Michael P. Graves manuscripts

Michael P. Graves is a professor of digital media & communication arts at Liberty University. He began serving as a faculty member of the department of digital media & communication arts in the fall of 2004. He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in speech communication at California State University at Los Angeles and his Ph.D. in speech communication at the University of Southern California in 1972.

Graves has taught at Azusa Pacific University; George Fox University, where he chaired the Division of Communication and Literature; and Regent University, where he served as department chair and associate dean for academics in the School of Communication and the Arts and directed more than 20 doctoral dissertations, three of which won national awards.

Graves has served as the President of the Religious Communication Association and serves on the Executive Committee of the American Culture Association in the South. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Communication and Religion and on the international advisory board of the journal Quaker Studies. Graves has served as blind reviewer for Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journal of Communication and Religion, Quaker Studies, Rhetorica, Rhetoric and Public Affairs and Western Journal of Speech Communication.

Dr. Graves has published more than 30 essays and reviews in scholarly journals and was the first American to present the annual George Richardson Lecture to the annual meeting of the Quaker Studies Research Association in Birmingham, England. He is married to Dr. Darlene Graves, who is also professor of ditital media & communication arts at Liberty University. They reside in Forest, Virginia, and have two children, Monica and Aaron.