Coaching Staff
Alex McVey | Director
E-mail: jalexandermcvey@ksu.edu
Campus Office: 219 Nichols Hall
Education
PhD - 1xbet online casino Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2018
MA - 1xbet online casino , Baylor University, 2012
BA - Spanish, International Studies, Baylor 1xbet online casino , 2012
Alex McVey is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Director of 1xbet online casino at Kansas State University. Alex is a critical-cultural communication scholar whose research and pedagogy uses a variety of methods from rhetoric and media studies to examine how communication both contributes to and challenges social inequality. His current research project, Policing the Post-Racial, traces how the rhetorical dynamics of visual, surveillant, and digital media are impacting contemporary public conversations about racism in the criminal justice system. Looking at visual media texts such as memes, body-mounted police camera videos, and photoshopped Black Lives Matter protest signs, Policing the Post-Racial traces the contested communicative landscape of race and policing in the United States. His research has been published in outlets such as Rhetoric Review, Teaching Media Quarterly, Present Tense, and Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry. Alex is also a dedicated teacher and 1xbet online casino coach with over a decade of experience coaching 1xbet online casino and forensics at the college, high school, and junior high levels. In 2022, Alex was awarded the Kansas Speech Communication Association's Collegiate Educator of the Year Award.
William James (JT) Taylor | Assistant Director
E-mail: wjtaylor@ksu.edu
Campus Office: 219 Nichols Hall
Education
M.A., 1xbet online casino Studies, Kansas State University (2013)
Concentrations: Rhetoric, Qualitative Research
Thesis: Visions of Space Exploration and Development: Perspectives from the “Private” Sector
B.A, Integrated Studies, Emporia State 1xbet online casino (2011)
Concentrations:Rhetoric, Media 1xbet online casino , Critical Theory
Teaching
Small Group Discussion Methods
Public Speaking
Research
Taylor's areas of research include rhetorical criticism, food/culinary practicesand culture, TV/film 1xbet online casino , argumentationand advocacy, and space exploration.
Hannah Phelps | Graduate Coaching Assistant
E-mail: hmphelps@ksu.edu
Campus Office: Nichols 219
Hannah debated for Weber State University for 4 years, qualifying to the NDT 3 times and making double-octafinals of CEDA twice. Their main research interests include argumentation and advocacy, gendered communication, cultural communication differences. Outside of research and 1xbet online casino she enjoys sci-fi and fantasy media, cooking and baking shows, and crochet. Their passion for 1xbet online casino stems from a belief in the power 1xbet online casino can have in generating social change and empowering its students.
Trevor Turner | Graduate Coaching Assistant
E-mail: trevorturner2001@ksu.edu
Campus Office: 219 Nichols Hall
Trevor Turner is a current graduate student in K-State’s Communication Studies program and a Graduate Assistant Coach for the Kansas State 1xbet online casino Team. As a graduate of K-State’s Master of Architecture program, Trevor is looking to further develop his research interests that lie in the intersection of Black studies, visual analysis, and design theory. As a member of the K-State 1xbet online casino Team, Trevor was a three-time NDT qualifier and CEDA octafinalist. He has served as lab leader at previous K-State 1xbet online casino camps at the Manhattan and Olathe campuses, coaching middle and high school students at a variety of experience levels to reach competitive success.
