Rebecca Walton: Technical Communication Curriculum After the Social Justice Turn

Rebecca Walton is the executive associate dean for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University and a professor of technical communication and rhetoric in the Department of English. Walton researches how people intervene for justice in their workplaces. Her co-authored scholarship has won multiple national awards, including awards for best book, best theory article and best empirical research article. Her research has informed implicit bias training, policy revision and curriculum development at multiple universities, and her leadership experience includes external program review, journal editorship and program redesign at the undergraduate and graduate levels.