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Michael J. Hyde (Ph.D., Purdue University) is The University Distinguished Professor of Communication Ethics, Department of Communication, Wake Forest University and holds a joint appointment in the Program in Bioethics, Health, and Society, School of Medicine, Wake Forest University. He has taught at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and at Northwestern University. During his tenure at Northwestern he was appointed the Van Zelst Research Professor in Communication and was a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. He is the author of over sixty articles and critical reviews appearing in various scholarly journals and texts and has published six books: Communication Philosophy and the Technological Age (Univ. of Alabama Press), The Ethos of Rhetoric (Univ. of South Carolina Press), Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in our Time (Yale University Press, co-edited with Walter Jost), The Call of Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate (Univ. of South Carolina Press, awarded NCA’s 2001 Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Research in Public Address), The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgment (A Philosophical and Rhetorical Inquiry) (Purdue Univ. Press), and Perfection: Coming to Terms with Being Human (Baylor University Press, 2010). He is a Fellow of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and a recipient of national, state, and university research grants for his work in "the rhetoric of medicine." He has served on the editorial boards of Human Communication Research, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Communication Education, Communication Quarterly, Communication Monographs, Communication Theory, Southern Communication Journal and the Journal of Applied Communication Research,and is presently on the editorial boards of Philosophy and Rhetoric, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Baylor University Press (Series in “Rhetoric and Religion”), and Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research. He has served as a consultant to private industry, universities and colleges, management organizations, national publishing houses, The Humane Society of the United States, and the American Medical Association. He is the co-producer and co-writer of the documentary film: "Great Expectations: Life and Death in the World of High Tech Medicine" (Kartemquin Films), as well as the producer of the documentary films: "Negotiating Death: A Rhetorical Perspective on Euthanasia" (Northwestern University) and “The Life-Giving Gift of Acknowledgment (Wake Forest University). So far in his career he has been the recipient of thirteen "Teaching Excellence" awards. Since arriving at Wake Forest in 1994, he has served as a board member of the Judicial Council, the Honor and Ethics Council, the Capital Planning Committee, and the Bioethics Task Force. He has also lectured throughout the United States and at the London School of Economics on Wake Forest's Technology Initiative. He is a recent recipient of the "Scholar Award for Communication Excellence in Ethics Education for the Mind, the Heart, and the Soul" (The Communication Ethics Center, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). He presented the Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture (Keynote Address) at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association (2007). An extended version of the lecture was published as a monograph by Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2009. |