Paul Turpin (Ph.D. Communication, 2005) has been selected to receive the 2006 Dissertation Award from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric for his dissertation comparing the rhetoric of economists Adam Smith and Milton Friedman. Turpin, who teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, will receive the award at a ceremony in San Antonio in November. Turpin's dissertation, the full title of which reads "Liberal Political Economy and Justice: Character and Decorum in the Economic Arguments of Adam Smith and Milton Friedman," examines Smith and Friedman's separate use of a sense of "social decorum" as a basis for their liberal economic theories. The same work also earned him the Gerald R. Miller Dissertation Award from the National Communication Association in July.
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