Address:

Department of Speech Communication
Terrell Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-7863
706-542-3245 (fax)
ccondit@uga.edu

Education:

Idaho State University, BS, Speech 1977, Highest Honors
University of Iowa, MA,1980; PhD, 1982, Rhetorical Studies

Employ:

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication, Tulane University, New Orleans 1982-1985
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Speech Comm., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, 1985-1989 (received prom. & tenure)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Spring 1989
Associate Professor, University of Georgia, 1989-1994
Professor, University of Georgia, 1994-
Visiting Professor, University of New Orleans--Innsbruck, Austria Study Abroad Program, Summer 1998

Research Interests

The use of rhetorical analysis to explore the role of discourse in processes of social change and stability, with particular focus on issues of human reproduction and the impact of genetic technologies.  My current research focuses on understanding how the individual/biological inputs to communication interface with the social/material inputs. See the "Transilience" website at http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/Transilience/Transilience.html

• Douglas Ehninger Teaching Award (co-recipient), 1982
• American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant, 1985
• List of Teachers Rated Excellent By Their Students, Spring 1987
• Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia, 1990-1991, 1998-present
• Humanities Center Fellowship, University of Georgia, 1991-92
• Idaho State University Professional Achievement Award, 1992
• Creative Research Medal, UGA 1993
• Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address, SCA 1994 (for Crafing Equality, with J. Lucaites)
• Golden Anniversary Monograph Award, 1997, National Communication Association (co-recipient, with co-authors Hasian and Lucaites)
• Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia (1999-2004; reappointed 2004-2009)
• Douglas Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award, 1998
• Article of the Year Award, 2000, Communication Apprehension and Avoidance Division of the National Communication Association for "Culture and Biology in Human Communication."
• Lothar Tresp Outstanding Honors Professor, Spring 2001
• National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar (Elected 2002; NCA's version of a "Fellows" Status)
• Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecturer, NCA 2004.
• William A. Owens Award (UGA award for outstanding body of work in the social sciences), 2005
• Faculty Excellence Award, 2006 (By the UGA SPCM Graduate Forum)

Grants:

Kaltenborn Foundation Grant, $1500.00 (with Ann Selzer), 1982-1983

Study in a Second Discipline Fellowship, UGA 1993-1994 (included a year's leave and research funds to support graduate and undergraduate course work and laboratory work in genetics)

OID Grant, $1500.00 for multi-media revision of SPC 101

Senior Faculty Research Grant, UGA, January 1995 ($2850)

"Empirical Study of Change in Public Genetic Discourse" National   Institutes of Health, Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project, National Center for Human Genome Research. 2/10-96-1/31/99  ($104,683) funded, completed, Principal Investigator

"Using Presentation Software in Business and Professional Speaking," OISD, UGA, Fall 1999. $24,993. (funded).

"Communicating Genetics Information to the Lay Public."  $778,000.  Centers for Disease Control, October 1999-August 2003. (funded). RO6/CCR319514-02  Local P.I.; project Co-investigator.  Roxanne Parrott is the submitting P.I. 

"Race and Public Communication about Human Variation," National Institutes of Health: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project, National Center for Human Genome Research.  June 2001-May 2004.  $903,176 (funded). Principal Investigator. 5 R01 HG02191-02 with minority supplement for Candace Stargell 3 R01 HG02191-02S1.  $25,484.

Multiplex Genetic Susceptbility Testing Project.  IPA.  $26,693.  8/28/05/8/27/06 DHHS/NIH/NHGRI/SBRB. 

"The Southern Center on Communication, Health, and Poverty." Centers for Disease Control 9/01/2005-08/310/2008 $836,391 annually.  Vicki             Freimuth, Center PI; Celeste Condit, Project 1 “Genetics” Principal Investigator 1P01CD000242-01.

