 An interdisciplinary scholar, Zaeske has published numerous articles and book chapters in scholarly venues in the fields of history, English, political science, and communication.Zaeske is the recipient of several national awards for her scholarship including the National Communication Association’s James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Book Award, the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award, the Karl Wallace Memorial Award for Outstanding Young Scholar in Rhetorical Studies, and a research fellowship and visiting professorship in the Women’s Studies and Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School.Zaeske has also received the Hamel Family Faculty Research Fellowship and the Mark H. Ingraham Distinguished Faculty Award from the College of Letters & Science.