Dr. James Herrick
Retired Faculty616.395.7593herrick@hope.edu
Dr. Herrick started teaching at Hope in 1984, and was chair of the communication department between 1993 and 2002. He has held the Guy VanderJagt Chair of Communication since 2001.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Dr. Herrick's areas of expertise include:
- History and theory of rhetoric
- Argumentation
- New spiritual movements
- Rhetoric of technology
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., communication arts, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1986
- M.A., rhetoric, University of California, Davis, 1979
- B.A., speech communication, California State University, Fresno, 1976
HONORS, GRANTS, & AWARDS
- Favorite Faculty Award, Hope College, student body vote, October 2007
- John and Ruth Reed Faculty Achievement Award, Hope College, January 2007
- Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin, 1984
- Communication Arts Teaching Award for Graduate Students, University of Wisconsin, 1982
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellow, May 1982
Published Work
- Argumentation: Understanding and Shaping Arguments, 6th edition, Strata Publishers, forthcoming 2018
- The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction, 6th edition, Routledge, 2017
- Visions of Technological Transcendence: Human Enhancement and the Rhetoric of the Future, Parlor Press, 2017
- After the Genome: A Language for our Biotechnology Future, co-edited with Michael Hyde, Baylor University Press, 2013
- National Communication Association Ethics Division, Edited Book of the Year Award winner, 2013
- Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs, InterVarsity Press, 2008
- Discussed in Routledge Companion to Modern Christian Thought
- The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition, InterVarsity Press, 2003
- Silver Medallion Award Winner, Evangelical Christian Publishing Association
- The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists, University of South Carolina Press, 1997
- Critical Thinking: The Analysis of Arguments, Gorsuch-Scarisbrick Publishers, 1990