Curriculum Vitae

Education
Ph.D., Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh; Doctoral work focuses on
rhetorical theory, rhetorical criticism, political theory, deliberative practices, European
Union citizenship, and post-national models of citizenship, April 2007
 
Dissertation: Caught Between History and Imagination: The Arguments for Post-National European
Union Citizenship, successfully defended January 2007
 
Graduate Certificate, West European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, December 2006
 
M.A., Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh, April 2001
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B.A., summa cum laude, Department of Communication, Arizona State University, December 1998

Publications (selected)

Wake Forest University Students, with Alessandra Von Burg, Feeling Rhetoric, Library Partners Press, May 2022.

Wake Forest University Students, with Alessandra Von Burg, Rhetoric in Everyday Life, Library Partners Press, July 2021.

Alessandra Von Burg, Ron Von Burg, Taylor Hahn (Editors), The Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows (BFTF) Institute: Past, Present, and Future, Library Partners Press, December 2019.

Von Burg, Alessandra. “Citizenship Islands: The Ongoing Emergency in the Mediterranean Sea,” Media and Communication, 7 2, (2019) 218-229.

Von Burg, Alessandra. “Immigration as Histories of Mobility,” in Defining Communities: Identity and Otherness in the Rhetorics of U.S. Immigration (Johanna
Hartelius, editor) Pennsylvania State University, 2015.

Von Burg, Alessandra. “Mobility is the New Blue,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 100 2
 (2014) 241-257. 

Von Burg, R., Louden, A., Von Burg, A. & Gainsford, B. “Debate, Civic Engagement and Post-Training Social Networking.” 4th International Conference on
Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment Proceedings. Ed. By Abdel Latif Sellami. QScience: Doha, Qatar. (2013) 227-238.

Beasley Von Burg, Alessandra. “Stochastic Citizenship and the Rhetoric of Mobility”
Philosophy & Rhetoric, 45 4 (2012) 351-375 (lead article).

Beasley Von Burg, Alessandra, Ron Von Burg, Gordon R. Mitchell, and Allan D. Louden. "Emerging Communication Technologies and the Practices of Enhanced Deliberation: The Experience of Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows Summer Institute," Journal of Public Deliberation, 8 1 (2012) 14.

Beasley Von Burg, Alessandra. “Returning ‘Home’” Introduction as Guest Editor of Controversia, Special Volume on the Thirteenth Wake Forest University Argumentation Conference, 7 2 (2011) 10-12.

Beasley Von Burg, Alessandra. “Toward a Rhetorical Cosmopolitanism: Stoics, Kant, and the Challenges of European Integration” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 14 1 (2011) 114-128.

Beasley Von Burg, Alessandra. “Symposium on Citizenship,” Communication Teacher 24 3 (July 2010) 170-177.

Beasley Von Burg, Alessandra. “Caught Between History and Imagination: Vico’s Ingenium for a Rhetorical Renovation of Citizenship,” Philosophy & Rhetoric 43, 1 (2010) 26-53.

Beasley Von Burg, Alessandra. “Muslims and Multiculturalism in the European Union: 
Putting Diversity, Acceptance and Equality to the Test,” in Migrants and Minorities: 
The European Response, edited by Adam Luedke (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010) 176-204.

Beasley Von Burg, Alessandra. “Free to Move but Nowhere to Go: The Renovation of Freedom of Movement as a Human Right for the Roma,” in Boundaries: Dichotomies of Keeping In and Keeping Out, edited by Julian Chapple (Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010) 83-91.

Beasley, Alessandra. “Public Discourse and Cosmopolitan Political Identity: Imagining the European Union Citizen,” Futures 38 (March 2006) 133-145. Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence Award.

Community and Academic Service (Selected)

Co-Founder and Member, Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR) at Wake Forest University, 2016-Present.

Member, Board, El Buen Pastor Latino Community Services, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016-2018; Vice-Chair, 2018; Chair, 2019-Present.

Executive Producer and Director, Where Are You From? Project, 2011-Present.
 
Task Force on Refugee and Migrant Issues, (coalition of advocates and volunteers), Winston-Salem, 2016-Present.
 
Member, “Give Locally, Love Globally,” World Relief Fundraiser, Organizing Committee, May 2017, March 2018, April 2019 (raised about $70,000 each year).

Co-Director, Eighteenth Biennial Wake Forest University Argumentation Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2019-2020.

Academic Community Engagement (ACE) Faculty Director and Advisory Board Chair, 2015-Present.
 
Faculty Adviser, SAFAR (Student Association for the Advancement of Refugees), 2017-Present.
 
Member, First Year Experience Commission, Risk Management and Integration sub-committees; Messaging follow-on project, Fall 2017-Present. 
 
Global Village Advisory Board, 2016-Present.

Grants (selected)

Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows (BFTF) Summer Institute, Department of State, Co-Principal Investigator with Ron Von Burg, $675,000, 2016-18; and $675,000, 
2013-15.
 
Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows (BFTF) Summer Institute, Department of State, Co-Principal Investigator with Allan Louden, $737,000, 2010-2012.
 
North Carolina Humanities Council, North Carolina Stories, “Where are you from? Project” website launch, $2,000, 2012.

Teaching (Selected)

@​Wake Forest University:
Global Citizenship, for Global Village Living/Learning Community [Fall 2017]

Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, UG [Fall 2006-Present]

Rhetorical Theory, Graduate Level [Fall 2007-Fall 2009-Fall 2011-Fall 2016]

Rhetorical Criticism, Graduate Level [Spring 2016-2019-2020]

Practices of Citizenship [Spring 2007-Spring 2008-Spring 2011-Spring 2012-Fall 2014-Fall 2017-Spring 2020]

Citizenship at Wake and the Surrounding Community, First-Year Seminar [Fall 2012, 2017]

Where are you from? [Fall 2010-Fall 2013-Spring 2015]

Citizenship, Democracy and Justice [Spring 2012, 2015]

Expressions of Democracy and Justice [Fall 2008]

Argumentation Theory [Spring 2009-Fall 2012-Fall 2017]

Immigration Practices in the United States and European Union [Spring 2011],
cross-listed with American Ethnic Studies  

Great Teachers [Fall 2008-Spring 2015-Spring 2018]

Public Speaking [Fall 2014, Casa Artom]
 
Politics of Difference [Fall 2007]

Introduction to Communication and Rhetoric [Fall 2006]

Awards (Selected)

The Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award, Wake Forest University, 2022.

The Donald O. Schoonmaker Faculty Award for Community Service, Wake Forest University, 2021.

North Carolina Campus Compact Engaged Faculty Award, February 2019.
 
Student Life, Wake Forest University Advisor of the Year for SAFAR, April 2019.
 
Global Laureate Academy, Inaugural Class, 2017-2019.
 
Nominee, Martin Luther King Junior Building the Dream Award, January 2018.
 
Pro Humanitate Institute Public Engagement Award, Wake Forest University, 2016.
 
Leadership Development Program, Wake Forest University, 2013-2014.
 
Faculty Learning Community on Reflective Learning in Study Abroad, Wake Forest University, 2013-2014.
 
CRADLE Fellowship, Wake Forest University, 2011-2013.​

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