{"id":7429,"date":"2025-06-05T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:12:56","slug":"davis-receives-book-honor-from-rhetoric-society-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/05\/davis-receives-book-honor-from-rhetoric-society-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis receives book honor from Rhetoric Society of America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Jade E. Davis, associate university librarian for Teaching, Learning, and Research at the University of Iowa, was selected as the recipient of the Rhetoric Society of America\u2019s 2025 Book Award. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/the-other-side-of-empathy\"><em>The Other Side of Empathy\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>(Duke University Press, 2023), <\/em>Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/06\/Jade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/06\/Jade.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Jade E. Davis\" class=\"wp-image-7430\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/06\/Jade.jpg 722w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/06\/Jade-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jade E. Davis, associate university librarian for Teaching, Learning, and Research at the University of Iowa Libraries<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The RSA gives a Book Award each year to recognize an exemplary work in rhetorical studies\u2014broadly construed\u2014published by a Society member in the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The selection committee reviewed more than 40 books and shared that, \u201cIn the book, Davis complicates empathy and encourages us to be expansive in our thinking about what empathy does across many contexts. The book clearly, thoughtfully, and richly contributes to rhetorical studies, Black studies, and disability studies, and demonstrates a mastery of rhetorical, cultural, and humanistic theory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davis officially received her award during the RSA Institute in June 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jade E. Davis, associate university librarian for Teaching, Learning, and Research at the University of Iowa, was selected as the recipient of the Rhetoric Society of America\u2019s 2025 Book Award. In The Other Side of Empathy\u00a0(Duke University Press, 2023), Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool.\u00a0 The RSA gives a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/05\/davis-receives-book-honor-from-rhetoric-society-of-america\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Davis receives book honor from Rhetoric Society of America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":7430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"syndication":[33,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=7429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}