Josh Boyd

Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies Office: BRNG 2274E
Office Phone: (765) 494-3333
Secondary Office Phone: (765) 471-1258
Email: boyd@purdue.edu

Specialization:  Dr. Boyd's primary interest is corporate rhetoric. He also studies trust messages in collaboration with the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). He is also interested in classroom innovation involving writing.

Representative Publications

• "Communitas/corporatas tensions in organizational rhetoric: Finding a balance in sports public relations," Journal of Applied Communication Research (2008). With Melissa Stahley.
• "A different kind of [text]book: Using fiction in the classroom," Communication Education (2004)
  
• "Organizational rhetoric doomed to fail: R.J. Reynolds and the principal of the oxymoron," Western Journal of Communication (2004)
• "In community we trust": Online security community at eBay," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (2002). More information
• "Selling home: Corporate stadium names and the destruction of commemoration," Journal of Applied Communication Research (2000).

Teaching

Dr. Boyd teaches COM 204 (Critical Perspectives on Communication), the writing intensive course that is part of the pre-communication requirement. He received the 2003 Outstanding New Teacher Award from the Central States Communication Association, and he has also won the department's W. Charles Redding Award for Excellence in Teaching 4 times.

 

 

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