Ellen W. Gorsevski

Ellen W. Gorsevski (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication within the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University (BGSU).

She is affiliated with BGSU's Women's, Gender, and Critical and Cultural Studies programs and the undergraduate minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. Dr. Gorsevski researches and teaches about contemporary peacebuilding rhetoric and communication, featuring political, social and environmental advocacy for peace and justice. Her research highlights rhetorical records of diverse activists in sociopolitical and environmental justice movements.

Dr. Gorsevski's articles analyzing the discourse and leadership communication of nonviolent activists for social, political and environmental justice have appeared in Quarterly Journal of Speech; Western Journal of Communication; Journal of Communication and Religion; and Environmental Communication.

Her books include: Peaceful Persuasion: The Geopolitics of Nonviolent Rhetoric (SUNY Press, 2004), and Dangerous Women: The Rhetoric of the Women Nobel Peace Laureates (Troubador Publishing, Ltd., 2014); and Writing Successful Grant Proposals (Sense Publishers, 2015).