Current Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric & Writing, University of Texas at Austin
Associate Director, Humanities Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Health Communication, University of Texas at Austin
Faculty Affiliate, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin
Selected Publications
Katz, R. A., Graham, S. S., & Buchman, D. Z. (2025). The need for epistemic humility in AI-assisted pain assessment. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 1-11.
Graham, S.S., (2024). Cadaverous rhetoric and affective regulation at the anatomical museum. Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 54(2), 155–171.
Graham, S.S., Harrison, K.R., Shiva Edward, J.C., Majdik, Z.P., Barbour, J.B., & Rousseau, J.F. (2024). Beyond bias: Aggregate approaches to conflicts of interest research and policy in biomedical research. World Medical & Health Policy. 16, 489–505.
Graham, S.S. (2022). The doctor and the algorithm: Promise, peril, and the future of health AI. Oxford University Press.
Graham, S.S. (2021). The opioid epidemic and the pursuit of moral medicine: A rhetorical-computational analysis. Written Communication. 38(1), 3-30.
Graham, S.S., Majdik, Z.P., Clark, D., Kessler, M.M., & Hooker, T.B. (2020). Relationships among commercial practices and author conflicts of interest in biomedical publishing. PLoS ONE 15(7), e0236166.
Graham, S.S. (2020). Where’s the rhetoric? Imagining a unified field. The Ohio State University Press.
Graham, S.S., Kim, S.-Y., Kessler, M.M, DeVasto, D.M., Card, D.J., Ahn, S., Olson, M.K., Roberts, L. (2016). Conflicts of interest among patient and consumer representatives to FDA drug advisory committees. Annals of Internal Medicine, 165(8), 606-607. https://doi.org/10.7326/L16-0031
Graham, S.S. (2015). The politics of pain medicine: A rhetorical-ontological inquiry. University of Chicago Press.
Selected Grants and Fellowships
Graham, S.S. Spectacular Specimens: A Global Study of Cadaverous Rhetorics at Anatomical Museum. Awards for Faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions. National Endowment for the Humanities.
Graham, S.S. (Lead PI), Barbour, J.B., Rousseau, J.F., & Majdik, Z.P. A Network Science Approach to Conflicts of Interest: Metrics, Policies, and Communication Design. (1R01GM141476). National Institutes of Health. 2020-2024. Total funding awarded: $833,304.
Graham, S.S. & Clark, D. Transparency to Visibility (T2V): Network Visualization in Humanities Research. Digital Humanities Advancement Grant. National Endowment for the Humanities. 2018-2020. Total funding awarded: $80,634.
Selected Invited Presentations
Graham, S.S. Overselling health AI: Ethical challenges and interventional possibilities. University of Bern. Bern, Switzerland. October 2024.
Graham, S.S. Hype and health AI: Methodological challenges and interventional possibilities. [keynote address]. Society for the Communication of Complex Information. Norfolk, Va. March 2024.
Graham, S.S. AI has entered the chat: Promise, peril, and the future of writing in higher education. Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. February 2024.
Graham, S.S. Hype and health AI: Ethical challenges and interventional possibilities. School of Population and Public Health. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC. April 2023.
Graham, S.S. AI & student writing: Perils and pedagogies. Department of English and College of Arts and Sciences. University of South Florida. Tampa, FL. February 2023.
Graham, S.S. Feature engineering in computational social science with examples from HypeDx. Summer Institute on Computational Social Science. North Dakota State University. Fargo, ND. June 2022.
Graham, S.S. & Clark, D. Transparency to visibility: Network visualization in humanities research. Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting. National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington, DC. March 2019.
Graham, S.S. Opiophobia vs. overprescribing: Competing risks and the pursuit of moral medicine. Center for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire. March 2019.
National Research Awards
Nell Ann Pickett Award for Best Article in Technical Communication Quarterly
Association for Teachers of Technical Writing, 2019
Awarded for “Terminal node problems: ANT 2.0 and prescription drug labels.”
Fellows’ Early Career Award
Rhetoric Society of America, 2016
Article of the Year Award
Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology, 2012
Awarded for “Dis-ease or Disease: Ontological Rarefaction in the Medical-Industrial Complex.”
Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication
National Council of Teachers of English, 2010
Awarded for “Agency and the Rhetoric of Medicine: Biomedical Bran Scans and the Ontology of Fibromyalgia.”
Nell Ann Pickett Award for Best Article in Technical Communication Quarterly
Association for Teachers of Technical Writing, 2009
Awarded for “Agency and the Rhetoric of Medicine: Biomedical Bran Scans and the Ontology of Fibromyalgia.”
Education
PhD, Rhetoric and Professional Communication | 2010
- Iowa State University | Ames, IA
- Dissertation: Rhetorics of Pain: Agency and Regulation in the Medical-Industrial Complex
- Dissertation Advisor: Carl G. Herndl
MA, Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication | 2006
- Iowa State University | Ames, IA
- Thesis: Towards a Dialogic Theory of New Media Literacy
- Thesis Advisor: Michael Mendelson
BA, Philosophy | 2003
- Eckerd College | St Petersburg, FL