Obituaries

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10/10/2023

Professor Peter Mack FBA (1955-2023)

ISHR mourns the sudden passing of former Rhetorica editor and friend to many in the Society Peter Mack, on Thursday October 5, 2023

10/09/2023

Professor John O Ward (1940-2023)

09/20/2022

ISHR mourns the death of George Kennedy

01/25/2022

ISHR - Carol Poster

Carol Poster, long time member of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, died of colon cancer at the age of 65 on October 22, 2021.

12/26/2021

ISHR - Dr. James J. Murphy

With great sadness I inform you of the passing of James J. - Jerry - Murphy in the morning of 24 December, at the age of 98. Jerry’s name is a household word for several generations of scholars in the history of rhetoric, and he was a dear friend of many of them.

01/25/2021

ISHR - Dr. Alan Rosiene

06/28/2020

ISHR - Professor Marc Fumaroli

08/25/2019

ISHR Mourns the loss of Dr. Christoph Leidl

06/19/2017

Dr. Jan Swearingen

12/22/2014

Sándor Áron Kibédi Varga