"Lay and Expert Models of Gene-Environment Interaction," NIH 1 R01 HG003961-01,  7/1/2006-4/30/2009  $227,194 indirect costs/$335,111 total costs annually. Total costs $1,005,333. PI: Celeste Condit

Professional Memberships and Offices:

Editorial Work:

Co-editor (w/Bonnie Dow), Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2001-2004

Co-editor (w/Bonnie Dow), Women's Studies in Communication, 1998-2001

Criticism/Review Editor, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1995-1998

Associate Editor/Editorial Board: Southern Speech Communication Journal,1984-1986; Communication Monographs,     1986-1989; Quarterly Journal of Speech 1986-1992, 2003- ; Communication Theory,1989-1992; Women's Studies in Communication, 1994-97; Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 1997-2000; Journal of Communication, 2003-.

University of Georgia Press, Editorial Board. July, 2004-June 30, 2007 (Chair, 2006-2007)

Publications:
Books and Edited Volumes:

Guest Editor, Special Issues of Communication, entitled "Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture," vol 11 #2 and Vol 12, #1 (1990).

Condit, C.  Decoding Abortion Rhetoric: Communicating Social Change.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Condit, C. and Lucaites, J. L.  Crafting Equality: America's Anglo/African Word.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Parrott, R. and Condit, C. (Eds.)  Evaulating Women's Health Messages;  A Resource Book, Sage, 1996.

Lucaites, J.L., Condit, C.M. & Caudill, S.  (Eds.)  Readings in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory.  Guilford Press, 1998.

Condit, C.  The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Heredity.  University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Journal Articles and Critical Review Essays:

Railsback, C. Condit.  Pro-life, Pro-choice: Different Conceptions of Value.  Women's Studies in Communication, 5, 1982, 16-28.

Railsback, C. Condit.  Beyond Rhetorical Relativism: A Structural-Material Model of Truth and Objective Reality.  Quarterly Journal of Speech, 69, 1983, 351-363.

Condit, C.  The Contemporary American Abortion Controversy: Stages in the Argument.  Quarterly Journal of Speech, 70, 1984, 410-424.  Also anthologized in Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth-Century Perspective, 3rd. ed., Bernard L. Brock, Robert L. Scott, and James W. Chesebro (Wayne State University Press, 1990), pp. 371-387 and in Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest, Ed. Charles E. Morris III, and Stephen H. Browne, Strata Publishing; State College, PA.

Lucaites, J. and Condit, C. M.,  Reconstructing Narrative Theory:  A Functional Perspective.  Journal of Communication, 35, 1985, 90-108.

Condit, C.  The Functions of Epideictic.  Communication Quarterly, 33,1985, 284-299.

Condit, C.  and Selzer, J. A.  The Rhetoric of Objectivity in the Newspaper Coverage of a Murder Trial.  Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 2, 1985, 197-216.

Condit, C. M.  TV Articulates Abortion in America: Competition and the Production of a Cultural Repertoire, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 11, 1987, 47-59.

Condit, C.  Crafting Virtue: The Rhetorical Construction of Public Morality.  Quarterly Journal of Speech, 73, 1987, 79-87.

Condit, C.  Democracy and Civil Rights: The Universalizaing  Influence of Public Argumentation. Communication Monographs, 54, 1987, 1-18.

Condit C., What Makes Our Scholarship Feminist?  A Radical/Liberal View, Women's Studies in Communication, 11, 1988, 6-8.

Taylor, Charles Alan and Condit, Celeste Michelle. Objectivity in Mediation; Coverage of Creation/Science. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 5 (1988), 293-312.

Condit, C.  Feminized Power and Adversarial Advocacy:  Leveling Arguments or Analyzing Them?  Journal of the American Forensic Association, 25 (1989), 226-230.

Condit, C.  The Rhetorical Limits of Polysemy.  Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 6 (1989), 103-122.  Also anthologized in Critical Perspectives on Media and Society,  Eds.  Robert K. Avery and David Eason (New York: Guilford Publications, Inc., 1991), and anthol. in Horace Newcomb, Television: The Critical View, 5th ed.

