Samantha Senda-Cook, PhD
Chair, Communication Studies
Professor

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College of Arts and Sciences
Communication Studies
HCCA - Hitchcock Center for Communication Art
Samantha Senda-Cook, PhD
Chair, Communication Studies
Professor
Department
Communication Studies
Position
Professor
Books
- Palgrave Macmillan
Bridie McGreavy, Justine Wells, George F. McHendry, Jr., and Samantha Senda-Cook, editors, Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life: Ecological Approaches (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018).**National Communication Association – Environmental Communication Division’s Tarla Rai Peterson Outstanding Book of the Year, 2018** 2018 - Lexington Books: A Division of Rowman and Littlefield
Michael Middleton, Aaron Hess, Danielle Endres, and Samantha Senda-Cook, Participatory Critical Rhetoric: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for Studying Rhetoric In Situ, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015). 2015
Articles
- Samantha Senda-Cook, “A Place Ballet of Resistance,” in Charles E. Morris III and Kendall R. Phillips, editors, The Conceit of Context: Resituating Domains in Rhetorical Studies (New York: Peter Lang, 2020), 269-285. 2020
- Samantha Senda-Cook, “Privilege in a Place Ballet: An Incomplete Argument of Places and Bodies,” Argumentation and Advocacy, (2020): 56, no. 4, 205-222. DOI: 10.1080/10511431.2020.1848337 **Lead Article** 2020
- Samantha Senda-Cook, “Long Memories: Material Rhetoric as Evidence of Memory and a Potential Future,” Western Journal of Communication, 84, no. 4 (2020): 419-438. 2020
- Aaron Hess, Samantha Senda-Cook, Michael Middleton, and Danielle Endres, “(Participatory) Critical Rhetoric: Critiqued and Reconsidered,” International Journal of Communication, 14 (2020): 870-884. 2020
- Samantha Senda-Cook, Michael Middleton, and Danielle Endres, “Rhetorical Cartographies: (Counter)Mapping Urban Spaces,” in Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, editors, Field Rhetoric: Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 2018), 95-119. 2018
- Samantha Senda-Cook and George F. McHendry, Jr., “Embodying Resistance: A Rhetorical Ecology of the Full Cycle Supper,” in Bridie McGreavy, Justine Wells, George F. McHendry, Jr., and Samantha Senda-Cook, editors, Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life: Ecological Approaches (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), 223-252. 2018
- Justine Wells, Bridie McGreavy, Samantha Senda-Cook, and George F. McHendry, Jr, “Introduction: Rhetoric’s Ecologies,” in Bridie McGreavy, Justine Wells, George F. McHendry, Jr., and Samantha Senda-Cook, editors, Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life: Ecological Approaches (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), 1-38. 2018
- Frontiers in Communication
Samantha Senda-Cook, “Contrived Making Do as Rhetorical Practice in Outdoor Recreation,” Frontiers in Communication, 2, no. 15 (2017): n.p. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2017.00015 2017 - Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies
Danielle Endres, Aaron Hess, Samantha Senda-Cook, and Michael K. Middleton, “In Situ Rhetoric: Intersections between Qualitative Inquire, Fieldwork, and Rhetoric,” Cultural Studies ó Critical Methodologies, 16, no. 6 (2016): 511-524. DOI: 10.1177/1532708616655820
16, no. 6 , p. 511-524 2016 - Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies
Michael Middleton, Samantha Senda-Cook, Aaron Hess, and Danielle Endres, “Contemplating the Participatory Turn in Rhetorical Criticism,” Cultural Studies ó Critical Methodologies, 16, no. 6 (2016): 571-580.
