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Jim Mackin

Dr. Jim Mackin
Associate Professor
Communication Department, 219 Newcomb Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
Ph 504-862-3032
Fax 504-862-3040
Email mackin@tulane.edu

 

Research Interests: Environmental Communication, Communication Ethics, Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetorical Theory, 
Irish Revolutionary Rhetoric, Irish-American Labor Rhetoric

Courses taught:
Comm 105, Introduction to Personal Communication
Comm 225, Public Address
Comm 260, Rhetorical Principles of Writing for News Media
Comm 321, Principles and Practice of Argument
Comm 325, Rhetorical Criticism
Comm 351, Environmental Communication
Comm 421, Persuasion
Comm 425, Rhetorical Theory
Comm 470, Communication Ethics

Online publications:
 
"Sacrifice and Moral Hierarchy: The Rhetoric of Irish Republicans, 1916-1923," online at American Communication Journal 1.3 (1998).
http://www.acjournal.org/holdings/vol1/iss3/burke/mackin.html

"Schismogenesis and Community: Pericles' Funeral Oration, available in PDF format.
http://www.tulane.edu/~communic/mackin/Pericles.pdf

Book

Community over Chaos: An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.

 

 

Department of Communication 219 Newcomb Hall 1221 Broadway Tulane Universitycontact infoNew Orleans, LA 70118contact infoPh.: 504-865-5730 Fax: 504-862-3040 email: comminfo@tulane.edu