Buddy Howell

• Reagan at the Summit: Presidential Public Diplomacy and the Collapse of Soviet Communism (monograph in process for submission to Michigan State University Press).

• PhD, Texas A&M University
• MA, Baylor University
• BA, Baylor University

• The First-Year Experience
• Introduction to Communication
• Rhetoric & Societal Change
• Persuasion
• Media & Politics
• US Presidential Rhetoric
• Perception, Persuasion, & Propaganda

• 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award for Excellence in First-Year Experience

Presented by the Office of First-Year Experiences for outstanding contributions to student learning, development, and success through first-year courses at Virginia Tech.

• 2024 Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars, the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.

Presented at the 43rd Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience, Seattle, Washington, for “great success in inspiring student learning, development, and success in a first-year seminar program.”

• 2022 Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars, Virginia Tech

Presented by the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning and the Office of First-Year Experiences, for excellence in inspiring student learning, development, and success in COMM 1004 The First-Semester Experience in Communication.

• 2020 Dr. and Mrs. Philip J. Sporn Award for Teaching: University Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Courses, Virginia Tech

Selected as the award recipient by a committee comprised of student representatives from Omicron Delta Kappa.  The committee selects one winner annually from nominations made by undergraduate students.

• 2019 Principles of Effective Teaching Certificate Program

Presented by the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning in recognition for completion of a year-long training program.

• 2018 Leon Geyer Award, Virginia Tech

Presented by the Office of Undergraduate Academic Integrity for support of the Undergraduate Honor System and promotion of the highest standards of integrity and honor for students.

• 2018 Teacher of the Month, Virginia Tech (April)

Presented by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), recognizing effective, engaged, and dynamic teachers implementing learner-centered pedagogy.

Journal Articles

“Continuity & Change in Victory and Concession Speeches: Race, Gender, and Age in the Last Speeches of the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign,” American Behavioral Scientist 55 (June 2011): 765-783.

“Reagan and Reykjavik: Arms Control, SDI, and the Argument from Human Rights,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 11 (October 2008): 389-415.

“Ronald Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University: A Rhetoric of Conciliation and Subversion,” Southern Communication Journal 68 (December 2003): 107-120.

“Ending the 2000 Presidential Election: Gore’s Concession Speech and Bush’s Victory Speech,” American Behavioral Scientist 44 (August 2001): 2314-2330.  (with Dr. Kurt Ritter).

Encyclopedic Entries

“Aristotle” in Lynda Lee Kaid and Christina Holtz-Bacha, ed., Encyclopedia of Political Communication (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008).

Published Book Reviews

Review of Robert C. Rowland and John M. Jones, Reagan at Westminster:  Foreshadowing the End of the Cold War, in Presidential Studies Quarterly 41  (September 2011): 658-660.

Review of Richard J. Jensen, Reagan at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg, in Rhetoric & Public Affairs 12 (Summer 2009): 334-337.

Review of Mary E. Stuckey, Slipping the Surly Bonds: Reagan’s Challenger Address, in Southern Communication Journal 72 (June 2007): 207-209.

Research in Progress

Reagan at the Summit: Presidential Public Diplomacy, U.S-Soviet Summits, 1985-88, and the Collapse of Soviet Communism (book manuscript in preparation for submission to Rowman & Littlefield press, Lexington Studies in Political Communication).

2022-23 Faculty Teaching Group Grant: Fostering Inclusion through Peer Support, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, $2,000 grant. Principal Investigators: Douglas, D.T.C.; Howell, B; Robinson, A; Fraticelli, B; Simonetti, J; Eaton, R.

2018-19 Faculty Study Group: Teaching Special Interest Group—Teaching Large Classes, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, $300 stipend. 

2017-18 Faculty Study Group: Teaching Special Interest Group—Teaching Large Classes, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, $300 stipend.