
Infectious Disease, 8, 228. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/tropicalmed8040228
Mora-Criollo, P., Carrasco-Tenezaca, M. J., Casapulla, S., Bates, B. R., & Grijalva,
M. J. (2023). A qualitative exploration of knowledge of Chagas Disease in
adolescents in rural Ecuador. Remote & Rural Health, 23(1), 6796.
https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH6796
Bates, B. R., & Grijalva, M. J. (2022). Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards
monkeypox among clinicians during the outbreak: An online cross-sectional
survey. Journal of Infection and Public Health, 15(12).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2022.11.004
Bates, B. R., Grijalva, D. A., Jacho, P. A., Barriga, C. X., & Grijalva, M. J. (2022).
Going off the map to find strengths in Asset Based Community Development
research: A case of participatory mural painting as an alternative approach to
asset portrayal. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 23, 56-66.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2021.1940253
Nieto-Sanchez, C. P., Hatley, D., Grijalva, M. J., Peeters Grietens, K., & Bates B. R.
(2022).Communication in neglected tropical diseases elimination strategies: A
scoping review and call for action. PLoS: Neglected Tropical Diseases,
16(10), e0009774. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009774
Madrid-Miles, C., Bates, B. R., Casapulla, S. L., & Grijalva, M. J. (2022). Social
support in rural communities in Manabi province, Ecuador. Remote & Rural
Health, 22(4), 6957. https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH6957
Bates, B. R., Villegas Botero, A., Costales, J. A., Moncayo, A. L., Tami, A.,
Carvajal, A., & Grijalva, M. J. (2022). COVID-19 Vaccine hesitancy in three
Latin American Countries: Reasons given for refusing a vaccine in samples
from Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Health Communication, 37, 1465-
1475. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2035943
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Reprinted in: Ahmed, R., Mao, Y., Eds. (2024). Communication Research on
Health Disparities and Coping Strategies in COVID-19 Related Crises.
London: Routledge.
Bates, B. R., Sharma, D., Baus, E. G., & Grijalva, M. J. (2022). Hansel, Gretel, and
the chinchorro: A live performance entertainment education approach to
Chagas disease in rural Ecuador. Southern Communication Journal, 87, 339-
347. https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2100642
Brusnahan, A., Carrasco-Tenezaca, M., Bates, B. R., Roche, R., & Grijalva, M. J.
(2022). Identifying health care access barriers in southern rural Ecuador.
International Journal for Equity in Health, 21, 55.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01660-1
Valderrama, C., Bates, B. R., & Grijalva, M. J. (2022). Characterization of
communications networks in natural disasters: A case study of the earthquake
in Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador in 2016. Southern Communication Journal,
87, 166-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2037062
Haile, Z. T., Ruhil, A., Bates, B. R., Hall, O., & Grijalva, M. J. (2022). Correlates of
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among residents of Ohio. BMC Public Health,
22, 226. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12661-8
Sherwani, S. I., Bates, B. R., & Grijalva, M. J. (2021). Charitable giving in the
context of unfamiliar organizations: The effectiveness of construal level
theory in predicting donating intentions and antecedents. Southern
Communication Journal, 86, 472-486.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2021.1929434
Bates, B. R., Tami, A., Carvajal, A., Marquez, M., & Grijalva, M. J. (2021).
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards COVID-19 among Venezuelans
during the 2020 epidemic: An online cross-sectional survey. PloS One, 16 (4),
e0249022. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249022
Ji, Y., & Bates. B. R. (2021). Testing “racial fetish” in health prevention messages:
Chinese evaluation of ethnicity-(in)congruent messages as a function of out-
group favoritism. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication,
14, 21-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2019.1650951
Bates, B. R., Villegas Botero, A., & Grijalva, M. J. (2020). Knowledge, attitudes, and
practices towards COVID-19 among Colombians during the outbreak: An
online cross-sectional survey. Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 13,
262-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2020.1842843
Ji, Y., & Bates, B. R. (2020). Is an American story better? A comparison of the
effectiveness of domestic versus foreigner narratives in the context of Chinese
air pollution. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 49, 520-535.
Stassen, H. M., & Bates, B.R. (2020). Beers, bros, and Brett: Memes and the visual
ideograph of the <angry white man>. Communication Quarterly, 68, 331-354.
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Bates, B. R. (2020). The (in)appropriateness of the WAR metaphor in response to

SARS-CoV-2: A rapid analysis of Donald J. Trump's rhetoric. Frontiers in
Communication, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00050
Reprinted in: Kozlakidis, Z., et al. (2023). Coronavirus Disease (COVID-
19): Pathophysiology, Epidemiology, Clinical Management and Public Health
Response. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA.
Bates, B. R., Grijalva, D. A., & Grijalva, M. J. (2020). A culture-centered,
participatory approach to defining “development” in rural Ecuador.
Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 21, 45-58.
Translated and Reprinted as: Bates, B. R., Grijalva, D. A., & Grijalva, M. J.
(2021). Un enfoque participativo centrado en la cultura: Una forma alternativa
de definir el desarrollo en el espacio rural del Ecuador. Revista Escribania,
19, 131-140. https://doi.org/10.30554/escribania.v19i1.4328
Bates, B. R., Sharma, D., Baus, E. G., & Grijalva, M. J. (2020). En nuestra casa no
hay chinchorros: A youth-oriented, participatory approach to Chagas
prevention in Loja province, Ecuador. Frontiers in Communication, 5.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00018
Bates, B. R., Moncayo, A. L., Costales, J. A., Herrera, C., & Grijalva, M. J. (2020).
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards COVID-19 among Ecuadorians
during the outbreak: An online cross-sectional survey. Journal of Community
Health, 13, 1158-1167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-020-00916-7I
Ji, Y. & Bates, B. R. (2020). Measuring intercultural/international outgroup
favoritism: Comparing two measures of cultural cringe. Asian Journal of
Communication, 30 (2), 141-154.
Stassen, H. M., & Bates, B. R. (2020). Renewing vows: a diachronic analysis of
<marriage> as ideograph. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication,
Bates, B. R., Villacis, A. G., Mendez-Trivino, A., Mendoza, L. E., & Grijalva, M. J.
(2020). Determinants of intentions to prevent triatomine infestation based on
the Health Belief Model: An application in rural southern Ecuador. PLoS:
Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14 (1): e0007987.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007987
Bates, B. R., Nieto-Sanchez, C., Marvel, D., Guerrero, D., Baus, E. G., & Grijalva,
M. J. (2019). Broadening “media” for development communication:
Alternative channels employed in Loja, Ecuador. Asia Pacific Media
Educator, 29 (2), 201–213. https://doi.org/10.1177/1326365X19870097
Bates, B. R., Marvel, D. L., Nieto, C.P, & Grijalva, M. J. (2019). Painting a
community-based definition of health: A culture-centered approach to
listening to rural voice in Chaquizhca, Ecuador. Frontiers in Communication,
4, 37. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00037
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Nieto-Sanchez, C., Bates, B. R., Guerrero, D., Jiménez, S., Baus, E., Peeters, K., &
Grijalva, M. J. (2019). Home improvement and system-based health
promotion for sustainable prevention of Chagas disease: A qualitative study.
PLoS: Neglected Tropical Diseases 13(6): e0007472.
Bates, B. R., Marvel, D. M., Nieto Sanchez, C. P., & Grijalva, M. J. (2019).
Community cartography in health communication: An asset-based mapping
approach in four communities in rural Ecuador. Journal of International &
Intercultural Communication, 12, 228-247.
Patterson, N., Bates, B. R., Chadwick, A. E., Nieto-Sanchez, C. P., & Grijalva, M. J.
(2018). Using the Health Belief Model to identify communication
opportunities to prevent Chagas disease in Southern Ecuador. PLoS:
Neglected Tropical Diseases 12(9), e0006841,
Hudak, N., & Bates, B. R. (2018). In pursuit of “queer-friendly” healthcare: An
interview study of how LGBTQ+ individuals select care providers. Health
Communication, https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1437525
Limvarakul, N., & Bates, B. R. (2017). Uses & gratifications revisited A test with
social media addiction in contexts. Veridian (International [Humanities, Social
Sciences and Arts]), 10 (5), 117-127.
https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/Veridian-E-Journal/issue/view/8773
Bates, B. R. (2017). Participatory graffiti as invitational rhetoric: The case of O
Machismo. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 18, 64-72.
Reprinted in: S. K. Foss & C. L. Griffin, Inviting understanding: A portrait
of invitational rhetoric. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Tamilin, E. R., Quinlan, M. R. & Bates, B. R. (2017). Accessing womanhood: Jenna
Talackova and the marking of a beauty queen. Sexuality & Culture, 21, 703-
718. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-017-9416-z
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2017). Patients’ fear of physicians and perceptions of
physicians’ cultural competence in healthcare. Journal of Communication in
Healthcare, 10, 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2017.1287389
Ji, Y., & Bates, B.R. (2017). "Better than bank robbery": Yuezi centers and
neoliberal appeals to market birth tourism to pregnant Chinese women. Health
Communication, 33, 443-452.
Zhang, C., & Bates, B.R. (2017). VICTORY & PEACE: The Use of Metaphors in
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s V-D Speech. China Media Research, 13 (2),
37-45.
Ahmed, R., Bates, B. R., & Romina, S. M. (2016). Assessing the influence of
patients’ perceptions of physicians’ cultural competence on patient
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satisfaction in an Appalachian Ohio context. Howard Journal of

Communications, 27, 403-421.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2016.1211569
Vik, T., & Bates, B. R. (2016). Disclosure without boundaries: Vulnerability and a
rules-based system in the counterfactual world of PostSecret. Journal of the
Communication, Speech & Theatre Association of North Dakota. 28, 48-62
Bates, B. R. (2016). Mapping international health onto domestic health: A pentadic
cartography of Kathleen Sibelius’s Global Health Strategy. Communication
Studies, 67, 321-338. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2016.1149084
Scheduled for inclusion in: S. K. Foss, (2017). Rhetorical criticism:
Exploration and practice, 5th ed., Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2016). To accommodate, or not to accommodate:
Exploring patient satisfaction with doctors’ accommodative behavior during
the clinical encounter. Journal of Communication in Health Care, 9, 22-32.
Heiss, S. N., & Bates, B. R. (2016). When a spoonful of fallacies helps the sweetener
go down: The Corn Refiner Association’s opportunistic representation of high
fructose corn syrup. Health Communication, 31, 1029-35.
Bates, B. R., & Chadwick, A. (2015). Measuring state disgust: Initial evidence for the
reliability and validity of an English-language version of the Ekel-State-
Fragebogen. Communication Research Reports, 32, .73-82.
Bates, B. R. (2015). Mapping US humanitarian aid: A pentadic cartography of
Michael Leavitt’s Health Diplomacy. Communication Studies, 66 125-145.
Bates, B. R. (2014). Comunicación para la salud. Revista Escribania – Nueva Epoca,
12, 55-63.
Quinlan, M. M., & Bates, B. R. (2014). Unsmoothing the cyborg: Technology and the
body in integrated dance. Disability Studies Quarterly, 34 (4), http://dsq-
sds.org/article/view/3783/3792
Lawrence, W. Y., & Bates, B. R. (2014). Mommy groups as sites for deliberation in
everyday speech: Metaphor clusters of competition, cooperation, and
connection. Journal of Public Deliberation, 10, 7. Available at:
http://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/vol10/iss2/art7
Heiss, S., & Bates, B. R. (2014). Where’s the joy in cooking?: Representations of
taste, tradition and science in Joy of Cooking. Food and Foodways, 22, 198-
Bates, B. R., Lawrence, W. Y., & Cervenka, M. (2014). Politics drawn in black and
white: Henry J. Lewis’s visual rhetoric in post-Reconstruction editorial
cartoons. Journalism History, 43, 138-147.
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Angel-Botero, A., & Bates, B. R., (2014). Terministic screens of corruption: A
cluster analysis of Colombian radio conversations. K. B. Journal, 10 (1),
http://kbjournal.org/angel_bates_terministic_screens_of_corruption
Bates, B. R., Graham, D., Striley, K., Patterson, S., Arora, A., & Hamel-Lambert, J.
(2014). Examining antecedents of caregivers’ access to early childhood
developmental screening: Implications for campaigns promoting use of
services in Appalachian Ohio. Health Promotion and Practice, 15, 413-421.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1524839913479955
Mahoney, L. M., & Bates, B. R. (2013). The impacts of an entertainment-education
radio serial drama in Botswana on outcomes related to HIV prevention goals
in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Journal of African Media
Studies, 5, 353-367. https://doi.org/10.1386/jams.5.3.353_1
Peirce, L. M., & Bates, B. R. (2012) The impacts of character identification and
attainment of HIV prevention goals in an Entertainment Education program in
Botswana. Journal of Development Communication, 23, 1-12.
Quinlan, M., Bates, B. R., & Angell, M. E. (2012). “‘What can I do to help?’:
Postsecondary students with learning disabilities’ perceptions of instructors’
performances of classroom accommodations. Journal of Research in Special
Education Needs, 12, 224-233. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-
3802.2011.01225.x
Quinlan, M. R., Bates, B.R., & Webb, J. B. (2012). A personal and political body:
Michelle Obama’s (re)defining (counter)stereotypes of black females. Women
and Language, 35, 119-126.
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2012). Development of scales to assess patients’
perceptions of physicians’ cultural competence in health care interactions.
Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 23, 287-296.
Quinlan, M. M., & Bates, B. R. (2012). “Walking in the city”: Performance of
strategies and tactics in the 1985 bus accessibility protests. Disability Studies
Quarterly, 32, http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1636/3034
Norander, S., Mazer, J., & Bates, B. R. (2011). D.O. or die: Identity Negotiation
among Osteopathic Medical Students. Health Communication, 26, 59-70.
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2010). Assessing the relationship between patients'
ethnocentric views and patients' perceptions of physicians' cultural
competence in health care interactions. Intercultural Communication Studies,
19, 111-127.
Stassen, H., & Bates, B. (2010). (Re)constructing <marriage>: Exploring marriage as
an ideograph. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication 11, 1-5.
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Quick, B. L., & Bates, B. R. (2010). The use of gain-frame and efficacy appeals to
dissuade excessive alcohol consumption among college students: A test of
psychological reactance theory. Journal of Health Communication, 15, 603-
Quinlan, M. M., & Bates, B. R. (2010). Are our president learning?: Unpacking the
enthymematic connections in the speech mistakes of President George W.
Bush. Journal of Research in Special Education Needs, 10, 3-12. [LEAD
ESSAY] https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-3802.2009.01132.x
Bates, B. R., Mazer, J. P., Ledbetter, A. M., & Norander, S. (2010). Response to
Hernandez. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 110, 46-47.
https://doi.org/10.7556/jaoa.2010.110.1.46
Quick, B. L., Bates, B. R., & Quinlan, M. M. (2009). The utility of anger in
promoting clean indoor air policies. Health Communication, 24, 548-561.
Bates, B. R., Mazer, J. P., Ledbetter, A. M., & Norander, S. (2009). The DO
difference: An analysis of causal relationships affecting the degree-change
debate. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 109, 359-369.
https://doi.org/10.7556/jaoa.2009.109.7.359
Quick, B. L, Bates, B. R., & Romina, S. M. (2009). Examining antecedents of clean
indoor air policy support: Implications for campaigns promoting clean indoor
air. Health Communication, 24, 50-59.
Quinlan, M. R., & Bates, B. R. (2009). Bionic Woman (2007): Gender, disability,
and cyborgs. Journal of Research in Special Education Needs, 9, 48-58.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-3802.2009.01115.x
Bates, B. R. (2009). Articulating a vocabulary for international conflict: The
circulation of the World War II/Holocaust analogy in the 1999 Kosovo
intervention. Journal of Language and Politics, 8, 28-51.
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.8.1.03bat
Bates, B. R., Quick, B. L., & Kloss, A.A. (2009). Antecedents of intention to help
mitigate wildfire: Implications for campaigns promoting wildfire mitigation to
the general public in the wildland-urban interface. Safety Science, 47, 374-
381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2008.06.002
Pfahl, M., & Bates, B. R. (2008). “This is not a race, this is a farce”: Formula One
and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway tire crisis. Public Relations Review, 34,
135-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2008.03.019
Bates, B. R., Lawrence, W. Y, & Cervenka, M. (2008). Redrawing Afrocentrism:
Visual nommo in Ben H. Johnson’s editorial cartoons. Howard Journal of
Communications, 19, 277-296. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646170802225219
Reprinted in: C. R. Burgchardt & H. A. Jones. (2017). Readings in
Rhetorical Criticism, 5th ed. State College , PA: Strata.
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Carmack, H., Bates, B. R., & Harter, L. M. (2008). Narrative constructions of health
care issues and policies: The case of President Clinton’s apology-by-proxy for
the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Journal of Medical Humanities, 29, 89-
109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-008-9053-5
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2008). Gender differences in patients’ perceptions of
physicians’ cultural competence in health care interactions. Women’s Health
and Urban Life, 6, 58-80.
Quinlan, M. M., & Bates, B. R. (2008). Dances and discourses of (dis)ability:
Heather Mills’s embodiment of disability on Dancing With The Stars. Text &
Performance Quarterly, 28, 64-80.
Reprinted in: B. Henderson & N. Ostrander. (2010). Understanding
disability studies and performance studies. New York: Routledge.
Bates, B. R., Romina, S. M., & Ahmed, R. (2007). The effects of differing levels of
readability on potential patients' perceptions of the readability, truthfulness,
trustworthiness and completeness of health information. Journal of Cancer
Education, 22, 15-22.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/08858190701348067
Bates, B. R., & Stroup, K. (2007). The eternal sunshine of the solar anus: A
schizoanalytic perspective on critical methodology. Rhetoric Review, 26, 60-
79. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350190709336686
Bates, B. R. (2006). Care of the self and American physicians’ place in the “War on
Terror”: A Foucauldian reading of Senator Bill Frist, M.D. Journal of
Medicine and Philosophy, 31, 385-400.
Bates, B. R., Romina, S. M., Ahmed, R., & Hopson, D. (2006). The effect of source
credibility on potential patients’ perceptions of message quality. Medical
Informatics & the Internet in Medicine, 31, 45-52.
Titsworth, S., Bates, B., & Kenniston, P. (2006). Kenneth Burke, the basic
communication course, and applied scholarship. Basic Communication
Course Annual, 18, 303-315.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/bcca/vol18/iss1/18
Bates, B. R. (2005). Care of the self and patient participation in genetic discourse: A
Foucauldian reading of the Surgeon General’s “My Family Health Portrait”
program. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 14, 423-434.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10897-005-4845-5
Bates, B. R. (2005). Senator Bill Frist and the medical jeremiad. Journal of Medical
Humanities, 26, 259-272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-005-7700-7
Condit, C. & Bates, B. (2005). How lay people respond to messages about genetics,
health, and race. Clinical Genetics, 68, 97-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-
0004.2005.00480.x
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Bates, B. R. (2005). Public culture and public understanding of genetics: A focus

