Brandon Inabinet

Professor, Communication Studies; Faculty Council Chair

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Nearly two decades of innovative teaching, including the incorporation of new technologies (GIS and 3D- imaging, smartphone app content creation, video editing, data visualization), student graphic design and non-profit advocacy portfolios, community engagement projects, and study away on four continents.

Advocate for free expression and inquiry, as Furman Faculty Council Chair and former South Carolina President of the American Association of University Professors, as well as mentoring student voice in TEDxFurmanU, Furman Creative Collaborative, and Forensics.

Honors

  • Maiden Invitational Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award from Southern States Communication Association
  • Top Paper Award, American Society for the History of Rhetoric
  • James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Lambda Pi Eta
  • Quaternion
  • Omicron Delta Kappa

Education

  • Ph.D., Communication Studies, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Northwestern University
  • M.A., Communication Studies, Northwestern University,
  •  B.A. Communication Studies and Political Science, Furman University

Research Interests

Researcher with roots in ancient rhetoric and rhetorical criticism, using that training to reveal archives to reckon with intergenerational trauma. Theoretical advances in the field include the concepts of critical regionalism, subsumption, empathic civility, the Stoic ideal orator, intergenerational audiences, circulation, and imagined marginality.

Publications

  • Brandon Inabinet, “Borrowing Trouble? The Declaration’s Threshold of Suffering and Care.” In Deliberating the Declaration, edited by Mary E. Stuckey. State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming.
  • Whitni Simpson, Chiara Palladino, Benjamin K. Haywood, Sarah Adeyinka-Skold, Alyson Farzad-Phillips, Brandon Inabinet, Claire Whitlinger, John A. McArthur, James Engelhardt, “Inclusive Place-Making: A Study of the Joseph Vaughn Plaza at Furman University,” Carolina Currents 1, no. 1 (2024): 153-179. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.10782302
  • Brandon Inabinet, “Institutional Pessimism and Optimism in Racial Repair,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 20, no. 2 (2023): 182-190, DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2023.2201350.
  • Christina L. Moss and Brandon Inabinet. Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
  • Patricia Davis, Brandon Inabinet, Christina L. Moss, and Carolyn Walcott. "Decolonizing Regions." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 24, no. 1-2 (Spring 2021): 349-364. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.24.1-2.0349.
  • Brandon Inabinet. “Bondage and Circulation.” Rhetoric, Politics and Hamilton: An American Musical. Edited by Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury and Sara A. Mehltretter Drury (New York: Peter Lang, 2021): 127-144.
  • Brandon Inabinet. “A More Purple Union: Visual Legacies of the 2004 DNC Keynote.” In City Places, Country Spaces: Rhetorical Explorations of the Urban/Rural Divide. Edited by Wendy Atkins-Sayre and Ashli Quesinberry Stokes (New York: Peter Lang, 2020), 29-52.
  • Brandon Inabinet and Christina L. Moss. “Complicit in Victimage: Imagined Marginality in Southern Communication Criticism,” Rhetoric Review 38, no. 2 (2019): 160-172. DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2019.1582228

See CV for publications prior to 2019.

Additional Professional Activities

  • External Grants Awarded: Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Campus Space and Rhetorics of Race—Connecting Injustice to the Liberal Arts Geography & Built Environment
  • Alliance for the Advancement of Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC) for “The 14th at 150” Workshop to Connect Justice after Slavery to Liberal Arts Colleges
  • David E. Shi Fellows Research Grant, Furman University. “Sustainability and the Kingdom of Science.” with J. Aaron Simmons
  • Mellon Asia Network Faculty Enhancement Program for “Power, Land, and Belief in a Divided Society"
  • Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Grant and Duke Endowment Grant with Tami Blumenfield, “Food Systems Transition in Southwest China and Upstate South Carolina: Fostering a Multimedia-Enhanced Dialogue."

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