Christopher Peace

Assistant Teaching Professor of Business Communication

Tepper School of Business

BIO

Dr. Christopher Peace is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Business Communications at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining CMU, he was a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Pedagogically, his current practice aims to build on students' rhetorical audience awareness of professional genres, intercultural rhetorics, sustainability, and effective writing strategies for communicating to multiple audiences. His personal research interests include writing with autoethnographic and biographic methodologies that examine the professional identity formation within African American esotericism, Hoodoo, and transpersonal communication. He serves on the Academics committee for the ZORA! Festival of the Arts and Humanities.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Teaching Professor of Business Communications
    Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1 Aug 2024 - present

DEGREES

  • Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric and Composition)
    University of Kansas, United StatesMay 2022
  • MA in English (Literature)
    Jackson State University, Jackson, United StatesMay 2016
  • BA in English (Writing)
    Mississippi College, Clinton, United StatesMay 2012

CERTIFICATIONS

  • TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
    Mississippi College, Clinton, United States10 May 2011 - present

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States16 Aug 2022 - 6 Aug 2024
    Technical CommunicationPostdoctoral FellowshipSupervised by Frazee AF

CAMPUS

  • Pittsburgh

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