CARLY S. WOODS
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Barbara Jordan, April 1976,
 
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Broadly speaking, my research explores the role of communication in politics, education, and social change. 

As a humanities-based communication scholar, I examine how people use rhetoric and argumentation to negotiate identity, power, and difference. I am particularly interested in understanding rhetorics of inclusion and exclusion in public culture through the study of gender, race, class, and sexuality. My research appears in a number of academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Women's Studies in Communication, and Argumentation and Advocacy. A full CV is available on my departmental page.

My first book, Debating Women: Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945, is available from Michigan State University Press (2018) and other online retailers. Debating Women highlights the crucial role that debating organizations played as nineteenth and twentieth century women sought to access the fruits of higher education in the United States and United Kingdom. Debating Women was awarded the 2019 James A. Winans- Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address and the 2018 Daniel Rohrer Memorial Outstanding Research Award from the American Forensic Association. Please see the University of Maryland's College of Arts and Humanities's article on the book.

​My current research is focused on two main threads:
  1. Histories of international argumentation, debate, and education efforts.
  2. Public memory about another debating woman: the former U.S. Congress member and educator Barbara C. Jordan.

Recent Publications​
  • "Barbara Jordan and the Ongoing Struggle for Voting Rights" in Quarterly Journal of Speech (2020)
  • "Networked Memories: Remembering Barbara Jordan in 21st century Immigration Debates" in Winkler's Networking Argument (2020).
  • With Kristen Lucas, "Gossard Girls are Good Girls: Labor Activism at a 1949 Garment Factory Strike," in Gold and Enoch's Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor (2019).
  • With Michele Kennerly, "Moving Rhetorica" in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2018)
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