Experience.
More detailed descriptions of Cheyenne's service experiences can be found on the downloadable version of their CV found on the home page.
1
Teaching
The Pennsylvania State University:
CAS 100A - Basic Public Speaking - Instructor of Record (Summer '22, Summer '23, Summer '24, Summer '25)
CAS 100D - Public Speaking for Speech Apprehension - Trainee (Fall '23)
CAS 426W - Communication Ethics - Instructor of Record (Fall '23)
CAS 311 - Rhetorical Criticism - TA (Fall '22)
Villanova University:
COM 3390 - Postcolonial Approaches to Communication - TA (Spring '20, Spring '21)
COM 3341 - Gender and Film - TA (Fall '19)
COM 3290 - Honors Rhetoric: Culture and Power - TA (Fall '19)
2
Departmental Service
The Pennsylvania State University:
Committee Member, Promoting Career Success for Graduate Students Strategic Planning Committee ('24-'25)
President, Communication Arts & Sciences Graduate Forum ('23-'24)
Advisory Committee Representative, Communication Arts & Sciences Graduate Forum ('23-'24)
President, Arnold-Ebbitt Interdisciplinary Rhetoricians ('22-'23)
Villanova University:
Board Member, Communication Graduate Student Council ('20-'21)
3
Disciplinary Service
Reviewer:
Convention Submissions (NCA) - Kenneth Burke Divison ('21); Visual Communication Division ('21, '22, '23, '24); GLBTQ+ Division ('23, '24); Ethnography Divison ('23, '24); Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division ('24)
Manuscript Submissions - Journal of Loss and Trauma ('24); Death Studies ('24)
Division:
Vice Chair and Program Planner - Death and Dying Division ('25)
Vice Chair-Elect - Death and Dying Division ('24)
Voting Member, Nominating Committee - National Communication Association ('24)
Founding Member - Death and Dying Division ('23)
Strategic Planning Manager - Death, Dying, and End-of-Life Communication Scholars ('22-'24)
Graduate Student Representative and Volunteer Coordinator - Death, Dying, and End-of-Life Communication Scholars ('21-'23)
Web Team Member - Death, Dying, and End-of-Life Communication Scholars ('21-'24)
4
Grants and Awards
Disciplinary
Nichols-Eningers Award for Top Student Paper in Rhetorical Communication and Theory Division, National Communication Association: "Grieve Not for the Gay Bar: Death, Space, and the Rhetorical Formation of the Queer Subject in Emerging Queer Geographies" ('24)
The Pennsylvania State University:
RGSO Dissertation Support Funding and Teaching Release - $17,000 (Spring '25)
Carroll C. Arnold Award for Excellence in Research by a Graduate Student ('24)
STAR - Superior Teaching and Research Award - $3,000 grant ('24)
Sparks Fellowship - $16,000 fellowship (Spring '24)
Graduate School Fellowship - teaching release, $30,000 fellowship ('21-'22)
Villanova University:
Graduate Summer Research Fellowship - $3,000 grant ('20)