Dr. Damien Smith Pfister
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
Rhetoric & Culture
439 Oldfather Hall
(402) 472-0646
dpfister2@unl.edu
Education
Ph.D. @ University of Pittsburgh (2009)
M.A. @ University of Pittsburgh (2004)
B.A. @ University of Alabama (2000)
Research Specialties
- Digital Media
- Public Deliberation
- Rhetorical Theory
Representative
Publications
- G. R. Mitchell, D. Pfister, G. Bradatan, D. Colev, T. Manolova, G. Mitkovski, I. Nestoro, M. Ristic, and G. Sheshi. "Navigating Dangerous Deliberative Waters: Shallow Argument Pools, Group Polarization and Public Debate Pedagogy in Southeast Europe," Controversia: An International Journal of Debate and Democratic Renewal (Fall 2006), 69-84. Anthologized in Discourse, Debate, and Democracy, eds. David Cratis Williams and Marilyn Young (IDEA Press, 2009).
- Pfister, Damien Smith. "RealClimate.org and the Nichification of Democracy" in Engaging Argument: Selected papers from the 2005 NCA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation, ed. Patricia Riley (Washington, D.C.: National Communication Association, 2005), 234-42.
Select Classes Taught at UNL
- COM 398: Networked Politics
