Gabriel Lake Carter

Peer-reviewed Articles

• Carter, G.L. (2025). “Rhetorical Misattunement: Alienation, Hegemony, and Infrastructure in Drug War Politics.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly (online), doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2025.2466527.
• Richert, L., and Carter, G.L. (2024). “‘Conscientious Guardian’ vs. ‘Commercialized Jungle’: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Design in the Postwar United States.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 79(1): 39-64, doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad029. Honorable Mention for American Association for the History of Medicine J. Worth Estes Prize 2025.

Selected Conference Presentations

• “Drug Memoirs as Stigma Stories: The Symbolic Violence of Self-Stigma and Shame,” Panel: More Than Personal: Affect, Collaboration, Embodiment and Other Memoir B-Sides, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2025. 
• “Combatting Rhetorical Black Holes: Stigma Reduction Strategies in the Drug War,” Panel: Trauma and Workplace Discourses, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Denver, Colorado, May 2024.
• “Medicalization as Destigmatization: The Brain Disease Model of Addiction as Fail/Safe from Moral Blame,” Panel: Citizen Science, Rhetoric, and Cybernetics: Theorizing Failure and Safety, Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Pre-Conference, Denver, Colorado, May 2024.
• “Institutional Infrastructure: The Finances and Locations of Centers of Writing” Panel: Navigating Writing, Navigating History, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Spokane, Washington, April 2024.
• “‘What is the Soft Drug Problem?’: Gatekeeping, Pharmacist Authority, and the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry, 1925-1975” (co-presented with Lucas Richert), Panel: Pharmaceuticals, Expertise, and Risk, American Association for the History of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2023.
• “‘The Pharmacy Image’: Advertising, Marketing, and the Business Education of U.S. Pharmacists, 1900-1975,” British Society for the History of Pharmacy, Oxford, United Kingdom, April 2023.
• “The Metanoic Potential of Psychedelics for Recovery,” Panel: Psychedelic Rhetoric as Metanoic: Perspectives from Postcolonial, Naturalistic, and Clinical Contexts, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, May 2022.

Selected Public Projects

• “‘A Joke or a Tragedy?’: Reflections on U.S. Drug History from the Archives” (Blog Post), Points History, August 2023.
• “Contested Cannabis: A History of Marijuana in Wisconsin and the Wider World” (Digital Exhibit), American Institute for the History of Pharmacy, December 2021.

Ph.D. Dissertation

• Carter, G.L. (in progress). “Rhetoric on Drugs: Stigma, Affect, and Politics.” Committee: Michael Bernard-Donals (Chair), Eileen Lagman, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Jenell Johnson, Karen Kopelson, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

M.A. Thesis

• Carter, G.L. (2019). “Ethical Entanglements: Attunement and New Materialist Rhetoric.” Committee: Jeremy Cushman (Chair), Mary Jenell Metzger, Christopher Loar, Western Washington University.