Erik Doxtader (1966-2025), was a scholar of rhetoric and critical theory. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, Doxtader took a BA at the University of Kansas and both an MA and Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.
Career Doxtader was a professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina, Faculty page, Department of English, University of South Carolina (accessed 20 September 2021). and an editor of Philosophy & Rhetoric, an international quarterly journal published by the Pennsylvania State University Press. Prior to assuming the editorship in 2018, he served as the journal's Book Review Editor from 2005-2017.Philosophy & Rhetoric, Editorial Masthead, Penn State University Press (accessed 21 September 2021).
Doxtader was a former Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, a recognized non-governmental organization in Cape Town, South Africa.Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, "Institute Research Fellows", IJR Annual Report, 2012, 39 (accessed 20 September 2021); Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, "Senior Research Fellows", IJR Annual Report, 2013, 34, (accessed 21 September 2021); Daily Maverick, "Erik Doxtader" (accessed 21 September 2021); United Nations, South Africa's Institute for Justice and Reconciliation wins UNESCO award", UN News, 28 May (accessed 21 September 2021). In 1999, he was awarded a 2000-2001 fellowship in the SSRC-MacArthur program in Peace and Security in a Changing World.Social Science Research Council, "International Peace and Security Postdoctoral Fellows," Items: Social Science Research Council, 52:4, (December 1998), 109 (accessed 21 September 2021). His book, With Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa, received the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America book award.Rhetoric Society of America, "Awards - RSA Book Award Recipients" (accessed 21 September 2021).
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