group study. Public Understanding of Science, 14, 47-65.
Bates, B. R., Lynch, J. A., Bevan, J. L., & Condit, C. M. (2005). Warranted concerns,
warranted outlooks: A focus group study of public opinion about genetics
research. Social Science & Medicine, 60, 331-44.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.05.012
Dubriwny, T. N., Bates, B. R., & Bevan, J. L. (2004). Lay understandings of race:
cultural and genetic definitions. Community Genetics, 7, 185-195.
Bates, B. R., Poirot, K., Harris, T. M., Achter, P. J., & Condit, C. M. (2004).
Evaluating direct-to-consumer marketing of race-based pharmacogenomics: A
focus group study of public understandings of applied genomic medication.
Journal of Health Communication, 9, 541-59.
Condit, C. M., Parrott, R. L., Bates, B. R., Bevan, J. L., & Achter, P. J. (2004).
Exploration of the impact of messages about genes and race on lay attitudes.
Clinical Genetics, 66, 402-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-
0004.2004.00327.x
Bates, B. R. (2004). Geneticization and medical education: A pilot study. Internet
Journal of Genomics and Proteomics, 1, https://ispub.com/IJGP/1/2/11200 .
Bates, B. R. (2004). Audiences, metaphors, and the Persian Gulf War.
Communication Studies, 55, 447-63.
Reprinted in: S. K. Foss, (2009). Rhetorical criticism: Exploration and
practice, 4th ed., Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
Bates, B. R. & Harris, T. M. (2004). The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis and
public perceptions of biomedical research: a focus group study. Journal of the
National Medical Association, 96, 1051-1064.
Bates, B. R. (2004). Social implications of algorithmic management in cases of cystic
hygroma. Southern Medical Journal, 97, 622-3.
https://doi.org/10.1097/00007611-200407000-00002
Bates, B. R. (2003). Ashcroft among the senators: Strategies, tactics, and justification
in the 2001 Attorney General hearings. Argumentation and Advocacy, 39,
254-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/00028533.2003.11821591
Condit, C. M., Templeton, A., Bates, B. R., Bevan, J. L., Harris, T. M. (2003). An
exploration of attitudinal barriers to delivery of race-targeted
pharmacogenomics among informed lay persons. Genetics in Medicine, 5,
385-92. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.gim.0000087990.30961.72
Bates, B. R., Templeton, A., Achter, P. J., Harris, T. M., & Condit, C. M. (2003).
What does "a gene for heart disease" mean? A focus group study of public
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understandings of genetic risk factors. American Journal of Medical Genetics,

119A(1), 156-161. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.20113
Condit, C. M., Bates, B. R., Galloway, R. W., Givens, S. B., Haynie, C., Jordan, J.,
Stables, G. W., & West, H. M. (2002). Recipes or blueprints for our genes?
How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors.
Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88, 303-325.
Bates, B. P., Bates, B. R., and Northway, D. (2002). PQRST: A mnemonic to
improve nurse-physician communication. Journal of the American Medical
Directors Association, 3, 23-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1525-
8610(04)70239-X
Bates, B. R. (2002). The New York Yankees and the conservative use of space.
Ethnologies, 24(1), 201-224.
Bates, B. R. (2002). Inherency, strategy, and academic debate. Rostrum, 76(5), 15-
18.
Bates, B. R. & Garner, T. (2001). Can you dig it? Audiences, archetypes, and John
Shaft. Howard Journal of Communications, 12, 137-158.
Bates, B. R. (1996). Inherency: An argument in evolution. MIFA Unauthorized
Debate Journal, 1, 6-14.
Encyclopedia Entries
Bates, B. R. (In Press). Rhetoric of health and medicine. In P. Crawford & P. Kadetz
(Eds.-in-Chief; M. Dutta, Section Ed.), Palgrave Encyclopedia of Health
Humanities. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.(6000 words)
Bates, B. R. (2022). Intervention research. In The International Encyclopedia of
Health Communication (eds. E. Y. Ho, CL. Bylund, J. C. M.van Weert, I.
Basnyat, N. Bol, & M. Dean). Wiley. (5500 words). DOI:
10.1002/9781119678816.iehc0536
Clements, M., Bates, B. R. , & Purnell, D. (2022). Ethnography. In The International
Encyclopedia of Health Communication (eds. E. Y. Ho, CL. Bylund, J. C.
M.van Weert, I. Basnyat, N. Bol, & M. Dean). Wiley. (5500 words). DOI:
10.1002/9781119678816.iehc0787
Book Chapters
Bates, B. R. (Accepted). “The laws of nature require the obliteration of the unfit”:
Eugenical logics in German and American sterilization law. In T. Libretti
(Ed.), Exterminating narratives: Identifying and resisting genocidal cultural
logics (pp. in press). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Bates, B. R., & Edwards, J. A. (2023). Political communication and pandemics. In S.
M. Croucher & A. Diers-Lawson, Pandemic Communication (pp. 270-
288).New York: Routledge.
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Sherwani, S. I., & Bates, B. R. (2020). Communicating health, fitness, and privacy:
The case of ownership, legality, and management of data generated by
wearable technology and fitness apps. In D. Sen & R. Ahmed (eds.), Privacy
concerns surrounding personal information sharing on health and fitness
mobile applications (pp. 31-59). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Reprinted in: M. Khosrow-Pour (2022.), Research Anthology on Securing
Medical Systems and Records. Information Resources Management
Association.
Bates, B. R. (2017). Mobilities in/and nomadic health research: Health
communication scholarship and flows across migratory landscapes. In Y. Mao
& R. Ahmed (eds.), Culture, Migration, and Health Communication in a
Global Context. New York: Routledge.
Gerbensky-Kerber, A., & Bates, B. R. (2015). Freedom from fat is freedom to fight:
A Foucauldian reading of Mission: Readiness’ rhetoric. In E. Sahlstein & L.
M. Webb (Eds.), A communicative perspective on the military: Messages,
strategies, meanings. (pp. 335-562). New York: Peter Lang.
Bates, B. R., & Edwards, J. A. (2013). An attempt to heal rifts in medicine:
Collective apology and the American Medical Association’s attempts at
reconciliation with the African-American community. In D. Cuypers, D.
Jansses, J. Haers, & B. Segart (Eds.), Public apology between ritual and
regret: Symbolic excuses on false pretenses or true reconciliation out of
sincere regret? Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Condit, C. M., & Bates, B. R. (2009). Rhetorical methods of applied communication
scholarship. In K. L. Cissna & L. R. Frey (Eds.), Handbook of applied
communication research (pp. 270-290). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
Bates, B. R. (2008). Envisioning race and medicine: BiDil and the insufficient match
between social groups and genotypes. In E. Einsiedel & M. Burgess (Eds.),
Hindsight and foresight on emerging technologies (pp.221-238). Vancouver
and Seattle: University of British Columbia Press and University of
Washington Press.
Bates, B. R., & Ahmed, R. (2007). Disaster pornography: Hurricanes, voyeurism, and
the home television viewer. In R. S. Swan & K. A. Bates (Eds.), Through the
eye of Katrina: Social justice in the United States (pp. 187-201). Durham, NC:
Carolina Academic Press.
Bates, B. R. (2007). Race, inversive performance, and public pedagogy in White
Man’s Burden. In L. M. Cooks & J. S. Simpson (Eds.), Whiteness, Pedagogy,
Performance: Dis/placing Race (pp. 285-314). Lanham, MD: Lexington
Books/Rowman & Littlefield.
Working Group on the Emerging Role of Public Health in Integrating Genomics
(Working Group member). (2005). In K. Haslinger (Ed.), The genomic
revolution: Implications for treatment and control of infectious disease:
Conference focus group summaries (pp. 57-66). Washington: The National
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Essays and Editorials
Bates, B. R. (2021). Making communication scholarship less WEIRD. Southern
Communication Journal, 86 (1), 1-4.
Scheduled for centerpiece discussion at: 16th Biennial Communication
Ethics Conference, Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and
the Communication Ethics Institute, Duquesne University, June 8-10, 2021.
Scheduled for centerpiece discussion at: Philosophy of Communication
interest group, Eastern Communication Association, 2022.
Bates, B. R. (2019). White liberals need to stop talking and start listening.
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 8 (4), 110-115.
Exhibitions and Expositions
Children of Escuela de Educación Básica 27 de Octubre and the Infectious and
Tropical Disease Institute. [C. Farra, (art lead), B.R. Bates (theory lead)].
(2023). Memorias de la iniciativa de vida saludable en nuestra comunidad
[Three-panel mural installation, latex and lacquer on plastered brick]. Escuela
de Educación Básica 27 de Octubre, Chaquizhca, Loja, Ecuador.
Tropical Disease Institute. [J. Herrera, (art lead), B.R. Bates (theory lead)].
(2019). La iniciativa de vida saludable en nuestra comunidad [Three-act
play]. Escuela de Educación Básica 27 de Octubre, Chaquizhca, Loja,
Ecuador.
Tropical Disease Institute. [D. Grijalva, (art lead), B.R. Bates (theory lead)].
(2019). ¿Qué se puede hacer para estar saludable? [Five-panel mural
installation, latex and lacquer on plastered brick]. Escuela de Educación
Básica 27 de Octubre, Chaquizhca, Loja, Ecuador.
(2019). ¿Qué te gustaría ver en tu comunidad en el futuro? [Four-panel mural
installation, latex and lacquer on plastered brick]. Escuela de Educación
Básica 27 de Octubre, Chaquizhca, Loja, Ecuador.
Children of Escuela de Educación Básica de Bellamaria and the Infectious and
(2019). ¿Qué deben hacer las personas en su comunidad para estar
saludables? [Six-panel mural installation, latex and lacquer on concrete].
Escuela de Educación Básica, Bellamaria, Loja, Ecuador.
Reyes, V.Y., Bates, B.R., Silva, J.A.C., Cevallis, P., Chilcott, R., & Clavijo, FR.
Traslador/Portkey a visual experimental art station. Installation displayed at
La Expedicion que Decidera tu Futuro (“Deciding Your Future Exposition”),
Centro Cultural de Pontificia Universidad Catholica del Ecuador, May 3-6,
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2017.
Abstracts and Posters
Merrin, L., Patel, S., Grijalva, M. J., & Bates, B. R. (2022). A qualitative study of
perceived barriers to accessing healthcare identified by Ecuadorian healthcare
professionals. Poster presented at the 2022 Health Scholars Research
Symposium, Athens, Dublin, and Cleveland, OH.
Patel, S., Merrin, L., Grijalva, M. J., & Bates, B. R. (2022). Insufficient
transportation as a limiting factor to health and wellbeing in rural Ecuador.
Poster presented at the 2022 Health Scholars Research Symposium, Athens,
Dublin, and Cleveland, OH.
Valencia, A.M., Bates, B. R., & Grijalva, M. J. (2022). Community Nutrition
Initiative: A Positive Deviance approach in rural communities in southern
Ecuador. Poster presented at the 2022 Health Scholars Research Symposium,
Athens, Dublin, and Cleveland, OH.
Bates, B., Spitaletta J., Vettel, J., Garcia, J. (2019, 27 February). Building a National
Youth Media “Lunch” Program. Poster presented to the Information Science
and Technology Cognitive Defense Workshop #2. Cognitive Defense (CogD):
Designing for Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
February 26-27, 2019. Menlo Park, CA.
Vettel, J., Spitaletta, J., Jeannotte, J., Bates, B., Paulus, M., & Mitra, T. (2019, 26
February). Resilience as a defensive design for cognitive defense. Poster
presented to the Information Science and Technology Cognitive Defense
Workshop #2. Cognitive Defense (CogD): Designing for Defense, Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, February 26-27, 2019. Menlo Park, CA.
Bates, B., Paulus, M., West, J., Garcia, J., & Shackleford, K. D. (2019, 26 February).
Goals and metrics for cognitive defense. Poster presented to the Information
Science and Technology Cognitive Defense Workshop #2. Cognitive Defense
(CogD): Designing for Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, February 26-27, 2019. Menlo Park, CA.
Bates, B. R., Garcia, J., Karaholis, K., Karmarkar, U., Menczer, F., Pauli’s, M. (2018,
29 October). Taxonomy building and identification of knowns/unknowns.
Poster presented to the Information Science and Technology Cognitive
Defense (CogD) workshop, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
October 29-30, 2018. Seattle, WA.
Svore, K., Vettel, J., Berka, C., Bates, B. R., Starbird, K., Telley, C., Breiter, H.
(2018, 29 October). Proposals and research ideas. Poster presented to the
Information Science and Technology Cognitive Defense (CogD) workshop,
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, October 29-30, 2018. Seattle,
WA.
Nieto-Sanchez, C., Grijalva, M. J., Grietens, K. P., & Bates, B. (2018). Systematic
review of communication strategies in neglected tropical diseases eradication,
elimination and control programs: A call for action. American Journal of
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Breiter, H., Telley, C., Bates, B. R., Dill-Shackleford, K., & Starbird, K. (2018, 29
October). #3. Prioritization of studies. Poster presented to the Information
Science and Technology Cognitive Defense (CogD) workshop, Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, October 29-30, 2018. Seattle, WA.
Kruse, A., Kennedy, F., Karmarkar, U., Hoogs, A., Jackson, G., Bates, B., Harris, T.,
Parkinson, C. (2018). Refined solution statement: Belief dynamics and social
cognition. Poster presented to the Information Science and Technology
Reality Jamming #2: Socio-technological solutions workshop, Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, January 11-12, 2018, Berkeley, CA.
Karmarkar, U., Lee, M., Parkinson, C., Lin, H., Kerr, J., Hoofnagle, C., Bates, B.,
Frischmann, B., Kruse, A. Kennedy, F., & Jackson, G. (2018). Detailed
solution statement: Belief dynamics, social cognition and incentives. Poster
presented to the Information Science and Technology Reality Jamming #2:
Socio-technological solutions workshop, Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, January 11-12, 2018, Berkeley, CA.
Bates, B. R., Smedley, A., Birnbaum, J., & Graham, D. (2012). Project LAUNCH for
Appalachia Ohio’s strategic communication plan. Poster presented at the
Grantee and Partner Showcase, Project LAUNCH Spring 2012 Training
Institute, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, Rockville, MD.
Tests in APA PsycNet
Bates, B. R., Quick, B. L., & Kloss, A. A. (2009). Attitudes Towards Effects of
Wildfires Scale [Database record]. APA PsycTests.
https://doi.org/10.1037/t26458-000
Bates, B. R., Quick, B. L., & Kloss, A. A. (2009). Knowledge of Wildfires
Measure [Database record]. APA PsycTests. https://doi.org/10.1037/t26459-
000
Reviews
Bates, B. R. (2005). [Review of the book Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors
Without Borders]. Journal of the National Medical Association, 97, 1575-
1577.
Bates, B. R. (2002). [Review of the book Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of
Foreign Aid]. Southern Communication Journal, 68, 70-71.
Technical Reports
Centro de Investigacion para la Salud en America Latina (Working Group
member). (2017). A guide to communication at CISeAL. Pontificia
Universided Catolica del Ecuador.
Bates, B., Birnbaum, J. Graham, D., Hamel-Lambert, L., Smedley, A. (2011).
Creating healthier futures for your children: An informational guide for
caregivers. Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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Quick, B. L., & Bates, B. R. (2009). An examination of knowledge, attitudes,

