Dr. Celeste M. Condit

Dr. Celeste M. Condit

CELESTE MICHELLE CONDIT

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

Honors and Awards:
Grants:
Professional Memberships and Offices:

National Communication Association (Life Member)
Short Course Selection Committee 1986-88, 1992
Chair, Women's Caucus 1987
Nominating Committee 1989, 1995
Publications Board Representative, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division 1990
Chair, Nominating Committee, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division, 1991
Chair, Nominating Committee, Public Address, 1992
Council of Doctoral Granting Institutions
Women's Caucus, Nominating Committee, 1992, 1998
Winans-Wichelns Award Committee, 1995-98
Rhetoric & Communication Theory Award Committee, 1997-99 (Chair, 1999)
Golden Anniversary Award Committee
Southern Speech Communication Association (Life Member)
Chair, Nominating Committee, Public Address 1984
Secretary, Public Address Division 1984
Representative to NCA Nominating Committee, 1991
Nominating Committee-1992, 1993
American Society for Human Genetics
Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (Life Member)
National Society of Genetic Counselors (Associate Member)
Affiliate, Women's Studies Program, UGA, 1990-
Member, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, UGA (2003-)

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-.
Referee: College English, JACR, Western Journal of Speech, Symbolic Interaction, Journal of Communication, Urban Geography, International Journal of Conflict Management, Communication Studies, Women's Studies International Forum, Political Communication, Hypatia, Sociology of Health and Illness, Cultural Studies, Public Understanding of Science, Science Communication, Trends  In Biotechnology, Human Relations, Community Genetics, Genetics in Medicine, Science, Technology, And Human Values, Journal of Genetic Counseling, Social Science And Medicine
Reviewer: 
Central States Rhetorical Criticism 1985; NCA Rhetorical and Communication Theory 1994; Women's Caucus; Ablex Books, Indiana University Press, Wayne State University Press, Southern Speech Communication Association, Waveland Press, University of Alabama Press, University of Minnesota Press.
University of Georgia Press, Editorial Board. July, 2004-June 30, 2007 (Chair, 2006-2007)          

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate--Rhetoric (oral and written composition; expository and argumentative), Persuasion, Rhetoric and Communication Theory (survey), History of Rhetoric (survey), Political Communication, Rhetorical Criticism, Organizational Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Communication in Human Society, Basic Public Speaking, Honors Public Communication (including special team taught section on social impact of genetic research) Business and Professional Communication, Science Communication

Graduate--Rhetorical Criticism, Contemporary Public Discourse, Critical Analysis of Corporate Advocacy, Rhetorical Theory, Political Communication, Seminar in Rhetorical Studies: Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture.  Foundations of Rhetorical Theory, Democratic Discourse: Theory and Practice, Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Texts in Context, Rhetoric and Social Change (see below for last 7 years by semester)

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, K. J., 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, October 2005.

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, in press). Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism: Diverse Bodies Learning New Languages. Rhetoric Review.

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.          

Book Reviews:

Condit, Celeste, Rev. of David Zarefsky's Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1986, 495-496.

Condit, Celeste, Rev. of Daniel T. Rodger's, Contested Truths, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, 75 (1989), 235-238.

Condit, Celeste, Rev. of Kenneth Cmiel,  Democratic Eloquence, in the Journal of Historical Education, Fall 1991, pp. 422-425.

Condit, C.  Rev. of Carol Tavris, The Mismeasure of Woman, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, (November 1993), 503-504.

Condit, C.  "The Particularities of Race," rev. of E. Culpepper Clarke's The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabma, in Communication Quarterly, forthcoming. (1994), vol 42, pp. 208-209.

Condit, C. Rev. of An Unfinished Revolution: Women and Health Care in America, ed. Emily Friedman, in Women's Studies International Forum, (1995), vol 18 (3), pp. 378-39.

Condit, C.  Rev. of Herman Cohen's History of Speech Communication, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, May 1996, accepted.

Condit, C. Rev. of Robert Branham and Philip Foner, Lift Every Voice, in Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1, #3 (1998): 462-464.

Achter, P. and Condit, C. Rev. of Jon Entine's Taboo: Why Black Atheletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It, in American Scientist, 2000.

Rev. of Speaking About Abortion in Women's Studies International Forum, Spring 2001.

