Person

Peeples, Jennifer Ann

1970

Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Utah State University, USA. Her area of research is environmental rhetoric with a focus on the persuasive strategies used to construct identity and place in community-level environmental disputes. She has examined the discourse and images of environmental protest and, most recently, the visual construction of toxicity. Professor Peeples is the Past-President of the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association and serves on the editorial board of Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture and The Quarterly Journal of Speech. She has won a number of regional and national awards for her research, most notably The Golden Anniversary Monograph Award. Most recently, she won the 2012 Christine L. Oravec Research Award from the National Communication Association.