Erik Doxtader
Born
Fort Collins, Colorado
Education
Era20th-/21st-century rhetoric
Regionrhetoric
Institutions
Main interests

Erik Doxtader is a scholar of rhetoric and critical theory. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, Doxtader took a BA at the University of Kansas and both an MA and Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.

Career

Doxtader is a professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina,[1] and the current editor of Philosophy & Rhetoric, an international quarterly journal published by the Pennsylvania State University Press. Prior to assuming the editorship in 2018, he served as the journal's Book Review Editor from 2005-2017.[2]

Doxtader is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, a recognized non-governmental organization in Cape Town, South Africa.[3] In 1999, he was awarded a 2000-2001 fellowship in the SSRC-MacArthur program in Peace and Security in a Changing World.[4] His book, With Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa, received the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America book award.[5]

Books

Monograph

  • Doxtader, Erik (2009). With faith in the works of words: the beginnings of reconciliation in South Africa, 1985-1995. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87013-851-5. OCLC 235946025.[reviews 1]

Edited volumes

  • Charles Villa-Vicencio; Erik Doxtader; Ebrahim Moosa, eds. (2015). The African renaissance and the Afro-Arab spring: a season of rebirth?. Washington, DC. ISBN 978-1-62616-198-6. OCLC 910326527.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[reviews 2]
  • Fanie Du Toit, Erik Doxtader, ed. (2010). In the balance: South Africans debate reconciliation. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media. ISBN 978-1-77009-837-4. OCLC 662406432.
  • Erik Doxtader, ed. (2009). Inventing the potential of rhetorical culture: the work and legacy of Thomas B. Farrell. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-03627-4. OCLC 427644787.
  • Erik Doxtader; Philippe Joseph Salazar, eds. (2007). Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Fundamental Documents. Cape Town: David Philip and New Africa Books.[reviews 3]
  • Charles Villa-Vicencio; Erik Doxtader; Richard Goldstone, eds. (2004). Pieces of the puzzle: keywords on reconciliation and transitional justice. Cape Town, South Africa: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. ISBN 0-9584794-5-3. OCLC 59757722.
  • Erik Doxtader, Philippe Joseph Salazar, ed. (2007). Truth & reconciliation in South Africa: the fundamental documents. Claremont, South Africa: New Africa Books. ISBN 978-0-86486-707-0. OCLC 184983013.
  • Erik Doxtader, Charles Villa-Vicencio, ed. (2004). To repair the irreparable: reparation and reconstruction in South Africa. Claremont: David Philip Publishers. ISBN 0-86486-618-6. OCLC 60777028.
  • Charles Villa-Vicencio, Erik Doxtader, ed. (2003). The provocations of amnesty: memory, justice, and impunity. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. ISBN 1-59221-089-9. OCLC 51637703.[reviews 4]
  • Erik Doxtader, Charles Villa-Vicencio, ed. (2003). Through fire with water: the roots of division and the potential for reconciliation in Africa (1st ed.). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. ISBN 1-59221-083-X. OCLC 51446663.[reviews 5]

Book reviews

  1. ↑ Review of With Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa, 1985-1995:
  2. ↑ Reviews of The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring: A Season of Rebirth:
  3. ↑ Review of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Fundamental Documents:
    • Haron, Muhammed. African Studies Quarterly 11, no. 4 (2010): 129-131. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A237453624/AONE?u=anon~6b981594&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=28c75e19.
  4. ↑ Review of The Provocations of Amnesty: Memory, Justice and Impunity:
    • Verdoolaege, Annelies. Canadian Journal of African Studies 38, no. 1 (2004): 218-221. doi:10.2307/4107296. JSTOR 4107296. "Post-Apartheid South Africa III: Debating Amnesty". Journal of Southern African Studies 31, no. 2 (2005): 472–473. JSTOR 25065014.
  5. ↑ Reviews of Through Fire with Water: The Roots of Division and the Potential for Reconciliation in Africa:
    • Harbeson, John W. African Studies Review 48, no. 2 (2005): 189-190. doi:10.1353/arw.2005.0061. JSTOR 20065126.
    • du Plessis, Anton. Strategic Review for Southern Africa 25, no. 1 (2003): 135.

References

  1. ↑ Faculty page, Department of English, University of South Carolina (accessed 20 September 2021).
  2. ↑ Philosophy & Rhetoric, Editorial Masthead, Penn State University Press (accessed 21 September 2021).
  3. ↑ Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, "Institute Research Fellows", IJR Annual Report, 2012, 39 (accessed 20 September 2021); Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, "Senior Research Fellows", IJR Annual Report, 2013, 34, (accessed 21 September 2021); Daily Maverick, "Erik Doxtader" (accessed 21 September 2021); United Nations, South Africa's Institute for Justice and Reconciliation wins UNESCO award", UN News, 28 May (accessed 21 September 2021).
  4. ↑ Social Science Research Council, "International Peace and Security Postdoctoral Fellows," Items: Social Science Research Council, 52:4, (December 1998), 109 (accessed 21 September 2021).
  5. ↑ Rhetoric Society of America, "Awards - RSA Book Award Recipients" (accessed 21 September 2021).
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