PhD - Media and Communication, Bowling Green State University
MA - Communication, Spring Arbor University
BA - Speech Education, Bob Jones University

Chad M. Nelson studies and teaches rhetorical theory and criticism. He specializes in the areas of urban communication, education policy rhetoric, the rhetoric of economics, social movements, and cultural studies.

Rhetoric of Social Movements
Rhetorical Criticism
History of Rhetorical Theory
Principles of Rhetoric and Argumentation
Special Topics: Rhetoric of Capitalism
Interracial/Intercultural Communication
Theories of Human Communication

• Lee, E. Y. & Nelson, C. M. (2018). Can Detroiters dream again? The imagined dialectics of urban decline in Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown—Detroit. Communication Studies, 69(4), 421-438.
• Meier, M. R. & Nelson, C. M. (2016). “Would you want your sister to marry one of them”: Whiteness, stand-up, and Lenny Bruce. In M. R. Meier & C. R. Schmitt (Eds.), Standing up, speaking out (pp. 92-110). New York: Routledge.
• Nelson, C. M. (2015). Resisting whiteness: Mexican American studies and rhetorical struggles for visibility. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 8(1), 63-80.