subjective norms, and controllability with respect to minimize invasive plants
in Ohio. Ohio Department of Natural Resources. ODNR Commitment Record
21391.
Bates, B. R. (2008). Report on assessment of university curricula. C-Change:
Communication for Social Change)/Partnership for Health and Development
Communication.
Bates, B. R., & Quick, B. L. (2007). Formative assessment of the general public:
Public awareness of forest fires in Southern, Eastern, and Southeastern Ohio
Firewise Communication project: Report 1. ODNR Commitment Record
977C73.1.
Bates, B. R., & Quick, B. L. (2007). Formative assessment of the general public and
wildfire professional: Public awareness of forest fires in Southern, Eastern,
and Southeastern Ohio Firewise Communication project: Report 2. ODNR
Commitment Record 977C73.2.
Bates, B. R., & Quick, B. L. (2007). Media use among the public in Appalachian
Ohio: Public awareness of forest fires in Southern, Eastern, and Southeastern
Ohio Firewise Communication project: Report 3. ODNR Commitment
Record 977C73.3.
Bates, B. R., & Quick, B. L. (2007). Assessment of Firewise awareness and
firesafing actions taken: Public awareness of forest fires in Southern, Eastern,
and Southeastern Ohio Firewise Communication project: Report 4. ODNR
Commitment Record 977C73.4.
Works Under Review
Farra, C., Memon, A., Mingus, A. M., Caridi, T., Marino, F., Grijalva, M. J., &
Bates, B. R. Explaining transportation modality choices in a rural Ecuadoran
context: An application of the Theory of Planned Behavior. Planned
submission: Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Caridi, T., Marino, F., Mingus, A. M., Farra, C., Memon, A., Grijalva, M. J., &
Bates, B. R. Health literacy and Chagas disease knowledge: A study in
southern Loja province, Ecuador. Planned submission: PLoS: NTDs.
Marino, F., Farra, C., Memon, A., Mingus, A. M., Caridi, T., Grijalva, M. J., &
Bates, B. R. Predictors of women speaking out against La Violencia in a rural
Ecuadoran context: An application of the Measure of Victim Empowerment
Related to Safety Scale (MOVERS). Planned submission: Violence Against
Women.
Caridi, T., Memon, A., Farra, C., Marino, F., Mingus, A. M., Grijalva, M. J., &
Bates, B. R. Associations of satisfaction with healthcare and self-reported
quality of life in a rural cantonal capital in Ecuador. Planned submission:
Journal of Rural Health.
Nieto, C., Bates, B. R., & Baus, E. Comunicación y enfermedad de Chagas:
Contribuciones a la construcción de enfoques sistémicos en la promoción de
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salud en enfermedades infecciosas. In A. Valdez-Tah & M. San Martino

(Eds.), La problemática de Chagas desde la perspectiva de las ciencias
sociales y humanidades. Hemeroteca Nacional de México, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México: Mexico City (RR).
Perez, J. F., Medina-Maldonado, V., Ortiz, G., Blanco, M., & Bates, B. R. Unveiling
the post-pandemic hybrid education: Students' and professors' perspectives on
the contingent virtual education modality. Revista Electrónica Calidad en la
Educación Superior. Revised and Resubmitted.
.Bates, B. R., Haile, Z. T., Ruhil, A., Hall, O., & Grijalva, M. J. Predictors of
adherence to COVID-19 prevention behaviors: An application of the Health
Belief Model.
Bates, B. R, Carvajal, A., Tami, A., Moncayo, A. L., Costales, J. A., Villegas Botero,
A., & Grijalva, M. J. Promoting vaccination against COVID-19 in three Latin
American Countries: Factors associated with intentions to be vaccinated in a
large convenience sample.
Colloquia
Bates, B. R. (2021) Face masks as representational ideograph in the debate over
COVID-19 prevention measures. 2021 Washburn Distinguished Lecture,
Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, November.
Bates, B. R. (2019). Health communication: Improving health literacy among the
public. Sharing session to the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies,
Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, MALAYSIA, July.
Bates, B. R. (2019). The Health Living Initiative and preventing Chagas’ disease:
Using communication in an interdisciplinary context for social change.
Sharing session to the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies,
Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, MALAYSIA, July.
Bates, B. R. (2016). Envisioning communication and journalism. Colloquium
presented to the School of Communication and Journalism, Auburn
University, Auburn, AL, March.
Bates, B. R. (2015). Applied health rhetoric. Colloquium presented to the Jack J.
Valenti School of Communication, University of Houston, Houston, TX,
March.
Bates, B. R. (2014). Project LAUNCH for Appalachia Ohio: Using community-based
strategies to promote child well-being. Colloquium presented to the
Department of Communication Studies, University of Alabama –
Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, July.
Bates, B. R. (2014). Comunicación para la salud (Communicatng for Health).
Keynote address presented to El Simposio Internacional Diálogos de
Comunicación Norte – Sur (North-South Dialogue, and International
Symposium on Communication, Programa de Comunicación Social y
Periodismo (Public Communication and Journalism Program), Universidad de
Manizales, Manizales, COLOMBIA, April.
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Bates, B. R. (2013). Using social marketing principles to support health care.

Colloquium presented to the Institute of Journalism, College of Media and
International Culture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, CHINA, May.
Bates, B. R. (2013). Advertising for social change. Colloquium presented to the
Department of Communication, School of Journalism, Fudan University,
Shanghai, CHINA, May.
Bates, B. R. (2012). Engaging two public advocacies of health and healing: One as
designer, one as critic. Colloquium presented to the Communication Sciences
and Disorders Department, Emerson College, Boston, MA, December.
Bates, B. R. (2008). Retaining the osteopathic difference: Communicating “D. O.” as
a professional identification marker. Colloquium presented to the Department
of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte,
Charlotte, NC, October.
Bates, B. R. (2007). The rhetoric of investigation: British colonial discourse in the
White Paper of 1939. Colloquium presented to the Department of
Communication and Theatre at Morehead State University, Morehead, KY,
April.
Bates, B. R. (2006). Teams, genes, and common themes: Cross- and interdisciplinary
approaches to the study of public discourse about human variation.
Colloquium presented to the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February.
Panosian, C., Bates, B. R., & Rotimi, C. (2005). Report from Working Group 11: The
emerging role of public health in integrating genomics. Discussion report
presented to the Third Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiatives
Conference: The Genomic Revolution: Implications for Treatment and
Control of Infectious Diseases, Irvine, CA, November.
Bates, B. R. (2002). “Not some grainy newsreel”: Bill Clinton and the World War II
analogy in the Kosovo intervention. Colloquium presented to the graduate
faculty of the University of Georgia, September.
Bates, B. R. (1999). Coconstitutive rhetoric: The case of the 1978-9 Iranian
Revolution. Colloquium presented to the graduate faculty of the University of
Georgia, November.
Presentations at Learned Societies
Farra, C., Memon, A., Mingus, A. M., Caridi, T., Marino, F., Grijalva, M. J., &
Bates, B. R. Explaining transportation modality choices in a rural Ecuadoran
context: An application of the Theory of Planned Behavior. Paper submitted
to the Applied Communication Interest Group at the Eastern Communication
Association , Cambridge, MA.
Caridi, T., Memon, A., Farra, C., Marino, F., Mingus, A. M., Grijalva, M. J., &
Bates, B. R. Associations of satisfaction with healthcare and self-reported
quality of life in a rural cantonal capital in Ecuador. Paper submitted to the
Health Communication Interest Group at the Eastern Communication
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Caridi, T., Marino, F., Mingus, A. M., Farra, C., Memon, A., Grijalva, M. J., &
Bates, B. R. Health literacy and Chagas disease knowledge: A study in
southern Loja province, Ecuador. Paper submitted to the Health
Communication Division at the Southern States Communication Association,
Frisco, TX.
Marino, F., Farra, C., Memon, A., Mingus, A. M., Caridi, T., Grijalva, M. J., &
Bates, B. R. Predictors of women speaking out against La Violencia in a rural
Ecuadoran context: An application of the Measure of Victim Empowerment
Related to Safety Scale (MOVERS). Paper submitted to the Gender Studies
Division at the Southern States Communication Association, Frisco, TX.
Bates, B. R. (2023). Does communication during an outbreak shift understandings of
monkeypox? Evidence from a natural experiment and textual analysis. Paper
to be presented to the Applied Communication Division at the National
Communication Association, National Harbor, MD.
Kelly, J., Cole, E., Sakazaki, A., Grijalva, M. J., & Bates, B. R. (2023). Helping to
achieve freedom from violence against women: A multi-model analysis of
public art in rural Ecuador. Paper to be presented to the National
Communication Association, National Harbor, MD.
Bates, B. R. (2023). Walking (and drinking) through Bermondsey and Rotherhithe,
London, UK: An exploration of community disintegration and reintegration
through the British public house. Paper presented at the Northern Star
Symposium 2023 – Disintegration, Bodo, NORWAY.
Bates, B. R., Finkelshteyn, S., & Odunsi, I. A. (2023). “We were having a rather long
conversation about the uproar”: Memorable messages about COVID-19
vaccinations in a mostly young, white sample. Paper presented to the Applied
Communication Division of the Southern States Communication Association.
St. Petersburg, FL.
Bates, B. R., & Grijalva, M. J. (2023). Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards
monkeypox among clinicians during the outbreak: An online cross-sectional
survey. Paper presented to the Health Communication Interest Group at the
Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore, MD.
Bates, B. R., Villegas Botero, A., Costales, J. A., Moncayo, A. L., Tami, A.,
Carvajal, A., & Grijalva, M. J. (2022). COVID-19 Vaccine hesitancy in three
Latin American Countries: Reasons given for refusing a vaccine in samples
from Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Paper presented to the Applied
Communication Interest Group at the Eastern Communication Association,
Philadelphia, PA.
Bates, B. R, Carvajal, A., Tami, A., Moncayo, A. L., Costales, J. A., Villegas Botero,
A., & Grijalva, M. J. (2022). Promoting vaccination against COVID-19 in
three Latin American Countries: Factors associated with intentions to be
vaccinated in a large convenience sample. Paper presented to the Health
Communication Interest Group at the Eastern Communication Association,
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Philadelphia, PA.
Bates, B. R. (2022). The failure of historical analogy in Joe Biden’s Declaration of
Independence from COVID-19. Paper presented to the Rhetoric and Public
Address Division of the Southern States Communication Association.
Greenville, SC. Top 4 Paper in Rhetoric and Public Address.
Mora-Criollo, P., Carrasco-Tenezaca, M. J., Casapulla, S., Bates, B. R., & Grijalva,
M. J. (2021). A qualitative exploration of knowledge of Chagas Disease in
adolescents in rural Ecuador. Paper presented to the Intercultural
Communication Division at the Southern States Communication Association.
Norfolk, VA. (Conference moved online)
Bates, B. R., Moncayo, A. L., Costales, J. A., Herrera, C., & Grijalva, M. J. (2021).
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards COVID-19 among Ecuadorians
during the outbreak: An online cross-sectional survey. Paper presented to the
Association. Cambridge, MA. (Conference moved online)
Bates, B. R., Carrasco-Tenezaca, M. J., Mendez-Trivino, A. M., Mendoza, L. E.,
Nieto-Sanchez, C., Baus, E. G., & Grijalva, M. J. (2021). Identifying barriers
and enablers for home reconstruction for prevention of Chagas Disease: An
interview study in rural Loja province, Ecuador. Paper presented to the
Intercultural Communication Interest Group at the Eastern Communication
Association. Cambridge, MA. (Conference moved online)
Bates, B. R. (2020). Standards that enables measurement of the impact of digital
inoculation solution quantitatively and qualitatively. Lightning talk presented
to the Digital Inoculation at Scale (DIAS) Series II: Digital Inoculation
Strategies and Metrics Workshop (3), Information Science and Technology,
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Zoomgov/Washington, DC.
Bates, B. R. (2020). Tools and technologies used for execution of digital inoculation
strategies. Lightning talk presented to the Digital Inoculation at Scale (DIAS)
Series II: Digital Inoculation Strategies and Metrics Workshop (2),
Information Science and Technology, Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency. Zoomgov/Washington, DC.
Bates, B. R. (2020). Approaches that enable prevention, detection, and deterrence of
adversarial social-cyber campaigns. Lightning talk presented to the Digital
Inoculation at Scale (DIAS) Series II: Digital Inoculation Strategies and
Metrics Workshop (1), Information Science and Technology, Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency. Zoomgov/Washington, DC.
Bates, B. R., Sharma, D., Baus, E. G. & Grijalva, M. J. (2020). A live performance
entertainment education approach to Chagas disease in rural Ecuador. Paper
presented to the Health Communication Division at the National
Communication Association, Indianapolis, IN. (Conference moved online)
Bates, B. R., Grijalva, D. A., Villacis, A. G., & Grijalva, M. J. (2020). Going off the
map to find strengths in Asset Based Community Development research: A
case of participatory mural painting as an alternative approach to asset
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portrayal. Paper presented to the International and Intercultural

Communication Division at the National Communication Association,
Indianapolis, IN. (Conference moved online)
Valderrama-Martinzez, C., Bates, B. R., & Grijalva, M. J. (2020). Learning
communication channel selection lessons from the earthquake in Bahía de
Caráquez, Ecuador, 2016. Paper presented to the Mass Communication
Division at the National Communication Association, Indianapolis, IN.
(Conference moved online)
Bates, B., Murphy, R., Graves, C., Roth, D., Wiggins, C., Kettler, B., … et al. (2020).
Influence scale and vulnerabilities in a primary, secondary, and tertiary health
prevention model. Outbrief presented to the Workshop. Digital Inoculation at
Scale (DIAS): Social Cyber Attack Vectors Workshop, Information Science
and Technology, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Zoomgov/Washington, DC.
Kruse, A., Myers, M., Kettle, B., Bates, B. … et al. (2020). Attack types and
vulnerable populations at the individual level vs. mass scale. Outbrief
presented to the Workshop. Digital Inoculation at Scale (DIAS): Social Cyber
Attack Vectors Workshop, Information Science and Technology, Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency. Zoomgov/Washington, DC.
Gijalva, M. J., & Bates, B. R. (2020). Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas
relacionadas con COVID- en Ecuador, Colombia y Venezuela. Webinar
presented in the series COVID-19: Una visión científica de la epidemia
causada por SARS-Cov2. Webinar presented to La Academia de Ciencias del
Ecuador, May 29, 2020. Quito, Ecuador.
Bates, B. R. (2020). When a beer is flat and lifeless: Condemnatory eulogy and the
death of Watney’s Red Barrel. Paper to be presented to the Rhetoric and
Public Address Interest Group at the Eastern Communication Association.
Baltimore, MD. (Conference canceled) Top 4 Paper in Rhetoric and Public
Address.
Bates, B.R., & Stassen, H. (2020). Beers, bros, and Brett: Memes and the visual
ideograph of the <angry white man>. Paper to be presented to the Political
Communication Interest Group at the Eastern Communication Association.
Baltimore, MD. (Conference canceled) Top 3 Paper in Political
Communication.
Ji, Y., & Bates, B. R. (2020). Is an American story better? A comparison of the
effectiveness of domestic versus foreigner narratives in the context of Chinese
air pollution. Paper to be presented to the Intercultural Communication
Interest Group at the Eastern Communication Association. Baltimore, MD.
(Conference canceled) Top Paper in Intercultural Communication.
Stassen, H., & Bates, B. R. (2020). Renewing vows: A diachronic analysis of
<marriage> as ideograph. Paper to be presented to the Rhetoric and Public
Address Interest Group at the Eastern Communication Association. Baltimore,
MD. (Conference canceled)
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Bates, B. R., Sherwani, S., & Grijalva, M. J. (2019). Charitable giving in the context
of unfamiliar organizations: The effectiveness of construal level theory in
predicting donating intentions and antecedents. Paper presented to the Applied
Communication Interest Group at the National Communication Association,
Baltimore, MD.
Bates, B. R., Sharma, D., Baus, E. G., & Grijalva, M. J. (2019). En nuestra casa no
hay chinchorros: A youth-oriented, participatory approach to Chagas
prevention in Loja province, Ecuador. Paper presented to the 5th Biennial D.C.
Health Communication Conference: “International and Global Health
Communication Research.” Fairfax, VA.
Ji, Y., & Bates, B. R. (2019). To wear a facial mask or not: Predicting preventative
behaviors in the context of China’s air pollution. Paper presented to the Health
Providence, RI. Top 3 Paper in Health Communication.
Ji, Y. & Bates, B. R. (2019). Comparing two measures of cultural cringe. Paper
presented to the Theory & Methodology Interest Group at the Eastern
Communication Association. Providence, RI. Top 3 Paper in Theory &
Methodology.
Bates, B. R., Marvel, D. L., Nieto, C.P, & Grijalva, M. J. (2019). Defining health
from below: A participatory painting project in rural Ecuador. Paper presented
to the Health Communication Interest Group at the Eastern Communication
Association. Providence, RI.
Bates, B. R. (2018). Doctoring reports of the President’s health: A content analysis of
responses to Donald Trump’s physical of January 2018. Paper presented at the
Democracy and Disinformation in the Era of Trump conference at the Clinton
Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, IRELAND.
Sherwani, S., Marvel, D. L., Bates, B. R., & Grijalva, M. J. (2018). Driving their own
future: An asset-based community development approach to socioeconomic
upliftment of Chaquizhca, Ecuador. Paper presented to the International and
Intercultural Communication Interest Group at the 108th National
Communication Association Convention, Salt Lake City, UT.
Bates, B. R., Marvel, D. L., Nieto, C.P, & Grijalva, M. J. (2018). A community-
based definition of health: Listening to rural voice in Chaquizca, Ecuador.
Paper presented to the I Congreso Internacional de Salud Pública,
Desigualdades e Investigación, y el V Encuentro Internacional de
Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas y Medicina Tropical. [1st
International Congress for Public Health, Inequalities and Research and the 4th
International Conference on Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine],
Quito, ECUADOR.
Nieto, C. P., Grijalva, M.J., Grietens, K. P., & Bates, B. R. (2018). Systematic review
of communication in neglected tropical diseases eradication, elimination and
control programs: A call for action. Paper presented to the American Society
of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, New Orleans, LA.
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Bates, B. R. (2018). Three lessons from public health communication for reality
jamming. Framing talk presented to the Information Science and Technology
Reality Jamming #2: Socio-technological solutions workshop, Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, January 11-12, 2018, Berkeley, CA.
Bates, B. R., Bennett, B. C., Chen, D. Z., Couch, J., Davis, V. A… Toussaint, K. C.
(2017). “Doc in a box”: Reveal group report. Report presented to the Fifteenth
Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiatives Conference, Beyond
Boundaries: Exploring Intersections across Science, Engineering, and
Medicine, Irvine, CA.
Bates, B. R., Bonasera, S., Chen, D., Glazier, J., Morgan, L., Murrell, J… Rose, M.
(2017). “Making health care a living system”: Report from Seed Group 1C.
Report presented to the Fifteenth Annual National Academies Keck Futures
Initiatives Conference, Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Intersections across
Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Irvine, CA.
Bates, B. R. (2017). Agency, identification and the Affordable Care Act: A pentadic
cartography of the #GetCovered campaign. Paper presented at the Sixth
"Rhetoric and Society Conference of the Rhetoric Society of Europe.
Norwich, ENGLAND.
Bates, B. R. (2016). The Truth about Captain America: Partial challenges to the
celebration of medical/military experimentation. Paper presented at “Stages
and Pages,” the 7th International Comics & Medicine Conference, Dundee,
SCOTLAND.
Bates, B. R. (2016). Exploring sites in Bangkok: Addressing Cabbages and Condoms
through a walking methodology. Paper presented at Creative Industries in
Asia: Innovating within Constraints, Bangkok, THAILAND.
Bates, B. R. (2016). Making sanitation present in a community: A rhetorical
perspective on an Omani/Tanzanian intervention. Paper presented at the IV
Encuentro Internacional de Investigacion en Enfemedades Infecciosas y
Medicina Tropical [4th International Conference on Infectious Diseases and
Tropical Medicine], Quito, ECUADOR.
Bates, B. R. (2016). The Belmont Report and the digital age: Updating ethical
principles for mobile and wearable research. Paper presented to Ethics of
Information Sharing on Mobile Applications Workshop I: Fostering dialogue
to explore the ethics of sharing personal information on leisure and fitness
applications: Towards better informed consent, Ottawa, ON, CANADA.
Haruna, G., Sylla, L., & Bates, B. R. (2016). “I knew I’m very health prior to and
upon arrival here. However…”: Investigating the health concerns of African
students. Paper presented to the Health Communication Interest Group at the
Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Ji, Y., & Bates, B. R. (2016). “Better than bank robbery”: Yuezi centers and
neoliberal appeals to market birth tourism to pregnant Chinese women. Paper
presented to the Health Communication Interest Group at the Eastern
Communication Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
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Bates, B. R. (2015). Mapping international diplomacy onto domestic health: A

