Biography
Dr. Norie R. Singer is a Full Professor in the Department of Communication. Singer specializes in the rhetorical discourse of modern social movements, especially U.S. environmental and food movement struggles for justice, public health, and sustainability.
Singer is an award-winning teacher and lead co-author of Rooted Resistance: Agrarian Myth in Modern America, a book focused on public storytelling about sustainable and just food published in 2020 by University of Arkansas Press. It was released as an audiobook in 2021. Professor Singer's research has been published in major international and national communication journals such as Communication Theory, Communication, Culture & Critique, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Critical Studies in Media Communication.
Norie recently held the position of Associate Editor of Environmental Communication, an influential international academic journal focused on the many intersections among communication, media, society, and environmental issues. Singer is a past recipient of the National Communication Association's Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication and was President/Chair of NCA's Environmental Communication Division.
Education
Bowling Green State University
Teaching Interests
Singer's courses examine various public communication issues, including but not limited to message strategies, ethical dilemmas, ideology and power, corporate-consumer culture, and democracy in the public sphere. "Dr. Norie" teaches courses on rhetoric in civic life, argumentation and debate, persuasion and attitude change, media and society, social movement communication, and communication theory.
Research
Selected Works
Norie R. Singer, "Affect and Melodramatic Resistance," Quarterly Journal of Speech 110, no. 1 (2024): 120-29.
Norie R. Singer and Silje Kristiansen, “Communicating Transformation in Food and Agricultural Ecologies” [co-editors' special issue introduction], Environmental Communication 17, no. 8 (2023): 861-67.
Norie R. Singer, “Toward Intersectional Ecofeminist Communication Studies,” Communication Theory 30, no. 3 (2020): 268-89.
Norie R. Singer, Stephanie Houston Grey, and Jeff Motter, Rooted Resistance: Agrarian Myth in Modern America (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2020).
Honors and Awards
Ruth and Ted Braun Research Fellowship, SVSU, 2020-2023.
Top Faculty Paper, National Communication Association Environmental Communication Division, 2018
Christine L. Oravec Research Award, Top Article or Book Chapter, National Communication Association, Environmental Communication Division, 2010