Ben Voth, Ph.D.

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(214)768-3028

Ben Voth, Ph.D.

Ben Voth, Ph.D.Ben Voth, Ph.D.Ben Voth, Ph.D.
  • Home
  • About Ben
    • About Ben
    • Ben's Vitae
    • Contact Ben
  • Research
    • James Farmer Jr.
    • Rhetoric of Genecide
  • Books
    • James Farmer, Jr.
    • Rhetoric in Genocide
    • Social Fragmentation
    • Purchase Books
  • Debates
    • SMU Debate 2022
    • SMU Debate 2021
    • Debate Report 2020
    • SMU DEBATE 2019
    • SMU DEBATE 2018
    • Debate Forensics
  • Student Resources
    • Course Syllabus
    • Lectures
  • Blogs
    • Articles
    • SOTU 2019
    • War Without Violence
    • Anti-Semitism
    • Mis-understanding Bush
    • Cruz vs Roarke Debate
    • Scoring Cruz vs Rourke
    • Presidential Debates 2016
  • YouTube
    • Coolidge Debate
    • Clinton Trump Debate
    • Trump's Transition

About BEN

Ben's Bio

 Dr. Ben Voth is a professor of rhetoric and Director of Debate and Speech programs at Southern Methodist University. He is the Coolidge Foundation debate fellow and an adviser for the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas. Dr. Voth’s professional mission is to equip individuals to have their voice. By teaching and researching in areas of rhetoric, argumentation, debate and public speaking, Voth accomplishes this mission with a variety of audiences. He has worked at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with dozens of Holocaust Survivors, more than a dozen national collegiate champions of speech and debate, North Korean dissidents, Burmese dissidents, the Rwandan national debate team, and a variety of corporations and organizations throughout the United States.  

Ben's Academic Credentials

Dr. Voth completed his undergraduate and masters degrees in Communication Study and Journalism at Baylor University in 1990. His masters thesis focused on the global warming rhetoric of George Bush senior and was directed by Dr. Rich Edwards. He completed his PhD in Communication Study— specializing in argumentation and rhetoric— at the University of Kansas in 1994. His dissertation focused on the function of the wall separating church and state as a paradigmatic metaphor and was directed by Dr. Robert Rowland. He was the director of speech and debate at Miami University in Ohio for 14 years from 1994- 2008. 

Ben's Publishing

Rwanda Rising: Debate as an Empowering International Pedagogy (2021). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. * winner of the Daniel Rohrer Research award for the top monograph in argumentation and debate as awarded by the American Forensics Association for 2021.

 

He is currently completing his fifth book on the rhetorical activities of Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge with Lexington Books. He has published research on President John F. Kennedy, Saturday Night Live as political argument, the 2012 and 2008 Presidential debates, the metaphor of a wall separating church and state and his work is published in a variety of argumentation academic journals such as Argumentation and Advocacy. His work has been quoted in US News and World Report, the Rush Limbaugh Show and the Washington Post


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