Aaron Duncan
Professor of Practice Communication Studies University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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LPH 375
Lincoln, NE 68588-0329 - Phone
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402-472-2070 On-campus 2-2070
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aduncan3@unl.edu
Aaron Duncan, Ph.D., is the director of the award-winning Speech & Debate Team at the University of Nebraska and a Professor of Practice in the Department of Communication Studies. During his twenty years of leadership, the Speech & Debate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln won back-to-back national championships in Lincoln Douglas Debate in 2022 and 2023, eight Big 10 Conference Tournament Challenge championships in Speech, and over 200 college speech and debate tournaments. Under his leadership, UNL students have won individual national championships in all forms of public speaking and debate.
His research focuses on public speaking, persuasive messaging, public mythology, and political communication. His work has appeared in popular publications including The New Republic, Business Insider, and Quartz. He is also the author of the book Gambling with the American Dream and the textbook Communication in the 21st Century.
Courses he teaches include Comm 101: Communication in the 21st Century, Comm 209: Public Speaking, Comm 375: Theory of Persuasion, Comm 440: Rhetoric of Sports and Games, and Comm 489: Communication Studies Capstone.
Education
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2011
Representative Publications
Duncan, A. (2023). Communication in the 21st Century. Dubuque: Great River.
Duncan, A., & Syrek, A. (2017). Spreading the gospel of forensics and increasing community: Targeting traditional and non-traditional populations for involvement in forensics. In K. Copeland & G.L. Castbeery (eds.). Competition, community, and educational growth: Contemporary perspectives on competitive speech and debate. New York: Peter Lang.
Duncan, A. (2015). Gambling with the myth of the American Dream. New York, Routledge.
Duncan, A. (2014). Reimagining the self-made man: Myth, risk, and the pokerization of America. Western Journal of Communication, 78, 39-57.
Duncan, A. (2014). An antidosis for a forensics life: An Isocratic defense of modern practices of competitive forensics. National Forensics Journal.
Duncan, A. (2014) A Change of Scenery: The Southern, the Western, and evolution the Frontier Myth, In J. Perlich, & D. Whitt (Eds). Myth in the Modern World: Essays on Intersections With Ideology and Culture.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- COMM 101: Communication in the 21st Century
- COMM 280: Communication and Popular Culture
- COMM 375: Theories of Persuasion
- COMM 953: Political Communication