Transnational Assemblages: Social Justice and Crisis Communication During Disaster. FREE PDF DOWNLOAD or ORDER Hard Copy via Amazon

Winner of CCCCs 2026 Advancement of Knowledge – Honorable Mention award.

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This book demonstrates how local knowledge and transcultural practices of recognizing, highlighting, and valuing marginalized perspectives during or after a crisis creates an opportunity for tackling social injustices in post-disaster situations. With grounded case studies of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake & 2017 Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, this book showcases how locals in marginalized and colonized spaces overcome disaster-created complexities via coalitional and transnational engagements. Ultimately, this project illustrates how technical communicators can perform Transdisciplinary research in disaster management to minimize the impacts of catastrophic disasters affecting the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Forthcoming Books

 Walzer, B., Mais T. Al-Khateeb, M T., Nish, J, Baniya, S. (2026). (Re)Mobilizing Solidarity in/and Transnational Feminist Rhetorics. Edited Collection. Penn State University Press. IN PRESS

In a moment marked by transnational gender, climate, and health crises, the question of how to build feminist solidarities across borders has never been more urgent. This book amplifies the rich genealogies and ongoing conversations that shape transnational feminist rhetorical studies (TFR), asking what solidarity can mean and do under contemporary global conditions. With case studies ranging from Africa, South Asia, China, Latin America, and Australia, among others, this collection theorizes the three interdisciplinary terms that define the subfield—transnational, feminist, and rhetorical—in order to reimagine the affordances and limitations of TFR for solidarity-building. From Ghanaian bead practices, to testimonio as an embodied Latinx methodology, and protests against Chinese COVID-Zero policies, the volume features a wide range of essays to make visible the stories, histories, and embodied experiences of activists organizing across transnational feminist networks.

Rhetorics of Disaster: Transnational Feminist Actions and Approaches to COVID-19. Book under Advanced Contract with Ohio State University Press (New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality)

Presenting an analysis of 32 interviews conducted with transnational feminists from Nepal, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago, this book argues that women-led coalitions and their justice-oriented disaster response and communication practices challenge historical marginalization that gets operationalized in newer contexts during disasters