Josh Boyd

• Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies

• Ph.D., Indiana University
  M.A., Ohio University
  B.A., Lipscomb University

• Curriculum Vitae

Office Information

• Office: BRNG 2274E
• Office Phone: (765) 494-3333
• Office Hours: Spring 2019: Monday 9:00 am - 12:00 pm & Tuesday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
• E-mail: boyd@purdue.edu
• Website: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~boyd/

• Dr. Boyd teaches COM 204 (Critical Perspectives on Communication), the writing intensive course that is part of the pre-communication requirement. Teaching is his favorite part of the job; he won Purdue's 2010 Murphy Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, as well as the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award.

  • Representative Publications
    • “A tool instead of a chore: Measuring student learning gains in order to improve instruction.” Communication Teacher (2018). With Melanie Morgan.
    • “Organizational rhetoric:  A subject of interest(s).”  Management Communication Quarterly (2011).  With Damion Waymer.
    • "A different kind of [text]book: Using fiction in the classroom," Communication Education (2004)
    • “The rhetorical construction of trust online.”  Communication Theory (2003).
    • "Selling home: Corporate stadium names and the destruction of commemoration," Journal of Applied Communication Research (2000).