Dr. Susan Balter-Reitz
Dr. Susan Balter-Reitz
Department of Communication and Theatre
Montana State University Billings
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Dept: Speech Communication
Ph.D. 1997
Dissertation Title: Interpreting the Collective:
How the Supreme Court Justifies the Rule of Law.
Barbara Warnick, director
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY 82071
Dept: Communication and Mass Media
MA 1991
Thesis Title: Female Attitude towards Women as a
Predictor of Humor Type, Comedian Gender, and
Target Gender Preferences.
William Donaghy, director
Eastern New Mexico University
Portales, NM 88130
Dept: Communication
BS 1985
Academic Positions
8/02- Present MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY—BILLINGS
Assistant Professor
Classes Taught—
Public Relations Case Studies (426/526)
Ethics of Public Relations (427/527)
Law of Public Communication (429/529)
Public Relations (422)
Theories of Public Relations (522)
Media Advertising (420/520)
Political Communication (492/592)
Applied Communication (470/570)
Technology for Communication (201)
Advanced Public Speaking (230)
Public Speaking (130)
8/97 – 5/02 DEPAUW UNIVERSITY
Assistant Professor
Director of Forensics
Classes Taught-
Rhetorical Theory (322)
Public Communication and Controversy (223)
Public Address (321)
Theories of Human Communication (104)
Discourse and Power (450)
Speaking Across the Curriculum (Univ 300)
9/94 - 6/97 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Director of Forensics
Classes Taught-
Argumentation (334)
Advanced Public Speaking (320)
Assistant-Western Rhetorical Tradition (310)
Directed Study-Communication and the Law
Internship Advisor
9/91 - 5/94 UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND
Instructor
Assistant Director of Forensics
Classes Taught-
Presentational Communication(101)
Argument and Debate (204)
1/91 - 5/91 UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Debate and Individual Events Assistant
Classes Taught-Public Speaking (1010)
Publications
Balter-Reitz, Susan J and Karen A. Stewart “Looking for Matthew Shepard: A Study in Visual Argument Field” in Visual Communication and Social Change: Rhetorics and Technologies Diane Hope (Ed) Rochester: RIT Press (in press)
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. Rev of Silencing the Opposition by Andrew Rojecki Free Speech Yearbook 43 (2005): in press
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Cohen v California” in Landmark Decisions in Free Speech. Richard A. Parker (Ed) Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2003, 186-210.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “She Blinded Me with Science: Argumentation in the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.” in Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. Frans H. Van Eemeren, J. Anthony Blair, Charles A Willard & A. Francisca Snoeck-Henkemans (Eds.) Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2003, 63-68.
Balter, S. J. "The Search for Grounds in Legal
Argumentation: A Rhetorical Analysis of Texas v Johnson"
Argumentation 15 (2001): 381-395.
Under Review
Keller, Sarah, Susan Balter-Reitz and Lori Rosenthal “Censoring Thinspiration: The Debate over Pro-Anorexia Websites” submitted to Free Speech Yearbook –Accepted with minor revisions, awaiting manuscript (2/06)
Presentations
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Academic Bill of Rights” Invited panelist, 2005 NCA First Vice President Spotlight Series
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Public Disservice: Political Candidates and the Use of Public Service Announcements” accepted for presentation at the 2005 National Communication Association Meeting (NCA), Boston
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Is Burning Man the Cure for a Sick Society?” accepted for presentation at the 2005 NCA, Boston
Keller, Sarah, Balter-Reitz, Susan J. and Lori Rosenthal. ”Censoring Thinspiration: The Debate over Pro-Anorexic Websites” accepted for presentation, 2005 NCA, Boston
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Over Vincent Foster’s Dead Body: National Archives and Records v. Favish” Presented at the 2005 Western States Communication Association Meetings (WSCA), San Francisco
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. and Karen A Stewart “Living the West: The Buffalo Bill Museum as Mythic Shrine” Presented at the 2004 NCA, Chicago.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Employee Mediation: Can Organizations Give Power to the People” Presented at the 2004 NCA, Chicago.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “The Race from the White House: The Daily Show Defines the Democrats” Presented at the 2004 NCA, Chicago.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Is there a Difference between Advocacy and Advertising? Kasky v Nike and the Limits of Public Relations.” Presented at the 2004 Western States Communication Association Meeting (WSCA), Albuquerque.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Across the Great Divide: Digital Copyright and the Limits of Scientific Inquiry.” Presented at the 2003 NCA, Miami
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Stories of Origin: Communication as a Calling.” Presented at the 2003 NCA, Miami.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Looking for Matthew Shepard: Visual Rhetoric, Iconography and Argument Topoi.” Presented at the Visual Rhetorics and Social Change Conference, Rochester.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Look Up in the Sky: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Threat to National Security.” Presented at the 2002 NCA, New Orleans
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “She Blinded Me with Science: Argumentation in the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.” Presented at the 2002 International Society for the Study of Argumentation Meeting (ISSA), Amsterdam.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J “Children’s Museums, The Construction of Audience and Cultural Consumption: A Case Study of the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.” Presented at the 2002 Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Strange Bedfellows: Feminists, the New Right and the Argumentation of Anti-Pornography.” Presented at the 2002 Central States Communication Association Conference (CSCA), Milwaukee
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “Any Mother’s Son: The Rhetoric of Judy Shepard.” Presented at the 2001 NCA, Atlanta.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. and Pamela Stafford “Standing By and Making Do: Representing the Women’s Voice in Los Alamos” presented at the 2001 CSCA, Cincinnati.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. “How the West was Lost: The Death of Matthew Shepard and the Rhetorical Recasting of Laramie, Wyoming.”
presented at the 2000 Western States Communication Association Meeting (WSCA), Sacramento
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. and Larry Underberg “Free Speech on the Internet Should Not be Regulated” debate presented at the 2000 CSCA, Detroit.
