Dr. Stacey Sowards

Biography

Stacey K. Sowards teaches courses in communication theory, rhetorical theory, environmental communication, gender communication, and intercultural communication. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 2001. Her research focuses on environmental, intercultural, and gender communication in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the United States. Notably, her dissertation involved a study of environmental organizations in Kalimantan, Indonesia, funded by a J. William Fulbright grant from 2000 to 2001. In 2005, she received the Fulbright-Hays grant for further study in Indonesia. Dr. Sowards is fluent in Spanish and Indonesian and has published extensively, including book chapters and journal articles in notable publications such as Argumentation and Advocacy, Communication Studies, Philosophy & Rhetoric, and Communication Theory. Her book on Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers was published in 2019 by the University of Texas Press. Additionally, Dr. Sowards has served as a department chair and full professor in the Department of Communication and as a research fellow at the Sam Donaldson Center at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her work engages with the complex politics of race, gender, language, and class and their impact on marginalized communities in the United States and South America.

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