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)

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)

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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