Pentadic cartography of Kathleen Sibelius’s Global Health Strategy. . Paper
presented to the Kenneth Burke Society at the 101st National Communication
Association Annual Convention, Las Vegas, NV.
Bates, B. R. (2015). Strategies, tactics, and the promotion of social health: An
analysis of Singapore’s ‘Thoughtful Me’ campaign. Paper presented to the
Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Bates, B. R. (2015). From mythology to zythology: Using a capstone course to
transform student understandings of beer. Paper presented as part of the
Presidential Series at the Central States Communication Association Annual
Meeting, Madison, WI.
Lawrence, W. Y., & Bates, B. R. (2014). Mommy groups as sites for deliberation in
everyday speech: Metaphor clusters of competition, cooperation, and
connection. Paper presented to the Group Communication division at the 100th
National Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2014). To accommodate, or not to accommodate:
Exploring patient satisfaction with doctors’ accommodative behaviors during
the clinical encounter. Paper presented to the Health Communication division
at the 100th National Communication Association Annual Convention,
Chicago, IL.
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2014). Do patients who fear their physicians tend to be
less satisfied with the clinical encounter? Paper presented to the Twelfth
International Conference on Communication, Medicine & Ethics. Lugano,
SWITZERLAND.
Bates, B. R.(2014). Measuring states disgust: Initial evidence for the reliability and
validity of an English-language translation of the Ekel-State-Fragebogen.
Paper presented to the Theory and Methodology interest group at the Eastern
Communication Association Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2014). Patients’ fear of physicians and perceptions of
physicians’ cultural competence in health care interactions. Paper presented to
the Health Communication interest group at the Eastern Communication
Association Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.
Quinlan, M. M., & Bates, B. R. (2013). Unsmoothing the cyborg: Technology and
the Body in Integrated Dance. Paper presented to the Disability Studies
Caucus at the 99th National Communication Association Annual Convention,
Washington, DC.
Bates, B. R. (2013). Mapping US humanitarian aid: A pentadic cartography of
Michael Leavitt’s health diplomacy. Paper presented to the Kenneth Burke
Society and the 99th National Communication Association Annual
Convention, Washington, DC. Top 4 Paper in the Kenneth Burke Society.
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services in Appalachian Ohio. Paper presented to the Health Communication
interest group at the International Communication Association Annual
Meeting, London, ENGLAND.
Bates, B. R., Lawrence, W. Y., & Cervenka, M. (2013). Henry J. Lewis’s visual
rhetoric in post-Reconstruction editorial cartoons: Archives of the
Indianapolis Freeman. Paper presented to the Sino-US Bilateral Conference
on Journalism and Communication: Communication History Research in the
Age of Globalization. Hangzhou, CHINA.
Bates, B. R. (2013). Care of the self and regulation of childhood obesity: A
Foucauldian reading of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move address. Paper
presented to the Rhetoric and Public Address interest group at the Eastern
Communication Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Bates, B. R. (2013). Assessing cues to action for early childhood developmental
screening in Appalachia: Implications for promoting early childhood wellness.
Paper presented to the Applied Communication interest group at the Eastern
Vik, T., & Bates, B. R. (2013). Disclosure without boundaries: Testing
Communication Privacy Management Theory through counterfactual analysis.
Paper presented to the Communication Theory interest group at the Central
States Communication Association convention, Kansas City, MO.
services in Appalachian Ohio. Paper under consideration presented to the
Health Communication interest group at the International Communication
Association Annual Meeting, London, ENGLAND.
Bates, B. R., & Peirce, L. M. (2012). The impacts of character identification on
attainment of HIV prevention goals in an entertainment education program in
Botswana. Paper presented to the Health Communication interest group at the
Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA. Top
Three Paper in Health Communication.
Heiss, S. N., & Bates, B. R. (2012). Shifts in risk rhetoric: The Corn Refiner
Association’s opportunistic representation of high fructose corn syrup. Paper
presented to the Rhetoric and Public Address interest group at the Eastern
Communication Association Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA.
Bates, B. R., & Edwards, J. A. (2012). An attempt to heal rifts in medicine:
Collective apology and the American Medical Association’s attempts at
reconciliation with African-American community. Paper presented to “The
Ritual of Public Apology,” Universitair Centrum Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen,
Antwerp, BELGIUM.
Meyer, K. R., Titsworth, B. S., Graham, E., Bates, B. R., & Brooks, G. (2011).
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Student classroom engagement: Developing a scale to measure student voice.

Paper presented to the Instructional Development Division at the 97th National
Communication Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.
Quinlan, M. M., Bates, B. R., & Angel, M. E. (2011). ‘What can I do to help?’:
University students with learning disabilities’ perceptions of instructors’
performances of classroom accommodations. Paper presented to the Disability
Issues Caucus at the 97th National Communication Association Annual
Convention, New Orleans, LA. Top Paper in Disability Issues.
Aubuchon, S., Nickelson, J., Bates, B. R. (2011). Validation and reliability of an
instrument using HBM to assess oral health knowledge, beliefs, and
behaviors. Paper presented to the 2011 International Conference on
Communication in Healthcare, Chicago, IL.
Peirce, L. M., & Bates, B., R. (2011). The impacts of an entertainment-education
radio serial drama in Botswana on outcomes related to HIV prevention goals
in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Paper presented to the
Association Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA.
Gerbensky-Kerber, A., & Bates, B. R. (2011). Freedom from fat is freedom to fight:
A Foucauldian reading of Mission: Readiness’ Too fat to fight report. Paper
presented to the Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group at the Eastern
Communication Association Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA. Top Paper in
Rhetoric and Public Address.
Bates, B. R. (2011). Recovering Foucault’s physiological approach to parrhesia: A
return to truth-telling as a spoken and embodied activity. Paper presented to
the Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group at the Eastern Communication
Association Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA. Top Two Paper in Rhetoric
and Public Address.
Greiner, K., & Bates, B. R. (2011). A rhetoric of division: An analysis of a “Not
Fabulous” approach to HIV prevention. Paper presented to the Health
Communication Interest Group at the Eastern Communication Association
Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA.
Quinlan, M., & Bates, B. R. (2010). “So then they stopped waiting”: Performance of
strategies and tactics in the 1985 bus accessibility protests. Paper presented to
the Caucus on Disability Issues at the National Communication Association
96th Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Bates, B. R., & Ahmed, R. (2010). News coverage of H1N1: Avoiding panic in
pandemic flu vaccination campaign or fear mongering in media? Paper
presented to the Health Communication Campaigns: Issues and Strategies in
Asia, Australia and Southeast Asia pre-conference of the International
Communication Association annual conference, Singapore, SINGAPORE
Heiss, S. N., & Bates, B. R. (2010). Where’s the joy in cooking?: Representations of
taste, tradition, and science in Joy of Cooking. Paper presented to the Health
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Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Norander, S., Mazer, J. P., & Bates, B. R. (2009). “D.O. or Die”: Identity
Negotiation among Osteopathic Medical Students. Paper presented to the
Health Communication Division at the National Communication Association
95th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Bates, B. R. (2009). Can there be a doctor in the House (or Senate)? Legislative
professionalism, boundary work and the case of Senator Tom Coburn, MD.
Paper presented to the Public Address Division at the National
Communication Association 95th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Bates, B. R., & West, D. (2009) Bad moon rising: The future of academic debate as a
civil education device in the YouTube era. Paper presented to the National
Forensics Association at the National Communication Association 95th Annual
Convention, Chicago, IL.
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2009). Assessing the relationship between patients’
ethnocentric views and patients’ perceptions of physicians’ cultural
competence in health care interactions. Paper presented at “Intercultural
communication and collaboration within and across sociolinguistic
environments,” the 15th International Association for Intercultural
Communication Studies Meeting, Kumamoto, JAPAN.
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2009). Communicating health in intercultural, cross-
cultural, and multicultural contexts: A contextual understanding of cultural
competence in provider-patient communication. Paper presented at
“Intercultural communication and collaboration within and across
sociolinguistic environments,” the 15th International Association for
Intercultural Communication Studies Meeting, Kumamoto, JAPAN.
Pillay, Y., Bates, B., Casebolt, M., Gwemende, T., Peirce, M., & Burstyn, E. (2009).
HIV/AIDS in Africa education abroad program: Field placement experience
with NGOs. Paper and discussion presented at “Providing culturally
competent counseling services in trauma-affected communities,” An
International Multicultural Counseling Conference sponsored by the
Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development and the
Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Gaborone,
BOTSWANA.
Bates, B. R. On the scholarship of Raymie McKerrow. (2009). Reflection on
Scholarship for the Centennial Scholars Series, Centennial Scholars in
Rhetoric and Public Address Panel, 100th Anniversary Committee, at the
Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Bates, B. R., Mazer, J. P., Ledbetter, A. M., & Norander, S. (2009). Perceptions of
the osteopathic difference: An examination of medical student beliefs
surrounding the DO degree designation change debate. Paper presented to the
Health Communication interest group at the Eastern Communication
Wojno, A., Romoser, M., Hunter, A., Balkin, A., Grant, C., Tait, E., Dohm, M.,
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O’Donnell, J., Sikes, R., Wojno, A., Costales, J., Leistner, C., Lopez, V.,
Bates, B., Romoser, W. (2008). Perceptions regarding drinking water sources,
availability & safety and mosquitoes & mosquito-borne disease in rural
Ecuadorian communities: An interview-based survey. American Society of
Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Quick, B. L., Bates, B. R., & Wang, J. (2008). An evaluation of gain- and loss-frame
messages in deterring binge drinking on college campuses: A test of the
mediating and moderating role of psychological reactance. Paper presented to
the Health Communication Division at the National Communication
Association 94th Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. Top Three Paper in
Health Communication.
Ahmed, R., Bates, B. R., & Romina, S. M. (2008). Assessing the influence of
patients’ perceptions of physicians' cultural competence on patient satisfaction
in an Appalachian Ohio context. Paper presented to the Health
Communication Division at the National Communication Association 94th
Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.
Quinlan, M. M., & Bates, B. R. (2008). Bionic Woman (2007): Women, individuals
with disabilities, and cyborgs. Paper presented to the Mass Communication
Division at the National Communication Association 94th Annual Convention,
San Diego, CA.
Stassen, H., & Bates, B. (2008). (Re)constructing <marriage>: Exploring marriage as
an ideograph. Paper presented at to the 31st Organization for the Study of
Communication, Language, and Gender, Nashville, TN.
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2008). Development and validation of scales to assess
patients’ perception of physicians’ cultural competence in health care
interactions. Paper presented to the Health Communication Division at the
International Communication Association. Toronto, ON, CANADA.
Bates, B. R., Quick, B. L., & Kloss, A.A. (2008). Antecedents of intention to help
mitigate wildfire: Implications for campaigns promoting wildfire mitigation to
the general public in the wildland-urban interface. Paper presented to the
Applied Communication interest group at the Eastern Communication
Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. Top Paper in Applied
Communication.
Bates, B. R. (2007). Defending the dead: Image repair strategies on behalf of James
V. Neel. Paper presented to the Rhetoric and Public Address interest group at
the National Communication Association 93rd Annual Convention, Chicago,
IL.
Quinlan, M., & Bates, B. R. (2007). Are our president learning?: Discourses of
disability in the spoken words of George W. Bush. Paper presented to the
Disability Issues Caucus at the National Communication Association 93rd
Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Quick, B. L., Bates, B. R., & Quinlan, M. (2007). Rights as a rhetorical resource: An
argument in favor of promoting clean indoor air policies employing rights and
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risk appeals. Paper presented to the Mass Communication interest group at the
National Communication Association 93rd Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Romoser, M., O’Donnell, J., Taylor, C., Magee, M., Klingler, C., Lopes, B., Bates,
B., James, A., Sempertegui, C., Lascano, M., Grijalva, M. J., & Romoser, W.
S. (2007). An interview-based survey of perceptions about water sources,
availability, use, and safety in six rural Ecuadorian communities. American
Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Cunningham, J., Balkin, A., Bear, J., Wilson, C., Sempertegui, C., Lascanao, M.,
Leistner, C., Tome, C., Chan, J., Nelson, C. L., Rauckis, J., Bates, B.,
Grijalva, M. J., & Romoser, W. S. (2007). An assessment of drinking water
contamination and container-breeding mosquito habits in six rural Ecuadorian
communities. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual
Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Ahmed, R., & Bates, B. R. (2007). Cultural competence and gendered experiences of
health care. Paper presented to the International Sociological Association:
Research Committee on Family Studies, Health in Families, Healthy Families:
Gendered Explorations, Toronto, ON, CANADA.
Bates, B. R. (2007). Organizational identification and politicizing professional
associations: A case study of Senator Bill Frist, M.D.’s 1998 Hayes Martin
Memorial Lecture to the American College of Surgeons. Paper presented to
the Rhetoric and Public Address interest group at the Eastern Communication
Quick, B. L., Bates, B. R., & Romina, S. M. (2007). Rights vs. risks: Are clean
indoor air advocates employing the best message strategy? Paper presented to
the Health Communication interest group at the Eastern Communication
Association, Providence, RI.
Bates, B. R., & Quick, B. L. Rights as a rhetorical resource: An argument in favor of
promoting clean indoor air through the use of anger appeals. Paper presented
to the Communication Law and Policy interest group at the International
Communication Association, San Francisco, CA.
Quick, B. L, Bates, B. R., & Romina, S. M. (2007). Examining the role of attitudes
and subjective norms in association with voter intention to support clean
indoor air policies: Implications for campaigns promoting clean indoor air.
Paper presented to the Health Communication interest group at the Central
States Communication Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. Top
Paper in Health Communication.
Bates, B. R. (2006). Substituting race for science: BiDil and the insufficient match
between social groups and genotypes. Paper presented to the American
Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology at the National
Communication Association 92nd Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX.
Bates, B. R., Lawrence, W. Y, & Cervenka, M. (2006). Redrawing Afrocentrism:
Visual nommo in Ben H. Johnson’s editorial cartoons. Paper presented to the
Visual Communication Division at the National Communication Association
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92nd Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX. Top 3 Paper in Visual

