Buddy Howell
- School of Communication
181 Turner Street, NW
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Buddy Howell is an advanced instructor in the School of Communication. He is a national, university, and department award-winning teacher, receiving the 2024 Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars Award from the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, the 2022 Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars Award from the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning and the Office of First-Year Experiences, the 2020 Dr. and Mrs. Philip J. Sporn University Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Courses (student-nominated and student-selected by members of Omicron Delta Kappa), and the 2018 Leon Geyer Award from the Office of Undergraduate Academic Integrity.
Dr. Howell’s research interests include the rhetoric of U.S. Presidential public diplomacy and U.S. Presidential campaign and election rhetoric.
His work has been published in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, the American Behavioral Scientist, the Southern Communication Journal, and Kaid and Holtz-Bacha, ed., Encyclopedia of Political Communication.