Tiffany Lewis

Assc Professor

Marxe School of Public and International Affairs

Areas of expertise: rhetoric, advocacy, social movements

Email Address: tiffany.lewis@baruch.cuny.edu

Biography
Research and Creative Activity

Tiffany Lewis studies rhetoric, advocacy, and social movements. Her research examines women’s activism and leadership in the progressive-era United States.

Her recent articles and book analyze suffragists’ advocacy, including their use of speeches, maps, and embodied activism like mountain ascents, long-distance hikes, and cross-country road trips. Her book is titled Uprising: How Women Used the U.S. West to Win the Right to Vote. She has published articles in the Rhetoric & Public Affairs, American Journalism: A Journal of Media History, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Women’s Studies in Communication, Communication Quarterly, Western Journal of Communication, and Cultural Studies--Critical Methodologies.

She is on the editorial board for the Recovering Democracy Archive: Speech Recovery Project and serves the Marxe School as a member of the Executive Committee, Assessment Committee, and Strategic Planning committee.

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. She teaches classes on public communication, policy advocacy, and social movement activism, including PAF 9103: Communication in Public Contexts, PAF 9203: Communicating for Equity and Social Change, PAF 3110: Advocacy and Protest in Social Movements, and PAF 9199: Women in U.S. Politics.

Education

Ph.D., Communication, University of Maryland College Park MD

M.A., Communication, University of Montana Missoula MT

B.A., Speech Communication, University of Washington Seattle WA

Books

Lewis, T. (2021). Uprising: How Women Used the US West to Win the Right to Vote. East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University Press.

Journal Articles

Lewis, T. (2019). Mapping Social Movements and Leveraging the US West: The Rhetoric of the Woman Suffrage Map. Women's Studies in Communication, 42(4). 490-510.

Lewis, T. (2019). Mediating Political Mobility as Stunt-Girl Entertainment: Newspaper Coverage of New York's Suffrage Hike to Albany. American Journalism: A Journal of Media History, 36(1). 99-123.

Lewis, T. (2018). The Mountaineering and Wilderness Rhetorics of Washington Woman Suffragists. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 21(2). 279-315.

Lewis, T. (2017). Democracy and Government: A Critical Edition of Jeannette Rankin's 1917 Address at Carnegie Hall. Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 20(1). 47-56.

Lewis, T., & Yoshimura, S. (2017). Politeness Strategies in Confrontations of Prejudice. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 25(1). 1-16.

Lewis, T. (2013). Marking Progress in the American West: Grace Raymond Hebard’s Domestication of Wyoming, Women’s Rights, and Western Expansion. Cultural Studies--Critical Methodologies (13) 43-53,

Lewis, T. (2012). Religious Change Disclosure in Parent-Child Relationships. Journal of Communication and Religion (35) 97-119,

Lewis, T. (2011). Municipal Housekeeping in the American West: Bertha Knight Landes’s Entrance into Politics. Rhetoric & Public Affairs (14) 465-492,

Lewis, T. (2011). Winning Woman Suffrage in the Masculine West: Abigail Scott Duniway’s Frontier Myth. Western Journal of Communication (75) 127-147,

Lewis, T., & Manusov, V. (2009). Listening to Another’s Distress in Everyday Relationships. Communication Quarterly (57) 282-301,

Book Chapters

Lewis, T. (2022). Experiment with Playful Protest. In Hart, R. P. (Ed.), Fixing American Politics: Solutions for the Media Age New York, NY. Taylor & Francis/Routledge.

Conference Proceedings

Hoffman, D., Lewis, T., & Waisanen, D. J. (2021). The Language of Political Genres: Inaugural and State Speeches of New York City Mayors and US Presidents. Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association.

