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College of Arts and Humanities

Brian Cozen

Associate Professor

Communication | 559.278.5296 | Office: Speech Arts 35

bcozen@csufresno.edu

Education

  • University of Utah – PhD, Communication, 2015
  • University of Washington – MA, Communication, 2009
  • University of California, Berkeley – BA, Sociology, 2006

Courses Taught

  • Environmental Communication (graduate and undergraduate)
  • Rhetorical Theory (graduate and undergraduate)
  • Communication Criticism
  • American Public Address
  • Persuasion
Dr. Cozen joined the Department of Communication in 2017, after teaching at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Cozen’s research examines how communication mediates human-environment relationships, particularly in relation to energy practice. This research focus ranges from analyzing the television show Revolution and its collaboration with the United Nations’ energy access campaigns to interviews with nuclear energy professionals. His work can be found in such journals as Argumentation and Advocacy, Communication Theory, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Environmental Communication, and in such edited books as the Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy. Dr. Cozen teaches courses in environmental communication and rhetoric, and especially enjoys teaching pressing ecological issues in his home state of California.
Environmental Communication; Rhetorical Theory & Criticism; Energy Communication; Mobility Studies; Participatory Critical Rhetoric
Recent publications:
  • Cozen, B. (2022). The premise and the promise: Energy poverty, capabilities, and the language of moral commitments. In A. M. Feldpausch-Parker, D. Endres, T. R. Peterson, & S. L. Gomez (Eds.), Routledge handbook of energy democracy (pp. 105-118). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Energy-Democracy/Feldpausch-Parker-Endres-Peterson-Gomez/p/book/9781138392250
  • Cozen, B. (2018). Stabilizing energies: Intersections between energy promotion texts and rhetorical theory. In B. McGreavy, J. Wells, G. F. McHendry, & S. Senda-Cook (Eds.), Tracing rhetoric and material life: Ecological approaches (pp. 348 – 379). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Cozen, B., Endres, D., Peterson, T. R., Horton, C., & Barnett, J. T. (2018). Energy communication: Theory and praxis toward a sustainable energy future. Environmental Communication, 12(3), 289 – 294. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2017.1398176
  • Cozen, B. (2017). Facting fiction: Revolution, the United Nations, and cultural politics of electricity. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 34(4), 329 – 343. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2017.1325510