Member Spotlight – December

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Our third member spotlight of 2016 is founding member and PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Political Culture (COMM) Kim Hannah-Prater.

My name is Kim Hannah-Prater. I’m a doctoral candidate in communication, wkim-candid-photoith a research focus on political satire and media studies. Over the past few years, I’ve taught public speaking, rhetorical analysis, and gendered communication. One reason I decided to study at UMD is because of the proximity to many historical and contemporary settings for rhetoric and because of the wonderful research done by scholars in my department. Since living here, I’ve visited Gettysburg to see the location where Lincoln delivered his famous address, and I stopped by Lincoln Park in DC to see the Freedmen’s Memorial that Frederick Douglass so eloquently critiqued.

I have served Cheló̱na RSA as our publicity chair since the 2015-2016 academic year. It was a pleasure to live tweet our organization’s Terps Talk Politics symposium in October 2016, and I have also enjoyed sharing news relevant to the membership. Also, I am a graduate student senator for University Senate and serve on the student affairs committee. I look forward to interacting with other Cheló̱na RSA members this spring.
Thank you, Kim, for your service to our organization and contributions to the field of rhetoric!