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Pam Benoit
Vice Provost for Advanced Studies and Dean of the Graduate School
William T. Kemper Fellow for Excellence in Teaching
education: PhD, Wayne State University
email: BenoitP@missouri.edu
office: 210 Jesse
phone: 573-882-6311

Dr. Pam Benoit is interested in the collaborative development of interpersonal discourse. She is particularly interested in narratives and arguments. Recently, she has focused on leadership issues, particularly as they relate to the negotiation of relationship identities. She has also been involved in a research project comparing online instruction with traditional methods of instruction funded by a $200,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation. Her work has been published in Communication Yearbook, Argumentation and Advocacy, Journal of Academic Leadership, Argumentation: An International Journal on Reasoning, Language and Speech, and more.

Pam has been recognized for her high quality research, outstanding teaching, and overall significant contributions to the university. Her research (with Bill Benoit and with Barbara O'Keefe) twice earned recognition of the Daniel Rohrer Award for research in argumentation by the American Forensic Association. For excellence as an educator, she was awarded the highly prestigious William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Missouri-Columbia. And, for her overall contributions to the university (research, teaching, and service) she was recognized with the MU Faculty-Alumni Award in 2000.

Research Interests
Narratives
Communication Theory
Interpersonal Persuasion and Argumentation
Leadership

Selected Recent Publications
Benoit, P. J., & Graham, S. (in press). Leadership excellence. Journal of Academic Leadership.

Benoit, P. J., & Benoit, W. L. (under review). Persuasive messages: The process of influence. Los Angeles: Roxbury.

Hample, D., & Benoit, P. J. (1999). Must arguments be explicit and violent? A study of naive social actors' understandings. In F. H. van Eemeren, R. Grootendorst, J. A. Blair, & C. A. Willard (Ed.), Argumentation research (pp. 306-310). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: SIC SAT.

Hample, D., Benoit, P. J., Houston, J., Purifoy, G., VanHyfte, V., & Wardell, C. (1999). Naive theories of argument: Avoiding interpersonal arguments or cutting them short. Argumentation and Advocacy, 35, 130-139.

Benoit, P. J. (1997). Telling the success story: Acclaiming and disclaiming discourse. Albany: State University of New York Press.