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Erik Doxtader

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Erik Doxtader
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Regionrhetoric
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Erik Doxtader is a scholar of rhetoric and critical theory. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, Doxtader took a BA at the University of Kansas and both an MA and Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.

Career

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Doxtader is a professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina,[1] and the current editor of Philosophy & Rhetoric, an international quarterly journal published by the Pennsylvania State University Press. Prior to assuming the editorship in 2018, he served as the journal's Book Review Editor from 2005-2017.[2]

Doxtader is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, a recognized non-governmental organization in Cape Town, South Africa.[3] In 1999, he was awarded a 2000-2001 fellowship in the SSRC-MacArthur program in Peace and Security in a Changing World.[4] His book, With Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa, received the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America book award.[5]

Books

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Monograph

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  • Doxtader, Erik (2009). With faith in the works of words: the beginnings of reconciliation in South Africa, 1985-1995. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87013-851-5. OCLC 235946025.[reviews 1]

Edited volumes

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Book reviews

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  1. ^ Review of With Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa, 1985-1995:
  2. ^ Reviews of The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring: A Season of Rebirth:
  3. ^ Review of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Fundamental Documents:
    • Haron, Muhammed. African Studies Quarterly 11, no. 4 (2010): 129-131. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A237453624/AONE?u=anon~6b981594&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=28c75e19.
  4. ^ Review of The Provocations of Amnesty: Memory, Justice and Impunity:
    • Verdoolaege, Annelies. Canadian Journal of African Studies 38, no. 1 (2004): 218-221. doi:10.2307/4107296. JSTOR 4107296. "Post-Apartheid South Africa III: Debating Amnesty". Journal of Southern African Studies 31, no. 2 (2005): 472–473. JSTOR 25065014.
  5. ^ Reviews of Through Fire with Water: The Roots of Division and the Potential for Reconciliation in Africa:
    • Harbeson, John W. African Studies Review 48, no. 2 (2005): 189-190. doi:10.1353/arw.2005.0061. JSTOR 20065126.
    • du Plessis, Anton. Strategic Review for Southern Africa 25, no. 1 (2003): 135.

References

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  1. ^ Faculty page, Department of English, University of South Carolina (accessed 20 September 2021).
  2. ^ Philosophy & Rhetoric, Editorial Masthead, Penn State University Press (accessed 21 September 2021).
  3. ^ Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, "Institute Research Fellows", IJR Annual Report, 2012, 39 (accessed 20 September 2021); Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, "Senior Research Fellows", IJR Annual Report, 2013, 34, (accessed 21 September 2021); Daily Maverick, "Erik Doxtader" (accessed 21 September 2021); United Nations, South Africa's Institute for Justice and Reconciliation wins UNESCO award", UN News, 28 May (accessed 21 September 2021).
  4. ^ Social Science Research Council, "International Peace and Security Postdoctoral Fellows," Items: Social Science Research Council, 52:4, (December 1998), 109 (accessed 21 September 2021).
  5. ^ Rhetoric Society of America, "Awards - RSA Book Award Recipients" (accessed 21 September 2021).