Rebecca Walton
(she/her/hers)
Communication & Media
Executive Associate Dean & Professor
Contact Information
Phone: +1 435 797 0289Email: rebecca.walton@usu.edu
Biography
Rebecca Walton is the Executive Associate Dean for the College of Arts & Sciences at Utah State University and a professor of technical communication and rhetoric in the Department of Communication and Media. Walton researches how people intervene for justice in their workplaces. Her co-authored scholarship has won multiple national awards, including awards for best book, best theory article, and best empirical research article. Her research has informed implicit bias training, policy revision, and curriculum development at multiple universities, and her leadership experience includes external program review, journal editorship, and academic program design at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Select Publications
Walton, R. (2025). Journal editing to shift disciplinarity towards justice. In L. Gonzales, N. N. Jones, and A. Haas (Eds.), Routledge handbook of social justice in technical & professional communication. New York: Routledge.
Alexander, J., Anabire, D., & Walton, R. (2025). Pedagogical approaches to normalize inclusive design. In J. Jiang and J. Tham (Eds.), Designing for social justice: Community-engaged approaches in technical and professional communication (pp. 292-308). New York: Routledge.
Anabire, D., Alexander, J., & Walton, R. (2024, October). Approaching AI through a social justice lens: Considerations for graduate program applications. In Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication. Association for Computing Machinery.