Ithaca College

Speech communication department member Donathan Brown will travel in October to Maribor, Slovenia, to present a paper derived from his dissertation.  The paper, titled "Latino National Identity and the 2006 English as the National Language Debate," was accepted by the Argumentation and Rhetoric selection committee for presentation at the third annual International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate, and the Pedagogy of Empowerment.  The theme of the conference is "Thinking and Speaking a Better World."

Donathan is one of four predoctoral diversity fellows invited to join departments in the School of Humanities and Sciences as they are in the final stages of preparing doctoral dissertations. He is currently teaching a speech communication seminar titled, "Communication, Race, and Public Policy" and will offer an intercultural communication course in the spring.