Ronald C. Arnett, Ph.D.
- Department Chair
- Professor
- Henry Koren, C.S.Sp., Endowed Chair for Scholarly Excellence
Awards and Honors
(2011) Fellow, Collegium of Fellows, International Communicology Institute
(2010) Elizabeth G. Andersch Award, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University
(2009) Selected Faculty member, National Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar, West Virginia University
(2009) Centennial Scholar of Communication, Eastern Communication Association 100th Annual Convention ‘Defining Moments: A Century of Communication’, Philadelphia, PA
(2009) Centennial Scholar of Philosophy of Communication, Eastern Communication Association 100th Annual Convention ‘Defining Moments: A Century of Communication’, Philadelphia, PA
(2008) “Scholar in Residence” and Keynote Address presentation, 10th National Communication Ethics Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
(2008) Honoree, Scholarly Spotlight Panel, Eastern Communication Association 99th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
(2008) Elected by previous recipients to receive the 2008 Teaching Fellow of the Eastern Communication Association at the annual convention, Pittsburgh, PA
(2007) Elected by previous recipients to receive the 2007 Research Fellow of the Eastern Communication Association at the annual convention, Providence, RI
(2006) Recipient of the 2006 National Communication Association Robert J. Kibler Service Award for visionary leadership, presented at the National Communication Association annual convention, San Antonio, TX
(2006) Recipient of the 2006 Everett Lee Hunt Award for Outstanding Scholarship for Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer’s Rhetoric of Responsibility, Eastern Communication Association
(2005) Recipient of the 2005 Scholar of the Year Award, Religious Communication Association
(2003) Donald H. Ecroyd Research and Scholarship Award, Pennsylvania Communication Association annual convention, State College, PA
(2001) Carroll Arnold Distinguished Services Award, Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania annual convention
(1999) Recipient of the Duquesne University Eugene P. Beard Award for Leadership in Ethics for faculty
(1999) Religious Communication Association Article of the Year Award for “Interpersonal Praxis: The Interplay of Religious Narrative, Historicality, and Metaphor”
(1997) Selected by student vote Patron Saint for Saturday College Commencement, Division of Continuing Education, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. Commencement Speaker, Duquesne University Division of Continuing Education, Student Elected
(1996) Ohio University Outstanding Alumnus and an inductee into the Interpersonal Communication Hall of Fame
(1988) Book Award by the Religious Speech Communication Association for Communication and community: Implications of Martin Buber's dialogue
(1981) Featured Speaker at Northern Plains Church of the Brethren District Conference, Waverly, Iowa, centered on Dwell in peace: Applying nonviolence to everyday relationships
(1981) Distinguished Service Award by St. Cloud State University Programming Board
(1980) Commencement Speaker at St. Cloud State University, selected by the Student Senate
(1980) St. Cloud State University Merit Award for service to the University
(1979) Teacher at Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, competitively selected
(1979) Recipient of the Outstanding Article of the Year Award by the Religious Speech Communication Association, 1979, for “Self-Fulfillment and Interpersonal Communication”
Professional Offices
National Level
Editor, Review of Communication, 2010-2012
Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Identity, 2007-2009
President, Vice President, and 2nd Vice President, Religious Communication Association, 2000-2005
Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion, 1987-1991
Chairperson, Registration Committee, Speech Communication National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, 1986
Regional Level
Executive Director, Eastern Communication Association, 2010-2012
State Level
Executive Director, Pennsylvania Communication Association, 2008-present
Editor, Pennsylvania Scholar Series, 2006-present
Editor, Speech Association Journal of Minnesota, 1980-1982
President, Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania, 1998-1999
Chair, Speech Communication Association Ethics Commission, 1988-1989
Publications
Books
Arnett, R.C. (in press). Communication ethics in dark times: Hannah Arendt's rhetoric of warning and hope. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
Arnett, R. C., Harden Fritz, J. M., & Bell, L. M. (2009). Communication ethics literacy: Dialogue and difference. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Arnett, R. C. (2005). Dialogic confession: Bonhoeffer’s rhetoric of responsibility. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Winner of the Everett Lee Hunt Award for Scholarship, Eastern Communication Association, 2006.
Arnett, R. C., & Arneson, P. (1999). Dialogic civility in a cynical age: Community, hope, and interpersonal relationships. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Arnett, R. C. (1992). Dialogic education: Conversation about ideas and between persons. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press; Reprinted, 1997.
---. (1986). Communication and community: Implications of Martin Buber's dialogue. Foreword by Maurice Friedman. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Winner of Book of the Year Award, Religious Speech Communication Association, 1988.
---. (1980). Dwell in peace: Applying nonviolence to everyday relationships. Elgin, IL: Brethren Press; Second printing 1985. Nominated for Book Award, 1980. Chapter reprinted by permission in Bridges not walls: A book about interpersonal communication, 3rd and 4th editions, Ed. J. Stewart.
