ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor & Basic Course Director School of Communication University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

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1 Laura Alberti School of Communication 118 College Drive, #5121 Hattiesburg, MS Mobile: (626) Office: (601) Laura.Alberti@usm.edu ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor & Basic Course Director School of Communication, Hattiesburg, MS August 2018 Present Visiting Instructor Fall 2016 Spring 2018 Lecturer Spring 2016 Dept. of Communication Studies, Hattiesburg, MS Graduate Assistant , Los Angeles, CA EDUCATION Ph.D., Communication, 2018 Dissertation: George H. W. Bush and the New World Order: On Stasis, the Just War & Rhetorical Legacy A World in Disarray? Chair: G. Thomas Goodnight M.A., Communication, 2014 M.A., Institutional, Social and Political Communication 2009 University of Bologna, Summa cum laude B.A., Communication Studies, University of Bologna 2006 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Alberti, L. (2019). Conspiracy as legal doctrine and historiographical framework: From the Nuremberg trial to contemporary Holocaust denial discourse. In R. A. Lake (Ed.), Recovering argument. London: Routledge. Alberti, L., & Hollihan, T. (2014). Market panics and the limits of national power and authority: An argumentative analysis of the 2011 Italian debt crisis. International Journal of Communication, 8,

2 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS CONTINUED Alberti, L. (2011). Remembering the lion of the desert: Visual rhetoric and argument in the contemporary public sphere. In R. C. Rowland (Ed.), Reasoned argument and social change: Selected papers from the 17 th biennial conference on argumentation (pp ). Washington, DC: National Communication Association. FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Fellowships Awards Annenberg Fellowship,, Top Student Paper in the Argumentation and Forensics Division, NCA, 2013 Top Theme Paper (co-author), Challenging Communication Research, ICA, 2013 Research Award, Annenberg Fellowship Symposium,, 2012 Michael Calvin McGee Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, 2011 Research Award, Annenberg Fellowship Symposium,, 2011 COMPETITIVE CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Alberti, L. (2018, July). Conspiracy argument as rhetorical genre: Evidence from the post-9/11 terrorism trials. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Strait, L. P. & Alberti, L. (2018, July). The role of decision-making agency in distinguishing legitimate and fallacious slippery slope arguments. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Alberti, L. (2016, April). From the Colonel s uniform to Libya's revolutionary art: An exploration in the argumentative trajectories of visual icons. Paper presented at the meeting of the Southern States Communication Association, Austin, TX. Riley, P., Hagen, C. S., Alberti, L., Mazumdar, T., Wang, R., Guth, K.,... Pascarella, M. (2015, November). Building the future Islamic State through Twitter: ISIS themes and metanarratives. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV. Alberti, L. (2015, August). Holocaust denial as conspiracy argument. Paper presented at the 19 th Alta Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT. 2

3 COMPETITIVE CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS CONTINUED Alberti, L. (2014, November). Researching risks or risky research? H5N1 virus research and the mutation of a biosecurity controversy. Roundtable on research in progress. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. Alberti, L. (2014, May). Topics at the border: Giambattista Vico, Gabriel Tarde, and the genius of rhetoric. Paper presented at the meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America, San Antonio, TX. Alberti, L. (2014, February). Researching risks or risky research? Constraints on the debate over whether H5N1 research should be constrained and the mutation of a biosecurity controversy. Paper presented at the meeting of the Western States Communication Association, Anaheim, CA. Alberti, L. (2013, November). Environmentality of reason or cognitive polyphasia? A reflection on Mercier & Sperber s argumentative theory of reasoning. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, Washington, DC. Alberti, L. (2013, September). All you need to know about the psychopath in your life: The rhetoric of an emerging popular diagnostic genre. Paper presented at the 5 th International Crime, Media & Popular Culture Studies Conference, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN. Alberti, L. & Strait, L. P. (2013, August). A disturbing injustice or criminally miscommunicated risk argumentation? The L Aquila earthquake prosecution controversy. Paper presented at the 18th Alta Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT. Mazumdar, T., Bar, F., & Alberti, L. (2013, June). The viewertariat as news frame-builders: Real-time Twitter sentiment, news frames and the Republican commander-in-chief debate. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, London, UK. Alberti, L. (2013, May). Expert technologies and the material production of deviance: The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) test in scientific debate and popular culture. Paper presented at the 1st Graduate STS Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Alberti, L. (2012, November). Celebrity advocates as representatives and storytellers: Roberto Saviano and the artistic creation of publics. Poster session presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, Orlando, FL. Alberti, L. (2012, August). Visual argument in controversy: The Greek debt crisis in the European public sphere. Paper presented at the 4th Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. Alberti, L. (2011, November). Information s death panels: The roles of factual information and ideology in the correction of political misperceptions. Poster session presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. Alberti, L. (2011, November). The making of the Tea Party: Agenda setting and framing through the lenses of media system dependency theory. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA. 3

