Roger Aden, Ph.D.
Roger C. Aden (PhD, MA, and BJ, University of Nebraska) is a Charles E. Zumkehr Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. His research integrates rhetorical and qualitative methods of research to examine the meanings of places as they are rhetorically constructed and interpreted. He is the editor of U.S. Public Memory, Rhetoric, Nationhood, and the National Mall as well as Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories. He is the author of four other books—Childhood Memory Spaces: How Enduring Memories of Childhood Places Shape Our Lives; Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President’s House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory; Huskerville: A Story of Nebraska Football, Fans, and the Power of Place; and Popular Stories & Promised Lands: Fan Cultures & Symbolic Pilgrimages—and numerous articles in academic journals that examine the relationships between memory and place.
My current work, under the auspices of the Charles E. Zumkehr Professorship, can be found here: https://www.ohio.edu/scripps-college/faculty-staff/zumkehr-projects