Victor Grigsby

Victor Grigsby is a full-time faculty member in the Communication & Rhetorical Studies department at Duquesne University. His teaching emphasis is in Integrated Marketing Communication/Corporate Communication, Communication Ethics and Crisis in the Public Sphere. His research interests are in leadership communication, philosophy of communication ethics in the public sphere, organizational leadership in administrative contexts and communicative implications of philosophy of religion. His article, Online Textbooks and Educational Elitism: Literacy, liberation, and unforeseen effects co-authored with Dr. Michael Kearney and Dr. Rodney Lyde has appeared in the Listening Journal (April 7, 2022). He is the winner of the prestigious NAACP Bishop Charles H. Foggie Lifetime Achievement Award, for recognition of life’s work on behalf of the Civil Rights Movement (May 1, 2018). In 2000, he was also inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Board of Preachers, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA. He also has presented a workshop “Dialoguing Through Difference” for the Southwest Corner Workforce Development Board serving Green County, Beaver County, and Washington County.

• Duquesne University, Ph.D. [2025]
• Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Master of Arts [2008]
• University of Pittsburgh, B.A. [1985]