Rachel A Smith Department of Communication Arts and Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University United States
Rachel A. Smith (Ph.D., Michigan State) is a Professor in the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences and the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Smith is a quantitative scientist whose interests lie broadly in social influence and social systems. Themes in her scholarship include why some expressions of prejudice diffuse and become social stigmas, and how social power and affiliation shape persuasion and resistance.
Rosa A. Eberly The Pennsylvania State University United States
Rosa A. Eberly (PhD, Penn State) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences and the Department of English at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Eberly developed the theory of rhetoric classrooms as proto-public spaces. She is a free-range rhetorician whose publications span topics as diverse as ancient rhetoric and poetics, histories of rhetorical theory, sonic rhetoric, public memory, publics theory, deliberation, and gun violence.