Catherine Morrison
Lecturer
CONTACT
Office: 305 Davis Hall
Phone: (401) 874-4044
E-mail: catemorrison@mail.uri.edu
- Ph.D. candidate, Communication
- University of Pittsburgh
- M.A., Communication
- University of Pittsburgh, 2005
- B.A., English Literature
- James Madison University, 2003
- COM100: Communication Fundamentals
- COM100H: Communication Fundamentals Honors (Special topic: Communication and Publicness)
- COM202: Public Speaking
- COM208: Argumentation and Debate
- COM302: Advanced Public Speaking
- COM383: Rhetorical Theory
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
"The Debate Author Working Group Model for Collaborative Knowledge Production in Forensics Scholarship" (coauthor with Gordon R. Mitchell, Carly S. Woods, Matthew Brigham, Eric English, and John Rief). Argumentation and Advocacy, 47(1): 1-24
"Review: Human Goodness: Pragmatic Variations on Platonic Themes by Paul Schollmeier." Philosophy and Rhetoric 41(2): 190-194
"Debate as a Weapon of Mass Destruction" (coauthor with Eric English, Stephen Llano, John Rief, and Carly Woods). Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies 4 (2007): 222-226
"Letting Something Be Said to Us: Rhetoric, Philosophy and the Ontological Foundations of Doxa" presented at the Society for Student Philosophers annual conference, Austin, TX April 12, 2010.
BIO
Cate Morrison has been teaching communication, rhetoric, argumentation and debate at URI since 2008. Her research interests include the history and philosophy of rhetoric, argumentation and public deliberation, aesthetics, and the rhetoric of science.
Cate is also a former competitive policy debater and coach, who is interested in providing opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in debate here at URI.
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