Today, our guest is Dr. Sam Perry, associate professor of communication in the honors college and Director of the Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Rhetorical Studies at Baylor University. Dr. Perry studies race and racism in the United States with a particular focus on the ways in which anti-black racism manifests in the public sphere through political, religious, and popular discourse, and emphasis on representations of violence in protests. In addition to rhetoric and social world courses, Dr. Perry teaches a capstone course, The Allegory of the Cave and Contemporary Film. His scholarly research appears in journals like Rhetorical Society Quarterly and Southern Communication Journal, and Dr. Perry also writes about politics and rhetoric for the website The Conversation. In 2015, Dr. Perry was named the Outstanding Professor of the Year for tenure track teaching at Baylor.  

We are delighted to have Dr. Perry on the show to discuss politics in the classroom, teaching controversial topics, and what the university owes students.

https://theconversation.com/profiles/samuel-perry-239674/articles

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