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. "Most Significant Free Speech Cases
of the 20th Century: Cohen v California." presented at the
1999 NCA, Chicago
Balter-Reitz, Susan J. "Apples, Beef and Broccoli: Is Food
More Important than Speech?" presented at the 1998 NCA, New York
Balter, Susan J. "The Search for Grounds in Legal
Argumentation: A Rhetorical Analysis of Texas v Johnson"
Presented at the 1998 ISSA, Amsterdam
Balter, Susan J. "Consumers, Perverts, Cultural Dupes: The
Construction of Public in The Death of Discourse" presented
at the 1997 NCA, Chicago
Balter, Susan J. "Legal Hermeneutics and the First
Amendment" Top 5 Paper, Top Graduate student paper in
Freedom of Expression, presented at 1996 Speech
Communication Association Meeting (SCA), San Diego
Balter, Susan J. and Terry West "Critiques are Inappropriate
in CEDA Debate" debate at 1996 SCA, San Diego
Balter, Susan J. "Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of
Ladies: A Medieval Rhetoric" presented at 1995 SCA, San
Antonio
Balter, Susan J. "Defining Parody: Acuff-Rose, the Supreme
Court and the Death of Criticism" presented at 1995 SCA, San
Antonio
Balter, Susan J. and Scott Lybarger "Truth, Ethics and
Holocaust Revisionist Rhetoric: High Noon for the First
Amendment" presented at 1995 SCA, San Antonio
Balter, Susan J. "Recruiting from the Basic Course: Survival
of Forensics in the 21st Century" Presented at 1994 SCA, New
Orleans
Balter Susan J. "Locating Common Issues in a Current Text:
New York Times as Topoi" presented at 1994 Northwest
Communication Association, Couer d'Alene
Balter Susan J. "In Space No One Can Hear You Laugh: An
Analysis of Humor in Star Trek and Star Trek the Next
Generation" Presented at 1993 WSCA, Albuquerque
Balter, Susan J. "So What's the Plan: An Analysis of Policy
Implications in Non-policy Debate" Presented at 1992 SCA,
Chicago
Theses and Projects Directed
Mary Casper, Thesis, “Representations of Women pre and post 9/11 in Women’s Magazines” (2003)
Carol Green, Project, “Creating a Non-Profit Board for a Sustained Fundraising Campaign” (2003)
Kim Clausen, Project, “Public Relations for the Small Arts Business” (2004)
Kyle Ellefson, Thesis “We’re Sorry this happened to you: The Use of Partial Apologies in Organizational Predicaments.” (2005)
Professional Service
Vice Chair and Program Planner, NCA Freedom of Expression Division 2003-2006
Chair, CSCA Argumentation Division 2001-2002
Vice Chair, CSCA Argumentation Division 2000-2001
Editorial Board, NPDA Journal 2004, 2005
Editorial Board, Speaker and Gavel 2002
Paper Reviewer, NCA Freedom of Expression Commission 2001, 2003, 2004
Paper Reviewer, NCA Commission on Communication and the Future 2001
Panel Reviewer, CSCA Argumentation Division 2000
Paper Reviewer, CSCA Mass Communication Division 2000
Panel Reviewer, NCA Freedom of Expression Commission 2000
Judge, Becker Award, CSCA Mass Communication Division 2000
Facilitator, Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers
debate on Affirmative Action, 1996
University Service
Vice Chair, Graduate Committee, Montana State University-Billings 2005-2006
Member, Library Advisory Board, Montana State University—Billings, 2003-
Member Graduate Committee, Montana State University-Billings 2003-2005
Member, Resource Allocation Subcommittee, DePauw University 2000-2002
Member, Publications Board, DePauw University, 1998-2000
Member, Student Life and Academic Atmosphere Committee,
DePauw University, 1999-202
Chair, Student Life and Academic Atmosphere Committee, Spring 2002
Community Conduct Council member, 2000-2002
Freshman Advisor, DePauw University, 1999-2002
Internship Advisor, DePauw University, 1998-2002
Advisor, Debate Society, DePauw University, 1997-2002
Coordinator of the Public Speaking Test Out, DePauw
University 1998-2001
Presenter, Using Debate Across the Curriculum, Speaking across the curriculum workshop 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Workshop on Web Design for Instruction Completed June 2000
Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop Completed August 1999
First Year Seminar Workshop Completed May 1999
Speaking Across the Curriculum Workshop Completed August
1998
Professional Memberships
National Communication Association (NCA)
International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA)
Western States Communication Association (WSCA)