William D. Harpine

William D. Harpine is Professor of Communication Emeritus at the University of South Carolina Aiken, where he taught communication for 12 years and served as department chair for 9 years. He was previously on the faculties of the University of Akron, the College of William and Mary in Virginia, and Iowa State University. He holds a Ph.D. in speech communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. William D. Harpine has contributed articles to scholarly journals in communication, and is a past member of the Legislative Assembly of the National Communication Association and a past Chair of the Argumentation and Forensics Division of the National Communication Association. He has also held office in the Association for Communication Administration. He plays classical guitar.