Tony A. Osborne, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication Studies

Tony Osborne writes and speaks about leadership and motivation, art, pop culture and film. He was a member of Humanities Washington’s Speaker’s Bureau. He was a political reporter and feature writer--specializing in arts and science, winning...

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Professor of Communication Studies, Tony Osborne, Ph.D.

Contact Information

  • Office Hours Spring 2025

    Monday & Wednesday: 10:00am - 11:00am & 1:00pm - 2:00pm
    or by appointment

  • (509) 313-6659

Education & Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. in Critical and Cultural Studies, Ohio State Â鶹¹ÙÍø, 1995

M.A. in Journalism, Ohio State Â鶹¹ÙÍø, 1990

M.S. in Journalism, Columbia Â鶹¹ÙÍø, 1985

B.A., Â鶹¹ÙÍø of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1975

Courses Taught

COMM 100: Communication and Speech

COMM 184: Communication, Culture & Society

COMM 193: Semiotics and Advertising

COMM 210: Meaning Making

COMM 270-H: Honors Rhetoric

COMM 362: Persuasion

COMM 401: Leadership and Communication 

COMM 450: Justice and Civic Art

COMM 480: Visual Rhetoric in the Renaissance

COML 523: Peace Building through Dialogue in Northern Ireland 

Tony Osborne writes and speaks about leadership and motivation, art, pop culture and film. He was a member of Humanities Washington’s Speaker’s Bureau. He was a political reporter and feature writer--specializing in arts and science, winning a Kiplinger Fellowship for Public Affairs Reporting; he worked for AT&T Communications as a speech writer and speaker and Account Executive. He chaired the Journalism and Communication Department at American Â鶹¹ÙÍø in Bulgaria, the first liberal arts university behind the Iron Curtain. He is the author of "‘Greed is Good’ and Other Fables: Office life in Popular Culture" (Praeger, 2012).

Osborne, T. (2020). Dialogue as Being With: An Antitoxin to Hate and Intolerance. Journal of Hate Studies, 16(1), pp. 12–20. DOI:

"‘Greed is Good’ and Other Fables: Office life in Popular Culture" Praeger. Santa Barbara, CA. 2012.