Becky Kuehl

CV

Kuehl CV September 2016.doc(145.5 KB)

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

I have taught the following courses at SDSU:
CMST 101: Fundamentals of Speech;
CMST 215: Public Speaking;
CMST 222: Argumentation & Debate;
CMST/WMST 415-515: Communication & Gender;
CMST 416-516: Rhetorical Criticism;
CMST 470: Intercultural Communication;
CMST 470: Honors Intercultural Communication;
CMST 492-592: Topics: Pop Culture & Communication;
CMST 701: Intro to Graduate Studies;
CMST 792: Topics: Graduate Writing Seminar
CMST 792: Topics: Rhetorical Citizenship

Committee Activities

Pathways to Inclusive & Equitable Workplaces in Sioux Falls (community coalition);
Brookings Inclusive Collaborative (community coalition);
Brookings Supports Breastfeeding (community coalition);
SDSU Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Coalition

Awards and Honors

2023 F. O. Butler Award for Excellence in Teaching, SDSU
2023 Sewrey Colloquium on Research and Scholarship (with Dr. Molly Enz), SDSU
2022 College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Award for Outstanding Service to the College, SDSU
2022 Sewrey Colloquium on Teaching and Learning, SDSU
2022 Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College Faculty Mentor, SDSU
2021 Edward Patrick Hogan Award for Excellence in Teaching, SDSU
2020 Victor K. Webster Lecture, SDSU. Lecture Title: Creating common ground in a contentious political climate: Studying Thomas A. Daschle’s leadership speeches as a model for bi-partisanship.
2019 David Fee Memorial Lecture, SDSU. Lecture Title: Using public deliberation to communicate about and address "wicked problems."
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 Communication Studies, SDSU
2017 Outstanding Experiential Learning Educator Award, College of Arts & Sciences, SDSU
2017 Award for Excellence in Outreach and Engagement (with Dr. Jenn Anderson), SDSU
2017 Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College Faculty Mentor, SDSU
2016 Outstanding Young Speech Teacher Award, Speech Communication Association of South Dakota
2016 Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College Faculty Mentor, SDSU
2016 Basic Level of Online Instructor Certification, Instructional Design Services, SDSU
2016 Exemplary chapter advisor for Lambda Pi Eta, SDSU Alpha Alpha Pi chapter, Department of Communication Studies, SDSU

Grants

1) Neubauer, M. (PI) & Kuehl, R. A. (2023). Brookings Public Library and Brookings Inclusive Collaborative: Brookings Community Intergroup Dialogues. South Dakota Humanities Council external grant. June - October 2023, awarded $3,725.

2) Enz, M. K., Kuehl, R. A., Hanson, J., & Moore, E. (all co-PIs, 2021). 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, awarded $2,927.

3) Kuehl, R. A. (PI), Enz, M. (co-PI), 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., & Whitehead, L. (2020). Deliberating diversity: Communicating about our community climate to enhance inclusion in Brookings businesses. Bush Foundation Community Innovation external grant, February 2020 – December 2022, awarded $193,256.

4) Kuehl, R. A. (PI), & Knippling, O. (2019, May). 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, awarded $7,500.

5) Kuehl, R. A. (PI), & Anderson, J. (2015, December). Women in human trafficking. Received funding for a one-time enrichment event in Fall 2016. Women & Giving internal grant, December 2015-December 2016, awarded $1,500.

6) Anderson, J. (co-PI), Kuehl, R. A. (co-PI), Tschetter, L., Schwaegerl, M., Yoder, J., Gullickson, H., Drury, S., Hildreth, M., & Bachman, C. (2013). Baby-friendly Brookings: Creating community conversations about public breastfeeding. Bush Foundation Community Innovation external grant, November 2013-June 2015, awarded $73,721.

7) Anderson, J. (PI), Hungerford, H., Kang, S.W., Kuehl, R. A., Schwaegerl, M., Delbridge, E., & Yoder, J. (2012). Birthing opportunities: Experiences of SDSU nursing students and community women as volunteer doulas at Brookings Health System. Women & Giving internal grant, December 2012-December 2013, awarded $2,000.

8) Anderson, J. (PI), Hungerford, H., Kang, S.W., Kuehl, R. A., Schwaegerl, M., Delbridge, E., & Yoder, J. (2012). Rural mothers’ experiences with the innovative doula program at Brookings Health System. Rural Health Research Center internal grant, December 2012-December 2013, awarded $2,500.

Professional Memberships

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

Work Experience

Graduate School Fellow, University of Minnesota;
Graduate Instructor, University of Minnesota;
Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia

Area(s) of Research

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

I. Articles in peer-reviewed journals:
1) Kuehl, R. A., Enz, M. K., & Drury, S. A. M. (2023). Using enclave groups to discuss workplace cultural diversity and community inclusion. Human Communication Research, online first. https://doi.org/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). https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v21i4.32673

3) Kuehl, R. A., & 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. https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/discoursejournal/vol6/iss1/1

4) Kuehl, R. A., Anderson, J., Drury, S. A. M., Holman, A., Hunt, C., & 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., & 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., & 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., & 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., & 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., & 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., & 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., & 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.

II. Peer-reviewed chapters in books:
1) Kuehl, R. A., Drury, S. A. M., & 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., & Anderson, J. (2017). Deliberation as civic education: Incorporating public deliberation into communication studies curricula. In J. M. Hogan, J. A. Kurr, M. J. Bergmaier, & J. D. Johnson (Eds.), Speech and debate as civic education (Chapter 13). University Park: Penn State University Press.

3) Anderson, J., Kuehl, R. A., & 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 & 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 & M. Lehn (Eds.), Rhetoric: Concord and controversy (pp. 167-180). Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.

Applications of Research

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.