16, no. 6 , p. 571-580 2016 - Communication Studies
Samantha Senda-Cook, “Extending Rhetorical Criticism’s Engagement,” Review of Communication, 16, no. 1 (2016): 95-97. doi: 10.1080/15358593.2016.1183907. Permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2016.1183907
16, no. 1 , p. 95-97 2016 - Samantha Senda-Cook, Michael Middleton, & Danielle Endres, “Interrogating the ‘Field,’” in Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method, ed. by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, and Robert Glenn Howard (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State Press, 2016), 22-39. 2014
- Samantha Senda-Cook, “Wilderness Within Reach,” International Journal of Wilderness 21, no. 1 (2015): 29-33. 2014
- Danielle Endres, Samantha Senda-Cook, and Brian Cozen, “Not Just a Place to Park Your Car: PARK(ing) as Spatial Argument,” Argumentation and Advocacy, 50 (2014): 121-140. **Lead Article** , p. 121-140 2014
- Southern Journal of Communication
George F. McHendry, Jr., Michael Middleton, Danielle Endres, Samantha Senda-Cook, & Megan O’Byrne, “Rhetorical Critic(ism)’s Body: Affect and Fieldwork on a Plane of Immanence,” Southern Journal of Communication, 79, no. 4 (2014): 293-310., p. 293-310 2014 - Lexington Books: A Division of Rowman and Littlefield
Samantha Senda-Cook, “Practicing Rhetoric,” in Rhetorical Criticism: Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy, ed. by Jim Kuypers (Lexington Books), 2014. **Invited** 2014 - Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture
Senda-Cook, Samantha Materializing Tensions: How Maps and Trails Mediate Nature
7, p. 355-371 2013 - Environmental Communication-a Journal of Nature and Culture
“Materializing Tensions: How Maps and Trails Mediate Nature,” Environmental Communication 7, no. 3 (2013): 355-371., p. 355-371 2013 - Women & Language
Senda-Cook, Samantha. Ecofeminism and Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse.
35, p. 143-144 2012 - Quarterly Journal of Speech
Senda-Cook, Samantha Rugged Practices: Embodying Authenticity in Outdoor Recreation
98, p. 129-152 2012 - “Experiential Degradation: It’s Not Just the Environment that’s in Danger,” Communication Currents 7, no. 3 (2012). Available at http://www.natcom.org/CommCurrentsArticle.aspx?id=2441.
3 2012 - Samantha Senda-Cook, “Book Review: Ecofeminism and Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse,” Women & Language 35, no. 1 (2012): 143-144
1, p. 143-144 2012 - Western Journal of Communication
Middleton, Michael K., Senda-Cook, Samantha, Endres, Danielle Articulating Rhetorical Field Methods: Challenges and Tensions
75, p. 386-406 2011
Editing and Reviews
- Samantha Senda-Cook, Aaron Hess, Michael K. Middleton, and Danielle Endres, editors, Readings in Rhetorical Fieldwork (New York: Routledge, 2019). 2019
Presentations
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "A Life More Ordinary: The Continuing Relevance of Study and Teaching at the Intersection of Everyday Life and Rhetoric," National Communication Association Conference, Dallas, November 15-19, 2017. 2017
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "For Love of Place and People: How Belonging and Privilege Facilitate Slow Acts of Resistance," National Communication Association Conference, Dallas, November 15-19, 2017.**Presented on the Top Paper Panel for the Environmental Communication division** 2017
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "Playing with Methods," National Communication Association Conference, Salt Lake City, November 8-11, 2018. 2017
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "Place, Memory, and Rhetorical Criticism," Conference on Communication and the Environment, Leicester, England, June 2017. 2017
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "Standing Up, With, For, or Against: Who has the 'Right' to Deploy a Place in an Act of Resistance?" Conference on Communication and the Environment, Leicester, England, June 2017. 2017
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "A Place Ballet of Resistance," 15th Biennial Public Address Conference, Syracuse, NY, September 29-October 1, 2016. 2016
- Danielle Endres, Samantha Senda-Cook, & Brian Cozen, "Not Just a Place to Park Your Car: PARK(ing) Day as Reconstruction and Remediation of Place in Protest," National Communication Association Conference, Orlando, November 2012. 2015
- Samantha Senda-Cook & George F. McHendry, Jr., "Embodying Resistance: De Certeau and Bourdieu ground Rhetorics Materiality," National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, November 19-24, 2014. 2014
- Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division, National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, November 19-24, 2014. 2014
- Scholar to Scholar: Constructing a Communicative World, National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, November 19-24, 2014. 2014
- Roundtables on Research in Progress, National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, November 19-24, 2014 2014
- "Rhetorical Field Methods and Performance," Rhetoric and Performance (COMM 495, Dr. George F. McHendry, Jr.), April 2014. 2014
- Off Campus "Tactical Urbanism," Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, July 16, 2014. "Activating Place: The Changing Nature of Social Movements and Place as Rhetoric," University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 14, 2014. 2014
- "Activating Place: The Changing Nature of Social Movements and Place as Rhetoric," Creighton University Communication Studies Departments Colloquium, February 24, 2014. 2014
