Wendy K. Z. Anderson, Ph.D.

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• B.A.: Communication and Psychology, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1999 -
• M.A.: Speech Communication, Kansas State University, 2002 -
• Ph.D.: Critical Rhetorics and Critical Digital Media, Purdue University, 2008 -

Specialties

• Rhetorical studies, media studies, social change, digital media, digital rhetorics, intersectional feminisms, critical race theory, whiteness studies

Publications

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Publications

• Anderson, Ph.D., Wendy K. Z. . Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet. University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
• Anderson, Ph.D., Wendy K. Z. , Kittie E. Grace. "'Taking Mama Steps’ Toward Authority, Alternatives, and Advocacy: Feminist Consciousness-raising within a Digital Motherhood Community." Feminist Media Studies 15 (2015): 942-959.
• Anderson, Ph.D., Wendy K. Z. . "(De)coding Whiteness: Appropriations of White Nationalist Women’s Inferential Racism as Coded Rhetoric in U.S. Politics ." Rhetoric Review 36 (2017): 263-272.
• Anderson, Ph.D., Wendy K. Z. . "Classifying Whiteness: Unmasking White Nationalists Women’s Digital Design through an Intersectional Analysis of Contained Agency." Communication, Culture, and Critique 11 (2018): 116–132.
• Anderson, Ph.D., Wendy K. Z. , Patrice Buzzanell. "’Outcast Among Outcasts’: Identity, Gender, and Leadership in a Mac Users Group." Women and Language 30 (2007): 32-45.

Awards

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Awards

• 2023 University of Minnesota Unit Service Award., For DEI work that has left a positive impact on the Department since 2020. Department of Communication Studies. University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. Minneapolis, MN. ,  Spring 2023.
• $10,000 GooseChase DEI Partnership. , Organized thirteen offices and departments on campus to fund a site license for a DEI focused scavenger hunt program for the University of Minnesota and Hastings College. Created Canvas-based onboarding materials for designers and participants of GooseChase. University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. Minneapolis, MN., 2022-2023.
• Summer Research Grant. , Earned a summer grant to work on DEI focused research to pilot a scavenger hunt program at Hastings College. Hastings, IN., 2022.
• Writing in the Disciplines Grant. , “Anti-racist Academic Agency within Gaming Context: GooseChase as a Locale for Community Building.” Funded two graduate research assistants. University of Minnesota—Twin Cities. Minneapolis, MN., 2022
• Tim Behme Teaching Award. , 2019 - 2020
• MTU Dean’s List of Top Ten Percent of Professors for Teaching, 2011 & 2012
• Class of 2010 Best Professor MTU, Scientific and Technical Communication and Scientific and Technical Arts Class of 2010, 2010
• Bruce Kendall Award for Excellence in Teaching Nomination, Purdue University, 2007
• Summer Research Grant, Purdue University, 2007
• Bruce Kendall Award for Excellence in Teaching Honorable Mention, Purdue University, 2006
• Bruce Kendall Award for Excellence in Teaching Nomination, Purdue University, 2005
• Fellowship to the Summer Institute of Dissenting Rhetorics, Center for Global Culture and Communication, Northwestern University, Summer 2004
• Research Assistantship for Motorola Research Project, Department of Communication and Industrial Technology, Purdue University, Summer 2004

Courses

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Courses

• Communication Ethics
• Freedom of Speech
• Introduction to Rhetorical Theory
• Analysis of Argument
• Introduction to Communication Studies
• Introduction to Digital Media
• Introduction to Webdesign
• Introduction to Game Design
• Digital Rhetorics
• Music, Technology, and Pedagogy in Game Design (graduate level)
• Digital Media Studio (graduate level)
• Computers in Rhetoric and Pedagogy (graduate level)
• The Rhetoric of Music in Video Games (graduate level)
• Principles of Persuasion