ekaterina v. haskins, ph.d.
associate professor of rhetoric and graduate program director, Communication and Media, Rensselaer
Ekaterina Haskins is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the department of Communication and Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). She is a core faculty member in the department's doctoral program in Communication and Rhetoric and the program's current Graduate Director.

  • PhD Rhetorical Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  • MA, Communication, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
  • BA, Romance-Germanic Philology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Haskins studies rhetoric as an intellectual and pedagogical tradition and a practice that shapes individual and collective identities. Her research contributes to three distinct yet related areas of scholarship: the history of rhetoric, public memory, and rhetorics of display. She is the author of two books, Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle (2004; paperback 2009) and Popular Memories: Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship (2015), both published by the University of South Carolina Press in its Studies in Rhetoric/Communication series. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on the history of rhetoric, public memory, and visual culture. Her current projects include studies of immersion and visuality in Greek rhetoric and philosophy, a book-in-progress on the rhetoric and politics of public memory in post-Communist Russia, and an investigation of the role of place and sensation in public life.

Haskins's research received numerous awards, including the Karl Wallace Memorial award from the National Communication Association, the Everett Lee Hunt Award from the Eastern Communication Association, the Charles Kneupper Best Article award from the Rhetoric Society of America, and the Outstanding Dissertation award from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric.

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