Presentations

Lewis, T. (2024, June 16). Carnivalesque Activism for Women’s Rights in the Early Twentieth Century. International Communication Association. Gold Coast, Australia

Lewis, T. (2024, November 16). Responding to The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity. National Communication Association. Washington, DC

Lewis, T. (2024, September 16). Archival Research Methods and Women's Suffrage. Graduate Class on Historical/Archival Research Methods (COMM 711). College Park, MD: University of Maryland.

Lewis, T. (2024, November 16). Decolonizing Assessment: Exploring the ‘Place’ of Grades in the Communication Classroom. National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA: National Communication Association.

Lewis, T. (2024, November 16). Walking to Washington: U.S. Suffrage Hikers' Mobile Performance of White Militarism, Heroism, and Pilgrimage, 1913. National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA: American Society for the History of Rhetoric.

Lewis, T. (2024, February 16). Suffrage Stunts: Playful Mobility as a Rhetorical Resource in Long-Term Activism. Western States Communication Association. Portland, Oregon

Lewis, T. (2024, June 16). The History and Activism of Washington's Woman Suffragists. Curriculum and Instruction. : Vancouver Public School District.

Lewis, T. (2024, December 16). Revisiting Writing Goals and Pedagogy from an Anti-Racist Lens. : CUNY Assessment Council.

Lewis, T. (2024, November 16). Re-Thinking Grading: Anti-Racist Assessment of Student Writing. Inclusive Pedagogy Seminar. : Baruch College.

Lewis, T. (2020, November 30). New Books in the History of Rhetoric, Review of Intellectual Populism: Democracy, Inquiry, and the People, by Paul Stob. National Communication Association. Indianapolis (online): American Society for the History of Rhetoric.

Lewis, T. (2019, February 28). Political Mobility as Stunt-Girl Entertainment: The Newspaper Coverage of New York’s Suffrage Hike to Albany, 1912. Western States Communication Association. Seattle, WA: Organization for Research on Women and Communication.

Lewis, T. (2019, October 31). How Woman Suffragists Used Maps to Win the Right to Vote. The Struggle for Suffrage: Past, Present, and Future. Vanderbilt University: Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.

Lewis, T. (2018, May 31). Mapping Social Movements and Exploiting Regional Rhetoric: The US Woman Suffrage Map, 1907-1920. International Communication Association. Prague, Czech Republic

Lewis, T. (2018, November 30). Visualizing US Women’s Voting Rights: Legitimizing Woman Suffrage with Flags, Parades, and Pageants. National Communication Association. Salt Lake City, UT: Visual Communication Division.

Hoffman, D., Lewis, T., & Waisanen, D. (2017, October 31). The Language of Political Genres: Inaugural and State Speeches of New York City Mayors and US Presidents. New York State Communication Association Conference. Callicoon, NY: New York State Communication Association.

Lewis, T. (2017, February 28). U.S. Antisuffragists’ Regional Rhetoric of the Woolly West. Western States Communication Association. Salt Lake City, UT

Lewis, T. (2017, April 30). Defending the American West: The Regional Rhetoric of Early Female Politicians in the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movement. Eastern States Communication Association. Boston, MA

Lewis, T. (2024, October 16). Mapping Women's Voting Rights. Faculty Research Seminar. : Marxe School of Public and International Affairs.

Lewis, T. (2016, May 31). The Meaning of Colorado: Using and Countering the West’s Regional Reputation to Discredit and Defend Woman Suffrage, 1909-1916. Rhetoric Society of America. Atlanta, GA

Lewis, T. (2015, November 30). Language of Genre: Empirical Differences between Inaugural and State Speeches. National Communication Association Convention. Las Vegas: National Communication Association.

Lewis, T. (2015, November 30). Sara Bard Field's Transcontinental Car Trip for Woman Suffrage: Appropriating the West as a Symbol of Women's Political Power. Las Vegas, NV: National Communication Association, American Society for the History of Rhetoric Division.

Lewis, T. (2015, December 31). Language of Genre: Empirical Differences between Inaugural and State Speeches. Faculty Seminar. Baruch College, NYC: MSPIA, Baruch College.

