Dr. Jefferson Walker holds a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Montevallo and an M.A. and PhD. in Communication from the University of Alabama. He currently works as an Instructor of Communication Studies at the University of Montevallo. His research and teaching interests include public memory, political communication, social movements, and science communication.
Walker has been recognized for both his teaching and research. In 2013, Walker received the Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Doctoral Student at the University of Alabama. In 2015, as a faculty member at Louisiana Tech University, he received the Dean’s Research Award. Most recently, Montevallo’s National Alumni Association recognized Walker with the 2019 Nathalie Molton Gibbons Young Achiever’s Award.
Walker is the author of two books, King Returns to Washington (2015) and College Night: A Centennial Celebration (2019). The first, a rhetorical analysis of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, ties together Walker’s research interests in rhetoric, politics, and public memory. The latter, a 250 page coffee table book, chronicles the history of Montevallo’s long-running homecoming tradition, College Night, with stories, pictures, and special features.
Walker’s record of service includes stints as the President of the Alabama Communication Association and Chair of the SSCA’s American Society for the History of Rhetoric Interest Group. He is also the Founder and President of Brick by Brick Arts, a non-profit community theatre.
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