Becky Kuehl

Title

Associate Academic Director/Professor

Office Building

Pugsley Center

Office

115

Mailing Address

Pugsley Cont Ed Center 115
School of Communication and Journalism-Box 2218
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

CV

Education

• B.A. in communication studies with honors | Gustavus Adolphus College | 2005
• M.A. in speech communication | University of Georgia | 2007
• Ph.D. in communication studies | University of Minnesota | 2011

Academic Interests

• Rhetorical Citizenship
• Public Deliberation
• Civic Education
• Women's Health

Academic Responsibilities

• CMST 101: Fundamentals of Speech
• CMST 215: Public Speaking
• CMST 222: Argumentation and Debate
• CMST/WMST 415-515: Communication and Gender
• CMST 416-516: Rhetorical Criticism
• CMST 470: Intercultural Communication
• CMST 470: Honors Intercultural Communication
• CMST 492-592: Topics: Pop Culture and Communication
• CMST 701: Intro to Graduate Studies
• CMST 792: Topics: Graduate Writing Seminar
• CMST 792: Topics: Rhetorical Citizenship

Committees and Professional Memberships

Committees

• Pathways to Inclusive and Equitable Workplaces in Sioux Falls
• Brookings Inclusive Collaborative
• Brookings Supports Breastfeeding
• South Dakota State University Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Coalition

Professional Memberships

• National Communication Association
• Central States Communication Association
• Speech Communication Association of South Dakota

Awards and Honors

• 2023, F. O. Butler Award for Excellence in Teaching, South Dakota State University
• 2023, Sewrey Colloquium on Research and Scholarship (with Dr. Molly Enz), South Dakota State University
• 2022,  Award for Outstanding Service to College, College of Arts, Humanitities and Social Sciences, South Dakota State University
• 2022, Sewrey Colloquium on Teaching and Learning, South Dakota State University
• 2022, Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College Faculty Mentor, South Dakota State University
• 2021, Edward Patrick Hogan Award for Excellence in Teaching, South Dakota State University
• 2020, Victor K. Webster Lecture: Creating Common Ground in a Contentious Political Climate: Studying Thomas A. Daschle's Leadership Speeches as a Model for Bi-Partisanship, South Dakota State University
• 2019, David Fee Memorial Lecture: Using Public Deliberation to Communication About and Address "Wicked Problems", South Dakota State University
• 2018, Outstanding Public Health Team Award, Brookings Supports Breastfeeding, South Dakota Public Health Association
• 2018, Joyce M. Lampson Award for Excellence in Faculty Citizenship, Department of Communications Studies, South Dakota State University
• 2017, Outstanding Experiential Learning Educator Award, College of Arts and Sciences, South Dakota State University
• 2017, Award for Excellence in Outreach and Engagement (with Dr. Jenn Anderson), South Dakota State University
• 2017, Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College Faculty Mentor, South Dakota State University
• 2016, Outstanding Young Speech Teacher Award, Speech Communication Association of South Dakota
• 2016, Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College Faculty Mentor, South Dakota State University
• 2016, Basic Level of Online Instructor Certification, Instructional Design Services, South Dakota State University
• 2016, Exemplary Chapter Advisor for Lambda Pi Eta, South Dakota State University Alpha Alpha Pi Chapter, Department of Communication Studies, South Dakota State University

Grants

• Neubauer, M. and Kuehl, R. A. Brookings Public Library and Brookings Inclusive Collaborative: Brookings Community Intergroup Dialogues. South Dakota Humanities Council external grant, June - October 2023, $3,725.
• Enz, M. K., Kuehl, R. A., Hanson, J., and Moore, E. Working caregivers in the age of COVID-19: Perspectives from South Dakota State University employees. Collaborative Scholarship Fund Proposal, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences internal grant, May 2021 – August 2021, $2,927.
• Kuehl, R. A., Enz, M., Drury, S. A. M., Lammers, A., Garst-Santos, C., Williams, K., Rovai, M., Doom, K., Heuton, A., Hauge, S., Petterson, D., Rhodes, M., Plummer, L., Torres Chan, S. and Whitehead, L. Deliberating diversity: Communicating about our community climate to enhance inclusion in Brookings businesses. Bush Foundation Community Innovation external grant, February 2020 – December 2022, $193,256.
• Kuehl, R. A. and Knippling, O. Finding rhetorical common ground: Analyzing Thomas A. Daschle’s leadership speeches as a model for bi-partisanship. Faculty Research/Scholarship Fellowship - Thomas A.  Daschle Career Papers Collection internal grant, June 2019 - August 2019, $7,500.
• Kuehl, R. A. and Anderson, J. Women in human trafficking. Women and Giving internal grant, December 2015 - December 2016, $1,500.
• Anderson, J., Kuehl, R. A., Tschetter, L., Schwaegerl, M., Yoder, J., Gullickson, H., Drury, S., Hildreth, M. and Bachman, C. Baby-friendly Brookings: Creating community conversations about public breastfeeding. Bush Foundation Community Innovation external grant, November 2013 - June 2015, $73,721.
• Anderson, J., Hungerford, H., Kang, S.W., Kuehl, R. A., Schwaegerl, M., Delbridge, E. and Yoder, J. Birthing opportunities: Experiences of SDSU nursing students and community women as volunteer doulas at Brookings Health System. Women and Giving internal grant, December 2012 - December 2013, $2,000.
• Anderson, J., Hungerford, H., Kang, S.W., Kuehl, R. A., Schwaegerl, M., Delbridge, E. and Yoder, J. Rural mothers’ experiences with the innovative doula program at Brookings Health System. Rural Health Research Center internal grant, December 2012-December 2013, $2,500.

