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Whitney Gent

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Whitney Gent

Whitney Gent

  • Assistant Professor
  • Communication Studies

email:
wgent@unomaha.edu
office:
  • ASH 107D
department phone:
402.554.2600
fax:
402.554.3836

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Biography

Whitney Gent is an assistant professor in the School of Communication.

She earned her doctorate in rhetoric, politics, & culture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She teaches argumentation and research methods.

Her research focuses on:

  • Advocacy rhetorics in policymaking
  • Public deliberation
  • Public sphere theory
  • Rhetorical theory and criticism
  • Rhetorics of homelessness and poverty
Research and Creative Activity Interests

Recent publications:

Gent, W., Sauter, E., Cronn-Mills, D. (forthcoming 2020) “Moving Beyond Validity in Rhetorical Studies.” Annals of the International Communication Association. 
Asen, R., Gent, W. (forthcoming, 2019) “Reconsidering Symbolic Use: A Situational Model of the Use of Research Evidence in Polarised Legislative Hearings.” Evidence & Policy. 

Gent, W. (2018) “‘Expensive’ People: Consumer Citizenship and the Construction of Neoliberal Publics.” Communication and the Public, 3(3), 190-204.
Gent, W.  (2017) “Tokenism and Cultural (Mis)Recognition in ‘The Man with the Golden Voice.’” Howard Journal of Communications, 28(3), 217-233. 
Gent, W. (2017) “When Homelessness Becomes a ‘Luxury’: Neutrality as an Obstacle to Counterpublic Rights Claims.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 103(3), 230-250. 

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison

M.A., Indiana University - Bloomington

Scheduled Teaching
  • Media Communication Research
  • Argumentation and Debate

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Biography Research and Creative Activity Interests Education Scheduled Teaching

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