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The Loyola University Chicago community mourns the death of Mark Pollock, PhD, associate professor in the School of Communication, who passed away on May 4, 2024. 

Pollock grew up in Rogers Park, graduating from Sullivan High School. His collegiate career took him to Northwestern, Oakton Community College, and,  finally, Northern Illinois University. He did graduate work in rhetoric and philosophy at Penn State and at Northwestern, and came to Loyola University Chicago in 1992, after five years teaching undergraduate and graduate students at Temple University. His dissertation on rhetoric, political judgment, and Hannah Arendt won a national award. 

Pollock taught political rhetoric and communication at Loyola for 25 years and published scholarly work on uses of history in contemporary American political rhetoric, on political judgment, on cartoon images of Arabs, on service learning, and on communication and social justice. He also served as editor and contributing author of Communication Processes: Language, Reality, Identity. 

Pollock will be remembered by colleagues in the School of Communication for his integral role in shaping the school’s focus on social justice and advocacy, as well as for his contributions to political rhetoric and commitment to Loyola University Chicago. 

A service will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8, at Chicago Jewish Funerals in Skokie and more details can be found here.

Please keep Mark, his family and friends, and all of the lives he touched in your thoughts and prayers.