Communication.
Bates, B.R., & Ahmed, R. (2006). Disaster pornography: Hurricanes, voyeurism, and
the home television viewer. Paper presented to the Mass Communication
Division at the National Communication Association 92nd Annual Convention,
San Antonio, TX.
Bates, B. R., & Condit, C. M. (2006). Rhetorical methods in applied communication
research. Paper presented to the Applied Communication division at the
Southern States Communication Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX.
Bates, B. R., Romina, S., Ahmed, R., & Hopson, D. (2006). The effect of source
credibility on consumers’ perceptions of the quality of health information on
the internet. Paper presented to the Health Communication division at the
Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Top
3 Paper in Health Communication.
Bates, B. R., Lawrence, W. Y., & Cervenka, M. (2006). Politics drawn in black and
white: Henry J. Lews’s visual rhetoric in post-Reconstruction editorial
cartoons. Paper presented to the Rhetoric and Public Address division at the
Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Top
Paper in Rhetoric and Public Address.
Bates, B. R., Ahmed, R., Blankson, H., Kim, D.-K., Mumba, M., & Young, S.
(2005). Refining the genetic discrimination instrument: the influence of
national culture on attitudes linked to genetic discrimination. Paper presented
to the Third Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiatives Conference:
The Genomic Revolution: Implications for Treatment and Control of
Infectious Diseases, Irvine, CA.
Dubriwny, T. N., & Bates, B. R. (2005). Theorizing radical democracy through the
negative: Two lessons from Lenina Huxley. Manuscript presented to the
Association for the Study of Psychoanalysis in Communication at the National
Communication Association 91st Annual Convention, Boston, MA.
Bates, B. R. (2005). Care of the self and American physicians’ place in the “war on
terror”: A Foucauldian reading of Senator Bill Frist, M.D. Manuscript
presented to the Public Address division at the National Communication
Association 91st Annual Convention, Boston, MA.
Bates, B. R. (2005). Care of the self and patient participation in genetics discourse: a
Foucauldian reading of the Surgeon General’s “My Family Health Portrait”
program. Manuscript presented to the Health Communication division at the
National Communication Association 91st Annual Convention, Boston, MA.
Harter, L. M., Bates, B. R., & Carmack, H. (2005). Narrative constructions of health
care issues and policies: The case of President Clinton’s apology-by-proxy for
the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. Manuscript presented to the Applied
Communication division at the National Communication 91st Association
Annual Convention, Boston, MA.
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Bates, B. R. (2005). Deliberation requires argument, and that’s a good thing. Invited
presentation to GE3LS – Democracy, Ethics and Genomics: Consultation,
Deliberation & Modelling, sponsored by Genome Canada, the W. Maurice
Young Centre for Applied Ethics, and the University of British Columbia -
Faculty of Graduate Studies, Vancouver, BC, CANADA.
Bates, B. R. (2005). “The laws of nature require the obliteration of the unfit”:
Eugenical logics in German and American sterilization law. Manuscript
presented to the Voices of Diversity interest group at the Eastern
Ahmed, R. & Bates, B. R. (2005). Young adults’ understanding of gender specific
medicine. Manuscript presented to the Health Communication division at the
Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Bates, B. R. (2004). Public culture and public understanding of genetics: how the lay
public uses cultural resources to interpret genetic science. Paper presented to
the Social Issues Committee of the American Society of Human Genetics
Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, CANADA.
Bates, B. R. & Harris, T. M. (2004). The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis and
public perceptions of biomedical research: a focus group study. Paper
presented to the African American Communication and Culture interest group
at the 90th National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL.
Bates, B. R. (2004). Paging Doctor Jeremiah: Senator Bill Frist and the recovery of
physicians’ social ethos. Paper presented to the Public Address division at the
90th National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL.
Bates, B. R. (2004). When monks become ministers: transformations of the priestly
voice in presidential addresses to the American Society of Human Genetics,
1993-2003. Paper presented to the American Association for the Rhetoric of
Science and Technology at the 90th National Communication Association
Bates, B. R. (2004). Race, inversive performance, and public pedagogy in White
Man’s Burden. Paper presented to the Intercultural Communication interest
group at the Central States Communication Association Annual Convention,
Cleveland, OH.
Bates, B. R. (2004). Genetics, public culture, and scientific literacy: A focus group
study of public understanding of genetics. Paper presented to the Health
Communication interest group at the Central States Communication
Association Annual Convention, Cleveland, OH.
Condit, C., Parrott, R., Harris, T., Templeton, A., Dubriwny, T., Lynch, J., Bates, B.,
Reeder, A., & Acosta-Alzura, C. (2004).Communication barriers make
infeasible prescribing and diagnosing based on race as a proxy for genes
(Genetic medicine will be more efficacious when based on the individual): A
query by the Health and Heritage Team. Paper presented at the National
Institutes of Health Roundtable on Race, Bethesda, MD.
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Bates, B. R., Lynch, J. A., Bevan, J. L., & Condit, C. M. (2004). Warranted concerns,
warranted outlooks: A focus group study of public opinion about genetics
research. Paper presented to the Health Communication interest group at the
Western States Communication Association Annual Convention,
Albuquerque, NM. Top 3 Paper in Health Communication.
Samp, J., Harris, T. M., Bates, B. R., & Edwards, K. (2003).A comparison of student
attitudes towards race relations. Paper presented to the African American
Communication and Culture division at the 89th National Communication
Association Convention, Miami Beach, FL.
Bates, B. R. (2003).Announcements of candidacy as a genre. Paper presented to the
Political Communication interest group at the 89th National Communication
Association Convention, Miami Beach, FL.
Bates, B. R., Poirot, K., Harris, T. M., Achter, P. J., & Condit, C. M. (2003).Direct-
to-consumer marketing of race-based pharmacogenomics: A focus group
study of public understandings of applied genomic medication. Paper
presented to the Health Communication interest group at the Eastern
Communication Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C. Top 5
Paper in Health Communication.
Bates, B. R. & Panetta, E. M. (2002). Learning or perception? An analysis of the
2000 presidential debates. Paper presented to the Political Communication
interest group at the 88th National Communication Association Convention,
New Orleans, LA. Top 5 Paper in Political Communication.
Bates, B. R., Templeton, A., Achter, P. J., Harris, T. M., & Condit, C. M. (2002).
What does "a gene for heart disease" mean? A focus group study of public
understandings of genetic risk factors. Paper presented to the Genetics
Services and Tests, Genetic Screening, and Public Policy section at the
American Society of Human Genetics 52nd Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Bates, B. R. (2002). Audiences, metaphors, and the Persian Gulf War. Paper
presented to the Rhetoric and Public Address interest group at the Southern
States Communication Association Conference at Winston-Salem, NC. Owen
J. Peterson Award winner, Bostrum Award finalist.
Bates, B. R. (2002). On presidential persuasion to violence: Bill Clinton's use of
analogy in the Kosovo intervention. Paper presented to the Political
Communication interest group at the Southern States Communication
Association Conference, Winston-Salem, NC. Bostrum Award finalist.
Bates, B. R. & Panetta, E. M. (2001). The presidential debates and the perception of
learning: Some 2000 data. Paper presented to the Political Communication
interest group at the 87th National Communication Association Convention,
Atlanta, GA.
Bates, B. R. (2001). A rhetoric of silence: The silence and power of the Prophet
Mohammed in Moustapha Akkad's The Message. Manuscript presented to the
Religious Communication Association at the 87th National Communication
Association Convention, Atlanta, GA.
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Bates, B. R. (2001). To read a "redskin" (or an "Indian" or a "warrior"): Collapsing

polysemy to monosemy in the Maine high school mascot controversy. Paper
presented to the Voices of Diversity, Theory & Methodology, and Nonverbal
Communication interest groups of the Eastern Communication Association
Annual Convention, Portland, ME, 2001.
Bates, B. R. (2001). Not speaking for The Greatest Generation: Brokaw, Bakthin,
Bourdieu and the limiting discourse of television news. Paper presented to the
Mass Communication interest group of the Eastern Communication
Association Annual Convention, Portland, ME, 2001. Top 4 Paper in Mass
Communication.
Bates, B. R. (2000). The religious discourse of constitutions: A Burkeian discussion
of the United States, Soviet, and Iranian constitutions. Manuscript presented
to the Religious Communication Association at the 86th National
Communication Association Convention, Seattle, WA, November 9-12.
Bates, B. R. (2000). Bourdieu & De Certeau: Sociological possibilities in rhetorical
theory. Paper presented to the Rhetoric Society of America Ninth Biennial
Conference, Washington, DC, May 25-28.
Bates, B. R. (2000). Rethinking Communication Accommodation Theory:
Questioning the appropriateness of similarity attraction as the cause of
communicative convergence. Manuscript presented to the Communication
Theory Interest Group of the Eastern Communication Association Annual
Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, April 20-23, 2000.
Bates, B. R. (2000). Constructing a new hero myth: Mythology, novelization, and
perennial philosophy in Frank Herbert's Dune. Manuscript presented to the
Mass Communication Interest Group of the Eastern Communication
Association Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, April 20-23, 2000.
Bates, B. R. (2000). Coconstitutive rhetoric: The case of the 1978/9 Iranian
Revolution. Manuscript presented to the Bostrum Awards Panel, Southern
States Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, March 29-
April 3, 2000. Bostrum Award finalist.
Bates, B. R. (2000). Filming heroes for the (post)modern condition: Recasting
Mythology in Frank Herbert's/David Lynch's Dune. Manuscript presented to
the Popular Communication Interest Group of the Southern States
Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA, March 29-April
3, 2000. Top Paper in Popular Communication.
Bates, B. R. (2000). Fractured men in fractured times: A mythopoetic discussion of
(post)heroic masculinity in Farscape. Manuscript presented to the Gender
Studies Interest Group of the Southern States Communication Association
Convention, New Orleans, LA March 29-April 3, 2000. Top Paper in
Gender Studies.
Bates, B. R. (1999). A call for the novelization of debate: Bakhtin and the question of
authoritative evidence. Paper presented to the Cross-Examination Debate
Association at the National Communication Association 85th Annual
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Convention, Chicago, IL, November 4-7.

Bates, B. R. (1999). Morelogy: Negotiating multilogues between divergent
justifications for collective action. Paper presented at the Carolinas
Communication Association Meeting, Columbia, SC, October 15-16. Mary
E. Jarrard Award finalist.
Bates, B. R. (1999). Green Islam: Allah's Environmentalists. Paper presented to the
Political Communication Interest Group at the Eastern Communication
Association Annual Convention, Charleston, WV, April 29-May 2.
Bates, B. R. (1999). Pornographic Communication. Paper presented to the Gender
Studies Interest Group at the Southern States Communication Association-
Central States Communication Association Joint Convention, Saint Louis,
MO, April 7-11.
Bates, B. R. (1998). Counter-inherent argumentation: A new standard for
counterplans. Paper presented to the Cross-Examination Debate Association at
the National Communication Association 84th Annual Convention, New York,
NY, November 20-24.
Panel Chair, Discussant, and Respondent Roles at Learned Societies
Bates, B. R. (2023). Rhetoric in Popular Culture: Mourning, Memory Morality, and
Myths. Participated as chair and discussant for the Rhetoric and Public
Address Interest Group at the Eastern Communication Association Annual
Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Bates, B. R. (2022). Invoking <freedom>: Negative and positive freedom as
rhetorical strategies in the pandemic. Participated as chair and discussant for
the Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group at the Eastern Communication
Bates, B.R. (2020). Innovating Through Association Service: A Conversation with
Past and Present ECA Leaders. Scheduled to participate as “expert” for the
Innovations in Service and Leadership sessions at the Eastern Communication
Association.” Baltimore, MD. (Conference canceled)
Bates, B.R. (2020). Strategies for Starting the Conversation about Health Concerns.
Scheduled to participate as chair and respondent for the Health
Baltimore, MD. (Conference canceled)
Bates, B. R. (2019). Creating our future spotlight panel: Rhetorical approaches to
health communication. Participated as discussant for the Health
Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.
Bates, B. R. (2019). Teaching fellows panel: Adapting time-honored pedagogy to
future needs. Participated as discussant for the ECA Teaching Fellows at the
Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.
Bates, B. R. (2019). Exploring a path to service: Conversation with current and past
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ECA leaders. Participated as discussant for the Vice President’s Panels at the
Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.
Bates, B. R. (2017). Rhetorics of State. Participated as panel chair at the Sixth
"Rhetoric and Society Conference of the Rhetoric Society of Europe.
Norwich, ENGLAND.
Bates, B. R. (2016). Improving health information delivery: Factors that predict the
comprehension and effectiveness of health messages. Participated as
respondent for the Health Communication Interest Group at the Eastern
Bates, B. R. (2016). Top four competitive papers in health communication.
Participated as chair for the Health Communication Interest Group at the
Bates, B. R. (2016). Top papers in rhetoric and public address. Participated as
respondent for the Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group at the Eastern
Bates, B. R. (2015). Muses, TV shows, and/or brilliance: The real story behind how
scholars go from no ideas to strong scholarly plans. Participated as panelist
for the First Vice President and the Undergraduate Scholars Conference at the
Bates, B. R. (2015). Top four competitive papers in health communication.
Participated as respondent for the Health Communication Interest Group at the
respondent for the Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group at the Eastern
Communication Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Bates, B. R. (2014). Rhetorical theory perspectives on health communication:
Framing, stigma, and rhetorical agency. Participated as panelist for the
Rhetorical and Communication Theory division at the 100th National
Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Bates, B. R. (2014). Deliberation in everyday life. Participated as panelist for the
Group Communication division at the 100th National Communication
Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.
Bates, B. R. (2013). It never stops! Newest ECA Research Fellows discuss their
recent research directions. Panelist for the Spotlight on Scholarship Series at
the Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.
Bates, B. R. (2014). The intersection of policy and rhetoric: Education, marriage,
health, & environmental reform. Participated as respondent for the Rhetoric
and Public Address interest group at the Eastern Communication Association
Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.
Bates, B. R. (2014). Reform. Participated as respondent for the Rhetoric and Public
Address interest group at the Eastern Communication Association Annual
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Meeting, Providence, RI.

Bates, B. R. (2014). Intervening and engaging: Technology and health
communication. Participated as respondent for Health Communication interest
group at the Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting,
Providence, RI.
Bates, B. R. (2013). An emerging perspective in health communication: Rhetorical
studies of health, science, and medicine. Participated as panelist at the Paper
presented to the Health Communication, Public Address and Rhetorical and
Communication Theory divisions at the National Communication Association
99th Annual Convention, Washington, DC.
Bates, B. R. (2012). Thai media. Participated as moderator at the 2012 Meeting of the
Council on Thai Studies, Athens, OH.
Bates, B. R. (2012). Top student papers in health communication. Participated as
respondent at the Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting,
Cambridge, MA.
Bates, B. R. (2012). Serving a menu for social change: A roundtable on Cabbages
and Condoms Restaurant as a vehicle for communicating HIV awareness and
prevention. Participated as chair at the Eastern Communication Association
Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA.
Bates, B. R. (2012). Narrative transitions: Forming and performing stories and
selves. Participated as respondent at the Eastern Communication Association
Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA.
Bates, B. R. (2012). Viewing transitions: Women, religion, distance and voice.
Participated as chair at the Eastern Communication Association Annual
Meeting, Cambridge, MA.
Bates, B. R. (2011). Rhetorical explorations of technology, stasis, “change” and
tropes: Works in progress. Participated as respondent at the Eastern
Communication Association Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA.
Bates, B. R. (2011). Top competitive papers in health communication. Participated as
Arlington, VA.
Bates, B. R. (2010). Top papers in health communication. Participated as chair at the
Bates, B. R. (2009). Predicting health behaviors: Dental care, blood donation and
substance use. Participated as respondent at the Eastern Communication
Bates, B. R. (2009). Political and cultural rhetoric: Contributed papers in rhetoric
and public address. Participated as respondent at the Eastern Communication
Bates, B. R. (2008). Health messages in the media. Substituted for Brian L. Quick as
panel chair at the National Communication Association 94th Annual
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Convention, San Diego, CA.

