Dr. John Sloop was recently named the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at a ceremony led by Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost Cybele Raver. Dr. Sloop was just one of two recipients from the College of Arts and Science to receive this distinction. It is also the first time that a faculty member from the Department of Communication Studies has been recognized with such an honor. You can read more about the ceremony here.
Professor Sloop is the author of several books including, most recently, Soccer’s Neoliberal Pitch: The Sport’s Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics. He is also the author of Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary Culture, Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California’s Proposition187 with Kent Ono, and The Cultural Prison: Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment. He is also the editor of two collections, Judgement Calls: Rhetoric, Politics, and Indeterminacy and Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory. Professor Sloop was also the editor of the communication studies journal Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies from 2007-2009.
Professor Sloop received his B.S. in Media/Advertising from Appalachian State University in 1985 and worked the following year at a full service marketing firm in Chapel Hill, NC. From 1986-1988, he worked on his Master’s in Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. From 1988-1992, he was at the University of Iowa, where he received his Ph.D. in Communication Studies. After a three year teaching assignment at Drake University in the Dept. of Rhetoric and Communication Studies, he began his current position at Vanderbilt.
Congrats to Professor Sloop!