Erik Doxtader Explained

Erik Doxtader
Birth Place:	Fort Collins, Colorado
Region:	rhetoric

Erik Doxtader is a scholar of rhetoric and critical theory. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, Doxtader took a BA at the University of Kansas and both an MA and Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.

Career

Doxtader is a professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina,^[1] and the current editor of Philosophy & Rhetoric, an international quarterly journal published by the Pennsylvania State University Press. Prior to assuming the editorship in 2018, he served as the journal's Book Review Editor from 2005-2017.^[2]

Doxtader is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, a recognized non-governmental organization in Cape Town, South Africa.^[3] In 1999, he was awarded a 2000-2001 fellowship in the SSRC-MacArthur program in Peace and Security in a Changing World.^[4] His book, With Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa, received the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America book award.^[5]

Books

Monograph

• Book: Doxtader, Erik . With faith in the works of words: the beginnings of reconciliation in South Africa, 1985-1995 . 2009 . Michigan State University Press . 978-0-87013-851-5 . East Lansing . 235946025.

Edited volumes

• Book: The African renaissance and the Afro-Arab spring: a season of rebirth? . 2015 . . Erik Doxtader . . 978-1-62616-198-6 . Washington, DC . 910326527.
• Book: In the balance: South Africans debate reconciliation . 2010 . Jacana Media . Fanie Du Toit, Erik Doxtader . 978-1-77009-837-4 . Auckland Park, South Africa . 662406432.
• Book: Inventing the potential of rhetorical culture: the work and legacy of Thomas B. Farrell . 2009 . Pennsylvania State University Press . Erik Doxtader . 978-0-271-03627-4 . University Park, Pa. . 427644787.
• Book: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Fundamental Documents. Erik Doxtader . Philippe Joseph Salazar. Cape Town. David Philip and New Africa Books. 2007.
• Book: Pieces of the puzzle: keywords on reconciliation and transitional justice . 2004 . Institute for Justice and Reconciliation . . Erik Doxtader . Richard Goldstone. 0-9584794-5-3 . Cape Town, South Africa . 59757722.
• Book: Truth & reconciliation in South Africa: the fundamental documents . 2007 . New Africa Books . . 978-0-86486-707-0 . Claremont, South Africa . 184983013.
• Book: To repair the irreparable: reparation and reconstruction in South Africa . 2004 . David Philip Publishers . . 0-86486-618-6 . Claremont . 60777028.
• Book: The provocations of amnesty: memory, justice, and impunity . 2003 . Africa World Press . Charles Villa-Vicencio, Erik Doxtader . 1-59221-089-9 . Trenton, NJ . 51637703.
• Book: Through fire with water: the roots of division and the potential for reconciliation in Africa . 2003 . Africa World Press . . 1-59221-083-X . 1st . Trenton, NJ . 51446663.

Book reviews

Notes and References

1. https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/english_language_and_literature/our_people/directory/doxtader_erik.php Faculty page
2. https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_pr.html Philosophy & Rhetoric, Editorial Masthead
3. Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, "Institute Research Fellows", IJR Annual Report, 2012, 39 (accessed 20 September 2021); Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, "Senior Research Fellows", IJR Annual Report, 2013, 34, (accessed 21 September 2021); Daily Maverick, "Erik Doxtader" (accessed 21 September 2021); United Nations, South Africa's Institute for Justice and Reconciliation wins UNESCO award", UN News, 28 May (accessed 21 September 2021).
4. Social Science Research Council, "International Peace and Security Postdoctoral Fellows," Items: Social Science Research Council, 52:4, (December 1998), 109 (accessed 21 September 2021).
5. Rhetoric Society of America, "Awards - RSA Book Award Recipients" (accessed 21 September 2021).