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Overview

  • Jennifer L. Borda is Professor of Communication, specializing in rhetoric, feminist studies, civil discourse and democratic deliberation. She is author of Women Labor Activists in the Movies: Nine Depictions of Workplace Organizers, 1954-2005 (McFarland Publishers, 2010) and co-editor of The Motherhood Business: Consumption, Communication, and Privilege (University of Alabama Press, 2015). Her essays have been published in various academic journals and anthologies, including Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, the Journal of Deliberative Democracy, Communication Monographs, Feminist Media Studies, and The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, among others. She is Co-founder/Co-Director of the UNH Civil Discourse Lab (CDL), which is committed to non-partisanship and a focus on process rather than product or content. The CDL trains students to become neutral facilitators of challenging and contentious discussions, using small groups to focus participants on fundamental differences, shared values, and listening to each other’s perspectives, in order to encourage greater understanding. In 2021, she was awarded the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award for the UNH College of Liberal Arts. Borda also received a UNH Center for the Humanities fellowship in 2014 for her research focusing on how discourse and ideologies about women, work, motherhood, and identity have been constructed and challenged through the mass media and online deliberation. She has been a fellow on the NSF-funded ADVANCE IT grant “UNH Unbiased” in which she co-chaired a subcommittee to address career-life balance issues relating to the recruitment of women and underrepresented STEM faculty. She also has been a member of UNH’s President’s Commission on the Status of Women and the Grand Challenges Steering Committee. She has been an invited participant in the Kettering Foundation Initiatives in Democratic Practices Learning Exchange and the SNF Ithaca Initiative Leadership Summit and the SNF Ithaca National Student Dialogue.
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    Teaching Activities

  • Gendered Rhetorics Taught course
  • Internship Taught course
  • Internship Taught course
  • Internship Taught course
  • Internship Taught course
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course
  • Special Topics in Comm Taught course
  • Internship Taught course 2023
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2023
  • Communication and Deliberation Taught course 2022
  • Internship Taught course 2022
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2022
  • Democratic Deliberation Taught course 2021
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2021
  • Gendered Rhetorics Taught course 2021
  • Gendered Rhetorics Taught course 2021
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2021
  • Gendered Rhetorics Taught course 2020
  • Seminar in Rhetorical Theory Taught course 2020
  • Gendered Rhetorics Taught course 2020
  • Seminar in Rhetorical Theory Taught course 2019
  • Research Practicum Taught course 2019
  • Sem/Gendered Rhetorics Taught course 2019
  • Seminar in Rhetorical Theory Taught course 2018
  • Honors Thesis Taught course 2018
  • Seminar in Rhetorical Study Taught course 2018
  • American Public Address Taught course 2017
  • Analysis of Popular Culture Taught course 2017
  • Honors Thesis Taught course 2017
  • Pub Addrss:Soc Pro Rhet & Resi Taught course 2017
  • Research Practicum Taught course 2017
  • Analysis of Popular Culture Taught course 2016
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2016
  • Research Practicum Taught course 2016
  • Internship Taught course 2016
  • Analysis of Popular Culture Taught course 2016
  • Social Protest: Rhetoric & Res Taught course 2016
  • Internship Taught course 2015
  • Analysis of Popular Culture Taught course 2015
  • Social Protest: Rhetoric & Res Taught course 2015
  • Internship Taught course 2014
  • Internship Taught course 2014
  • Rhet of Contemp Feminism Taught course 2014
  • Rhet of Contemp Feminism\Honor Taught course 2014
  • Education And Training

  • B.A. Communications, Villanova University
  • M.A. Speech/Theater Education, Pennsylvania State University
  • Ph.D. Speech/Theater Education, Pennsylvania State University
  • Full Name

  • Jennifer Borda