Faculty & Staff
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Public Relations and Communication & Diversity
Office: Shanks 110
Phone: 231-1661
Email: dwaymer@vt.edu
Education
Ph.D. Purdue University
M.A. Purdue University
B.A. College of Charleston
Teaching Interests
Issues Management
Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations
Communication and Diversity
Crisis Communication
Risk Communication
Recent Scholarship
My research uses organizational rhetoric, communication, and public relations theory to shed light on issues of culture and diversity in general and issues of race, class, and gender specifically. My future research will use communication theories to explore some of the issues that marginalized or underrepresented publics can and do encounter and the strategies that are available to them to challenge these issues.
Representative Publications are as follows:
Heath, R. L., Toth, E. L., & Waymer, D. (Eds.). (2009). Rhetorical and critical approaches to public relations II. New York: Routledge.
Waymer D. (2009). Liberty and justice for all? The paradox of governmental rhetoric. Communication Quarterly, 57, 334-351.
Waymer, D. (2009). Walking in fear: An autoethnographic account of media framing of inner-city crime. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 33, 169-184.
Waymer, D. (2008). A man: An autoethnographic analysis of black male identity negotiation. Qualitative Inquiry 14(6), 968-989.
Waymer, D., & Heath, R. L. (2007). Emergent agents: The forgotten publics in crisis communication and issues management research: Journal of Applied Communication Research, 35, 88-108.
Professional Affiliations
National Communication Association
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