Condit, C.  Within the Confines of the Law:  Abortion and Women's Liberty, invited critical review essay on Laurence Tribe's Abortion: the Clash of Absolutes, in Buffalo Law Review, v. 38 #3 (1990), 903-919.

Condit, Celeste, The Birth of Understanding:  Chaste Science and the Harlot of the Arts, Chataqua: Are Rhetoric and Science Incompatible?, Communication Monographs, 57 (1990), 323-327.

Condit, Celeste.  Speech as a Liberal Art:  Following Leff and McGee, Western Journal of Speech Communication, 54 (1990), 330-345.

Lucaites, John and Condit, Celeste, "Reconstructing <Equality>: Culturetypal and Counter-Cultural Rhetorics in the Martyrd Black Vision," Communication Monographs, 57, (March 1990). Anthologized in Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, ed. Carl R. Burgchardt (State College, Pennsylvania: Strata, 1995), 457-479.

Condit, C. and Lucaites, J. L., "The Rhetoric of 'Equality' and the Expatriation of African-Americans, 1776-1826," solicited for special issue of Communication Studies, on "Social Movement Studies," 42 (Spring 1991), 1-21.

Condit, C. “Post-Burke. Transcending the Sub-stance of Dramatism," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 78 (August 1992), 349-355.  Reprinted in Landmark Essays on Kenneth Burke, ed. by B. Brummet (Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1994).

Condit, C.  and Lucaites, J.  Malcolm X and the Limits of the Rhetoric of Revolutionary Dissent, Journal of Black Studies, 23 (March 1993), 291-313.  Reprinted in Diversity in Public Communication: A Reader, ed. Anne E. Laffoon and Raymie E. McKerrow (Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt, 1994), pp. 103-123. 

Condit, C.  The Critic as Empath.  Western Journal of Speech Communication, 57 (1993), 178-190.

Condit, Celeste.  The New Science of Human Reproduction: The Inadequacies of 'Disciplines' for the Understanding of Human Life (Critical Review Essay) Quarterly Journal of Speech, 79 (1993), 232-265.

Condit, C. Two Sides to Every Question: Press Coverage of Abortion. Argumentation, 8, (1994), 327-336.

Condit, Celeste M.  Framing Kenneth Burke:  Sad Tragedy or Comic Dance?, Quarterly Journal of Speech, February, 1994.

Condit, Celeste M.  Hegemony in a Mass Mediated Society: Concordance About "Reproductive Technologies," Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 11, #3 (September 1994), 205-230.

Condit, C. & Williams, M.  Gender Differences and Argumentation:  A Positional Account of the Reception of Genetics Arguments, Speaker and Gavel, 32 (1994/1995), 1-12.

Panetta, E. and Condit, C.  Ecocentrism and Argumentative Competence:  Roots of  a Postmodern Argument Theory from the Brazilian Deforestation Debate.  Argumentation, 9, (1995), 203-223.

Condit, C. M.  Contributions of the Rhetorical Perspective to the Placement of Medical Genetics, Communication Studies, (1995) 46, #2, 118-129.

Condit, C.  How Bad Science Stays that Way:  Of Brain Sex, Demarcation, and the Status of Truth in the Rhetoric of Science.  Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 26 (1996), 83-109.

Hasian, M., Condit, C. & Lucaites, J.  The Rhetorical Boundaries of 'the Law': A Consideration of the Rhetorical Culture of Legal Practice and the Case of the "Separate But Equal" Doctrine. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 82 (1996) 323-342. Reprinted in  Theodore F. Scheckels, Janette Kenner Muir, Terry Robertson, and Lisa Gring-Pemble (Eds.) Readings in Political Communication (Strata Publishing, 2007).

Condit, CM.  Hegemony, Concordance, and Capitalism:  A Reply to Cloud. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 13 (1996), 382-384.

Condit, C. & Williams, M.  Audience Responses to the Discourse of Medical Genetics: Evidence Against the Critique of Medicalization, Health Communication, 9, #1, (1997), 219-235.

Condit, CM.  Clouding the Issues: The Ideal and the Material in Human Communication.  Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 14 (1997), 197-200.

