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Mari Boor Tonn (Ph.D., University
of Kansas, 1987), Associate Professor, specializes in feminist and
rhetorical criticism, political communication, and public address,
with a special emphasis in women labor movement leaders and feminists
from the first, second, and third wave. Her research has been honored
with the Karl Wallace Memorial Award for excellence in rhetorical
scholarship from the National Communication Association in 1997,
the Past President's Award for excellence in scholarship and service
from the Eastern Communication Association in 2000, the Best Essay
of the Year Award from the Organization for the Study of Language,
Communication, and Gender in 1997, the Gustavus Myers Center for
the Study of Human Rights in 1991, and the Kenneth Burke Society
in 1991 and 1999. She was a principle researcher in a national focus
group project sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates
during the 1992 and 1996 Presidential elections. Currently, her
primary research project is a book on the labor union agitation
of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones. Tonn also is the recipient
of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of New Hampshire
in 1996, the Donald C. and Carolyn Drummond Ecroyd Excellence in
Teaching Award from the Eastern Communication Association in 2002,
and the Teaching Fellow Award from the Eastern Communication Association
in 2003. She has delivered the Keynote Address for alumni and state
legislators at the University of New Hampshire in 1996 and the Keynote
Address for the William A. Kerns Communication Conference at the
Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003.
Selected publications:
"Hunting and Heritage on Trial
in Maine: A Dramatistic Debate Over Tragedy, Tradition, and Territory,"
Quarterly Journal of Speech (1993).
"‘Feminine Style' and Political
Judgment in the Rhetoric of Ann Richards, Quarterly Journal of
Speech (1993).
"Militant Motherhood: Labor's
Mary Harris ‘Mother' Jones," Quarterly Journal of Speech
(1996).
"Looking Under the Hood and
Tinkering with Voter Cynicism: Ross Perot and ‘Perspective
by Incongruity," Rhetoric & Public Affairs (2001).
"Miss America Contesters and
Contestants: Media Discourse About Social ‘Also-Rans,'"
Rhetoric & Public Affairs (2003).
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