- Environmental Communication Division, Western States Communication Association Conference, Anaheim, CA, February 15-18, 2014. 2014
- Environmental Communication Division, National Communication Association Conference, Washington, D.C., November 15-18, 2013. 2013
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "Connecting Rhetoric and Qualitative Methods: Ethnography, Enactment, and Embodiment," National Communication Association Conference, Washington, D.C. November, 2013. 2013
- Samantha Senda-Cook, Michael Middleton, & Danielle Endres, "Interrogating the Field," selected as part of a pre-conference at National Communication Association Conference, Washington, D.C. November, 2013. 2013
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "Making Do and Masculinity," Conference on Communication and the Environment, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2013. 2013
- "Rhetorical Criticism," Senior Research in Communication Studies (COMM 497, Dr. Erika Kirby), October 2013. 2013
- Environmental Communication Division, National Communication Association Conference, Orlando, November 15-18, 2012. 2012
- Samantha Senda-Cook & Jay Leighter, "Social Movement as Social Media Practice," Conference on Communication and the Environment, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2013. Samantha Senda-Cook & Danielle Endres, "A Place of Ones Own," National Communication Association Conference, Orlando, November 2012. 2012
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "Appropriating Resistance? Constructions of Resistance and Making Do in Outdoor Recreation Catalogues," National Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, November 2010. 2012
- "Not Just a Place to Park Your Car: PARK(ing) Day as Reconstruction and Remediation of Place in Protest," Creighton University Environmental Science Programs Senior Seminar, August 30, 2012. 2012
- "Not Just a Place to Park Your Car: PARK(ing) Day as Reconstruction and Remediation of Place in Protest," Creighton University Communication Studies Departments Colloquium, March 21, 2012. 2012
- Michael Middleton, Samantha Senda-Cook, & Danielle Endres, "Assessing the Material, Embodied, and Everyday Discourses of Rhetorical Communities," Western States Communication Association Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2012. 2012
- George F. McHendry, Jr., Michael Middleton, Samantha Senda-Cook, Danielle Endres, & Megan OByrne, "Transactional Rhetorical Field Methods," Western States Communication Association Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2012. 2012
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "Making Nature Meaningful," National Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, November 2010. 2010
- Michael Middleton, Samantha Senda-Cook, & Danielle Endres, "Articulating Rhetorical Field Methods: Challenges & Tensions," National Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, November 2010. 2010
- "Rugged Practices: Embodying Authenticity in Outdoor Recreation," Zion National Park, June 25, 2010. 2010
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "Revolutionaries needed! The potential of Ecoculture Jams in Pedagogy and Practice," Conference on Communication and the Environment, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2019.
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "Communicating Environmental Spirituality," Conference on Communication and the Environment, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2019.
- Samantha Senda-Cook, "Pursuing a Fulbright," National Communication Association Conference, Baltimore, November 14-17, 2019.
Federal
Fulbright Fellowship, The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, spring 2019, ~$30,000.
Awards
- Top Four Papers
Samantha Senda-Cook, “For Love of Place and People: How Belonging and Privilege Facilitate Slow Acts of Resistance,” National Communication Association Conference, Dallas, November, 2017
Environmental Communication Division - Tarla Rai Peterson Outstanding Book of the Year
Bridie McGreavy, Justine Wells, George F. McHendry, Jr., and Samantha Senda-Cook, editors, Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life: Ecological Approaches (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), awarded in November 2018
National Communication Association – Environmental Communication Division - Fulbright Research Award
“Advocacy through Agriculture: Communication at the Asian Rural Institute,” Japan, 2019, awarded in 2018.
The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board - Invited Plenary Speaker
Presented “A Place Ballet of Resistance” at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference in Syracuse, NY. September 29-October 1, 2016.
15th Biennial Public Address Conference - Outstanding Book of the Year
Awarded to the best book in 2015 or 2016 for Michael Middleton, Aaron Hess, Danielle Endres, and Samantha Senda-Cook, Participatory Critical Rhetoric: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for Studying Rhetoric In Situ, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015), awarded in November 2016.
National Communication Association – Critical & Cultural Studies Division - Visiting Professor
Department of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Nebraska - Lincoln - B. Aubrey Fisher Award
Awarded to the best article published in the Western Journal of Communication. For the article: for Michael Middleton, Samantha Senda-Cook, & Danielle Endres, “Articulating Rhetorical Field Methods,” Western Journal of Communication 75, no. 4 (2011): 386-406.
Western Journal of Communication
Western Journal of Communication