Rate My Professor Greg Dickinson

Greg Dickinson is the William E. Morgan Endowed Professor, a professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Interim Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, and Founding Director of the Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities at Colorado State University. He earned a Ph.D. in Communication Arts and Sciences from the University of Southern California in 1995, an M.A. in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of California in 1990, and a B.A. in Communications from Walla Walla University in 1987. Dickinson joined Colorado State University in 2000 as an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies, advancing to Associate Professor in 2004 and full Professor in 2011. He served as Chair of the Department of Communication Studies from July 2014 to June 2024, overseeing the conferral of more than 1,800 degrees, launching a nationally recognized online B.A. program, developing a Ph.D. program, raising $1.6 million to create or endow eight scholarships, expanding the Center for Public Deliberation, and contributing to the ACT Human Rights Film Festival as founding producer. Previously, he was Interim Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Liberal Arts from 2012 to 2013 and Assistant Professor at La Sierra University from 1996 to 2000.

Dickinson's scholarship focuses on public memory, rhetoric of museums and memorials, spatial materialities, urban communication research, visual communication, and critical understandings of place, materiality, race, gender, and everyday life, with publications on coffee shops, shopping malls, museums, and gentrified urban spaces. He has authored or co-authored books including Suburban Dreams: Imagining and Building the Good Life (University of Alabama Press, 2015), The Twitter Presidency: Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage (Routledge, 2019), Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials (University of Alabama Press, 2010), and The Routledge Reader in Rhetorical Criticism (Routledge, 2013), with The Haunted West: Memory and Commemoration at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West forthcoming in 2024. Key articles include 'Space, Place, and the Textures of Rhetorical Criticism' (Western Journal of Communication, 2019) and 'Ways of (Not) Seeing Guns: Presence and Absence at the Cody Firearms Museum' (Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2011). His work has earned the National Communication Association Golden Anniversary Monograph Award (2012), Western States Communication Association Distinguished Scholar Award (2024), Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2017), College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award, and Colorado State University Alumni Association Best Teacher Award (2011). Dickinson has edited special journal issues and provided editorial contributions, influencing rhetorical criticism through materiality and public memory.