Condit, C.M.  In Praise of Eloquent Diversity:  Gender and Rhetoric as Public Persuasion.  Women's Studies in Communication, Fall 1997, 20 #2, 91-116 (accepted by previous editor).

Condit, CM, Ofulue, N & Sheedy, K.  Determinism and Mass Media Portrayals of Genetics.  American Journal of Human Genetics, 62, April 1998: 979-84.  And "Reply to Nelkin and Lindee,"  63: 663, 1998.

Condit, CM.  The Rhetoric of Intelligent Design:  Alternatives for Science and Religion.  Invited Response Essay for special issue on Intelligent Design.  Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 1, Winter 1998: 593-602  Updated and reprinted in J.A. Campbell and S. C. Meyer, (Eds.).  Darwinism, Design, and Public Education, Michigan State University Press, 2003.

Condit, CM.  How the Public Understands Genetics:  Non-deterministic and Non-discriminatory Interpretations of the "Blueprint" Metaphor.  Public Understandings of Science, 8, No 3 (July 1999), 169-180.  Featured essay.  Translated into Spanish at Quark: Ciencia, Medicina, Comunicacion y Cultura. To be reprinted in Genetics: Critical Concepts in Social and Cutlural Theory, Ed. Nanneke Redclift and Sahra Gibbon, Taylor and Francis, Ltd., London.

Condit, CM.  Culture and Biology in Human Communication: Toward a Multi-Causal Model, Communication Education, 49 (2000), 1-18.  And response essay, "Toward New 'Sciences' of Human Behavior," same issue 29-35.

Condit, C.M., Ferguson, A., Kassel, R., Thadhani, C., Gooding, H.C., Parrott, R.  An exploratory study of the impact of news headlines on genetic determinism, Science Communication 22 , 379-395 (2001).

Sefcovic, E.M. I & Condit, C.M. (2001). Narrative and Social change:  A Case Study of the Wagner Act of 1935, Communication Studies, 52: 284-301.

Ramsey, M., Achter, P., and Condit, CM.  Genetics, Race, and Crime: An Audience Study Exploring the Effects of The Bell Curve and Book Reviews, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 18 (March 2001)1-22.

Condit, CM, D.M.Condit, & P. Achter.  Human Equality, Affirmative Action and Genetic Models of Human Variation.  Rhetoric and Public Affairs 4:1 (March 2001): 85-108.

Condit, CM.  A Posthumanist Archaelogical Expedition.  POROI, 1 (2001). http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi

Condit, C.M. & Condit, D.M. (2001).  Blueprints and Recipes: Gendered Metaphors for Genetic Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities 22:29-40.

Condit, C.M. (2001).  Rhetorical formations of genetics in science and society, Rhetoric Review, 20: 12-17.

Condit, CM, D.M.Condit, & P. Achter.  Human Equality, Affirmative Action and Genetic Models of Human Variation.  Rhetoric and Public Affairs 4:1 (March 2001): 85-108.

Condit, C.M. (2001).  What is “public opinion” about genetics? Nature Reviews: Genetics, 2; 811-815.

Condit, C.M., Achter, P., Lauer, I., & Sefcovic, E. (2002). The changing meaning of “mutation”: a contextualized discourse study. Human Mutation, 19: 69-75.

Condit, C.M., Bates, B. R., Galloway, R., Brown Givens, S., Haynie, C.K., Jordan, J.W., Stables, G., and West, H.M.  (2002). Recipes or blueprints for our genes?  How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88: 303-325.

Condit, C.M., Parrott, R.L., Harris, T.M. Lay Understandings of the Relationship Between Race and Genetics, Public Understanding of Science (October 2002). 11: 373-387.

Parrott, R. L, Silk, K, Condit, C.M. (2003).  Diversity in lay perceptions of the sources of human traits: Genes, environments, and personal behaviors, Social Science and Medicine. 56, (5): 1099-1109.

B.R. Bates, A. Templeton, P.J. Achter, T. M. Harris, C. M. Condit (2003). “What does ‘A Gene for Heart Disease’ Mean? A Focus Group Study of Public Understandings of Genetic Risk Factors, American Journal of Medical Genetics, vol. 119A: 156-161.

C.M. Condit, A. Templeton, B.R. Bates, J. L. Bevan, Tina M. Harris (in press, October 2003).  Attitudinal barriers to delivery of race-targeted pharmacogenomics among informed lay persons. Genetics in Medicine, 5: 385-392.

Bevan, J. L., Lynch, J.A., Dubriwny, T.N., Harris, T. M., Achter, P. J., Reeder, A. L., Condit, C.M. (2003).  Informed Lay Preferences for Delivery of Racially Varied Pharmacogenomics, Genetics in Medicine, 5: 393-399.

Celeste M. Condit, Deirdre M. Condit, Tasha Dubriwny, Enid Sefcovic.  Lay Understandings of Sex/Gender and Genetics: A Methodology that Preserves Polyvocal Coder Input, Sex Roles (December 2003), 49 : 557-570. pp. 557-570.

R. L. Parrott, K., Silk, J.R. Krieger, T. Harris, and C. Condit.  (2004).  Behavioral Health Outcomes Associated with Religious Faith and Media Exposure About Human Genetics, Health Communication 16 (1): 29-46.

Parrott, R. L.,  Silk, KJ., Weiner, J., Condit, C.M., Harris, T.M., Bernhardt, J. (2004). Deriving Lay Models of Uncertainty about Genes' Role in Illness Causation to Guide Communication about Human Genetics, Journal of Communication, 54, 105-122.

Celeste M. Condit: The Meaning and Effects of Discourse About Genetics: Methodological Variations in Studies of Discourse and Social Change, Discourse and Society, July 2004, 15 (4): 391-407.

Bates, B.R., Poirot, K., Harris, T.M., Achter, P.J., Condit, C.M. Evaluating Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Race-Based Pharmacogenomics: A Focus Group Study of Public Understandings of Applied Genomic Medication, Journal of Health Communication. Vol 9 (#6), (Nov-Dec. 2004), 541-559.

Condit, CM.  Science reporting to the public - is the message twisted? Canadian Medical Association Journal (2004, April).  (invited commentary)

Pamela Sankar, Mildred Cho, Celeste Condit, Linda M. Hunt, Barbara Koenig, Patricia Marshall, Sandra Lee, Paul Spicer,  “Genetic Research and Health Disparities,”  Journal of the American Medical Association, (2004), v. 291: pp. 2985-2989.

Condit, C. M., Lynch, J.,A., Dubriwny, T. , Parrott, R.L. Lay Understanding and Preference Against Use of the term “Mutation,” American Journal of Medical Genetics, 130A (15 October 2004): 245-250.

Condit, C.M., Parrott, R.L., Harris, T.M., Lynch, J.A., Dubriwny, T.  The Role of “Genetics” in Popular Understandings of Race in the United States.  Public Understanding of Science 13 (2004), 249-272.

Condit, C.M., Parrott, R.L., Bates, B.R., Bevan, J.L., Achter, P.J. Exploration of the Impact of Messages About Genes and Race on Lay Attitudes. Clinical Genetics (2004), 66: 402-408.

Condit, C. & Parrott, R. (2004). Perceived levels of health risk associated with linguistic descriptors and type of disease.  Science Communication, 26, 152-161.

Bates, B.R., Lynch, J.A., Bevan, J.L., & Condit, C.M. Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks: A focus group study of public opinion about genetic research. Social Science & Medicine 60 (2005) 331-344.

Parrott, R. L., Silk, K.J., Dillow, M.r., Krieger, J.L., Harris, T. M., Condit, C.M. (2005).  Development and validation of tools to assess genetic discrimination and genetically based racism, Journal of the National Medical Association, 97 (7), 980-991.

