{"id":7299,"date":"2025-07-01T04:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/lauren-l-buisker\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:08:31","slug":"lauren-l-buisker","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/lauren-l-buisker\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren L. Buisker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lauren Buisker (she\/her\/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies and the Director of the Brooks Quimby Debate Council. Buisker earned a Ph.D. in Communication from Colorado State University, an M.A. in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.S. in Communication Studies and Political Science from South Dakota State University. A recipient of college-wide teaching awards at the University of Illinois and Colorado State University, Buisker has taught courses including Argumentation and Debate, Rhetorical Criticism, Gender and Communication, Political Rhetoric, Public Speaking, and the Rhetoric of Pop Culture. Buisker has also served as the Assistant Coach of Speech and Debate at South Dakota State University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At Bates, Buisker is currently teaching Public Discourse, which focuses on rhetorical histories of public protest in the U.S. Her present research program uses intersectional feminist perspectives to understand the rhetoric of anti-sexual violence organizing, and she has published articles in <\/span>Rhetoric Society Quarterly<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Southern Communication Journal<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Women & Language, <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>Communication Studies. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Education:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ph.D. in Communication, Colorado State University<\/span><\/p>\n