Rev. of Black Image in the White Mind:  Media and Race in America.  By Robert N. Entman and Andrew Rojecki.  For Quarterly Journal of Speech, 87 (August 2001), 330-331.

Rev. of Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women, by Andrea L. Press and Elizabeth R. Cole. Women’s Studies International Forum, 23, #5 (Sept/Oct 2000), 658-59.

"Studying Genetic Popularization," Public Understanding of Science, 10 (2001): 1-5 (Critical Review Essay of Clones and Clones and Genetic Imaginations).

Rev. of M. Morange, “The Misunderstood Gene,”  Heredity (2002), 88.

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).

Prestigious Invited and Inter-disciplinary Scholarly Lectures:

        "Abortion and the Rhetoric of History," Temple Conference on Discourse Analysis, 1987

        "Reproducing the Species: Choice, Technocracy, and the State in the 1st Century," Drake University Symposium on the Webster Decision,  Dec 1990

        "The Rhetoric of Reproduction in a Technological Age," Humanities       Program, International Women's Day, 1990 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

        "Prime-Time Abortions: Televisual Transformation of Values"  Northern Illinois University, Social Science Research Institute, March 1,1990

        "Rhetoric and the Abortion Controversy:  Critical Analysis of Argument and Public Policy,"  Keynote Speech, Women's History Month, Northern Illinois University, March 1, 1990

        "The Argument Over Equality in American Public Discourse,"invited for the Scholars Workshop on the Rhetoric of Political Argument, on "Rhetorics as Politics--Discourses Civic and Academic," at the University of Iowa, April 26-28, 1991.  Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

        "Dominant Ideology, Localism, and Anarchy: Lessons from the American South 1865-1900," and "Rhetoric Against Deconstruction: The Substance of the Public Vocabulary," presented at the University of Utah, by invitation, January 17, 1991.

        "The Rhetoric of Reproduction in a Technological Age," invited lecture, University of  Kansas, Spring 1992.

        "Equality, Morality, and Genes," Address to the DePauw Undergraduate Honors Conference, March 1993.

        "Act II: Burke or Post-Burke for the 21st Century?"  Keynote Address, Kenneth Burke Society Conference, May 1993

        "Racial Identity in an Agonistic Culture," invited lecture, American Politics Workshop, University of Chicago, March 1994

        "The Particular Aesthetics of Winston Churchill's 'War Situation I," plenary lecture, Public Address Conference, October 1994

        "The Evolution of Genetalk: From Hereditarianism to Medical Genetics,"  National Center for Human Genome Research Internal Seminar, NIH, December 1994
       
        "Closing Address," invited lecture at the conference, "The Ethics of Genetic Testing:  Academic, Insurance, and Health- Care Perspectives,"  Indiana State University, March 1996.

        "Genetic Medicine and Public Attitudes: An Audience Analysis of Determinism,  Discrimination, and Perfectionism."  National Center for Human Genome Research, NIH, May 23, 1996.

        "Lay Audience Responses to Public Messages About Genetics," invited presentation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 1997.

        "The Discourse of Medical Genetics," the Auer Lecture, Indiana University, March 1997.

        "Polysemy, Persuasion, and Social Change: The Case of Medical Genetics," the Borcher's Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison.  March 1997.

        "The Metaphors of the Gene"  Invited lecture, NorthwesternUniversity Department of Communication Studies.  April 1998.

        Condit et al. “Behavior Genetics and Race,” at the Hastings Center, conference on Behavior Genetics and the Public, Spring 2001.

        Celeste Michelle Condit, Roxanne Parrott, Tina M. Harris,"Lay Understandings of the Relationship Between Race and Genetics," presented at the ELSI 10th Anniversary Conference, NIH, Bethesda, MD, March 2001.

        Celeste Michelle Condit, Roxanne Parrott, Tina M. Harris,"Lay Understandings of the Relationship Between Race and Genetics," presented at the "Human Genetic Variation Consortium Meeting," NIH, Bethesda, MD., June 11, 2001.

        “Popular Representations and Interpretations of Genetics,”GENE(SIS) CONFERENCE, Henry Art Museum, Spring 2002.

        “How to Understand Everything: The Contribution of Critical Methodologies,” The Scheidel Lecture, University of Washington, Spring 2002.

        “What do Lay People Know About Genetics?” Genetic Literacy and Civic Genetics Meeting,” April 8-9, 2002 at the Hastings Center, New York.

