Ekaterina Haskins is professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Visual Studies at Penn State. Her research and teaching encompass rhetorical theory and history, public memory, and visual culture.  She is the author of three monographs, including Popular Memories: Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship (U of South Carolina Press, 2015) and Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror: Appeals to Family Memory in Putin's Russia (Penn State Press, 2024). Her recent scholarship investigates the rhetoric and politics of public memory in Russia and post-Soviet countries.  Haskins is a recipient of multiple awards, including the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association (2018) and the Everett Lee Hunt Award from the Eastern Communication Association (2005) for her book Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle.