Alvin Primack, PhD
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Education
Communication – PhD, University of Pittsburgh (2022)
Communication Studies - MA, California State University, Long Beach (2016)
Biography
Alvin J. Primack is the Associate Director of the William Pitt Debating Union. They have published in some of the fields top journals in the areas of law, instruction, and media representation.
Areas of Interest
Rhetorical Criticism; Media Studies; Childhood Studies, Rhetoric of Law and Inquiry, Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory
Alvin J. Primack. “A First Amendment Profile of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.” In A Frist Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court 2nd. Edition, edited by Kevin Johnson and Craig R. Smith (Forthcoming).
Ash, Hillary A., and Alvin J. Primack. “Implementing Universal Design for Learning: Course Design and Management Considerations for Asynchronous and Synchronous Online Courses.” In Diversity in Higher Education Remote Learning: A Practical Guide, edited by Jerome C. Branche, Paula K. Davis, and Ellen R. Cohn (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023).
Alvin J. Primack. “You are not the Father: Rhetoric, Settler Colonial Curiosity, and Federal Indian Law,” Review of Communication 20, no. 1 (2020): 27-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2019.1707268.
Alvin J. Primack. “First Amendment Studies in Arkansas,” (Book Review) First Amendment Studies 53, no. 1 (2019): 130-1. https://doi.org/10.1080/21689725.2019.1621447.
Alvin J. Primack. “Youth Sexting and the First Amendment: Rhetoric and Child Pornography Doctrine in the Age of Translation,” New Media & Society 20, no. 8 (2018): 2917-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/ 1461444817737297.
Brandon Fletcher and Alvin J. Primack. “Driving Toward Disability Rhetorics: Narratives of Disability in Mad Max: Fury Road,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 34, no. 4 (2017): 344-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2017.1329540.
Alvin J. Primack and Kevin A. Johnson. “Student Cyberbullying Inside the Digital Schoolhouse Gate: Toward a Standard for Determining Where a ‘School’ Is,” First Amendment Studies 51, no. 1 (2017): 30-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/21689725.2016.1278177.
Courses Taught
Argument
Interpersonal Communication
Media and Consumer Culture
Media in Society
Public Speaking
Rhetoric in Society
Skills in Communication
Awards
COMPETITIVE PAPER AWARDS
Top Student Paper, 2018, National Communication Association, (Freedom of Expression). Salt Lake City, UT 2018.
Top Student Paper, 2017, National Communication Association, Dallas, TX, 2017 (Freedom of Expression)
David Eschelman Award Winner, 1st Place Debut Category, 2017, Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, NV, 2017 (Law and Policy)
ACADEMIC HONORS
Honors Convocation, 2017, 2018, University of Pittsburgh
Graduate Dean’s List, 2016, California State University, Long Beach
President’s List, 2012-2014, California State University, Long Beach
First Amendment Scholar Award, 2014, California State University, Long Beach
Student Recognition Award, 2012, Copper Mountain College, Joshua Tree
FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship, 2016-17, University of Pittsburgh
Jack Williams Fellowship, 2015-16, Center for First Amendment Studies, California State University, Long Beach
Jerry Mandel Scholarship, 2013-14, California State University, Long Beach
CSU Future Scholars Scholarship, 2013, California State University, Long Beach
Jon and John Scholarship, 2013 California State University, Long Beach
Carl Bovero Award Scholarship, 2012, Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensics Association
Cultural Artifact Scholarship, 2011, Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensics Association