Brent Allen Saindon

Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh (Communication) *Also received graduate certification in Cultural Studies

M.S. University of North Texas (Communication Studies)

B.A. Fort Hays State University (Philosophy)

Research Areas: Visual Communication, Monument and Museum Studies, Communication in Public Art and Architecture Projects, Public Controversy Studies.

Dr. Saindon has also published co-authored articles and textbook chapters related to First-Year Symposium programming, Organizational Communication and Conflict Communication.

Dr. Saindon served as an officer for the Visual Communication Division of the National Communication Association from 2019-2023.

Dr. Saindon teaches in the Seminars program as part of General Education at Mercy University. His list of common courses include:

-- CINQ 101: Critical Inquiry

-- JRSM 301: Junior Seminar

(2022). Hello, We Come to Work: Managing Trust and Digital Personas in an Online Business. In J. S. Wrench (Ed.), Casing Organizational Communication (2nd ed.). Kendall-Hunt. *Co-authored with Christina Saindon

(2022). Can We Bring Our Dogs?: A Case Study in Positional Bargaining. In A. L. Meluch & H. L. Walter (Eds.), Casing Conflict. Kendall Hunt. *Co-authored with Christina Saindon

(2016). First Year Symposium: One college’s response to the perceived “deficit” in civic education. Communication Education 65(4), 409-19. [Special issue featuring selected papers from the Speech and Debate as Civic Education Conference] *Co-authored with Joe Roidt, Martin DeNicolo, Amy Kittle, and Katherine Osborne 

(2012). A doubled heterotopia: Shifting spatial symbolism in the Jewish Museum Berlin project. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 98(1), 24-48.

(2012). Traumatic repression and aesthetic confession: The call for German remembrance in international discourse about the Jewish Museum Berlin. Northwest Journal of Communication, 40(1), 41-59.

(2009). Visual display, media convergence, and a reconsideration of media ecology: The Jewish Museum Berlin as a site of interactive technological integration. InterCulture: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 6(1), 22-37.

(2009). Review of Hatred of Democracy, by Jacques Rancière. Controversia: An International Journal of Debate and Democratic Renewal, 6(2), 107-110.

(2008/2009, Fall/Winter). Review of Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City, edited by Alev Çinar and Thomas Bender. Neo-Americanist: An Online Journal of American Studies, 4(1).

(2008). Debating Michael Calvin McGee’s ‘critical’ shift in rhetorical theory. Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, 29, 88-117.

(2006). Deliberating debate's digital futures. Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, 27, 81-105. *Co-authored with Carly Woods, Matthew Brigham, Brent Heavner, Takuzo Konishi, John Rief, and Gordon Mitchell