Dorthy Lee Pennington

Dr Dorthy Pennington Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas. Dorthy Pennington’s teaching and research areas are intercultural and interracial communication/critical race theory, cultural rhetoric, African American communication and culture, the discourse of terror and trauma, and African American regional church history. Dorthy Pennington earned a B.A. from Rust College, with high honors in 1968 with a major in English and a minor in French. She earned her M.A. at the University of Kansas in 1970 in Speech Communication and Human Relations; her Ph. D. from the University of Kansas in 1974 studying Speech Communication and Human Relations. Her dissertation topic: “Temporality Among Black Americans: Implications for Intercultural Communication.”

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