AARON T. PHILLIPS portrait
  • Associate Professor (Lecturer), Management Department
801-581-5144

Research Statement

 

I seek to investigate how we communicate about the environment and how literate practices, particularly in written communication, are shaped by technology. 

Communication about the environment: my research focuses on the ways in whch language as a social practice shapes behavior, particularly decisions, about the management of natural resources. This interest extends across agency types, from federal land management agencies, to state wildlife agencies, to commercial and private outdoor recreation providers. 

Literate practices and technology: my research in this area considers, broadly, the nature of mediated experience and learning/literacy. How do we interact productively in high-context experiential teaching/learning situations such as field-based courses? What technologies are at play in such interactions? Alternatively, how do technological tools that mediate experience affect literate practices, particularly those involved in writing? 

Presentations

  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS (2023) Reaching Out: Building Communication Resilience Through Intentional Extraversion . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/07/2023.
  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS (2023) Effective Leadership Through Outstanding Communication . Other, Presented, 04/27/2023.
  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS (2023) Balancing Respect and Realism in Employee Evaluations. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 02/16/2023.
  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS (2022) Compassion and Creativity in Crisis Communication: Learning From The Flint Water Crisis . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/07/2022.
  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS (2021) Making the Visceral Visual in Wildlife Management and Decision Making. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/17/2021.
  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS (2020) Harnessing Cognitive Lightning to Create On-the-Fly Green Marketing. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/29/2020.
  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS (2018) Building Ecologies and Voices of Change Leadership: Reframing the Systems of Property, Capital, and Language in Business Education. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 01/01/2018.
  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS (2017) Power to People and Planet: Market Manias as Profanely Rhetorical. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/15/2017.
  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS (2017) Accusatory Locality and The Armed Occupation of Facts: Competing Legal Theories in the Malheur Case. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/01/2017.
  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS, & Jennifer Cummings Kate Canas. (2017) Developing & Revising the Online & Hybrid Classroom. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/30/2017.
  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS (2017) Teaching Communication with Technology: Is AI the new TA or the new you? . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/30/2017.
  • AARON THOMAS PHILLIPS (2017) The Discursive Silencing of Scientific Progress in Decision making: A Case Study in Wildlife Management. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 02/20/2017.
  • Aaron T. Phillips (2015) Convergence, Coexistence and Conflict: Innovations and Perturbations in Wildlife Management. Western States Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 11/03/2015.
  • Aaron T. Phillips (2015) It’s the Audience (or Is It?): Framing Writing Success in the Business Communication Context. Association for Business Communication Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. October 31, 2015. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/31/2015.
  • Aaron T. Phillips (2015) Vernacular Eco-Logic v. the Technosocial Construction of Ecology: When the ‘Best Available Science’ is Citizen Science. Conference on Communication and the Environment. Boulder, CO. June 13, 2015. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/13/2015.
  • Aaron T. Phillips (2015) Gonzo Comedy and Environmental Literacy: The Performance of Crisis Through Spectacle on The Daily Show. Conference on Communication and the Environment. Boulder, CO. June 13, 2015. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/13/2015.

Publications

  • Phillips, A.T. (2015). Bordering Ecosystems: The Rhetorical Function of Characterization in Gray Wolf Management. Published online March 17, 2015; print publication forthcoming. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2015.1018837. Accepted, 12/09/2014.
  • Phillips, A.T. (2015) Eliding Extraction, Embracing Novelty: The Spatio-Temporal Configuration of Natural History. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 8(4), 452-467. DOI:10.1080/17524032.2014.919331. Discipline based - refereed, Published, 01/01/2015.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/17524...
  • Phillips, A. T. (2012). Climate Change: Scepticism [sic] versus Objectivity? Science As Culture, 21(4), 607-610. DOI:10.1080/09505431.2012.706276. Published, 03/12/2012.
  • Aaron T. Phillips (2023). Reaching Out: Building Communication Resilience Through Intentional Extraversion. Business & Professional Communication Quarterly. Teaching - refereed, Accepted, 12/09/2023.
  • Aaron T. Phillips (2023). Compassion and Creativity in Crisis Communication: Learning From the Flint Water Crisis. Business & Professional Communication Quarterly. Vol. 86(3), 389-391. Teaching - refereed, Published, 05/16/2023.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906231170806
  • Kirschbaum, M. & Phillips, A.T. & Phillips, A.T. (2020). Enhancing Curriculum to Facilitate Student Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Symbiosis eXpress IntlEd. Vol. 1, 30-34. Teaching - other, Published, 10/27/2020.
    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVCA3XcZ...
  • Aaron T. Phillips (2018). Bordering Ecosystems: The Rhetorical Function of Characterization in Gray Wolf Management. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. Vol. 11, 435-451. Discipline based - refereed, Published, 03/08/2018.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/175240...
  • Aaron T. Phillips (2015). “Deep Impressions”: The Promise and Possibilities of Intercultural Experiential Learning for Environmental Literacy and Language Attitudes.. Routledge. Teaching - refereed, Accepted, 12/23/2015.
  • Aaron T. Phillips (2015). Wild Horse Annie Rides on Washington: Mythical Characterization in Newspaper Coverage of Wild Horse Advocac. American Journalism. Vol. 33, 1-18. Discipline based - refereed, Accepted, 12/01/2015.