Blog Contributor: Kaitlyn Haynal

Kaitlyn Haynal is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Communication and Team Science with the Maine-eDNA Project at the University of Maine. Her research interests include rhetoric of place/space, civic engagement, and urban planning. Her dissertation, Civic Spaces: Rhetoric of Pittsburgh’s Parks System, examines how civic leaders use green rhetoric to imagine the future of significant social, ecological, and political concerns by tracing industrial changes through the City of Pittsburgh’s regional parks system. The latest publication from this project can be found in the edited collection, Urban Communication Reader IV: Cities as Communicative Change Agents.

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ECD Blog Posts

Book review of Justin Mando's Fracking and the Rhetoric of Place (2021)

Greening Industry: Public Park Land and Urban Imaginaries