Amardo Rodriguez (Ph.D., Howard University) is a Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. His research and teaching interests explore the potentiality of emergent conceptions of communication that foreground moral, existential, and spiritual assumptions about the human condition to redefine and enlarge current understandings of democracy, diversity, and community. Publications include articles in Journal of Intercultural Communication, Journal of Intergroup Relations, Journal of Religion and Society, Qualitativ...