大卫Timmerman

大卫·米. Timmerman has served as Carthage Provost and Chief Academic Officer since August of 2018. In July 2019, he was named Chief Operating Officer.

After receiving a Bachelor of 艺术 in psychology from the University of California, 洛杉矶, Provost Timmerman went on to earn a Master of Divinity from the 丹佛神学院. After earning a Doctor of Philosophy in communication from Purdue University, he began his formal academic career at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, 印第安纳州, in 1994. 在那里, he worked in roles of increasing responsibility for 16 years, receiving the McLain-McTurnan-Arnold Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2005.

An accomplished scholar, 老师, 和管理员, Provost Timmerman came to Carthage from Monmouth College in western Illinois, where he served as dean of the faculty and vice president of academic affairs. 在蒙茅斯的时候, he oversaw the development of the college’s academic program, and worked collaboratively with faculty to create successful interdisciplinary programs in global food security, global public health, 艺术管理, and peace and social justice. His scholarship has focused on rhetoric in ancient Greece, and how rhetoric developed as a discipline in conjunction with the birth of democracy and the liberal arts tradition. Provost Timmerman has taught courses such as 公民身份, 古典修辞, African American Rhetoric, and The 幽默修辞.

Provost Timmerman has contributed to a number of books on the subject, most recently as co-author of “公众演讲 and Democratic Participation: Speaking, 听 and Deliberating in The Civic Realm.出版于2016年, it addresses civic engagement at a time of increasing turbulence in the public realm.

• Ph.D.普渡大学
• M.Div. 丹佛神学院
• B.A., U.C.L.A.

• African American Rhetoric
• 公民身份
• 古典修辞
• Cultures and Tradition
• 法律的争论
• 政治辩论
• 公众演讲
• 幽默修辞

• The Development of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece
• Rhetoric and Democratic Practice
• 公众演讲 as a Liberal Art
• Political Communication
• 宗教的言论

Timmerman,大卫. “A Too Uncommon, Common Good: The Role of Discussion and Deliberation in Vocational Discernment.” In Called 除了 Ourselves: Vocation and the Common Good. Ed. 艾琳VanLaningham. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2024.

公众演讲 and Democratic Participation: Speaking, 听, and Deliberating in the Civic Realm. Co-authored with Jennifer Abbott, Todd McDorman, and Jill Lamberton. Oxford University Press, 2016. 杰布的伊苏克拉底. (Co-edited with Edward Schiappa and Giles Laurén). Charleston, SC: Sophron, 2016.

Faith in the Composition Classroom. Rhetoric Review 32 (2013): 366-367.

Humor, Race, and Rhetoric: “A Liberating Sabotage of the Past’s Hold on the Present.” (Co-authored with Grant Gussman and Daniel King). Rhetoric Review 31 (2012): 169-187.

Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory and the Disciplining of Discourse. (Co-authored with Edward Schiappa). Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Midway Between Slavery and 公民身份: Black Freedmen in White Protestant Sermons in the Immediate Post Civil War Period. 罗伯特·埃里森(Ed).), A New History of the Sermon, 19th Century. 资金上:布里尔. (2010).

Rhetoric and Democracy: Pedagogical and Political Practices. (Co-edited with Todd F. McDorman). East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2008.

Christian Pacifism and the Prophetic Voice: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Peace Address. Journal of Communication and Religion 28 (2005): 153-171.

The Aristotelian Fix: 4th Century Perspectives on Political Deliberation. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 32 (2002): 77-98.

Contemporary Pedagogy for 古典修辞: Averting the Reductionism of Classical Opposition. In Enos, Richard Leo, Beard, David E., Yoder, Sarah, and Hermanson, Amy (Eds.), Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2007 [Reprint, 2000].

Isocrates’ Competing Conceptualization of Philosophy. Philosophy and Rhetoric 31 (1998): 145-159

The 1992 Presidential Candidate Films: The Contrasting Narratives of George Bush and Bill Clinton. Presidential Studies Quarterly 26 (1996): 364-373.

The World According to Pat: The Telepolitical Celebrity as Purveyor of Medicine. (Co-authored with Larry D. 史密斯). Political Communication 11 (1994): 233-248.

Ancient Greek Origins of Argumentation Theory: Plato’s Transformation of Dialegesthai to Dialectic. Argumentation and Advocacy 29 (1993): 116-123.