Parrott, R., Silk, K., Dorgan, K., Condit, C. & Harris, T.  (2005). Risk comprehension and judgments of statistical evidentiary appeals.  Human Communication Research, 31, 423-452.

Dow, B.J. & Condit, C.M. (2005).  The state of the art in feminist scholarship in communication, Journal of Communication, 448-478.

Condit, C. & Bates, B. (2005).  How lay people respond to messages about genetics, health, and race.  Clinical Genetics, 68: 97-105.

Condit, C.M. (2005). “Race” Is Not a Scientific Concept: Alternative Directions: La «race» n’est pas un concept scientifique: quelles sont les alternatives? L'observatoire de la genetique, Sept-Nov, 2005. http://www.ircm.qc.ca/bioethique/obsgenetique/cadrages/cadr2005/c_no24_05/ca_no24_05_01.html

Lynch, J. & Condit, C. (2006). Genes and race in the news: A test of competing theories of news coverage. American Journal of Health Behavior 30 (2) March/April, pp.125-135.

Condit, C.M. (2006). Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism: Diverse Bodies Learning New Languages. Rhetoric Review, 25,4.368-371.

Celeste M. Condit, “How Culture and Science Make Race “Genetic”: Motives and Strategies for Discrete Categorization of the Continuous and Heterogeneous,”  Literature and Medicine, 26, no 1 (Spring 2007), 240-268.

Celeste Michelle Condit, L. Bruce Railsback.  Generalization through similarity: motif discourse in the discovery and elaboration of zinc finger proteins. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2007, 2:5 (3 October 2007).

Celeste M. Condit, “How geneticists can help reporters to get their story right,”  Nature Reviews Genetics, 8, October 2007, pp. 815-820.

Susan Persky; Kimberly A. Kaphingst; Celeste M. Condit; Colleen M. McBride,   Assessing hypothetical scenario methodology in genetic susceptibility testing analog studies: a quantitative review. Genetics in Medicine, 9 (November 2007), 727-738.

Lynch, J. , Bevan, B., Achter, P., Harris, T., & Condit, C.M. (2008).  A preliminary study of how multiple exposures to messages about genetics impact on lay attitudes toward racial and genetic discrimination.  New Society and Genetics. 27: 1, 43-56.

Youyou Cheng, Celeste M. Condit, and David Flannery, "Depiction of Gene-Environment Relationships in Online Medical Recommendations," Genetics in Medicine, 10(6):450-456, June 2008.

Jamie Landau, Christopher R. Groscurth, Lanelle Wright, and Celeste M. Condit “Visualizing Nanotechnology: The Impact of Visual Images on Lay Audience Associations with Nanotechnology”, Public Understanding of Science, in press.

Condit, C.M., Gronnvoll, M., landau, J., Shen, L., Wright, L., Harris, T.M. (in press).  Believing in both genetic determinism and behavioral action: A materialist framework and implications, Public Understanding of Science. 

Shen, L. J., Condit, C. M., & Wright, L.  (2008, in press).  The Psychometric Property and Validation of a Fatalism Scale, Psychology and Health.

Condit, C.M. (2008, in press, November). Race and genetics from a modal materialist perspective, Quarterly Journal of Speech.Kimberly A. Kaphingst, Christina R. Lachance, Celeste M. Condit,  “Beliefs About Heritability of Cancer and Health Information Seeking and Preventive Behaviors,” forthcoming, Journal of Cancer Education.

Condit, Celeste M. (in press). Feminist Biologies: Revising Feminist Strategies and Biological Science, Sex Roles.

Chapters in Books and Proceedings:

Condit, C.  John Cotton: Partisan Preacher.  In Halford Ryan and Bernard Duffy, American Orators Before 1900. Westport, CT.  Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 106-113.

Condit, C.  Richard Milhous Nixon: Partisan Political Persuader.  In Halford Ryan and Bernard Duffy, American Orators of the Twentieth Century. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 323-330.

Condit, C.  Nixon's 'Fund': Time as Ideological Resource in the Checker's Speech.  In Michael Leff and Fred J. Kauffeld, Texts in Context.  Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1989, pp. 219-242.

