Fred Antczak, new dean of the College of of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was named a founding fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America.
RSA is a scholarly organization dedicated to studying, teaching, and practicing rhetoric. Antczak has been an RSA member since 1994 and served as president in 2000 and 2001. He joins four other fellows, a distinction given by the RSA board in recognition of sustained and distinguished scholarship, teaching and service to the field of rhetoric studies.
He wrote a book, Thought and Character: The Rhetoric of Democratic Education, which won the University of Virginias Phi Beta Kappa book award in 1985. Antczak also chaired the Rhetoric Department at the University of Iowa.
