Rebecca Dingo Receives Outstanding Mentorship Award from the Rhetoric Society of America

Rebecca Dingo

Rebecca Dingo, professor of English and associate director and senior fellow in the Office of Faculty Development (OFD), has received the Cheryl Geisler Award for Outstanding Mentor by the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA), an organization that supports and advances the work of people who study rhetoric in a variety of disciplinary contexts.<_o3a_p>

The award, presented at the biennial RSA conference in May, honors individuals who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to mentoring during their career through activities such as guiding, supporting, and promoting the education, training and career development of their students or junior colleagues.<_o3a_p>

"Of all the awards I have received, I am most honored on humbled by this one," Dingo says. "I feel honored that my colleagues across the U.S. have noted the time and energy I have spent working with faculty from all over the world. At the same time, I am humbled by the immense success of so many colleagues who have placed their trust in me to guide their careers and scholarship."<_o3a_p>

"Professor Dingo's mentorship philosophy effortlessly integrates theory and practice: she is ​not just committed to social justice, antiracism, and decoloniality abstractly in her​scholarship-​this commitment is dynamically reflected in her individual and institutional-​level mentorship practices," the selection committee wrote in their announcement of the award. "Her extensive record of supporting and advocating for ​junior colleagues and graduate students who are multiply marginalized, her fierce ​commitment to leveraging institutional resources to create and sustain professional ​opportunities for her mentees, and her ongoing service to the discipline of rhetorical studies make her especially deserving of this award."<_o3a_p>

Dingo is a recognized scholar who has pushed transnational studies into the forefront of feminist rhetorical studies. She is the author of "Networking Arguments: Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing," which won the W. Ross Winterowd Award in 2012, and is co-editor of the book "The Megarhetorics of Global Development."<_o3a_p>

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