Bernabo, L. and Condit, C.  Two Stories of the Scopes Trial:  Legal and Journalistic Articulations of the Legitimacy of Science and Religion.  In R. Harriman, Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law:  Critical Studies of  Popular Trials, University of Alabama Press, 1990.

Condit, C.   Replacing Oxymora: Instituting Communication Studies.  In Brenda Dervin et al.  Rethinking Communication: Paradigm Issues, Ablex, 1990, 154-156.

Condit, C. and Condit, D., "Smoking OR Health: Incremental Erosion as a Public Interest Group Strategy,"  in R. Heath et al, Eds., Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations, (Erlbaum, 1991).

Condit, C.  "Opposites in an Oppositional Practice,"  in Sheryl Permlutter Brown and Nancy Wyatt, Eds.  Transforming Visions:  Feminist Critiques of Speech Communication, Hampton Press, 1993, pp. 205-230.

Powell, K. and Condit, C.  Jesse Daniel Ames, in Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925 to the Present: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, ed. K.K. Campbell (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press),1994, pp. 134-146.

Wheaton, P. and Condit, C.  Charles Lennox Remond: the First Black Abolitionist Orator.  In Richard Leeman,  African- American Orators, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1996), pp. 302-310.

Condit, C.  Robert L. Scott.  Entry in the Encylopaedia of Rhetoric and Composition, ed. T. Enos, Garland Publishing, New York, 1996.

Condit, C.  Kenneth Burke and Linguistic Reflexivity:  Reflections on the Scene of the Philosophy of Communication in the Twentieth Century.  In B. Brock, ed.  Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought, University of Alabama Press, 1995, pp. 207-262.

Condit. C.  The Importance of Health Communication for Women in the Era of Genetic Medicine.  Proceedings of the SCA Summer Conference on Health Communication, 1995.

Condit, C.  A Right to Life? Reprinted from Decoding Abortion Rhetoric. In Lloyd Steffen (ed.) Abortion: A Reader (Cleveland, OH:Pilgrim Press, 1996), pp. 45-56.

Condit, C. Theory, Practice, and the Battered (Woman) Teacher.  In Teaching What You're Not: Identity Politics in Higher Education, ed. Katherine J. Mayberry (New York: New York University Press, 1996). 155-174.

Condit, CM.  "Gender Diversity:  A Theory of Communication for the Postmodern Era," pp. 177-183.  In Judith S. Trent, Ed,. Communication:  Views from the Helm for the 21st Century.  Boston:  Allyn and Bacon, 1997.

Celeste M. Condit and April M. Greer. "The Particular Aesthetics of Winston Churchilll's 'War Situation I." In J. Michael Hogan, Ed.  Rhetoric and Community:  Studies in Unity and Fragmentation (pp. 167-203).  Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
           
Condit, CM.  "The Character of 'History' in Rhetoric and Culture Studies: Recoding Genetics."  In Thomas Rosteck, Ed.  At The Intersection: Rhetoric and Cultural Studies, (Guilford Press, 1998): 168-185.

Condit, CM. The materiality of coding: On rhetoric, genetics, and the matter of life.  In Rhetorical Bodies: Toward a Material Rhetoric.  Ed. JA Selzer and S Crowley.  University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Condit, CM.  Women's Reproductive Choices and the Genetic Model of Medicine.  In Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction.  Ed. Mary M. Lay, Laura Gurak, Clare Gravon, and Cynthia Mynti (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), pp. 125-141.

Condit, CM, Parrott, RL & O'Grady, B.  Principles and Practice of Communication Processes for Genetics in Public Health.  In Genetics and Public Health: Translating Advances in Human Genetics into Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.  Eds. Muin J. Khoury, Wylie Burke, and Elizabeth Thomson (Oxford University Press, 2000), 549-568.

Condit, CM. Lay people actively process messages about genetics.  In Crossing Over: Genomics in the Public Arena.  Ed. Edna Einsiedel and Frank Timmermans. (pp. 131-143).  Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 2005.

