Michael R. Kearney (M.A., Duquesne University, 2019) is a Ph.D. student and graduate teaching and research assistant in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University. He serves there as student codirector of the Public Speaking course and is an editorial assistant for the Journal of Communication & Religion as well as the Journal of Dialogic Ethics: Interfaith and Interhuman Perspectives. He has published eight journal articles, three book chapters, and one essay in conference proceedings, and has given more than forty academic presentations. He has received Top Student Paper awards from the Philosophy of Communication and Theory & Methodology divisions of the Eastern Communication Association, the 2022 Article of the Year Award from the Religious Communication Association, and a 2023 Centennial Scholarship from the Eastern Communication Association.