4 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor of Record Oral Communication (CMS 111) Spring 2018 Rhetoric and the Public Sphere (CMS 201) Spring 2018 Business and Professional Speaking (CMS 320) Spring 2018 Oral Communication (CMS 111) Fall 2017 Rhetoric and the Public Sphere (CMS 201) Fall 2017 Business and Professional Speaking (CMS 320) Fall 2017 Oral Communication (CMS 111) Spring 2017 Introduction to Communication Studies (CMS 101) Spring 2017 Small Group Communication (CMS 330) Spring 2017 Oral Communication (CMS 111) Fall 2016 Rhetorical Criticism (CMS 415) Fall 2016 Small Group Communication (CMS 330) Fall 2016 Oral Communication (CMS 111) Spring

5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE CONTINUED Teaching Assistant Rhetoric and the Public Sphere (COMM 201) Spring 2015 Supported classroom activities and graded for 90+ undergraduates Sports and Social Change (COMM 387) Spring 2014 Supported classroom activities and graded for 90+ undergraduates Fashion, Media, and Culture (COMM 396) Fall 2013 Supported classroom activities and graded for 60+ undergraduates Sports, Communication, and Culture (COMM 383) Spring 2013 Fashion, Media, and Culture (COMM 396) Fall 2012 Sports and Social Change (COMM 387) Spring 2012 Sports, Communication, and Culture (COMM 383) Fall 2011 Guest Lectures COMM 201: Rhetoric in the Public Sphere Overview to visual rhetoric, March 2015 The debate Plato vs. the Sophists, January 2015 Rhetoric as civic engagement, January 2015 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Team Member Scenario Lab, USC October 2010 May 2016 Research Assistant Stephen O'Leary, USC Fall 2014 & Spring 2015 G. Thomas Goodnight, USC Fall 2012, Spring 2013, & Fall 201 5

6 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE CONTINUED Research Assistant Thomas Hollihan, USC Fall 2011 SERVICE Academic Service Committee Member - Communication Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2016 Present Vice President - Annenberg Communication Graduate Student Student Association (ACGSA), USC USC Graduate Student Government Representative, USC Peer Mentor, NCA Recruitment Volunteer, USC Manuscript Reviewer Conferences Southern States Communication Association 2017, American Society for the History of Rhetoric Interest Group INVITED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, PANELS & TALKS Invited Conference Presentations Alberti, L. & Hollihan, T. (2012, October). The 2011 Italian debt crisis as rhetorical event. Paper presented at the International Conference on Communication and Global Power Shifts, Communication University of China, Beijing. Conference Panels Alberti, L. (2016, April). Co-participant in the panel Debating the conscience of the nation: Argumentation and debate in the 2016 presidential primary debates, Southern States Communication Association, Austin, TX. Talks 4th Summer Institute on Argumentation (May 2013). Multi modal arguments: Making sense of images (and other non verbal content) in argument, University of Windsor, Canada. Dean s Series on Sustainable Innovation (April 2011). Scenario Lab,. 6

7 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Office of MEP Amalia Sartori, European Parliament April July 2010 Rue Wiertz 60, 1000 Brussels, Belgium PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS International Society for the Study of Argumentation Current as of September