Work Experience

• Graduate school fellow, University of Minnesota
• Graduate instructor, University of Minnesota
• Research assistant and teaching assistant, University of Georgia

Areas of Research

• Rhetorical citizenship
• Public deliberation
• Civic education
• Women's health discourses

I have been involved in a variety of community-based research partnerships while at SDSU, including with the South Dakota Department of Health, Brookings Health System, the Brookings Area Chamber of Commerce, Brookings Economic Development Corporation, Vision Brookings and the Brookings Human Rights Commission.

Publications

1. Kuehl, R. A., Enz, M. K. and Drury, S. A. M. (2023). Using enclave groups to discuss workplace cultural diversity and community inclusion. Human Communication Research, online first. DOI: 10.1093/hcr/hqad006.
2. Kuehl, R. A. (2022). Case study: Partnering intercultural communication students with campus co-cultural student groups to develop intercultural competence, allyship and curiosity. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 21(4). DOI: 10.14434/josotl.v21i4.32673.
3. Kuehl, R. A. and Knippling, O. R. (2021). Finding common ground: Analyzing Thomas A. Daschle’s Senate leadership speeches as a model for bipartisanship. Discourse: The Journal of the Speech Communication Association of South Dakota, 6, Article 1.
4. Kuehl, R. A., Anderson, J., Drury, S. A. M., Holman, A., Hunt, C. and Leighter, J. L. (2020). Creating a multidisciplinary dialogue about community-based participatory research partnerships of health and medicine. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 3(1), 93-132. DOI: 10.5744/rhm.2020.1004.
5. Jantzer, A. M., Anderson, J. and Kuehl, R. A. (2018). Breastfeeding support in the workplace: The relationships among breastfeeding support, work-life balance, and job satisfaction. Journal of Human Lactation, 34(2), 379-385. DOI: 10.1177/0890334417707956.
6. Drury, S. A. M. and Kuehl, R. A. (2018, co-editors of the special issue). Introduction to the special issue on the rhetoric of the 2016 U.S. election. Communication Quarterly, 66(2), 111-116. DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2018.1441161.
7. Horstman, H. K., Anderson, J. and Kuehl, R. A. (2017). Communicatively making sense of doulas within the U.S. master birth narrative: Doulas as liminal characters. Health Communication, 32(12), 1510-1519. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1234537.
8. Kuehl, R. A. and Hungerford, H. (2017). Global citizenship in intercultural communication: Spatial awareness of globalization through map your consumption. Communication Teacher, 31(4), 220-225. DOI: 10.1080/17404622.2017.1358388.
9. Anderson, J., Kuehl, R. A., Drury, S. A. M., Tschetter, L., Schwaegerl, M., Yoder, J….Hildreth, M. (2017). Brookings supports breastfeeding: Using public deliberation as a community-engaged approach to dissemination of research. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 7(4), 783-792. DOI: 10.1007/s13142-017-0480-6.
10. Kuehl, R. A. and Anderson, J. (2015). Designing public communication about doulas: Analyzing absence and presence in promoting a volunteer doula program. Communication Design Quarterly, 3(4), 75-84. DOI: 10.1145/2826972.2826979.
11. Kuehl, R.A., Drury, S. A. M. and Anderson, J. (invited article, 2015). Civic engagement and public health issues: Community support for breastfeeding through rhetoric and health communication collaborations. Communication Quarterly, 63(5), 510-515. DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2015.1103598.
12. Anderson, J., Kuehl, R. A., Drury, S. A. M., Tschetter, L., Schwaegerl, M., Hildreth, M., … Lamp, J. (2015). Policies aren’t enough: The importance of interpersonal communication about workplace breastfeeding support. Journal of Human Lactation, 31(2), 260-266. DOI: 10.1177/0890334415570059.
13. Kuehl, R. A., Westwick, J. N. and Hunter, K. M. (2014). “Y R U NOT RESPONDING:” Teaching effective email communication. Journal of the Communication, Speech, and Theatre Association of North Dakota, 27, 23-30.
14. Kuehl, R. A. (2012). The rhetorical presidency and "accountability" in education reform: Comparing the presidential rhetoric of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Southern Communication Journal, 77(4), 329-348.

Peer-reviewed chapters in books:

1. Kuehl, R. A., Drury, S. A. M. and Anderson, J. (2020). Rhetoric as rhetorical health citizenship: Rhetorical agency, public deliberation, and health citizenship as rhetorical forms. In L. Meloncon, S. Graham, J. Johnson, J. Lynch, & C. Ryan (Eds.), The rhetoric of health and medicine as/is: Theories and approaches for the field (pp. 161-181). Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
2. Drury, S. A. M., Kuehl, R. A. and Anderson, J. (2017). Deliberation as civic education: Incorporating public deliberation into communication studies curricula. In J. M. Hogan, J. A. Kurr, M. J. Bergmaier and J. D. Johnson (Eds.), Speech and debate as civic education (Chapter 13). University Park: Penn State University Press.
3. Anderson, J., Kuehl, R. A. and Drury, S. A. M. (2017). Blending qualitative, quantitative and rhetorical methods to engage citizens in public deliberation to improve workplace breastfeeding support. In SAGE research methods cases part 2. DOI: 10.4135/9781473953796.
4. Kuehl, R. A. (2014). Extending civic rhetoric: Valuing rhetorical dimensions of global citizenship in civic education. In C. Kock and L. S. Villadsen (Eds.), in Contemporary rhetorical citizenship: Purposes, practices, and perspectives. (pp. 291-308). Leiden, the Netherlands: Leiden University Press.
5. Kuehl, R. A. (2011). Toward a feminist rhetorical theory of global citizenship: (Re)contextualizing social rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In A. de Velasco and M. Lehn (Eds.), Rhetoric: Concord and controversy (pp. 167-180). Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.