Bates, B. R. (2008). Top papers in rhetoric and public address. Participated as chair
at the Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Bates, B. R. (2007). The role of family in health communication. Participated as chair
and respondent at the National Communication Association 93rd Annual
Bates, B. R. (2007). Improving physician-patient communication: Research on
patient self-disclosure, physician communication compliance and physician
sociality. Participated as respondent at the Eastern Communication
Providence, RI.
Bates, B. R. (2006). Transforming the form of diversity by engaging in multicultural
discourses: “Voices” from international graduate students. Participated as
panel chair at the Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, PA.
Bates, B. R. (2006). Hurricane Katrina: Race and the politics of health, Rhetoric and
Public Address Division. Participated as respondent at the Eastern
Communication Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Bates, B. R. (2006). Presidential rhetoric from the Civil War to the war on terror:
Contributed papers in rhetoric & public address. Rhetoric and Public Address
Division. Participated as panel chair at the Eastern Communication
Bates, B. R. (2005). Representations of race in media from post-Reconstruction to
MTV: Potent images and their impact on the health of the discipline, Visual
Communication Division. Discussant at the National Communication
Association 91st Annual Convention, Boston, MA.
Bates, B. R. (2004). Looking back to the rhetorical tradition to prepare future
communicators, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Series. Discussant at
the National Communication Association 90th Annual Convention, Chicago,
IL.
Public Media Consultation, Commentary & Analysis
Newspapers and Wire Services
Advertising Age Boston Herald
Associated Press Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum (OH)
Athens Messenger Chillicothe Gazette (OH)
Bloomberg Cincinnati Enquirer
Boston Globe Clarin (Argentina)
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Coshocton Tribune (OH) News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

Courier-Post (Cherry Hill, NJ) News Herald (Port Clinton, OH)
Cox Newspapers, Washington News Journal (Mansfield OH),
Bureau News Network of Central Ohio
The Daily Beast News-Messenger (Fremont, OH)
Daily Herald (Chicago) New York Sun
Daily News Journal Newsweek
(Murfreesboro, TN)
Ohio University Post
Dallas Morning News
Perspectives: Research,
Dayton Daily News Scholarship, and Creative
Eagle-Gazette (Lancaster OH) Activity at Ohio University
El Español (Spain) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Gannett News Service PolitiFact
Guardian (London, UK) Poughkeepsie Journal (NY).
Hearst Newspapers Pravda (Russia)
Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, San Diego Union-Tribune
WV) San Francisco Chronicle
International Business Times The Hill
Istoé Independente (Brazil) TheStreet.com
Journal-News (Hamilton, OH) Times Recorder (Zanesville, OH)
Journal News (Westchester, NY) Think Progress
Marion Star (OH) Time
Media Network of Central Ohio USA Today
Metro Networks/Metro Source US News & World Report
Morning Consult Vox.com
Newark Advocate (OH)
Radio and Television
All Things Considered, National Clear Channel Communications
Public Radio CNN
All Sides with Ann Fisher, The Jim Bohannon Show,
National Public Radio / WOSU WFED/Dial Global (Washington,
Athens MidDay, WOUB-TV2 DC)
(Athens, OH) Newsdepth, WOUB-TV (Athens,
BBC OH)
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NewsWatch, WOUB-TV WKSU Radio (Akron/Kent, OH)

(Athens, OH) WKYC-TV (Cleveland, OH)
Ohio News Network-Radio WOSU-AM (Columbus, OH)
The Sound of Ideas, WCPN / WSNY Radio (Columbus, OH)
NPR (Cleveland, OH)
WSYX-TV (Columbus, OH)
Radio-TV Hong Kong
WTAP-TV (Parkersburg, WV)
WCOL Radio (Columbus, OH)
WTTE-TV (Columbus, Ohio)
WCPO Radio (Cincinnati, OH)
WTVN News Radio 610
WHBC Radio (Canton, OH) (Columbus, OH)
WIBC Radio (Indianapolis, IN)
Service
Federal Service
 Working Group Member, Digital Inoculation at Scale (DIAS) – Full Series (I-III):
Social Cyber Attack Vectors, Information Science and Technology, Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, 2020-2021.
 Working Group Member, Cognitive Defense (CogD): Designing for Defense –
Full Series (I-III), Information Science and Technology, Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, 2019-2020.
 Working Group Member, Reality Jamming: Socio-Technological Solutions –
Series II and III, Information Science and Technology, Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, 2018-2019.
 Member, SEIR Conflict Committee, Center for Scientific Review Special
Emphasis Panel, Ethical Issues in Research on HIV/AIDS and its Comorbidities,
National Institutes of Health, 2014/10 SEIR, 2014
 Reviewer, Science, Technology, and Society Program, National Science
Foundation, 2013
 Member, SEIR Conflict Committee, Center for Scientific Review Special
Emphasis Panel, Societal and Ethical Issues in Research, National Institutes of
Health, 2012/10 SEIR, 2012
 Member, ELS Conflict Committee, Center for Scientific Review Special
Emphasis Panel (Ethical, Legal, & Social Implications), Center for Scientific
Review, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of
Health, ZRG1 ELS (02), 2007-2008
Professional Service
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 President, Eastern Communication Association (Vice President Select Elect,

2014-2015, First Vice President Elect, 2015-2016; First Vice President, 2016-
2017; President, 2017-2018)
 Administrative Council, Southern States Communication Association, 2020-2024
 Publications Committee, Southern States Communication Association, 2020-2024
 Chair, Francine Merritt Award Committee, Southern States Communication
Association, 2020-2024
 Doctoral Education Committee, National Communication Association, 2016-2018
 Publications Committee, Eastern Communication Association, 2013-2015; 2016-
2019
 Finance Committee, Eastern Communication Association, 2011-2015; 2016-2019
 Executive Council, Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group Representative,
Eastern Communication Association, 2011-2013, 2023-2025
 Committee of Scholars, Eastern Communication Association, 2011-2012
 Member, Steering Committee, 40th Annual Council on Thai Studies Conference,
2011-2012
 “Wandering Scholar” (Poster Session Judge), National Communication
Association, 2010
 Nominating Committee, Eastern Communication Association, 2010
 Poster Session Judge, Eastern Communication Association, 2010
 Associate Convention Planner and Short Course Coordinator, Eastern
Communication Association, 2009-2010
 Chair, Health Communication Division, Eastern Communication Association,
2009-2010
 “Wandering Scholar” (Poster Session Judge), National Communication
Association, 2009
 Publications Committee, Eastern Communication Association, 2008-2009
 Vice-Chair, Health Communication Division, Eastern Communication
 Vice-Chair Elect, Health Communication Division, Eastern Communication
 Chair, Rhetoric and Public Address Division, Eastern Communication
 Executive Council, Health Communication Interest Group Representative,
Eastern Communication Association, 2006-2008
 Vice-Chair, Rhetoric and Public Address Division, Eastern Communication
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 Vice-Chair Elect, Rhetoric and Public Address Division, Eastern Communication
 Web Coordinator, Heath Communication Special Interest Group, Central States
Communication Association, 2004-2006.
 Assistant Conference Coordinator, “Discourses of Violence, Discourses of
Community” – Eighth Biennial Public Address Conference, 2002
 External promotion and tenure reviewer
1. University of Memphis
2. Miami University
3. University of Louisville
4. Georgia State University
5. Cazenovia College
6. University of Cincinnati
7. University of Colorado at Boulder
8. Rochester Institute of Technology
9. La Salle University
10. High Point University
11. State University of New York, University at Albany
Editorial Service
 Editor-in-Chief, Southern Journal of Communication, 2020-2023.
 Editor-in-Chief, Communication Quarterly, 2012-2015.
 Editorial Board Service
1. Health Communication, Teresa Thompson 2007-present
2. Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2021-present
3. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 2012-present.
4. Communication Quarterly, 2008-2012; 2015-present.
5. Vestnik of the Russian Communication Association, 2007-2018
6. Forum Komunikasi (Board of Advisors), (Malaysia), 2019-present
7. Ohio Communication Journal, 2005-present
8. Texas State Speech Journal, 2021-
9. Communication Yearbook, 2007-2009.
10. Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication
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Research, 2003-2014
11. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2003-2004.
 Guest Reviewer/Manuscript Referee Service
1. Journals in Health Communication: Public Understanding of Science,
Social Science & Medicine, Health Communication, Journal of Health
Communication: International Perspectives, Journal of Communication in
Healthcare: Strategies, Media and Engagement in Global Health
2. Journals in Public Health: Journal of Public Health, Health Promotion
Practice, Public Health Genomics, Journal of Health Care for the Poor
and Underserved, Family & Community Health, Journal of American
College Health, Qualitative Health Research, Cadernos de Saúde
Pública/Reports in Public Health, BMC Public Health, Health Promotion
International
3. General Journals in Communication: Communication Theory,
Communication Monographs, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Journal of
Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Text & Talk;
Media Psychology, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Critical
Discourse Studies, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research,
Women's Studies in Communication, Journal of Family Communication,
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Critical Discourse
Studies, Southern Communication Journal, Frontiers in Communication,
Russian Journal of Communication, Departures in Critical Qualitative
Research, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Howard Journal
of Communications, Frontiers in Communication
4. Journals in Medicine and Allied Fields: British Medical Journal (BMJ),
Journal of the National Medical Association, Clinical Genetics, Ethnicity
& Health, BMC Medicine, Human Genetics, Journal of Genetic
Counseling, Pharmacogenomics, Journal of Medical Internet Research,
Genetics in Medicine, Southern Medical Journal, Disabilities Studies
Quarterly, Arts & Health
5. Other Journals: Society and Natural Resources, Journal of Urbanism,
Children and Youth Services Review, Journal of Cannabis Research,
Frontiers in Psychology: Health Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology,
Boletim de Ciencias Geodesicas, Sustainable Cities & Society
 Editorial Assistant, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Celeste Condit and
Bonnie Dow (Eds.), 2001
 Textbook Reviewer
1. Jones & Bartlett
2. Routledge, Student Reference
3. Roxbury Publishing Company
4. Allyn & Bacon/Longman
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5. Kendall/Hunt Publishing
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 Conference Paper Reviewer

1. Critical and Cultural Studies, National Communication Association, 2004-
2. Health Communication Division, National Communication Association,
2006-
3. Health Communication Interest Group, Eastern Communication
Association, 2005-
4. Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group, Eastern Communication
Association, 2005-
5. Health Communication Special Interest Group, Central States
Communication Association, 2004-2007.
6. Political Communication, National Communication Association, 2003-
2006
University Service
Ohio University
 State Level
o Member, Ohio Faculty Council, Ohio Board of Regents and the
Chancellor of Higher Education, coordination body between the Ohio
Department of Higher Education and the 14 public universities in Ohio,
2020-2023
o Member (ex officio), Academics and Student Success Committee, Ohio
University Board of Trustees, 2020-2022
 University Level
o Ohio University Faculty Senate, 2011-2017; 2018-2023 (alternate 2010-
2011); Vice-Chair, 2020-2022
o Chair, University Curriculum Council, 2020-2022
o Member, Survey RFP and Selection Committee, Office of Information
Technology and Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative
Activity, 2021-2022
o Member, Budget Planning Council University-Wide committee, 2020-
2022
o Co-Chair, Academic Policy & Process Group, Presidential Convened
Committee to Adapt All-University Policies to COVID-19, 2020-2022.
o Member, Coordinating Council for Fall 2020 Planning, Presidential
Convened University-Wide Committee to Adapt to COVID-19, 2020.
o Member, University Professional Ethics Committee, Office of the Provost,
2019-
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o Member, University International Council, University Standing

Committee, 2018-
o Member, Study Away/Abroad Risk Assessment Committee, Office of
Global Opportunities, 2016-
o Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Ohio University Faculty Senate,
2016-2017
o Chair, Nominating Committee, Ohio University Faculty Senate, 2016-
2017
o Chair, Educational Policies and Student Affairs, Ohio University Faculty
Senate, 2015-2016
o Vice-Chair, Institutional Review Board, Office of Research Compliance,
2014-present
o Member, University Curriculum Council, 2015-2016
o Member, Ad Hoc Policy Committee, University Curriculum Council,
2015-2016
o Executive Board Member, University Academic Advising Council,
University College, 2015-2016
o Member, Tuition Appeals Committee, Office of the Provost, 2015-2016.
o Scripps College Chair, Faculty & Staff Giving Campaign Central
Committee, 2012-2015
o Chair, Professional Relations Committee, Ohio University Faculty Senate,
2012-2014, 2022-2023
o Member, Professional Relations Committee, Faculty Senate, 2011-2012
o Reviewer, Council for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity,
Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity, 2013.
o Institutional Review Board, Office of Research Compliance, 2007-
o Glidden Visiting Professorship Award Committee, Office of the Provost,
2010-2013
o Ohio University Research Council, Faculty Senate Standing Committee,
2007-2010
o University Hearing Board, University Judiciaries, 2006- 2012.
o Technology and the Active Learner, Faculty Learning Community,
University-Wide, 2003-2004
 College Level
o International Committee, Scripps College of Communication, 2017-2021
o Graduate Committee, Scripps College of Communication, 2010-2017
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o Dean Search Committee (Member elected by tenure-track faculty of the

College), Scripps College of Communication, 2012-2013
o Scripps Survey Research Center Review Committee, College of
Communication, 2007
o Professional Ethics Committee, College of Communication, 2006-2010
o Research Committee, College of Communication/Vision Ohio, 2005-2006
 School Level
o Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2018-2019, 2023-2024
o Chair, Promotion and Tenure Revision Committee, School of
Communication Studies, 2021-2022
o Member, Full Professor Promotion Review Committee, Department of
Social Medicine, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2023-2024
o Member, Full Professor Promotion Review Committee, Department of
Family Medicine, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2021-2022
o Chair, Assessment Committee, 2019-2020
o Chair, Graduate Committee, 2010-2017
o Chair, Full Professor Sub-Committee on Promotion and Tenure, 2015-
2016
o Member, Full Professor Sub-Committee on Promotion and Tenure,
Information and Telecommunications Systems, 2015-2016
o Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2009-
o Member, Course Coordination Committee, 2008-2020
o Promotion and Tenure Revision Committee, School of Communication
Studies, 2012-2013
o Assistant Professor in Intercultural Communication Search Committee,
2012-2013
o Chair, Assistant Professor in Health Communication in Family or
Interpersonal Contexts Search Committee, 2012
o Chair, Assistant Professor in Health Communication Search Committee,
2009-2010
o Co-Chair, Scholar in International/Intercultural Health Communication
Search Committee, 2008-2009
o Senior Scholar in Health Communication Search Committee, 2007-2008
o Technology Committee, School of Communication Studies, 2006-2007
o Graduate Committee, School of Communication Studies, 2004-2006
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o Promotion and Tenure Revision Committee, School of Communication

Studies, 2005-2007
o Director of Forensics search committee, 2004-2005
o Paul Boase Prize for Scholarship Selection Committee, 2003-2004, 2005-
2007
University of Georgia
 President, Speech Communication Graduate Forum, University of Georgia, 1999-
2000, 2002-2003
 Judge, University-Wide Department of Public Speaking Speech Contest, Fall
2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001
 Critic, University of Georgia Bulldog Debates - National Forensics League, 1999,
2000, 2001, 2002
 Judge, Optimist Club of Athens Annual Public Speaking Contest, 1999
Internships, Tutorials, and Independent Studies Directed
 Jokinen, Owen. Undergraduate student, directed Honors Tutorial on health
communication, Fall, 2021. Top 3 paper at Central States Communication
Association Clevenger Undergraduate Scholars’ Conference.
 Izquierdo, Sarah. Undergraduate student, directed Honors Tutorial on social
change theory and HTC Thesis, Fall, 2018 – Spring, 2019.
 Cardoza, Brittany, Undergraduate student, directed Honors Tutorial on freedoms
and responsibilities of speech and courtroom rhetoric, Fall, 2015.
 Calka, Michelle, Doctoral student, independent study on digital bodies and
rhetoric, Spring 2010.
 Androsca, Liz, Undergraduate student, directed internship with the Ohio
Historical Society, Summer 2008.
 Carroll, Jane, Undergraduate student, directed internship with the American
Cancer Society, Summer 2008.
 Hartman, Adam, Undergraduate student, independent study on portrayal of
mental illness in media, Spring 2008.
 Mousie, Rachel, Undergraduate student, independent study on portrayal of
mental illness in media, Spring 2008.
 Osew (Acquah), Shirley, Doctoral student, independent study on naturopathic
medical practices in Ghana, Spring 2008.
 Mumba, Mumba, Doctoral student, independent study on Spring 2008.
 Stassen, Heather, Doctoral student, independent study on the theories and
rhetorical practices of Michael Calvin McGee II, Winter 2008.
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 Armonstrong, Christine, Undergraduate student, directed internship with

