Rob Margesson

Margesson started his journey as a Communication scholar early in his college career. As a first-year student he took a public speaking class and at the end of the semester my instructor suggested he join the debate team. Margesson attended his first debate practice and knew he had found my home. With the debate team housed in the communication department, he found himself drawn to the discipline and declared his major right away. His undergraduate debate career led to an offer from Colorado State University where he was introduced to the study of rhetoric. He transitioned from Colorado State University to the University of Denver at which he learned the relationship between the study of rhetoric and ethics.

Much of Margesson's time at Regis University was spent on running an internationally competitive debate program and working with debate educators in the Szechuan Province in China. Having stepped down as Director of debate, he returned to his primary research interest, faculty speech rights and academic freedom in the Internet age. He also studies and writes about critical pedagogy and the writings of Paulo Friere, bell hooks and Henry Giroux.