Edited Books
Arnett, R. C., & Glenister Roberts, K. (2008) (Eds.). Communication ethics: Cosmopolitanism and provinciality. New York: Peter Lang
Arnett, R. C., & Makau, J. (1996). (Eds.) Communication ethics in an age of diversity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Arnett, R. C., Anderson, R., & Cissna, K. (1994). (Eds.). The reach of dialogue: Confirmation, voice, and community. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Book Chapters (2006-present)Arnett, R. C. (in press). Hans-Georg Gadamer: Philosophical hermeneutics and the interplay of understanding and meaning. In J. Hannan (Ed.), Philosophical profiles in the theory of communication. New York: Peter Lang.
---. (2011). Communication ethics: The wonder of metanarratives in a postmodern age. In R. S. Fortner & P. M. Fackler (Eds.), The handbook of global communication and media ethics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
---. (2011). Situating a dialogic ethic: A dialogic confession. In G. Cheney, S. May, & Debashish Munshi. (Eds.), The handbook of communication ethics. New York: Routledge.
---. (2009). Emmanuel Levinas: Priority of the other. In C. G. Christians & J. Merril, (Eds.). Ethical communication: Moral stances in human dialogue. (pp. 200-207). Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
---. (2009). Paulo Freire: Face saving and communication. In C. G. Christians & J. Merril, (Eds.). Ethical communication: Moral stances in human dialogue. (pp. 115-121). Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
---. (2009). Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Courage versus authority. In C. G. Christians & J. Merril, (Eds.). Ethical communication: Moral stances in human dialogue. (pp. 109-115). Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
---. (2008). Provinciality and the face of the other: Levinas on communication ethics, terrorism—Otherwise than originative agency. In K. Glenister Roberts & R. C. Arnett, (Eds.). Communication ethics: Cosmopolitanism and provinciality. (pp. 69-89). New York: Peter Lang.
---. (2007). Hannah Arendt: Dialectical communicative labor. In P. Arneson (Ed.). Perspectives on philosophy of communication. (pp.67-85). West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
---. (2007). A conversation about communication ethics with Ronald C. Arnett. In P. Arneson (Ed.). Exploring communication ethics – Interviews with influential scholars in the field. (pp. 53-69). New York: Peter Lang.
Arnett, R. C. , Arneson, P., & Bell, L. M. (2007). Communication ethics: The dialogic turn. In P. Arneson (Ed.). Exploring communication ethics – Interviews with influential scholars in the field. (pp. 143-185). New York: Peter Lang.
Arnett, R.C. (2006). Professional civility. In J. M. Harden Fritz & B. Omdahl, (Eds.). Problematic relationships in the workplace. (pp. 233-249). New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
Articles (2006-present)
Arnett, R. C., (2011). Leisure and the communicative praxis of craft. Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, 46(1), 21-36.
---. (2011). Multiplicity, complexity, and the necessity of limits: A review of Thomas W. Cooper's fast media, media fast. Journal of Mass media Ethics, 26(2), 176-178.
---. (2011). Review of dialogically speaking: Maurice Friedman's interdisciplinary humanism, by Kenneth P. Kramer. Journal of Communication, 61(2), E5-E7.
---. (2010). Defining philosophy of communication: Difference and identity. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 11(1), 57-62.
Arnett, R. C., Bell, L. M., & Harden Fritz, J. M. (2010). Dialogic learning as first principle in communication ethics. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 18(3), 111-126.
Arnett, R. C., (2010). Religious communication scholarship: Going nowhere correctly. Journal of Communication and Religion, 33(2), 221-246.
Arnett, R. C., Grayson, C. & McDowell, C. (2008). Dialogue as “enlarged communicative mentality”: Review, assessment, and ongoing difference. Communication Research Trends, 27, 3-25.
Arnett, R. C., McKendree, A., Harden Fritz, J. M., & Glenister Roberts, K. (2008). Partnering with the business school: The business and professional communication course. Business Communication Quarterly, 71, 346-350.
Arnett, R. C., Arneson, P. & Holba, A. (2008). Bridges not walls: The communicative enactment of dialogic storytelling. Review of Communication, 8(3), 217-234.
Arnett, R. C. (2008). Pointing the way to communication ethics theory: The life-giving gift of acknowledgement. Review of Communication, 8, 21-28.
---. (2008). Mid-career moves: Professional and personal identity. Spectra, 43, 16.
---. (2007). Interpretive inquiry as qualitative research. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 8(1), 29-35.
Arnett, R. C., Harden Fritz, J. M., & Holba, A. (2007). The rhetorical turn to otherness: Otherwise than humanism. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 3, 115-133.
Arnett, R. C., Arneson, P. & Bell, L. M. (2006). Communication ethics: The dialogic turn. Review of Communication, 6, 62-92.
Arnett, R. C., (2006). Through a Glass, Darkly. Journal of Communication and Religion, 29, 1-17.