GoodWorks, Winter 2008.
 Swabek, Carolyn, Undergraduate student, directed internship with GoodWorks,
Winter 2008.
 Stassen, Heather, Doctoral student, independent study on the theories and
rhetorical practices of Michael Calvin McGee I, Winter 2008.
 Donofrio, Pamela, Undergraduate student, directed internship, Fall 2007.
 Yoger, Jennifer, Undergraduate student, directed internship, Fall 2007.
 Blankson, Herbert, Doctoral student, Independent Study on
Pharmacist/Physician Communication, Fall 2007.
 DiBiaso, Julie, Undergraduate student, directed internship with GoodWorks,
Summer 2007
 Ofori-Birikorang, Andrews, Doctoral student, Mass Communication –
Telecommunications, Independent Study on Health Delivery Technologies in
Africa II, Spring 2007
 Pollock, Timothy, Doctoral student, Independent Study on Michael Calvin
McGee’s “Ideograph” as Research Methodology, Spring 2007
 Wright, Kallia, Doctoral student, Independent Study on ScenariosUSA as Public
Health Messaging, Spring 2007
 Young, Stephanie, Doctoral student, Independent Study on the Feminist Artwork
of Anne Taintor, Spring 2007
 Cataline, Gretchen, Undergraduate student, independent study on Clean Indoor
Air Advocacy in Ohio, Spring 2007
 Zigerelli, Jamie, Undergraduate student, directed internship with the
Appalachian Peace and Justice Network Winter 2007
 Yeatts, Daniel, Undergraduate student, directed independent study coordinated
with Baker Center Grand Opening event, Winter 2007
 Mbure, Wanjiru, Master’s student, Communication and Development,
Independent Study on Health Communication regarding HIV/AIDS in Africa,
Winter 2007
 Ofori-Birikorang, Andrews, Doctoral student, Mass Communication –
Telecommunications, Independent Study on Health Delivery Technologies in
Africa, Winter 2007
 Maposa, Batsetsana, Master’s student, Communication and Development,
Independent study on Public Understanding of Health and Healing, Fall 2006
 Feldman, Jayme, Undergraduate student, Honors tutorial on the rhetoric of
Margaret Chase Smith, Winter 2006.
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 Cataline, Gretchen, Undergraduate student, directed internship with University

College, Fall 2005.
 Moorman, Amy, Undergraduate student, independent study on health campaigns
for social change, Fall 2005
 Bass, Rachel, Undergraduate student, directed internship with Clear Channel
Communications, Marketing and Promotion, Summer 2005
 Porter, Anne, Undergraduate student, directed internship with O’Bleness
Memorial Hospital, Department of Pharmacy, Spring 2005
 Stroup, Kristopher, Doctoral student, directed reading on Deleuze & Guattari’s
Anti-Oedipus and Thousand Plateaus, Winter 2005
 Brown, Alisha, Undergraduate student, directed internship with Girls
Incorporated of Central Ohio, Winter 2005
 Slavik, Sarah, Undergraduate student, Honors tutorial on political advertising in
presidential campaigns, Fall 2004
 Li, Xinghua. Master’s student, independent study on rhetoric in/and film, Spring
2004
Community Service
 Mentor, American Society of Human Genetics/National Science Teachers
Association, Outreach to Teach/Building a Presence for Science, 2003-present
 Member, Safe Zone Project, Ohio University and Athens County, 2003-present
 Volunteer, Athens Area Sustainability Festival, 2003
Graduate Advising and Outcomes
Doctoral Advisees, Completed
 Spence, Logan. Ph.D., Communication Studies, 2023. Rethinking the paranoid
style: A dialectic between ideology and rhetoric within paranoia. Program of
Study and Dissertation Co-Advisor with Roger Aden. Initial placement: Visiting
Assistant Professor, Miami University.
 Mendoza, Maria Jose. Ph.D. in the Individual Interdisciplinary Program
(Biological Sciences and Communication Studies), 2022. Breastfeeding
experiences of mothers who are health care professionals in Ecuador.
Dissertation Co-Advisor with Mario Grijalva. Initial placement: Pontifical
Catholic University of Ecuador.
 Sherwani, Shariq. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2021. Stressors, quality of
life, and psychosocial outcomes: Managing communication uncertainty for
caregivers of patients with end state renal disease. Initial placement: Visiting
Assistant Professor, Dixie State University.
 Arora, Aarti. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2020. Communication in
complementary and alternative medicine: a situated exploration of
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communication interactions between yoga students and their yoga teachers in

India. Program of Study and Dissertation Committee Advisor. Initial placement:
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bloomsburg University.
 Ji, Yadong. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2020. Americanization in
persuasive health messages: Comparing Americanized narrative, statistical, and
normative preventative messages with Chinese ones in the case of Chinese air
pollution. Program of Study and Dissertation Advisor. Initial placement: tenure
track post at North Central College.
 Hudak, Nicole. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2019. Communicating
heterosexism in queer pregnancies: A multiadic interview study. Program of
Study and Dissertation Committee Advisor. Initial placement: tenure track post at
Keene State College.
 Nieto-Sanchez, Claudia Patricia. Ph.D. in the Individual Interdisciplinary
Program (Biological Sciences and Communication Studies), 2018. Towards a
theory of sustainable prevention of Chagas disease: An ethnographic grounded
theory study. Dissertation Co-Advisor with Mario Grijalva, 2018. Initial
placement: Medical Anthropology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp,
Belgium.
 Limvarakul, Srinuan. Ph.D. in Communication Arts (Bangkok University),
2017. Uses and Gratifications associated with social media addiction among
working adults in Bangkok. Initial placement: Senior Director, Research &
Insight, Omnicomm Media Group (OMD).
 Seifert, Jennifer. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2016, The structure of
silence: Applying the theory of planned behavior to college students’
communication about sexuality and sexual assault. Program of Study and
Dissertation Committee Advisor. Initial placement: Sexual Assault Prevention
Program Coordinator, Appalachian Peace and Justice Network.
 Tsikata, Prosper. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2015, HIV/AIDS and
terministic screens: A pentadic interrogation of claims to origin, cure, and
economics in the rhetoric of Yahya Jammeh. Program of Study and Dissertation
Committee Advisor. Initial placement: tenure track post at Valdosta State
University.
 Aubuchon Chapman, Stellina. Ph.D in Communication Studies, 2013, Oral
health beliefs as predictors of behavior: Formative research for oral health
campaigns in South Africa. Dissertation Advisor (with Amy Chadwick). Initial
placement: Community Health Program Director, Center for Closing the Health
Gap, Cincinnati.
 Angel-Botero, Adriana. Ph.D in Communication Studies, 2012, The role of
secondary orality in the construction of factual discourses about Colombian
corruption. Dissertation Advisor. Initial placement: post at the University of
Manizales, COLOMBIA.
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 Calka, Michelle. Ph.D in Communication Studies, 2012, The performance and

embodiment of marginalized identities in virtual worlds. Program of Study and
Dissertation Advisor. Initial placement: tenure-track post at Manchester
University.
 Kirittayapong, Jirah. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2011, Robin Hood in the
land of the free? An ethnographic study of undocumented immigrants from
Thailand in the U.S. Dissertation Co-Advisor (with Devika Chawla). Initial
placement: post at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce,
THAILAND.
 Heiss, Sarah. Ph.D in Communication Studies, 2011, Sugar-coating risks: an
analysis of trade associations representing sweeteners’ discursive contributions
to public negotiations of risk. Dissertation Advisor. Initial placement: tenure-track
post, University of Vermont.
 Mumba, Mumba. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2010, A phenomenological
study of how college students communicate about anal sex and its implications for
health. Dissertation and Program of Study Advisor. Awarded Master’s degree by
Examination, 2007. Initial placement: post at Southern Illinois University –
Edwardsville.
 Lev, Eimi. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2009, Googling while expecting:
Internet use by Israeli women during pregnancy. Dissertation Advisor (with
Claudia Hale). Initial placement: post at Ariel University Center of Samaria,
ISRAEL.
 Young, Stephanie. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2009, Remembering the
past in visual and visionary ways: Rhetorically exploring the narrative
potentialities of Esther Parada’s memory art. Dissertation Committee Member
and Co-Advisor (with Bill Rawlins). Initial placement: post at University of
Southern Indiana.
 Ahmed, Rukhsana. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2007, Assessing the role of
cultural differences on health care receivers’ perceptions of health care
providers’ cultural competence in health care interactions. Program of Study
Advisor, Master’s Advisor, and Dissertation Advisor (with Nagesh Rao).
Awarded Master’s degree by Examination, 2005. Initial placement: tenure-track
post, University of Ottawa, ON, CANADA.
Master’s Advisees, Completed
 Valencia, Maria A. (Angie). M.A. in Latin American Studies, 2023. Community
Nutrition Initiative: Using positive deviance approach to explore agri-food and
nutritional practices in rural communities in southern Ecuador. Professional
project advisor.
 Wells, Makayla. M.A. in Latin American Studies, 2019. Gardening practices in
three rural communities in Loja province, Ecuador. Professional project advisor.
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 Martinez, Cristina Valderrama. M.A. in Communication and Development

Studies, 2018. Characterization of communication processes in natural disasters:
A case study of the earthquake occurred in Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador in 2016.
Professional project advisor.
 Haruna, Godwin. M.A. in Communication & Development Studies, 2016,
Evaluating Safe Motherhood programs in Ondo State, Nigeria. Professional
project advisor.
 Kidane, Teresa. M.A. in African Studies, 2016, Cost and perceptions of health:
The case of African students at Ohio University I, Professional project advisor
(with S. Howard).
 Moot, Dennis. M.A. in African Studies, 2016, Cost and perceptions of health:
The case of African students at Ohio University II, Professional project advisor
(with S. Howard).
 Mbure, Wanjiru. M.A. in Communication & Development Studies, 2007,
Women of the epidemic: Gender ideology in HIV/AIDS messages in Kenya. Thesis
advisor. Accepted to Ph.D. program, Communication Studies, University of
Missouri—Columbia.
Honors Tutorial Advisees, Completed
 Izquierdo, Sara. B.S.C. (Hons.), 2019. The structural factors that influence
online self-presentation practices in Aceh, Indonesia. Thesis advisor.
Doctoral Committees, Completed
 Khanagamwa, Chikondi. Ph.D. in Media Arts and Studies, 2022. Pandemic
Media: Communicating Risk in Malawi in the Age of Covid-19. Program of Study
Committee Member and Dissertation Committee Member.
 López Londoño, Luis Miguel. .D. in Communication Studies, 2022. From the
River to the Gravestone: Spaces of Disappearance and Re-Appearance of
Unidentified Bodies in Colombian War. Comprehensive Examination and
Dissertation Committee Member.
 Nottingham, Kelly. Ph.D. in Translational Biomedical Sciences, 2021. Defining
Patient Burden: Experiences of Living Kidney Donors. Comprehensive
Examination and Dissertation Committee Member.
 Haruna, Godwin. Ph.D. in Educational Studies, 2020. Mobile text messaging as
facilitator of maternal and child healthcare in Kogi State. Dissertation Committee
Member and Dean’s Representative for the Patton College of Education.
 Ayub, Suffian Hadi. Ph.D. in Communication and Media Studies, Universiti
Teknologi MARA, 2020. Healthy Lifestyle campaign on social media and its
impact on youth well-being. External Examiner.
 Villacis, Anita. Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, 2019. Eco-epidemiological
Implications of the diversity of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Ecuador:
what do we know and what do we need to do? Dissertation Committee Member.
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 Cook, Carolyn. Ph.D. in Psychology, 2019. Impact of chronic traumatic

encephalopathy information on perceptions of illness. Dissertation Committee
Member & Dean’s Representative for Arts & Sciences.
 Presley Rachel. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2019. Decolonizing dissent:
Mapping indigenous resistance onto settler colonial land. Dissertation Committee
Member.
 Pinkerton, Craig. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2018. Buddhist public
advocacy and activism in Thailand: Justifying engagement and a rhetoric of
humanization through identification. Program of Study Committee Member and
 Zhang, Chunyu. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2018. Playing for a New
Worker (Class) Identity and Social Change: A Participatory Critical Rhetorical
Examination. Dissertation Committee Member.
 Lin, Hengjun. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2018. The role of construal level
and temporal distance in anxiety and uncertainty management: Exploring patent-
provider communication in a cross-cultural context. Dissertation Committee
Member.
 Zempter, Christina. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2018. Culture and
socialization in a local newsroom. Dissertation Committee Member.
 Weed, Amanda. Ph.D. in Journalism, 2018. Bridging advertising and public
relations pedagogy and practice: A mixed-methods analysis of education
objectives and industry needs. Dissertation Committee Member.
 Meyara, Sidi Becar. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2017. ‘Mauritania is an
eye’: A community’s efforts to promote unity. Dissertation Committee Member.
 Granelli, Steve. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2017. Being good at playing
bad: Performance of the heel in professional wrestling. Dissertation Committee
Member.
 Gleason, Sean. Building home: Vernacular architecture and domestic habit in the
Ohio River Valley. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2017. Dissertation
Committee Member.
 Sharma, Indu. Ph.D. in Media Arts and Studies, 2016. Analysis of an Indian
commercial television drama series – “Bailika Vadhu: Kacchi Umra Ke Pakke
Rishte” (Child bride: Firm relations at a tender age). Dissertation Committee
Member.
 Mudawi, Abuobeida. Ph.D. in Telecommunications, 2015. A virtual
ethnographic study of online communication and democratic behavior in the
Sudan’s diaspora. Dissertation Committee Member.
 Darlington, Kay-Anne, Ph.D in Media Arts and Studies, 2015, Gender
representations, cultural norms and message features in Jamaican HIV/AIDS
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advertisements: A textual analysis of television campaigns. Comprehensive

 Walck, Pamela E. Ph.D. in Journalism, 2015. Reporting America’s “colour
problem”: How the U.S. and British press reported and framed racial conflicts
during World War II. Dissertation Committee member.
 Silraunwilai, Usa. OU/BU Ph.D. Program of Study and Dissertation Proposal
Committee Member, 2014.
 Patterson, Spencer D. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2012. Putting on white
coats: Professional socialization of medical students through narrative pedagogy
in standardized patient labs. Dissertation Committee member.
 Yahaya, Azlan R. Ph.D. in Media Arts and Studies, 2011. Islam hadhari: An
ideological discourse analysis of selected speeches by UMNO President and
Malaysia Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Dissertation Committee
member.
 Peirce, L. Meghan. PhD. in Media Arts and Studies, 2011. Botswana’s
Makgabaneng: An audience reception study of an edutainment drama.
Dissertation Committee member.
 Acquah, Shirley. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2011. Physician-Patient
Communication in Ghana: Multilingualism, Interpreters, and Self-Disclosure.
 Stassen, Heather M. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2010. Mediated
constructions and audience responses to polygamist controversies. Dissertation
Committee Member.
 Schrader, Valerie Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2009. Defying gravity,
silence, and societal expectations: Social movement leadership and hegemony in
the musical "Wicked." Dissertation Committee Member.
 Carlson, Andrew. Ph.D. in Media Arts and Studies, 2010, Small business and the
2010 FIFA World Cup: The use of communication technology in South African
micro-enterprise. Dissertation Committee Member.
 Meyer, Kevin R., Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2009. Student classroom
engagement: Rethinking participation grades and student silence. Dissertation
Committee Member.
 Ofori-Birikorang, Andrews. Ph.D. in Media Arts and Studies, 2009, Promoting
a new health policy in the Ghanaian media: Newspaper framing of the National
Health Insurance Scheme from 2005-2007. Program of Study and Dissertation
Committee Member.
 Khan, Tabassum Ruhi. Ph.D. in Media Arts and Studies, 2009, Emerging
Muslim identity in India’s globalized and mediated society: An ethnographic
investigation of the Muslim youth of Jamia enclave, New Delhi). Comprehensive
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 Quinlan, Margaret. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2009, Narrating lives and

raising consciousness through dance: The performance of (dis)ability at Dancing
Wheels. Dissertation Committee Member.
 Khan, Zahirul Hasan. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 2007, Bench- and pilot-
testing of sieving electrostatic precipitator. Dissertation Committee Member &
Dean’s Representative for Engineering.
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Master’s Committees, Completed

 Dei, Victor Kojo. M.A. in Communication and Development Studies, Center for
International Studies, 2023. Exploring the Ghanaian students’ perceptions
towards the adoption of mental health services at Ohio University. Professional
project committee member.
 Celi, Paul. M.A. in Communication and Development Studies, Center for
International Studies, 2023. Analyzing the government and the media
communication of illegal mining in the Madre de Dios region of Peru: A
document analysis. Professional project committee member.
 Leon, Ana. M.S. in Environmental Studies, Voinovich School of Leadership and
Public affairs, 2021. Solid waste management in the rural communities of
Bellamaria, Chaquizhca and Guara in Loja, Ecuador. Practicum project
committee member.
 Fraley, Courtney. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s
degree by Examination, 2018.
 Boggs, Emily. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Referred to
Professional Project option, 2018.
 Graham, Joey. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s
 Hawkins, Windy. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s
 Dockham, Jennifer. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded
Master’s degree by Examination, 2016.
 Wright, Mary Katherine. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded
 Maki, Michelle. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s
 Schindler, Stacy L. Master’s Professional Project Committee Member. Awarded
 Diaconescu, Maria. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded
 Al-Issa, Mohammed. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded
 Oduro, Ivy Dorcas. Master’s Professional Project Committee Member, Awarded
Masters of Arts in African Studies, 2012
 Vogel, Megan. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s
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 Ramsey, Carrie. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s

