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Michelle L. Kelsey is the Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication at Purdue Fort Wayne. Dr. Kelsey does research and teaches about rhetoric, identity, social controversy, with a specific eye towards feminist, queer, and critical race theorizing and practice. Dr. Kelsey is currently working on a book about the public use of the Civil Rights Movement as a tool to punish or reward contemporary movements for their diligence to the civil rights movement model. Dr. Kelsey is honored to be an affiliated faculty member in the Women's Studies program, on the academic board of the Institute for Holocaust and Genocidal Studies, and the Peace and Conflict Studies advisory board.