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March 12, 2008

English team receives CEAH grant

Four faculty members in the Department of English have been awarded a $15,000 "Imagining Iowa Public Scholarship Grant" from the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The winning project is "Improving Communication and Cooperation Between Diverse Stakeholders: Mapping the Rhetorical Terrain of the Bioeconomy." Team members from the Department of English include Carl Herndl, professor; Jean Goodwin, associate professor; Lee Honeycutt, associate professor; and Greg Wilson, assistant professor.
           
In this public scholarship pilot study, this group of Iowa State rhetoricians will identify the diverse ways that producers, technical experts, industry leaders, policymakers, and community members frame their decisions in considering sustainable biofuels development. In doing so, they will determine how knowledge travels across distances (intellectual, disciplinary, and cultural) and bridges differences (of preconception, values, and discursive forms) when these very different groups communicate with each other - as they must, if we are to re-imagine and achieve a new vision of agriculture in Iowa.

Results will help ISU Extension improve outreach communication and develop strategies that agricultural communicators can adapt to bridge differences and promote sound decision-making.