Ellen W. Gorsevski teaches at Washington State University (WSU) in the Department of English. Dr. Gorsevski has been a recipient of WSU's prestigious American Diversity Minigrant as well as a CO-TEACH Grant from the Colleges of Education and of Liberal Arts. Dr. Gorsevski earned her doctorate in Speech Communication at the Pennsylvania State University (1999), where she was an Edwin Erle Sparks Fellow. Her research areas range from nonviolent and environmental rhetorics, to media criticism and analysis, including the critical analysis of 20th Century and contemporary political propaganda. Her book, Peaceful Persuasion: The Geopolitics of Nonviolent Rhetoric, will be soon published by SUNY Press. Also, her research has appeared in academic journals such as Peace Review; Peace & Change; and the Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict. Dr. Gorsevski has also studied 20th Century propaganda campaigns from WWI and WWII, to the competing propagandas of the Chinese Government and that of the exiled Tibetan government which is led by the Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Dalai Lama.
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