Jeffrey A. Bennett

Jeffrey A. Bennett is Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Bennett received a B.A. in Speech Communication from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, in 1996; an M.A. in Communication Studies from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, in 1998; and a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, in 2004. His research tends to focus on two primary areas of study: the rhetoric of health and medicine and LGBTQ studies. His most recent research project focused on the rhetoric of diabetes management in his book, *Managing Diabetes: The Cultural Politics of Disease*. He is also the author of *Banning Queer Blood: Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance*, which scrutinizes the federal donor deferral policy that prevents men who have sex with men from donating blood. Source: [Vanderbilt University](https://as.vanderbilt.edu/communication-studies/bio/jeff-bennett/)