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Faculty Book on Israeli-Palestine Conflict
Wins National Prize
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David A. Frank, a professor of rhetoric in the University of Oregon’s Robert D. Clark Honors College, and co-author Robert Rowland of the University of Kansas have won the first biennial $10,000 Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism for their book, Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use (Michigan State University Press, 2002).
In their acclaimed book, Frank and Rowland emphasize that rhetoric, ideology, and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the 100-year-long conflict. They argue that the conflict is not just about issues of land and water in what is now Israel, but is also about deeply entrenched symbols—speeches, stories, collective memories, bedrock beliefs and crippling distortions—all existing in three symbolic systems.
The prize-winning book grew out of Frank’s work with the Carlton Raymond and Wilberta Ripley Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace Committee. That UO panel awarded him an $80,000 grant to create a program that brought scholars to campus to examine the Palestinian- Israeli conflict and spark dialogue among UO faculty on the issue.
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