EDUCATION
Ph.D., Communication and Culture Indiana University, 2022
- Dissertation: “Democratic Disharmony: Indecorous and Uncontrollable Rhetorics of Black Lives and Disability Justice”
- Committee Co-Chairs: Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Robert Terrill
M.A., Communication and Culture Indiana University, 2013
B.A., Psychology University of Minnesota, 2007
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies & Philosophy, Utah State University (2022 – Present)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Utah State University
Public Speaking (2022 – Present)
Public Speaking Instructor Practicum (2022 – Present)
Pedagogy (2023)
Rhetorical Criticism (2023)
Gender Communication (2022-2023)
Associate Instructor, Indiana University
Global Change, Food and Farming Systems (2022)
Thinking Like a Scientist (2021)
Geography of Food (2020)
Strategic Business Communication (2019)
Professional Writing (2017 – 2018)
Public Oral Communication (2016 – 2019)
Interpersonal Communication (2012 – 2014, 2019 – 2020)
Introduction to Public Speaking (2011 – 2012)
Technical Instructor, Per Scholas-New York
End-User Computing (2020 – 2021)
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
E. Cram, Martin Law, and Phaedra C. Pezzullo “Cripping Environmental Communication: A Review of Eco-Ableism, Eco-Normativity, and Climate Justice Futurities.” Environmental Communication, 16: 7 (2022).
Martin Law and Lisa Corrigan “On white-speak and gatekeeping: or, what good
are the Greeks?” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 15:4 (2018): 326-330. [link]
Martin Law, Mark Stellmack, and Neal F. Viemeister “Monaural Phase Effects: Timing versus Level Cues,” Abstr. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 107 (2000): 2881.
Book Chapter
Viemeister, Neal F., Martin Rickert, Martin Law, and Mark Stellmack “Psychophysical and Physiological Aspects of Auditory Temporal Processing.” In Genetics and the Function of the Auditory System edited by Lisbeth Tranebjærg and Danavox Symposium. Tåstrup: Danavox Jubilee Foundation, 2002. 273–91.
Book Reviews
“Bring the Noise” (Review of Mirko M. Hall’s Musical Revolutions in German Culture: Musicking against the Grain, 1800-1980). Marx and Philosophy Review of Books. 9 April 2016. [link]
Other Scholarship
“From the Sea.” University of Santa Barbara. Installation. With Gwen Law. 2014.
“West Bank and Cedar-Riverside: An Oral History of Music on the Edge.” Producer. KUOM, Minneapolis. Radio. 2007.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY/PARTICIPATION
Papers Presented
“Leroy Moore’s Krip Hop Delivery as a Rhetorical Theory of Ineloquence.” National Communication Association, National Harbor, MD November 16-19, 2023.
“Toward and Indecorous Art of Dying with Noise.” Sound Studies, Rhetoric, and Writing Conference. (Canceled due to pandemic)
“Technologies of Mental Illness Community: Media representations, Digital receptions, Psychedelic and Artificially Intelligent Entanglements in the Netflix show Maniac” Society for Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, LA September 4 – 7, 2019. With Zara Richter.
“Kairos and the Uncontrollable Urge.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, MN May 31 – June 3, 2018.
“Living with Noise.” National Communication Association, Dallas, TX, November 16-19, 2017.
“(Un)Hidden History: Using New Digital Sources to Reveal Communities and Primary Sources.” National Council on Public History, Indianapolis, IN, April 19-22, 2017. With Jodi Larson and Hannah Moses.
“Indecorous Eruptions and Right Conspiracy Discourse” Words Matter: Politics, Rhetoric, and Social Justice Conference, Bloomington, IN, March 24 -25, 2017. With LM Sturua.
“On indecorum and toxic speech networks.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta, GA. May 26-29, 2016.
“Light-dark mythography in Malcolm X’s revolutionary rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta, GA. May 26-29, 2016.
“A Mythopoetic Maritime Meandering.” Meeting of the BABEL Working Group. Santa Barbara, CA. October 16-18, 2014.
“Ralph Ellison’s Critical Orientation to the Scapegoat.” Western Speech Communication Association, Reno, NV. February 15-19, 2013.
“The City and the Sitcom: Opening Credits and the Changing Roles of Diversity, Consensus, and the Urban Landscape on Television.” Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN. October 3-5, 2010. With Jodi Larson.
“Monaural phase effects: Timing versus level cues.” Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, GA. May 30-June3, 2000.
Panel Participation
“Keynote Panel: Rhetoric on the Edge,” Public Address Conference, Austin, TX, September 22-25, 2024.
“A Communication Ph.D.: What’s It Good For?” Western States Communication Association, Reno, NV, February 23-26, 2024.