Lewis, T. (2014, November 30). Henry Mayer’s “The Awakening”: A Visual Representation of the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movement and the American West in the Early Twentieth Century. Chicago, IL: National Communication Association, Visual Communication Division.

Lewis, T. (2013, November 30). Earning Rights and Enacting Freedom: Washington Woman Suffragists’ Appropriation of Mountaineering and Wilderness Discourses. National Communication Association. Washington, DC: Public Address Division.

Lewis, T. (2012, November 30). Marking the Oregon Trail and Boosting Wyoming: Grace Raymond Hebard’s Commemoration of American Progress. National Communication Association. Orlando, FL: American Society for the History of Rhetoric.

Lewis, T. (2011, April 30). Women’s Entrance into the Entrepreneurial Community: Caroline Churchill’s Colorado Antelope. Eastern Communication Association. Washington, DC: American Society for the History of Rhetoric.

Lewis, T. (2010, November 30). A Call to American Women: Jeannette Rankin’s Lifetime of Pacifist Rhetoric. National Communication Association, Public Address Division. San Fransisco, CA

Lewis, T. (2010, April 30). Peace is a Woman’s Job: Jeannette Rankin’s Pacifist Rhetoric in the Interwar Years. Eastern Communication Association. Baltimore, MD: Rhetoric and Public Address Division.

Lewis, T. (2010, April 30). A Call to American Women: Jeannette Rankin’s Lifetime of Pacifist Rhetoric. Graduate Research Interaction Day. University of Maryland, College Park, MD: History and Sociology Division.

Lewis, T. (2009, April 30). Abigail Scott Duniway’s Frontier Myth: Connecting Progress in the West to Woman’s Suffrage. Graduate Research Interaction Day. College Park, MD: History and Sociology Division, University of Maryland.

Lewis, T. (2009, November 30). Seattle’s Municipal Housekeeper: Bertha Knight Landes’s Entrance into Politics. National Communication Association, Feminist and Women’s Studies Division. Chicago, IL

Lewis, T. (2009, November 30). Abigail Scott Duniway’s Frontier Myth: Connecting Progress in the West to Woman Suffrage. National Communication Association, Public Address Division. Chicago, IL

Lewis, T. (2009, February 28). Politeness Strategies used during Interpersonal Confrontations of Prejudiced Responses. Western States Communication Association, Interpersonal Communication Interest Group. Phoenix, AZ

Lewis, T. (2008, February 28). Religious Change Disclosure in Interfaith Parent-Child Relationships. Western States Communication Association, Interpersonal Communication Interest Group. Denver, CO

Lewis, T. (2008, April 30). Merging Feminine Style with Presidential Candidate Rhetoric. Northwest Communication Association, Rhetorical Theory and Criticism Division. Coeur d'Alene, ID

Lewis, T., Morton, R., & Maier, M. (2008, February 28). Classroom Interaction and its Effect on Learning Outcomes. Western States Communication Association, Competitive Papers Panel in Communication and Instruction. Denver, CO

Lewis, T. (2008, April 30). Moral Conflict in Personal Relationships. Northwest Communication Association, Interpersonal and Communication Theory Division. Coeur d'Alene, ID

Lewis, T. (2005, February 28). Listening to Another’s Distress in Everyday Relationships. Western States Communication Association. San Fransisco, CA: Interpersonal Communication Interest Group.

Lewis, T. (2004, May 31). Do You Really Want to Hear about It? Effects of Disclosure on Listeners. Undergraduate Research Symposium. Seattle, WA: University of Washington.

Reviews

Lewis, T. (2024,March 16). Book Review: Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History, by Jason Barrett-Fox. Ohio State University Press.. Journal for the History of Rhetoric.

Lewis, T. (2016,April 1). Book Review: Educating the New Southern Woman: Speech, Writing, and Race at Public Women's Colleges, 1884-1945, by David Gold and Catherine L Hobbs. Rhetoric & Public Affairs.