Roger Aden

Roger C. Aden is a Charles E. Zumkehr Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. His research asks questions that explore how we engage the past through historical storytelling. He is the co-editor (with Patricia Davis) of Black Landscapes of Memory: Sites of Remembrance and Resistance (Routledge, 2027), editor of U.S. Public Memory, Rhetoric, Nationhood, and the National Mall (Lexington, 2018) as well as Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories (Lexington, 2018). He is the author of five other books—In Relief: Commemorative Acknowledgements at Sites of Historical Injustice in the U.S. (forthcoming, McFarland); Childhood Memory Spaces: How Enduring Memories of Childhood Places Shape Our Lives (Peter Lang, 2018); Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President’s House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory (Temple, 2015); Huskerville: A Story of Nebraska Football, Fans, and the Power of Place (McFarland, 2008); and Popular Stories & Promised Lands: Fan Cultures & Symbolic Pilgrimages (Alabama, 1999)—and numerous articles in academic journals.

View Roger Aden's current work, under the auspices of the Charles E. Zumkehr Professorship