Robert Asen is an Associate Professor for the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1998. Professor Asen conducts research and teaches in the areas of public policy debate, public sphere studies, and rhetoric and critical theory. He is also an affiliate at the University's Institute for Research on Poverty. His honors include the National Communication Association Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award in 1999 and American Forensics Association Daniel Rohrer Research Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Argumentation in 2001. He has published, edited, and co-edited several books including Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination, Counterpublics and the State , and numerous articles, among them "Women, Work, Welfare: A Rhetorical History of Images of Poor Women in Welfare Policy Debates" (Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 2003), "Imagining in the Public Sphere" (Philosophy and Rhetoric, 2003), and "Seeking the 'Counter' in Counterpublics" (Communication Theory, 2000).
James Aune is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communications at Texas A&M University. Professor Aune received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1980. He is the author of Rhetoric and Marxism (Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1994) and Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness (N.Y.: Guilford Press, 2001) and numerous journal articles and book chapters. His research has been published in Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and else where. Aune is currently the book-review editor of Philosphy and Rhetoric and a member of the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Speech.
Denise Bostdorff is an Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster where she is chair of the Communication Department . She earned her Ph.D. at Purdue University. Professor Bostdorff is an authority on political rhetoric, particularly that of presidents, vice presidents, and first ladies, as well as the language of policy reversal. She was appointed to the Chair of the National Task Force on the Presidency in Times of Crisis in 2004. Bostdorff is the author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press) and several scholarly articles in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Studies, and Presidential Studies Quarterly as well as book chapters on the rhetoric of the presidency. Bostdorff has several honors to her credit, including the National Speakers Association's Outstanding Communication Professor Award in 2000.
Dana Cloud received her Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Iowa. She now specializes in the analysis of contemporary popular and political culture from feminist, Marxist, and critical race theory perspectives at the University of Texas, Austin. Professor Cloud's areas of research also include the American labor movement and arguments against the poststructuralist turn in discourse theory. Her book, Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetorics of Therapy was published in 1998. Cloud has a number of articles and essays in Critical Studies in Mass Communication, the Western Journal of Communication, Rhetoric and Public Affairs and several edited books. In 1998 she received the National Communication Association's Karl M. Wallace Award, and her essays "The Materiality of Discourse of Oxymoron" and "The Rhetoric of Family Values" have received B. Aubrey Fisher Outstanding Article awards from the Western States Communication Association.
Celeste Condit is a Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. The author or editor of six books, the most recent being The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates About Human Heredity (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences), Condit's research centers on the rhetoric surrounding the abortion controversy, the rhetorical evolution of the U.S. commitment to "equality," and the rhetorical understanding of human genetics. She has published numerous articles and book chapters in the leading journals of several fields. In addition, Condit has served as the co-editor of Women's Studies in Communication and Critical Studies in Media Communication and on the board of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Professor Condit was named a Georgia Research Professor in 1999, the Douglas Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar in 1998, and an NCA Distinguished Scholar in 2002. She is also the recipient of the Creative Research Award from UGA in 1993, the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address in 1994, and the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from NCA in 1997.
Bonnie Dow is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1990. Dow is the author of Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement since 1970 (U of Pennsylvania P, 1996), for which she received the Winans-Wichelns Award from NCA and the Emily Toth Award from the Popular Culture/American Culture Association. Her research has been published widely and she received the NCA Golden Anniversary Monograph Award in 2002 for her essay "Ellen, Television, and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility," published in Critical Studies in Media Communication. Dow has served as editor of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies and continues on the board.
Cara Finnegan is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Cara Finnegan joined the Department of Speech Communication in 1999, after completing her Ph.D. in Communication Studies at Northwestern University. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetoric and public communication, specializing in the study of visual rhetoric in the American public sphere. Her first book, Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs (Smithsonian Books, 2003) won the National Communication Association’s 2004 Diamond Anniversary Book Award. She is the 2005 recipient of the New Investigator Award given by the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association. Professor Finnegan has been awarded a fellowship by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University for 2006-2007.
Thomas Goodnight is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California and the Director of Doctoral Studies. Before joining the Annenberg School, Goodnight taught doctoral courses in Northwestern University's Rhetoric Program in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Criticism, Argumentation, and the Public Sphere. Having directed 28 dissertations, he has received career awards in Rhetoric and Communication Theory by the NCA and been named one the five top scholars in argumentation of the last 50 years by the AFA. Additionally, Professor Goodnight has taught Organizational Communication at the Master's level, and his undergraduate courses include seminars in the Rhetoric of War, Science Advocacy, Risk Communication, and an introduction to the field. A regular contributor to the Quarterly Journal of Speech, former editor of Argumentation and Advocacy, director of the 12th Alta Conference on Argumentation, Goodnight is a co-founder of the NU-University of Amsterdam graduate exchange. His current research interests include deliberation and postwar society, science communication, argument and aesthetics, public discourse studies, and communicative reason in controversy.
