| Name: David
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Powers |
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| Department: Communication / Speech (Arts & Communication Division)
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| Title: Part-Time Communication Instructor |
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Office Location:
Levine (Levine Campus),
3300
Levine Campus |
| Phone Number:
(704)330-6618 |
| Fax Number:
(704)330-6438 |
Email Address: David.Powers@cpcc.edu
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Educational Background:
A.B., University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, October, 1964-June, 1968. Major in philosophy(with honors). Honors thesis topic: Ethical philosophy. Also, significant course concentration in linguistic theory, value theory, and aesthetics.
B.H.L. (Bachelor of Hebrew Letters), M.A.H.L., Rabbinic Ordination. Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, OH, September, 1968-June, 1972. Concentration in rabbinics and religious philosophy. Rabbinic thesis topic: The emergent evolution theology of Samuel Alexander and its connection to the philosophy of Spinoza and other Jewish and Christian religious philosophers.
Ph.D., Kent State University, School of Communication Studies, December 1996. Major areas of study: rhetorical theory, critical theory, critical methodologies. Dissertation title: The Rhetorical Construction of Power in Victimage Mechanisms: A synthesis of a Literary Theory of Victimage with a Sociological Theory of Power: The Methodology of Power/Victimage Analysis
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Educational Experience:
Instructor, Arts and Communications, Central Piedmont Community College, 2007-
Instructor, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2007-2008
Assistant Professor (NTT), School of Communication Studies, Kent State University, 1997-2004
Instructor (part-time), School of Communication Studies, Kent State University, 1992-1997
University Fellow, School of Communication Studies, Kent State University, 1991-1992.
Teaching Fellow, School of Communication Studies, Kent State University, 1990-1991.
Instructor (part-time), Department of Philosophy, Youngstown State University, 1987-1990.
Instructor (part-time), Department of Speech Communication and Theatre, Youngstown State University, 1988.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Religion, Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA, c. 1987-1988.
Instructor in logic, Northern Community College, Covington, KY, 1968.
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Publications:
Powers, David E. "Toward a Theory of Social Movements in Non-Democratic Societies: The Case of Post-Totalitarian Czechoslovakia." World Communication Journal 19.2 (1990): 91-119.
Powers, David E. "The Fast Road to Freedom: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Un-ion." Paper presented at the annual conference of the Central States Communication Association, April 1992.
Powers, David E. "The Rhetoric of Third Dimensional Power." Paper presented at the annual conference of the Central States Communication Association, April 1992.
Powers, David E. "Toward a Pre-Hierarchical Guiltless Hermeneutic of Victimage." Paper presented at the annual conference of the Central States Communication Association, April 1991.
Powers, David E. "Toward a Theory of Social Movements in Non-Democratic Societies: The Case of Post-Totalitarian Czechoslovakia." Paper presented at the annual conference of the Central States Communication Association, April 1991.
Powers, David E., and William I. Gorden. "The Academic Administrative Rhetoric of Gemeinschaft: A Sociological-Rhetorical Critique." Paper presented at the an-nual conference of the Central States Communication Association, April 1990.
Rubin, Rebecca B., Matthew M. Martin, Steven S. Bruning, and David E. Powers. "Interpersonal Communication Competence: Scale Development and Test of a Self-Efficacy Model." Paper presented at the annual conference of the Speech Communication Association, October 1991.
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