Dr. Allen Merriam Webster Hall, Room 356 417-625-9654 E-Mail - merriam-a@mssu.edu

Spring 2008 Office Hours: Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday -

Dr. Allen H. Merriam came to Missouri Southern in 1982. He has a B.A. from Drew University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio University. He previously taught at the College of New Jersey, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech. During 1965-67 he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kabul, Afghanistan. He also worked as an intern in international broadcasting at the Voice of America in Washington, D.C.

Spring 2008 Courses:

***Out due to illness***
Comm 100 Oral Communication
Comm 303 Advanced Public Speaking

Courses Taught At MSSU:
Comm 100 Oral Communication
Comm 101 Intro to Human Communication
Comm 303 Advanced Public Speaking
Comm 305 Intercultural Communication
Comm 411 Political and Social Communication
Comm 493 International Communication
Comm 498 Hiroshima In Perspective

Research Interests:
Intercultural Studies
South Asia
History of Oratory

Professional Memberships:
Central States Communication Association
NAACP
National Peace Corps Association
Friends of Afghanistan

Honors/Awards/Recognition
Who's Who in America, 57th ed. (2003)
Who's Who in the World, 19th ed. (2002)
Faculty mentor for Kelly Dengel, recipients of $5,000 grant from the McCaleb Peace Initiative, Missouri Southern State College, for proposal on  South Africa s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Model for Peacemaking.  2000
Recipient, Outstanding Teacher in the Department of Communications Award.1999, 1992
Directory of American Scholars, 9th ed., Vol. II (1999)
Recipient, $1,000 grant from the Center for Global Partnership, The Japan Foundation, New York City. 1995
Recipient, five Faculty Development Travel Grants, Missouri Southern State College.1982-87
Participant, Fulbright Group Study Tour of India. Topic: "Ecology, Culture, and Food Production in India." 1980
Recipient, Summer Research Stipend, Center for Programs in the Humanities, Virginia Tech. 1980
Recipient, Faculty Research Grant, Trenton State College, for study at the Gandhi National Library and Museum, New Delhi, India. 1974
Selected winning name ("Tower of the Americas") for the major landmark at HEMISFAIR '68, San Antonio, Texas. 1965
Elected to Pi Delta Epsilon, honorary journalism fraternity. 1963
Winner of seven speech contests in college, including two first places in New Jersey Extemporaneous Speech Contests. 1961-64
Recipient, Rose Memorial Scholarship, Drew University. 1960

Publications & Presentations

• America in Person; People of the Year, 1776-2000. Self-published, 2001. 118 pp.
  
• People of the Millennium; A Selection of Persons-of-the-Year from A.D. 1000 through 1999. New York: Vantage Press, 2000. 248 pp.
  
• Gandhi vs. Jinnah; The Debate over the Partition of India. Calcutta: Minerva Press, 1980. 183 pp.
  
• "The Third World: Definitions and New Perspectives on Development," in The New Third World, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998), 9-27. (co-authored with Srinivas R. Melkote).
  
• "Words and Numbers: Mathematical Dimensions of Rhetoric," The Southern Communication Journal 55:4 (Summer, 1990), 337-354.
  
• "Literature as Window: Developing Interracial Understanding Through Fiction," Journal of Black Studies, 19:1 (September, 1988), 61-69.
  
• "William Edward Burghardt Du Bois" American Orators of the 20th Century: Critical Studies and Sources (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1987), 109-114.
  
• "Susan B. Anthony," American Orators Before 1900: Critical Studies and Sources (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1987), 28-34.
  
• "The Impact of Media Technology in Peasant Societies: The Case of SITE," Educational Communication and Technology Journal 34:1 (Spring, 1986), 40-45. (Co-authored with William J. Starosta).
  
• "The Legacy of Lovejoy: Abolitionism and the First Amendment," Free Speech Yearbook 1985 (Vol. 24), 14-26.
  
• "Comparative Chronemics and International Communication: American and Iranian Perspectives on Time," Communication Yearbook 7 (Beverly Hills, CA.: Sage, 1983), 35-48.
  
• "Charismatic Leadership in Modern Asia: Mao, Gandhi, and Khomeini," Asian Profile 9:5 (October, 1981), 389-400
  
• "Faneuil Hall: Shrine of American Oratory," Communication Quarterly 29:2 (Spring, 1981), 81-90.
  
• "Racism in the Expansionist Controversy of 1898-1900," Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture 39:4 (December, 1978), 369-380.
  
• "Symbolic Action in India: Gandhi's Nonverbal Persuasion," Quarterly Journal of Speech 61:3 (October, 1975), 290-306.
  
• "Rhetoric and the Islamic Tradition," Today's Speech 22:1 (Winter, 1974), 43- 49.

 

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