Lisa M. Gring-Pemble is an Associate Professor at New Century College, George Mason University. Gring-Pemble is a Phi-Beta Kappa graduate of St. Olaf College (1992) and she received her M.A. (1996) and Ph.D.(2000) in communication from the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on public policy (welfare reform), political communication, and social movements from a rhetorical-critical perspective. She is the author of Grim Fairy Tales: The Rhetorical Construction of American Welfare Policy and is currently working on a forthcoming edited manuscript -Political Communication: An Anthology of Essential Readings. Her work has appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Political Communication, and Communication Quarterly. In 2005, Gring-Pemble received the George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award. Based on her work with NCC learning communities, Gring-Pemble has broadened her research to include the scholarship of teaching and learning with special focus on experiential learning. In recent years, Gring-Pemble has also served as an independent consultant engaged in proposal writing and research, program development, and policy advocacy for non-profit and private organizations.
Robert Hariman teaches courses in rhetorical theory and the critical study of public culture at Northwestern University. He is interested in the role of style in human affairs, particularly with regard to political judgment and the discursive constitution of modern society. Works in these areas include Political Style: The Artistry of Power (1995) and two edited volumes, Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations (1996, co-edited with Francis A. Beer) and Prudence: Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice (2003). More recent work includes a series of articles with John Louis Lucaites (Indiana University) on the circulation of iconic photographs and a book, also with Lucaites, Icons of Liberal-Democracy: Public Culture in an Age of Photojournalism (University of Chicago Press: 2006).
Stephen Hartnett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California-San Diego. His research interests include rhetorical theory, rhetorical criticism of historical and contemporary discourse, American studies, the political-economy of crime and punishment including the death penalty, and investigative poetics. Professor Hartnett has been appointed a Research Fellow of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, appointed one of the University of Illinois' six Helen Corley Petit Scholars, won the National Communication Association's Winans and Wichelns Memorial Award, received a University of Illinois Humanities Release Time Grant, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, and received the Instructor of the Year Award in 1998. Hartnett has written three books, including the recent Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America and Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror, and has been published in many academic journals and poetry periodicals.
David Henry is a Professor and Graduate Coordinator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1976. Professor Henry teaches courses in political communication, rhetorical theory and criticism, persuasion, and argumentation. He is Executive Director of the Rhetoric Society of America, and Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech for 2005-2007. Henry's scholarship focuses on public advocacy in a variety of contexts, including presidential rhetoric, nuclear politics, social movement studies, and scientists as political advocates. Co-author with Kurt Ritter of a book on Ronald Reagan's political oratory, he has published articles and reviews in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Monographs, the Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Communication Education, Communication Studies, the Southern Communication Journal, and in multiple volumes of collected essays.
Michael Hogan is a Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. His specific research interests include political campaigns and social movements, foreign policy debates, presidential rhetoric, and public opinion and polling. His books include The Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era, The Panama Canal in American Politics: Domestic Advocacy and the Evolution of Policy, The Nuclear Freeze Campaign, and the edited volume Rhetoric and Community. He has served on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, and currently serves on the editorial board of Rhetoric and Public Affairs. Professor Hogan's honors include the Award for Outstanding Performance as Graduate Officer, a Top Three Paper Award, the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award in 1995, the Golden Anniversary Prize Book Award, the Winans-Wichelns Award for Distringuished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, and the Gerarld R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1983.
James Jasinski is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Puget Sound. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1986 and received NCA's Outstanding Dissertation Award that year. Jasinski is the author of Sourcebook on Rhetoric: Key Concepts in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies (Sage, 2001), and numerous essays that have appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, the Western Journal of Communication, and elsewhere. In 1993, Jasinski received the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from NCA's Public Address Division.
William Keith is an Associate Professor in the Communications Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Austin. His research interests include history of the Discussion Movement and the Forum Movement, history of the Speech Communication field, rhetoric and deliberative democracy, rhetorical theory, and the rhetoric of science. Recent publications include "Dewey, Discussion, and Democracy in Speech Pedagogy," (Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement. Matwah, NJ: Erlbuam. 2002, Forthcoming) and "Democratic Revival and the Promise of Cyberspace: Lessons from the Forum Movement" (Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 5, 311-326, 2002).
Michael Leff is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis. Leff is widely published in such journals as the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and elsewhere. He co-edited the volume from the first Public Address Conference entitled Texts in Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American Political Rhetoric (Hermagoras, 1989). Among his many awards are included the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award and the Winans-Wichelns Award. In 2001, Leff was named a Distinguished Scholar by NCA.
