Education

MA in Bioethics

University of Pittsburgh

PhD in Communication

University of Pittsburgh

MA in Communication

University of Pittsburgh

BA in Philosophy and Communication

Regis University

Published Works

Foust, C., Rief, J., Varela, M. E. (). Between Debate and Dialogue: Performing Democratic Life Across the Curriculum. Rief, J. J., Schrader, J. B. (2024). Debating About, Against, and With ChatGPT: Redesigning Academic Debate Pedagogy for the World of Generative Artificial Intelligence. (pp 87-105). IGI Global. Cummings, J. K., Rief, J. (2023). Health Praxis in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Diagnostics, Caregiving, and the Role(s) of Healthcare Practitioners. (pp 103-131). Bristol University Press. Rief, J. (2022). Historical vs. Ahistorical Narratives of The Pandemic: The Discordant Rhetoric of Our Unprecedented Times. (pp 83-108). Lexington Books. Rief, J. (2022). Using debate as a tool to augment learning across the curriculum. , https://www.msudenver.edu/early-bird/using-debate-as-a-tool-to-augment-learning-across-the-curriculum/ Rief, J., Schrader, J. B. (2021). Reconciling Playing the Game with Civic Education in Intercollegiate Academic Debate. Rief, J. (2021). Post-Pandemic Pedagogy in Intercollegiate Academic Debate: Performing Civic Life in Hybrid, Virtual, and In-Person Environments. (pp 239-257). Lexington Books. Rief, J. (2021). Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field (edited by Lisa Melonçon, S. Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, John A. Lynch, and Cynthia Ryan). Quarterly Journal of Speech, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00335630.2021.1980946 Errera, D., Rief, J. J. (2021, March). Featuring Performance in Intercollegiate Academic Debate Pedagogy and Practice. Routledge. Rief, J., Wilson, R. (2020). Community-Based Participatory Debate: A Synthesis of Debate Pedagogy, Practice, and Research. Routledge. Rief, J. J. (2018). Stephen Toulmin: Theory and Practice. Peter Lang, Rief, J. J. (2018). (Re)Designing the Debate Tournament for Civic Life. Speaker & Gavel, 55(1), 36-58. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/speaker-gavel/vol55/iss1/3/. Rief, J. J., Hamm, E. M., Zickmund, L. S., Nikolajski, C., Lesky, D., Hess, R., Fischer, S. G., Weimer, M., Clark, S., Zieth, C., Roberts, S. M. (2017). Using Health Information Technology to Foster Engagement: Patients’ Experiences with an Active Patient Health Record. , 32(3), 310-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2016.1138378. Schrader, J. B., Rief, J. J., Brigham, P. M. (2015). Opposing the Already Oppositional: The WBC, Counter-Protests, and the Limits of Controversy. Routledge. Rief, J. J. (2014). Building the Case for an ‘Architectonic’ Function of Rhetoric in Health Services Research. POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention, 10(1), 1-9. https://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol10/iss1/9/. Rief, J. J. (2013). What Are Stem Cells: Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics, by John Lynch (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2011). Quarterly Journal of Speech, https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2013.835963 Rief, J. J., Mitchell, R. G., Zickmund, L. S., Bhargava, D. T., Bryce, L. C., Fischer, S. G., Hess, R., Kolb, R. N., Silverman, R. L., McTigue, M. K. (2013). Promoting Patient Phronesis: Communication Patterns in an Online Lifestyle Program Coordinated with Primary Care. Health Education & Behavior, 40(3), 311-322. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1090198112452863. Schrader, J. B., Rief, J. (2012). Between Free Speech and Public Debate: An Analysis of Snyder v. Phelps. National Communication Association. Rief, J. J. (2012). Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research, by Lisa Keränen (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012). Rhetoric Society Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2012.707964 Rief, J. J. (2011). Bioethics in the Age of New Media, by Joanna Zylinska (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2009). JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, & Politics, Rountree, K. A., Dorsten, A., Rief, J. J. (2011). Improving Patient Activation in Crisis and Chronic Care through Rhetorical Approaches to New Media Technologies. POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention, 7(1), 1-13. https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1081&context=poroi. Rief, J., Brigham, P. M. (2011). Moral disagreements and pernicious pragmatism: Pluralism, value argumentation, and the U.S. health care debate. Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. Rief, J. J. (2011). Widening Applications of Phronesis in the Clinic and Beyond: Patients as Decision Makers. Rozenburg/Sic Sat. Rief, J., Cummings, K. (2010). The Many Sides of ‘Switch-Sides Debate’: Perspective Taking and the Limits of Liberal-Deliberative Practice. National Communication Association. Mitchell, R. G., Woods, S. C., Brigham, M., English, E., Morrison, E. C., Rief, J. J. (2010). The Debate Authors Working Group Model for Collaborative Knowledge Production in Forensics Scholarship. Argumentation and Advocacy, 47-24. file:///Users/jrief1/Downloads/DAWG.pdf. Rief, J. J. (2009). A Good Death: Dignity-Based Argumentation at the End of Life. Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. Cummings, K., Rief, J. (2009). Seductive Appeals: Eroticism and Sexual Harassment in Academic Debate (#47). Semiotic Society of America. Rief, J. J. (2007). Talking at Cross Purposes: Violating Higher-Order Conditions with Oppositional Arguments. Sic Sat / International Center for the Study of Argumentation. English, E., Llano, S., Mitchell, R. G., Morrison, E. C., Rief, J. J., Woods, C. (2007). Debate as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (Forum Piece). Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 4(2), 221-225. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420701296646. Woods, C., Brigham, M., Heavner, B., Konishi, T., Rief, J. J., Saindon, B., Mitchell, R. G. (2006). Deliberating Debate's Digital Futures (Forum Piece). Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, 271-105. https://www.pitt.edu/~gordonm/JPubs/Woodsetal2006.pdf. Rief, J., Cummings, J. K., Cummings, J. (2005). Inclusion in Parliamentary Debate: A Critique of the Logic of Abstraction. National Communication Association.