Condit CM, Parrott, RL., & Harris TM, "Laypeople and Behavioral Genetics."  In Erik Parens, Audrey R. Chapman & Nancy Press (Eds.)  Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics:  Science: Ethics, and Public Conversation (pp. 286-308).  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Condit, Celeste M. “Relationality.”  In Gregory J. Shepherd, Jeffrey St. John, and ed Striphas (Eds.).  Communication as…Perspectives on Theory (pp. 3-12).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006. 

Other publications:

Celeste M. Condit, “How to talk to the public about genes: Know where your audience is coming from,” Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin, September 2003, 32.

Celeste M. Condit, "How Should We Study the Symbolizing Animal?" The Çarroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, National Communication Association, November, 2004, (Boston: Pearson Academic, 2006).

PhD's Directed:
Kimberly Powell (1992), Marouf Hasian (1993), Virgie Nobles Harris (1993), Lisa Flores (1994), Robert Frank (1995), Kim Kline (1996), Diane Miller (1996), Enid Sefcovic (1997), Lynette Long (1997), Sally Caudill (1998), Joe Bellon (1999), Joanna Ploeger-Tsoulos (1999) , Kris Sheedy (2000), John Jordan (2001), Ben Bates (2002), Nneka Ofulue (2004?), Tasha Dubrwiny (2005), John Lynch (2005), Marita Gronnvoll (2008)

MA's Directed:
John Delicath (1992), Gretchen Van Wye , Nneka Ofulue (1998), John Jordan (1998)

Selected University Service: 

Chair, Awards Committee (departmental); Chair, Women's Studies Evening Program, 1990; Chair, Rhetoric Committee, 1990, 1999-2000, 2002-2004; Dean's Committee for the Humanities, 1990-92;  Chair, Franklin College Awards Committee, 1991;  Search Committee for Dean of Arts and Sciences, 1992-93; Dept of Speech Communication: Organizer, Dept. Colloquium; University Grievance Committee, 1994; Women's Studies Tenure and Promotion Advisory Committee, 1994 (Chair, 1995).  Departmental Search Committees: Women's Studies, 1990, Dept. of English, Rhetoric and Composition, 1994-95; Department of History, 1998, Department of Philosophy, 1999-2000; Program Review Committee, 1994-96; Chair, Graduate Faculty Appointment Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Graduate College, 1994-95; Tenure and Promotion Advisory Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, 1996-1998, 2002-2003; Advisory Committee for the Search for Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Spring 1998; University Review Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2000; Center for the Humanities and Arts, Executive Board, 2000-2003 (Chair 2002-2003);  President’s Faculty Advisory Council 2000-2003; Chair, Sociology Department Head Search; OVPR Research Advisory Committee (2002-2003); Provost’s Ad hoc Committee for Review of the University Awards (2002); CHA Wilson Professorship Selection Advisory Committee, 2004; Women’s Studies Institute, Advisory Board, 2003-04, Advisory Committee of the Regenerative Medicine Center 2004-, Search Committee, Genetics/Social Sciences Targeted Search, 2005-2006; Distinguished Research Professor Selection Committee, 2006; Special Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2006; UGA Press Board, Chair, 2006-07; Departmental Ad Hoc Committee for Sabbatical Plan, SPCM Fall 2007

Service on Grant Reviews:

University of Illinois Research Board, 1988, 1989
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipends, 1992, 1993
NIH ELSI Review Panel, November 2002
Canadian Health Research Fund, 2002
National Science Foundation, STS Division, 2004
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2007

Other Service: 

Howard University ELSI-CEER Grant Consultant
Advisory Board, Genome Prairie GE3LS (Genomics: Ethics,
Environment, Economics, Law and Society), Calgary, Canada
Consultant, ‘Public Understanding of Genetics: a cross-cultural and
ethnographic study of the ‘new genetics’ and social identity’ - PUG,
Barcelona, Spain; “Voices of Democracy” External Advisory Board (NEH).