Dr. Kevin D. Kuswa
Director of Debate
(804) 289-8269
kkuswa@richmond.edu
Topics: Debates (Political, Collegiate), Politics (Privacy, International Security), Political Conflict (South Asia, Eastern Europe, Horn of Africa), Transportation Policy, Rhetoric (History, Practice, Criticism), Philosophy (Continental Theory, Postcolonial Theory and Globalization), Terrorism (Rhetoric)
Director of debate and instructor of rhetoric, Kuswa holds a bachelor of science in international relations from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a master's degree in rhetoric and a Ph.D. in communication studies from the University of Texas, Austin. He wrote his doctoral thesis on American highway shifts: the course of the interstate highway machine from 1956-1973, and his master's thesis on the Kurds and Kurdistan. He was the 1992 national champion in debate (National Debate Tournament). For several years, he has taught a course titled "The Rhetoric of Terrorism, Insecurity and the State," which focuses on labels, otherizing, violence and rhetoric.
For more information on Kuswa, please visit the Richmond Research Institute.