Featured Speakers – 2023 RHM Symposium

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Kimberly C. Harper

Associate Professor, Department of English
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Her research interests include Black maternal health, reproductive justice, rhetoric of health and medicine, mental health and hip hop, and social justice and technical communication. She is the author of The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America: Only White Women Get Pregnant (Lexington, 2021).

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Jenell Johnson

Professor, Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Her research focuses on the circulation of scientific and medical information in the public sphere, with an emphasis on the social and political dimensions of nonexpert engagement with science, medicine, and technology. She is author of American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History (U of Michigan P, 2016) and Every Living Thing: The Politics of Life in Common (Penn State UP, 2023).