NATASHA SEEGERT portrait
  • Department of Communication Honors Liaison, Communication
  • Director of Conflict Resolution Program, Communication
  • Interim Director of the Bachelor of University Studies, Undergraduate Studies
  • Associate Professor (Lecturer), Communication
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Research Summary

Natasha Seegert focuses on dialogue and conflict, argumentation, community engagement, and environmental communication. In her work on dialogue and conflict, she cultivates curiosity and complexity as an antidote to uninformed certainty and toxic caricatures which dominate public discourse. Her environmental work explores the intersections and relationships between the human animal, and the more-than-human animals as represented in media.

Education

  • PhD, Department of Communication, University of Utah. Project: Queer Beasts: Punctures in Domesticity
  • MS, Environmental Education, Department of Teaching & Learning, University of Utah. Project: Fostering the Experience of the Ecological Self in Elementary School Children
  • BS, Environmental Studies (emphasis in Environmental History) , University of Utah. Project: The Jordan: From Sacred River to Sewage Canal

Biography

Natasha Seegert is an Associate Professor, Lecturer, in the Department of Communication where she currently directs the Conflict Resolution Program. She teaches courses focused on dialogue and conflict, argumentation, community engagement, visual rhetoric, and environmental communication. In her work on dialogue and conflict, she cultivates curiosity and complexity as an antidote to uninformed certainty and toxic caricatures which dominate public discourse. In the process, she tries to provide a pathway for individuals to regain their sense of humility and increase their resilience to polarization.
 
Dr. Seegert’s environmental research explores the intersections and relationships between human animals and the multitude of more-than-human animals who puncture our everyday worlds through appearances on the digital screen.