John Lucaites is an Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1984. Professor Lucaites studies the relationship between rhetoric and social theory. Much of his recent writing examines the communicative power of famous, "iconic" photographs that have made their way from news reports to a permanent place in the public consciousness. He also researches the relationship between race and "American" identity, as well as the fragmentation of liberalism in the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Lucaites has published multiple books, essays, book chapters, and book reviews. His books include Icons of Liberal-Democracy: Public Culture in an Age of Photojournalism (University of Chicago Press: 2006), Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader (Guilford Press, 1999), Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African Word (University of Chicago Press, 1993), and Martin Luther King, Jr. and The Sermonic Power of Public Discourse (University of Alabama Press, 1993).
John M. Murphy (Ph. D University of Kansas, 1986) is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. He has also served as the Director of the Basic Courses and as the head of the rhetoric faculty. His research interests focus on contemporary American public address, the rhetorical presidency, and rhetorical criticism and theory. His work examines the ways in which enduring political languages take form in particular public debates and influence policy decisions. He has published essays in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Communication Monographs, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, Communication Studies, and the Southern Communications Journal. He is the current book review editor for the Quarterly Journal of Speech and has served on a number of editorial boards, such as Critical Studies in Media Communication, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Western Journal of Communication, Basic Course Communication Annual, Argumentaion & Advocacy, and Communication Studies. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Rhetoric & Public Affairs series at Michigan State University Press and also serves on the Kohrs Campbell Prize Committee at that press. His teaching interests include the rhetorical presidency, public address, rhetorical criticism, and rhetorical theory. He has won the Sandy Beaver award for excellence in teaching at the University of Georgia.
Charles Nero is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric, African American Studies, and American Cultural Studies at Bates College. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1991. He has written an edited volume W. E. B. Dubois and The Souls of Black Folk: The First One Hundred Years, forthcoming, and many articles, such as his latest, "Queering The Souls of Black Folk,"in Public Culture and numerous book chapters, including "The Black Gay Man as Impostor in American Film." In E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson’s Black Queer Studies in the Millennium. Some of his honors include the Bates College Travel Grant, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Phillips Fellowship Travel Grant for Research, the Rockefeller Residency Fellowship in the Humanities, the Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, a Grant from the American College Health Association to design, implement, and evaluate a retreat on racism, sexism, and homophobia in the AIDS crisis, an Ithaca College Research Grant, a Graduate Minority Fellowship, and an Equal Opportunity Fellowship from Indiana University in 1984.
Shawn Parry-Giles received her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1992. She is an Associate Professor of Communication, Affiliate Associate Professor of Women's Studies, and the Director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She teaches and studies historical and contemporary political discourse as well as rhetorical, feminist, and media criticism. Her current projects examine the rhetorical presidency and presidential image construction in addition to the news media's coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton. She offers courses in presidential and first lady discourse, contemporary political communication, and rhetorical and media criticism. She is the author of a book entitled, The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955, and co-author of the book, Constructing Clinton: Hyper-Reality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics.
Eric Watts is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. at Northwestern University and now specializes in Rhetorical Criticism; Historical/Critical Research Methods, Communication Theory and Rhetoric, and Public Speaking. Watts has published articles in the journal Communication Studies, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, including "African American Ethos and Hermeneutical Rhetoric: An Exploration of Alain Locke's The New Negro" and "'Voice' and 'Voicelessness' in Rhetorical Studies," and "The Spectacular Consumption of 'True' African American Culture: 'Whassup' with the Budweiser Guys?" in Critical Studies in Media Communication. His essay "Cultivating a Black Public Voice: W. E. B. Du Bois and the 'Criteria of Negro Art'" was published in Rhetoric and Public Affairs. His research interests include Contemporary African American Rhetorical Voice, Hip Hop cultural performance, Harlem Renaissance Rhetorical Invention, and W.E.B. Du Bois.
Susan Zaeske is an Associate Professor for the Communication Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she received her Ph.D. in 1997. Her scholarship focuses on rhetoric, gender, and political culture. Her first book, Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2003. In her present book project, Encountering Esther: Appropriations of the Jewish Queen, she is collecting and analyzing examples of appropriations of the Old Testament heroine Esther to explain her enduring appeal. She has received numerous awards including the Wichelns Memorial Award for Distringuished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address for "Signatures of Citizenship," the National Communication Association Public Address Division 2004 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003, and the National Communication Association Karl R. Wallace Award in 2001.
David Zarefsky is the Owen L. Coon Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and a past President of the National Communication Association. Professor Zarefsky teaches courses in the history and criticism of U.S. public discourse, with a special focus on the pre-Civil War period and on the 1960's, and also teaches courses in argumentation and in Presidential rhetoric. Additionally, he directs the honors program for seniors in Communication Studies. Zarefsky is the author of Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (University of Chicago Press, 1990) and President Johnson's War on Poverty: Rhetoric & History (University of Alabama Press, 1997) as well as scores of articles and book chapters. He received the Winans-Wichelns Award, the Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award, the Mentor Award, and the Distinguished Scholar Award, from the National Communication Association. He currently is working on the controversy surrounding the annexation of Texas during the 1840's and on the legal and political dispute following the 2000 election and culminating in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Bush v. Gore.
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