Year Inducted: 1982
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of Man Cannot Speak for Her: A Critical Study of Early Feminist Rhetoric, 2 vols. (1989) and co-author of Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance (1990), Presidents Creating the Presidency (2008), The Interplay of Influence: News, Advertising, Politics, and the Mass Media (6th ed., 2006), Critiques of Contemporary Rhetoric (1997), and The Rhetorical Act (4th ed., 2008), and editor of Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925 (1993) and Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-present (1994). She has taught at the University of Kansas, City College of C.U.N.Y, S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton and at Brockport; the British College in Palermo, Sicily; California State University at Los Angeles, and Dokkyo University in Tokyo.
Honors and Awards
Macalester College’s 2008 Distinguished Citizen Alumni Award, June 2008
Outstanding Mentor Award, President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, April 2008
Honoree of the Eleventh Public Address Conference, Madison, WI,
September 2008
Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award to Zornitsa Keremidchieva, its author, and to me as her advisor, NCA conference, San Diego, November 2008
Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholars Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Fall 2006
Honorary Doctor of Humanities, Michigan State University, 2004
Elizabeth Andersch Award for Contributions to the Study of Communication, U of Ohio, 2004
Distinguished Woman Scholar Award, Humanities and Social Sciences, Office of Vice President for Research, U of Minnesota, 2002
Endowed Arnold Lectureship, National Communication Association Convention, 2002
Francine Merritt Award for significant contributions to women in the National Communication Association and in the Communication Discipline, Women’s Caucus of the NCA, 1996
Distinguished Scholar Award (1 of first 5), National Communication Association, 1992
Fellowship, Shorenstein Center for the Study of Press, Public Policy, and Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Fall 1992
Ehninger Research Award, National Communication Association, 1991
Winans-Wichelns Book Award, National Communication Association,
co-recipient, 1990
Charles M. Woolbert Award for Scholarship of Exceptional Originality and Influence, NationalCommunication Association, 1987
Who's Who in America, 1984-; Who's Who of American Women, 13th edition-
Hall of Fame, Commission on the Status of Women, University of Kansas, 1982 Outstanding Woman Teacher, 1977
Hope (all-university) Teaching Award, University of Kansas, Finalist,1977;
Semi-Finalist,1982
Mortar Board Outstanding Educator Award, University of Kansas, 1976, 1981
Alumni Membership, Phi Beta Kappa, Macalester College, 1975
I feel extremely lucky about my career. There were many lucky accidents that shaped it. I was talking to a close friend about it recently, and she said, you made lemonade out of lemons. That’s not quite right. I’d call it turning bad luck into good luck. In almost every case in which I thought something had gone wrong, I was mistaken; instead, what happened made my life take a fortunate, life-expanding turn. Most of all, I’ve been lucky to have a career in which work and play were virtually indistinguishable. I love what I do. When I began my career, I hoped that I would be able to spark a love of rhetoric and criticism in my students, and I’ve been incredibly successful. I am very proud of my former students.
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