        “Communicating about Race and Genetics with the Public,” Whitehead Press Briefing, October 2002.

        National Institutes of Health, Human Variation Consortium, Presentation 3 February 2003

        GELS3 Conference, Calgary Canada, Invited Presentation, Spring 20036th International Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Conference, Fall 2003

        Literature, Culture and Genes Conference, Invited Presentation, Vanderbilt University, Fall 2003

        “Reporting of Human Genetic Variation Research to the Public,” “a the National Human Genome Institutes Conference, “Roundtable on Race.” March 2004.  Bethesda, MD.

        “What Role Does Language Play in Perception of Genetic Risk?” Annenberg Workshop on Communicaiting Genetic Risk Perception, Philadelphia, October 1, 2004

        “Where is Public Address?  Keynote Speech at the Biennial Public Address Conference, Washington, D.C. October 7th, 2004

        “How Lay People Respond to Messages about Race, Health, and Genetics,”  invited presenation, American Society for Human Genetics Annual Conference, Toronto, October  2004

        “How Science and Culture Make Race ‘Genetic’”, Literature, Culture and Genetics Conference, Duke University, November 2004

        “How Should We Study the Symbolizing Animal? The Carroll Arnold Lecture, National Communication Association, November 2005, Chicago.

        “How Should We study the Interaction of Biology and Symbolics”  Invited Lecture, Purdue University, November 04

        “Lay and Expert Accounts of Gene-Environment Interactions” Institute for Behavioral Research, UGA, October  18? 04

        “Why Physics Works,” to the UGA Physics Colloquium, Fall 2004.

 
Selected papers presented at professional and learned societies:

        Function and Culture in Genre Analysis of Social Movement, Central States Speech Association April 1982
        The Function of Epideictic:  The Power of the Communal Symbol in the Boston Massacre Orations, Southern States Speech Communication Association, April 1982
        The Rise of an Ideograph:  The 'Family' in the Ideology of the New Right, Central States Speech Association Conference, April 1982
        A Semiotic Model of Value, SCA November 1982
        The Rhetoric of the New Right: Ideas and Consequences, Southern Speech Communication Association Conference, April 1983
        A Rationale for the Criticism of Political Argumentation, Southern Speech Communication Association Conference, April 1983
        Democracy and Civil Rights: Universalization in Public Argument, Birmingham Conference on Ideology and Public Argument, May 1983
        Social Change and Social Actors:  The Arguments of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., Alta Conference on Argumentation,  August 1983
        Abortion Rhetoric,  Mellon Colloquium, Tulane University, October 1983
        Myth, Metaphor, Ideographs:  The Interaction of Units of Discourse, SCA November 1983
        Rhetoric and Social Change in the Contemporary American Abortion Controversy, SCA November 1983
        Why the Jury Acquitted and the Newspapers Convicted: A Rhetorical Analysis of a Murder Trial.  SCA November 1984 (With Ann Selzer).
        Legitimacy and Universal Argument:  Abortion and the Roman Catholic Church, SCA November 1984
        Abortion, Women and Religion,  Southeastern Women's Studies Conference, March 1985
        Quintilian on Rhetorical Narrative: Truth, Beauty, and Power as Correctives to Literary Conceptions of Narrative,  International Society for the History of Rhetoric, St. John's College, Oxford, England, August 1985.
        Rhetoric and History in the Contemporary American Abortion Controversy,  SCA November 1985.
        Families of Discourse, SCA November 1985.
        Public Discourse and Private Lives:  The Case of Abortion Discourse,  ICA May 1986.
        Liberal Politics and the Aestheticization of Power,  SCA November 1986.
        Equality in the Martyrd Black Vision (With John Lucaites), SCA November 1986.
        Richard Nixon's First Inaugural Address (With Jennifer Selby),  SCA November 1986.
         Ideology and the 'System' in the Production of Abortion Compromise,  ICA May 1987
        Rhetoric and Ideology: The Pensacola Abortion Clinic Bombings, SCA November1987.
        Abortion and the Rhetoric of History," invited lecture,Temple Conference on Discourse Analysis, Spring 1987
        Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture, International Communication Association (hereafter, ICA), May 1988.
        The Martyrd Black Word: The Oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.  20th Anniversary Commemoration, Atlanta GA, MLK Foundation and SCA (with John Lucaites) March 1988
        Constructing Public Morality on Television: Cagney and Lacey on Abortion,  SCA November 1988.
        Deconstructing Darwin: 'Man' as the Origin of Species, Speech Communication Association National Conference, (hereafter, SCA) November1988
        Malcolm X and The Limits of the Rhetoric of Dissent, SCA, November 1989
        Spotlight Panel: Ethnicity and the Media, Southern States Speech Convention, April 1990
        "Contextual Criticism," with Marouf Hasian, Southern States Speech Convention, April 1991
        "Technologically Assisted Procreation:  What the Media Tells Women," Speech Communication Association Convention, November 1992
        "Argument as Method:  Extending its Uses and Limitations," Speech Communication Association National Conference, Miami, 1993
        Response to Tompkins and Cheney, "Extensions of the Burkeian System," Central States Speech Association, April 1994
        Respondent, "African-American Rhetoric," panel SCA November 1994
        Respondent, "Race Trials," panel, SCA November 1994
        "Disclosure:  Backlash or Boundary Work?" SCA, November 1994 (with Lynette Long)
        "Theory, Practice, and the Battered (Woman) Teacher,"  SCA, November 1994
        General Session: "SCA'S Essence and the Widening Gyre: Unifying Credos,"  SCA, November 1995.
        Condit, C.  Conference Summary, Public Address Conference, Champaign, IL.
        Condit, C.  Respondent, "Outing Science:  The Construction of Other in Scientific Discourse," SCA 1996
        Condit, C. Respondent, "Rhetorical Responses to Oppression: Three Case Studies," SCA 1996
        Condit, C. "The Perils and Pleasures of Historicity:  Contested Meanings of the Genetic Code," SCA 1996
        Condit, C.  "Gender Diversity:  A Theory of Communication for a Postmodern Era,"  in the prestigious "At the Helm" Series.  Speech Communication Association, Fall 1996
        "Scholarship on African American Communication and Culture," NCA 1998.
        "The Intellectual Bases for Diversity"  First Vice President's Panel, NCA 1998
        "Re-visioning Feminism:  Generations and the Interrogation of History," (A First Vice President's "Highlighted" Exemplary Program), National Communication Association.
        Lay Understandings of Sex/Gender and Genetics: A Methodology Preserving Polyvocal Coder Input, NCA 2002 November, Celeste Condit,* Deirdre Condit, Enid Sefcovic, Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, Sonja Brown-Givens, Cindy Dietz, Roxanne Parrott


