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Fall 2019 Chancellor's Public Voices Fellow

Recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to LGBT scholarship in communication studies.

2017 Randy Majors Award, Caucus on LGBTQ Concerns, National Communication Association

2010 New Investigator Award, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division

National Communication Association

Rhetoric Society of America

Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease

Chronic Citizenship: Community, Choice, and the Queer Controversy Over PrEP

"Born This Way": Queer Vernacular and the Politics of Origins

Troubled Interventions: Public Policy, Vectors of Disease, and the Rhetoric of Diabetes Management

Queer Teenagers and the Mediation of Utopian Catastrophe

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Jeff Bennett is an expert in medical humanities. His research is focused on health, citizenship, LGBT/queer studies, cultural studies and rhetorical theory and criticism. He is the author of "Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease" (forthcoming, New York: NYU Press, 2019); and "Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance," which scrutinizes the federal donor deferral policy limiting queer men’s ability to donate blood.

Queer Healthcare

Queer vernacular

LGBTQ Health

HIV Prevention

HIV & AIDS

PrEP

Diabetes

Rhetoric and HIV

Rhetoric and Disease

Rhetoric of Diabetes Management

Rhetoric

Medical Humanities

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Associate Professor of Communication Studies

Media Inquiry