Sean Patrick O'Rourke
Ph.D.: Rhetoric, University of Oregon, 1992
J.D.: Law, University of Oregon, 1986
M.A.: Speech Communication, Humboldt State University, 1982
B.A.: Speech Communication, Humboldt State University, 1981
Selected Service
Faculty Advisor to the Nu Theta chapter of Lambda Pi Eta (the official Honor Society of the National Communication Association)
Faculty Advisor to the Cicero Society (the society for Communication Studies majors at Furman)
Former President: American Society for the History of Rhetoric
Currently serving on the American Society for the History of Rhetoric Steering Committee
Currently Associate Editor of Advances in the History of Rhetoric and the Journal of Communication and Religion Program
Committee Member: Conference on Rhetoric and Democracy
Selected Awards
National Communication Association “Spotlight on Scholarship” (for Public Scholarship) Advisor to 2009 Student Organization of the Year at Furman University Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Outstanding Teaching from Vanderbilt University in 1996 Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Outstanding Faculty Member Award from Oregon State University in 1992 Thomas R. Meehan Excellence in Teaching Award from Oregon State University in 1991 Blue Key Senior Honorary Excellence in Teaching Award from Oregon State University in 1990 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Fellow Award from University of Oregon in 1985. Noted numerous times on RateMyProfessor.com as "the best teacher at Furman" Southern States Communication Association Sisco Award for teaching in 2009
Everlasting Fount of Information and Advice, O Captain, Our Captain, and Abyssi of Every Fact Ever Wondered by Man Awards from the Furman University Cicero Society in 2009
Publications
He is currently working on two books, and he also developed many seminars over the past twenty-one years while consulting with the United States Forest Service, Pacific Gas & Electric, the College News Association of the Carolinas, Metropolitan Group and CSPAN.
Rhetoric of Strategic Negotiation