Robert C Rowland

Robert C. Rowland is a Professor of Communication at the University of Kansas. He is the recipient of the 2003 Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism, the largest and most significant book manuscript award in the field of rhetorical criticism, as coauthor of "Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use." He is also the author of "The Rhetoric of Menachem Begin." " Dr. Rowland's major teaching and research interests are in rhetorical criticism,...See more

Robert C. Rowland is a Professor of Communication at the University of Kansas. He is the recipient of the 2003 Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism, the largest and most significant book manuscript award in the field of rhetorical criticism, as coauthor of "Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use." He is also the author of "The Rhetoric of Menachem Begin." " Dr. Rowland's major teaching and research interests are in rhetorical criticism, argumentation, and the public sphere. Dr. Rowland and his debate colleague were the 1976 National Debate Champions. He is a former director of forensics at KU and at Baylor University. Dr. Rowland received the Louise Byrd Award for Graduate Teaching at the Doctoral Hooding ceremony May 2000. He also is a recipient of the William T. Kemper Teaching Fellowship and the Bernard Fink Award for outstanding teaching, and is a two-time HOPE Award finalist. A recent survey of journals in the discipline ranked him among the thirty most published scholars. See less