Samuel Perry, Ph.D.

Dr. Samuel Perry is a tenured faculty member in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. He began his appointment in 2011. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Georgia State University. 

Over the past six years, Dr. Perry has taught courses in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, the Department of Communication, and the Educational Leadership PhD program in the School of Education. His primary teaching responsibility is BIC 1313 and 1323, World of Rhetoric I & II. He also serves as the coordinator for this course along with Dr. Sarah Walden, which involves scheduling and staffing around 12 sections of the course every semester. He has also taught Social World I & II in the BIC, as well as team teaching a capstone course with Dr. Davide Zori. In the Communication Department he has taught the Introduction to Speaking for Business and Professional CSS 1302, as well as a range of MA level graduate courses on Rhetorical Theory, Rhetorical Criticism, and Rhetoric and Social Movements. He has served on and chaired multiple MA theses for students in the Communication Department.  He has also taught the Leadership and Persuasion class in the Educational Leadership PhD program. He has served and continues to serve as the outside reader on dissertations for students who took this course from him and other students who are looking at the intersections civil rights and educational policy in the state of Texas.

Dr. Perry's research over the last six years focused on race and racism in the United States with a particular focus on rhetorics of race and religion. His work has looked the ways in which conspiracy theories have taken hold on the Christian Right and how the progression of Christian Nationalism into the mainstream of conservative politics operates on a rhetorical level. 

• One Monograph (Print November 2019, electronic edition 2020)
• 1 journal article
• 1 chapter edited volume
• 4 popular press/public facing articles (3 in The Conversation; 1- Liberty Magazine)
• 1 Grant Rappaport Foundation with Dr. Scott Varda and Dr. Leslie Hahner- $50,000
• 1 Grant- Teagle Foundation Knowledge for Freedom planning grant- $25,000
• 1 Grant- Teagle Foundation Knowledge for Freedom implementation grant- $295,000
• 3 podcast guest appearances.

Additionally, he regularly reviews for the top journals in his field to include Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Southern Communication Journal. He reviews an ad hoc basis for numerous other journals. He participates in Honors College thesis projects. He has served on the faculty senate since 2020 and served on the Executive Committee for 2 years, serving as Secretary for the Senate 1 of those years. He's involved with the Community Race Relations Coalition and regularly volunteers at Lake Air Montessori Magnet Schoo,l where his daughters attend school and where his son will start next year.