{"id":31418,"date":"1997-11-07T08:39:40","date_gmt":"1997-11-07T12:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=31418"},"modified":"2024-07-01T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:00:07","slug":"branham-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1997\/11\/07\/branham-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates professor wins award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert J. Branham, professor of rhetoric and director of debate at Bates College, has received the latest American Forensic Association (AFA) Daniel Rohrer Award for <em>Stanton&#8217;s Elm: An Illustrated History of Debating at Bates College<\/em>, published in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Awarded annually, the prize recognizes outstanding scholarship in argumentation theory, criticism, history or practice. The AFA is an organization of 600 argumentation scholars from seven countries.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Branham&#8217;s prize-wining work was published in commemoration of the centennial celebration of the Bates College intercollegiate debate program. &#8220;The history is a fine and unique example of scholarship,&#8221; said Kathryn M. Olson, chair of the AFA research committee.<\/p>\n<p>Just two years ago, Branham garnered the AFA research award for his 1994 article, &#8220;Debate and Dissent in Late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan,&#8221; which appeared in the journal Argumentation and Advocacy.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, Branham was named the Eastern States Representative to the Committee for International Discussion and Debate (CIDD) by the Speech Communication Association, a 5,000-member international organization of communication scholars. He was also named coach of the United States national debating team for its tour of Great Britain from January to March 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Branham heads an intercollegiate debate program at Bates that is recognized as one of the best in the United States. He also teaches a course on documentary filmmaking that has produced such notable efforts as <em>Roughing the Uppers: The Great Shoe Strike of 1937<\/em> and <em>The Phantom Punch<\/em>, about the heavyweight title fight between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>The author of a number of scholarly articles and editor of several handbooks and tutoring aids for debaters, he graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and earned master&#8217;s and doctoral degrees at the University of North Carolina and the University of Massachusetts respectively. He joined the Bates faculty in 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert J. Branham, professor of rhetoric and director of debate at Bates College, has received the latest American Forensic Association (AFA) Daniel Rohrer Award for &#8220;Stanton&#8217;s Elm: An Illustrated History of Debating at Bates College,&#8221; published in 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[97,1847,2843,10754],"class_list":["post-31418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","tag-awards-to-faculty","tag-brooks-quimby-debate-council","tag-debate","tag-rhetoric-film-and-screen-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82758,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31418\/revisions\/82758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}