Haig Bosmajian

Haig Aram Bosmajian (March 26, 1928- June 17, 2014) was an author, lecturer, and professor, who received the 1983 Orwell Award for his book The Language of Oppression (1974).[1][2] Haig Bosmajian received a PhD in 1960 from Stanford University. His work has explored rhetoric and the freedom of speech.[2] Bosmajian was professor emeritus at the University of Washington,[3] in the Speech/Communications Department, where he taught since 1965. He was married for 57 years to Hamida Bosmajian, also a published author and a professor at nearby Seattle University.[2][3]

Haig and Hamida Bosmajian wrote the textbook, The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement (1969), which has been published as a student textbook to analyze strategies of rhetoric. [4]

Works

Selected works by Haig Bosmajian include:

Notes

  1. ↑ "Haig Bosmajian Obituary". The Seattle Times. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Haig Bosmajian", Sheftman.com, September 1999, webpage: Sheftman-Basma.
  3. 1 2 "Department of Communication at the Univ. of Washington - News", University of Washington, August 2005, webpage: UW-Bos
  4. ↑ "CCR 751 Richardson & Jackson: African American Rhetoric(s)", Jacqueline Jones Royster, October 2007, webpage: Wordpress-CCR-751.
  5. ↑ Bosmajian, Haig A. (2010). Anita Whitney, Louis Brandeis, and the First Amendment. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 150.

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