Public Media:

        Radio interviews with public radio stations in Illinois, Washington, D.C. , Washington, and Philadelphia.  Interview of Valerie Palakow for WUGA/Humanities Center program "The Bigger Picture."  Interviews to the Los Angeles Times, Ladies Home Journal, CNN/International, AtlantaConstitution and Journal, Lingua Franca, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Georgia Research Reporter, Red and Black, Athens Banner Herald, WUGA, Columns, essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Globe and Mail, July 2005.

"The Social Impact of Medical Genetics," Kiwanis club, Fall 1994, 1997.

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)

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

Current PhD Advisees: Marita Gronnvoll

PhD Committees Served:  Seok Hyung Kim (sociology), David Sutton, Jean DeHart, Beverly Johnson, Melanie Williams (comprehensive examinations only), Raka Shome, Elfriede Fursich (journalism), Anita Brown (CFD), David Scott (journalism), Steve Kogan (CFD), Carolina Alcosta Alzura (journalism), Michele Ramsey, Paul Achter, Caitlin Wills, Kathi Wilson, Patrick Wheaton, Kristan Poirot, Ashli Quesinberry, Jessica Brow, Windy Lawrence, Ken Rufo, Christina Morus, Mike Davis, Davi Johnson, Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Dylan Wolfe

MA Committees Served: Randy Saisslin, Enid Sefcovic, Allyson Mann (journalism), Greg Sanchez, Margaret Daniels, John Hyatt, Sean Brooks, Ken Rufo, David Botelho (geography), Robbie Quinn, Lisa Slawter, Jamie Landau

Current Committees: Robert Avery, Melanie McNaughton, Eric Jenkins, Shanara Reid, Kristy Maddux, Jarrod Atchinson, Lisa Slawter

Other Recent Service to Graduate Education:
Other Recent Service to Undergraduate Education:
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

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

Other Service:  Howard University ELSI-CEER Grant Consultant