Dr. Tracey Owens Patton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism. She has been selected to represent The University of Wyoming at the American Institute for Foreign Study at the University of London for the 2007 spring semester. She will conduct research on diasporic rhetorical commonalities between Black American and Black British female speakers as well as teach two classes. She was 2003-2004 recipient of the Carnegie Academy Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Stanford University) where she conducted research on social justice education and activism at University of Wyoming. Dr. Patton’s area of expertise is critical cultural communication and rhetorical studies. Her work is strongly influenced in critical theory, cultural studies, feminist theory, and rhetorical theory.

Her research focuses on the interdependence between race, gender, and power and how these issues interrelate culturally and rhetorically in education, media, and speeches.

Dr. Patton presents her research at numerous academic conferences and her articles include publications in Communication Teacher, Howard Journal of Communication, Journal of Black Studies, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, Visual Communication Quarterly, and Women’s Studies in Communication