“The Civic University: Democracy, Community, and Governance.” Indiana University Bicentennial Provocations: Conversations Towards a Bold University in the 21st Century, Bloomington, IN September 26-27, 2019.
“The Imperative of Racial Rhetorical Criticism: Theory, Method, Ethics.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Minneapolis, MN May 31 – June 3, 2018.
“Opacity and Transparency in Media Technology.” (Panel Organizer) Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March 22-March 26, 2017. Panel organized with Christopher Miles.
AWARDS
National Communication Association—Disability Issues Caucus “Top Paper Award.” 2023.
Society for Social Studies of Science Travel Grant ($150). 2019.
Rhetoric Society of America – Indiana University Student Chapter “Corax and Tisias” Award. 2017.
Indiana University Communication and Culture “Outstanding Service” Award. 2016.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Department of Communication and Culture Travel Grant, Indiana University, 2017. ($200)
Department of Communication and Culture Research and Travel Grant, Indiana University, 2013. ($4000)
INVITED TALKS
“A Manifesto for Seabound Heretics.” New Ecologies of Education: Teaching in the Era of the Anthropocene Symposium, University of Southern Florida, November 4, 2016.
CAMPUS TALKS
“No Deadline for Democracy: A Citizen’s Role After Election Day.” Indiana University Libraries Themester Program, November 11, 2020.
“Defining Democracy: The Responsibility of Civic Engagement.” Indiana University Libraries Themester Program, September 21, 2020.
“Pedagogy Roundtable on Addressing Controversial Topics in the Classroom.” Indiana University Graduate Student Advisory Committee/English Graduate Student Solidarity Coalition, September 20, 2017.
“Diversity of Tactics: Discourse, Histories, and Theories of Action.” Students Against State Violence Looking Past Liberalism Workshop. Indiana University, April 11, 2017.
“Coming Out of the Shadows: Disability and Undocumented Status.” UndocuStudent/Decolonize IU. Indiana University, April 5, 2017.
“Classroom Climate Workshop on Diversity.” Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. Indiana University, August 18, 20, 2015.
“Teaching Diversity – When the Content is You.” Associate Instructor Supervisors Learning Community Meeting by the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning. Indiana University, April 23, 2015.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant at Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society, Indiana University, 2021
- Communicating research qualitative and quantitative social science research on racial attitudes among members of the university community.
Research Assistant to Terri Francis, Media School, Indiana University, 2015 – 2016.
- Library and archival research for book and article projects about Whiteness and queer identity in film, video art, and new media.
Research Assistant to Kevin Murphy, History Department, University of Minnesota, 2006.
- Oral history interviews with musicians in the Cedar-Riverside community.
Research Assistant to Robert Schlauch, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Science, University of Minnesota, 2003.
- Psychophysical experiment to isolate “auditory attention” as a confounding variable in hearing research with juvenile participants.
Research Assistant to Douglas Hartmann at the American Mosaic Project, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2002 – 2003.
- Web-based survey/interview and quantitative study on “American identity” among Christian-identifying immigrants from China to the United States.
Research Assistant to Neal F. Viemeister in the Psychoacoustics Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1999 – 2002.
- Psychophysical laboratory experiments to distinguish timing cues from level cues in detection of beats of mistuned consonance.
Research Assistant in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, 1999.
- Data collection and coding in a longitudinal quantitative study of mobile technology usage in primetime scripted television programming from 1994-1999.
Research Intern to Ashok Singh, Veterinary Diagnostics Lab, University of Minnesota, 1994.
- Laboratory research on the effects of contact with acetyl cholinesterase on the respiratory health of agricultural workers.
EXRACURRICULAR UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Graduate Mentorship Program, Rhetoric Society of America – Indiana University Student Chapter, Mentor, 2017 – 2018
Indiana University Disability Studies in the Humanities, Co-Chair, 2017 – 2018
Indiana University Graduate and Professional Student Government, Communication and Culture Department Representative, 2015 – 2017
Rhetoric Society of America – Indiana University Student Chapter, Chair, 2015 – 2016
Indiana University Graduate School Program for Graduate Student Diversity, Recruitment Emissary, 2014 – 2015
Indiana University Media School Graduate Student Advisory Board, Communication and Culture Department Representative, 2014 – 2015
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Anti-Racist Policy Training, Educator, 2020 – present
- Designing anti-racist curriculum focused on just social action at a public policy level.
Black Live Matter Bloomington, Core Council Member, 2019 – 2021
- Organizing educational and political events to confront white supremacy in our community.
Bloomington Rapid Response, Coalition-Building Task Force, 2017
- Direct-action-based resistance to organized white supremacy in Bloomington, Indiana.
St. Stephens Community “Chicago Dinners,” Co-Founder, 2004 – 2008
- Hosted quarterly meetings to facilitate anti-racist and poverty-relief action in south Minneapolis.
Martin Law, PhD 