 Lake, Lindsay. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s
 Ramsey, Carrie. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s
 Hart, Phil. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s degree
by Examination, 2011.
 Dunn, Jennifer. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s
 Greiner, Karen. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s
degree by examination, 2006.
 Han, Min Wha. Program of Study Committee Member. Awarded Master’s
Transferred
 Zawidski, Kate. Master’s candidate. Program of Study and Master’s Examination
Committee Advisor. Departed program in 2006 for family reasons.
 Kenniston, Pam. Program of Study Committee Member. Transferred to Health
and Human Services, Awarded Master’s degree by Examination, 2005.
 Li, Xinghua. Program of Study Advisor. Transferred to Ph.D. program,
University of Iowa, Department of Communication Studies, 2004.
 Jarayam, Srinath. Ph.D. Committee Member. Transferred to Ph.D. program,
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Department of Communication
Studies, 2004.
In Progress
 Mock, Brandon. Ph.D., Communication Studies.
 Hunt, Andrew. Ph.D., Communication Studies.
 Lekey, Freda. Ph.D., Communication Studies.
 Athar Memon. Ph.D., Communication Studies.
 Rayna Batool. Ph.D., Communication Studies.
 Mora, Patricia. Translational Biomedical Sciences. Co-Advisor with Mario
Grijalva.
 Seman, Rabiah Adawiah. ABD. in Communication and Media Studies,
Universiti Teknologi MARA, 2022. Managing provider-patient communication
gap using Mhealth for prescribed self-care: a case study of user experience
research among Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) patients in Klang Valley,
Malaysia. External Examiner.
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 Laki, Kujang. ABD, Communication Studies. Responding to the COVID-19

pandemic in the United States: Medi, mayhem, and mandates. Dissertation
Advisor.
 Peko, Samantha. ABD in Journalism. Mortimer Thomson’s witches: Undercover
Reporting on the fortune telling trade. Dissertation Committee Member.
 Mitchell, Sarah. ABD. Candidate in the Individualized Interdisciplinary
Program. A history of vaccination in Appalachia. 2022 (projected). Committee
Member.
 Agyei-Boateng, Abena. M.A. Candidate in Communication and Development
Studies. Master’s Examination Committee Member.
 Mendoza, Luis E. M.A. Candidate in Communication and Development Studies.
Master’s Examination Committee Member.
Languages
English – Speaking, Reading & Writing, Native Proficiency
Spanish – Reading, Professional Proficiency; Speaking & Writing, Working Proficiency
German– Reading, Professional Proficiency; Speaking & Writing, Working Proficiency
French – Reading, Speaking & Writing, Working Proficiency
International Development
International Faculty Development Seminar, 2017. “Gender and Sexuality in the
Human Rights Agenda in Contemporary Argentina.” Buenos Aires, Argentina, Council
on International Educational Exchange.
International Faculty Development Seminar, 2016. “Community Development and
Social Justice in the Favela Communities of Rio de Janeiro.” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
Council on International Educational Exchange.
International Faculty Development Seminar, 2015. “The Influence of Religions on
Women in Contemporary Tanzanian Society.” Dar es Salaam and Iringa, Tanzania,
Council on International Educational Exchange.
Forensics
Forensics Program, Ohio University
 Critic for local tournaments on an as-needed basis, including Ohio University
Winter Classic, Marshall University Winter Classic, and Ohio Forensics
Association-Varsity Championships, 2003-
Georgia Debate Union, University of Georgia
 Travel with debate team as critic/coach on an as-needed basis, 1998-2003
Redlands University Speech and Debate Society, University of the Redlands
 Guest Critic, 2003 National Debate Tournament.
University of Richmond Debate Team
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 1998 Cross-Examination Debate Association All-American Debate Team

 1997 Cross-Examination Debate Association All-American Debate Team
 Over 30 Team and Individual Speaker Awards
Professional Memberships
 National Communication Association (life member)
 American Society of Human Genetics
 Southern States Communication Association (life member)
 Eastern Communication Association (life member)
 American Forensic Association (life member)
 Rhetoric Society of America
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Statement of Educational Philosophy

Benjamin R. Bates
As the Greek teacher of rhetoric Isocrates once said, "There has been no institution
devised by humans which the power of speech has not helped us to establish." With
Isocrates, I believe that the art and practice of communication is crucial to the
development of human communities and that the ability to participate actively in a
community is the evidence of an individual's education. In the classroom and out, it is my
goal to assist students in their development into active citizens in their communities.
When a student enters a classroom, what that student learns from an educator must
contribute to their ability to participate in their community. I believe that teaching
communication as an art and a practice allows me to provide students with tools for
participation in their communities and a forum for enacting such participation.
I believe students should not be asked to study communication simply to answer test
questions; they must learn about communication to become better communicators and to
participate as citizens. One of the fundamental roles of the educator is to encourage
students to apply the concepts that they learn about communication to their life outside
the classroom. For effective application, students need a forum within the classroom to
test their advocacy practices. To meet these needs, my classes require students to learn
more than concepts and theories, but also to enact advocacy that draws upon what they
have learned. Depending on the class, different media of advocacy are emphasized,
including oral, written advocacy, and video- and computer-mediated advocacy. In each
class, I encourage students to work individually and in groups to identify an issue,
product, or text of interest, research the issue, and present the issue and their position on
it in a public format. Whenever I work to provide a testing ground for advocacy practices,
students are asked to consider various theories or concepts in communication, to
construct positions and arguments based in their understanding of those theories and
concepts, and to practice the art of advocacy. In this way, not only do students explore
their individual skills at oral, written, or mediated communication, but they also enhance
their positions as advocates, thus contributing to the larger polis. In recent iterations of
my undergraduate classes, we have reported to the City of Athens Water Department
needs for community access to strong infrastructure, to the City-County Health
Department means of connecting children to nutrition and developmental services, and,
most recently, to our campus office responding to COVID strategies for engaging
students with university messaging for prevention.
The need for this contribution to society is also acute for graduate students. I envision
my graduate courses as more than advanced sets of theories and concepts to be learned or
enhanced modes of argument construction to be mastered. I believe graduate courses
should assist graduate students in becoming producers of knowledge about
communication, about a topical area, and about the intersection between communication
and that topical area. I ask my graduate students to produce, through individual and/or
collaborative effort, a contribution to the ongoing search for new insights, new
interpretations, and new understandings of the role that communication plays in
substantive issues of health, public policy, or some other topic area and the ways that
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these topic areas play roles in constructing our communicative practices. I firmly believe
that, as academics, we have freedom to think but that we also have a responsibility to
share our thinking. At a basic level, this means that graduate students should use the class
to make strides toward producing scholarship that can be presented at conferences,
published in journals, or distributed to the public through popular outlets. A semester,
however, is rarely sufficient to conceptualize, implement, and interpret a study.
Therefore, I believe that the graduate instructor cannot stop teaching simply because final
exam week has come and gone; the graduate instructor should continuously work with
his or her students until the product is as finished as it can be, and as long as both the
student and instructor believe that continued work on the project is beneficial to both
themselves and to the larger community. As demonstrated by my writing and
presentation with multiple students, I have enacted this commitment to going beyond the
classroom with my graduate students to establish contributions to the academy.
Skill sets and advocacy abilities are important, and obtaining them may be the reason
undergraduate students register for our courses. And, producing papers to be submitted to
conferences or for publication to better position themselves for the academic job market
may be a primary reason that graduate students enroll. Nonetheless, one of the major
aims of communication is to empower undergraduate and graduate students as reflective
and critical thinkers so that they may better make decisions as participants in the polis.
Students must be assisted in becoming better consumers and producers of discourse – be
it oral, written, or electronically mediated – and participants in the better formation of
community based on such readings and productions. Critical practice should be
encouraged in the classroom through the critique of other student presentations, readings
of texts, media products, and other items that can be brought into the classroom for
consideration. In an age of a cosmopolis, an array of discourses from multiple cultures
and the opportunity to interact with them must be brought to the student, as they will be
confronted with them as citizens outside the classroom.
The ability to inspire students as advocates is crucial to the development of good

citizenship. The ability to encourage students to be critical consumers of discourse is
essential to the development of a good education.
Educators must also remember that they are citizens of the polis, not philosopher-kings
set above it. As such, educators need to commit themselves to the roles of student,
citizen, and advocate as well. As I teach, I have the responsibility to model these
positions as well by continuously studying, reflecting, learning, and advocating in the
areas that I profess to my students.
I believe that my views of communication education fit well with the University’s charge
to create and sustain intellectually inspired, morally grounded, and globally minded
practices of education and its goals to empower students to forge their lives well-rounded
communicators who are aware of and respect human dignity and ethical values.
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Statement of Research Philosophy

Benjamin R. Bates
As I have stated in my teaching philosophy, I view communication as a communal art

and practice. I carry this orientation into my research philosophy. Communication can
serve as a mode of investigating the construction, alteration, and maintenance of our
social world. As researchers, we must contribute to this ongoing investigation and invest
our efforts in understanding effective communication practice and the implications that
communication has for our communities. With Isocrates, I hold that those “who want to
do some good in the world must banish utterly from their interests all vain speculations
and all activities which have no bearing on our lives.”
I see my role as a researcher as being a person who investigates communicative texts,

situations, and events for the purpose of better understanding how communication
practice functions and how communication processes can be improved. I self-describe as
an applied rhetorician. Above the study of communication acts as persuasive devices, the
ethical and social implications of communication acts should also be explored.
Researchers are members of a larger community of scholars and of humans. The applied
rhetorician has the responsibility to contribute positively to his or her communities.
Moreover, applied rhetoricians must be prepared to speak to that community and to
audiences that can act as agents of change. As such, the rhetorician should consider two
questions before embarking on any study: “Does my research have relevance to the larger
community of which I am a part?” and “Will the findings of my research contribute to
better practice in the future?” If the answer to both questions is, “Yes,” then I may study
the topic, text, or event. And, if one does begin such a study, a third question emerges:
“To what agents of change do I communicate my findings and how do I communicate
them?”
I am open to and have worked within a broad set of research possibilities. Most of my
research efforts have been within two domains. The first domain is health
communication. The second is political rhetoric, particularly at the international level.
These two areas both receive a positive answer when I pose my two questions. Both
international affairs and health communication are relevant to the larger community.
Health issues and their presentation to the public implicate questions of medical treatment
and community understandings of treatment options. International affairs, particularly
peace and conflict, have an impact on the world community, the cosmopolis in which we
all live. Though it may seem that these two areas are unrelated, both share a common
research goal. The aim of these research agendas is to provide analysis and interpretation
that can better public policy. In addition, both arenas are part of a larger question of how
people come to form their understandings of policy expediency and governmental
justification in the public sphere. Approaching one question can yield insight into the
other. Disparate medical access can inform the understanding of how economics and
power operate generally, thus informing issues in the international public sphere. The
tactics deployed in international policy can provide useful information about how tropes
are used to present unfamiliar places and peoples, thus providing insight into how
unfamiliar medical techniques and issues can be made familiar to consumers. Indeed, my
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analysis in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy demonstrates that the discourse of
health and the discourse of international war can be one and the same.
To best allow research to have relevance to the larger community and to contribute to
better practice most effectively, it is essential that the communication scholar be prepared
to approach discourse on its own terms. I am trained in and employ a variety of
analytical and theoretical techniques. Much of my research draws on humanistic
traditions of rhetoric. My work on presidential rhetoric as it is used to advocate military
action draws on traditional views of rhetoric as described by Aristotle and Kenneth
Burke. I have also drawn on psychoanalytic orientations, including Jungian, Lacanian,
and Deleuzian perspective, for my work on film. I have deployed narrative concepts and
concepts of genre. Other work has drawn on post-structural and post-Marxist orientations
to assist in my analysis. In addition to humanistic investigations, I have drawn on social
scientific paradigms. My work uses so-called “hard” social science methods of data
collection and analysis ranging from the simple t-test to structural equation modeling.
These investigations have followed a pattern where my partners and I first develop a
message or intervention based on principles of rhetorical invention and then use
quantitative methods to test the effects of these inventional techniques among actual
audiences. I have also drawn on qualitative social scientific methods, including focus
groups and observational study. I do not have a preferred methodology, as I believe that
the methodology should be derived from the text or events under study, that
communication can allow for emergent readings of communication to be performed, and
that it is possible to test rhetorical principles with social scientific methods.
Once a topic has been identified and a theoretical approach decided upon and enacted, to
best enact scholarship, the communication scholars must identify the audience to whom
the findings should be communicated and how that audience should be addressed. Too
often, communication scholarship is not read by the community or communities that
would best benefit from the findings. Because communication scholars do not seek
audiences other than communication scholars for their work, it should not be surprising
that many of those outside of communication arts and science know little of what we do.
Both these trends should be challenged. This is why the majority of my scholarship is
not published in communication journals, but is communication scholarship published in
other fields. If, for example, one wants to challenge dominant symbolic representations
of health and healing to promote more effective and more ethical communication
regarding rights, disability, or governance structures, then one must have their work read
by the relevant agents of change.
Moreover, to have one’s work read by policymakers or health care providers, one must
publish in policy journals and medical journals using the language of policy and
medicine. One cannot expect the policymaker or health care provider to read
Communication Monographs or Quarterly Journal of Speech, nor should the
communication scholar expect to be understood (must less taken seriously) if she used
communication jargon when she writes for this audience. In our chapter for the
Handbook of Applied Communication Research, Celeste Condit and I make this argument
even more forcefully: it is the duty of the communication scholar who claims to perform
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applied work to publish where agents of change will read the work and to adapt her
methods, vocabulary, and writing style to that audience’s needs. This is why my work on
health and medicine appears in health and medical journals, uses the vocabulary of health
and medicine, and uses methods accepted by physicians and health care providers. I
regularly publish work in health and medical journals because these are the outlets read
by agents of change.
I firmly believe that we should go to our audiences’ fora and speak our audiences’
languages if we are to have any hope of enacting real social change and contribute to the
communities that pay for the academy and for our positions as researchers.

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School of Communication Studies

Administrative and Governance Appointments

Vice-Chair of the Faculty Senate, Ohio University, June 2020-May 2022

Coordinator for Global Outreach, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University,

 Expansion of benefits to include educational benefits for domestic partners

Summary of Educational Philosophy

Affiliate Faculty, Political Communication Certificate Program, College of Arts &

COMS 7320 – Communication Historiography Methods (graduate seminar)

COMS 4900 – Special Topics in Communication Studies; MDIA 4900

Summary of Research Philosophy

members of a larger community of scholars and of humans, I believe the applied

Honors and Awards

 Top Paper, Health Communication, Central States Communication Association, 2007.

ranked by public media consultation appearances in 2015

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, 2017, 208, 2020

Bates, B. R. (2020). The (in)appropriateness of the WAR metaphor in response to

satisfaction in an Appalachian Ohio context. Howard Journal of

Bates, B. R. (2005). Public culture and public understanding of genetics: A focus

understandings of genetic risk factors. American Journal of Medical Genetics,

Academies Keck Futures Initiative/National Academies Press.

Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 99 (4), S33.

Quick, B. L., & Bates, B. R. (2009). An examination of knowledge, attitudes,

salud en enfermedades infecciosas. In A. Valdez-Tah & M. San Martino

Bates, B. R. (2013). Using social marketing principles to support health care.

Association , Cambridge, MA.

portrayal. Paper presented to the International and Intercultural

Bates, B. R. (2015). Mapping international diplomacy onto domestic health: A

(2013). Examining antecedents of caregivers’ access to early childhood

Student classroom engagement: Developing a scale to measure student voice.

Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

92nd Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX. Top 3 Paper in Visual

Bates, B. R. (2001). To read a "redskin" (or an "Indian" or a "warrior"): Collapsing

Convention, Chicago, IL, November 4-7.

Meeting, Providence, RI.

Convention, San Diego, CA.

Coshocton Tribune (OH) News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

NewsWatch, WOUB-TV WKSU Radio (Akron/Kent, OH)

 President, Eastern Communication Association (Vice President Select Elect,

 Conference Paper Reviewer

o Member, University International Council, University Standing

o Dean Search Committee (Member elected by tenure-track faculty of the

o Promotion and Tenure Revision Committee, School of Communication

 Armonstrong, Christine, Undergraduate student, directed internship with

 Cataline, Gretchen, Undergraduate student, directed internship with University

communication interactions between yoga students and their yoga teachers in

 Calka, Michelle. Ph.D in Communication Studies, 2012, The performance and

 Martinez, Cristina Valderrama. M.A. in Communication and Development

 Cook, Carolyn. Ph.D. in Psychology, 2019. Impact of chronic traumatic

advertisements: A textual analysis of television campaigns. Comprehensive

 Quinlan, Margaret. Ph.D. in Communication Studies, 2009, Narrating lives and

Master’s Committees, Completed

 Ramsey, Carrie. Master’s Examination Committee Member. Awarded Master’s

 Laki, Kujang. ABD, Communication Studies. Responding to the COVID-19

 1998 Cross-Examination Debate Association All-American Debate Team

Statement of Educational Philosophy

The ability to inspire students as advocates is crucial to the development of good

Statement of Research Philosophy

As I have stated in my teaching philosophy, I view communication as a communal art