Who Belongs in America?: Presidents, Rhetoric, and Immigration

Contributors

Contributors JAMES A. AUNE is professor of communication at Texas A&M University . His research interests include legal rhetoric, rhetorical theory, and philosophy of communication. He is the author of Rhetoric and Marxism and Selling the Free Market. His research has been published in Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Critical Studies in Mass Communication and elsewhere. Aune has received numerous university, regional, and national teaching awards. VANESSA B. BEASLEY is associate professor of speech communication at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on political communication and presidential rhetoric. She is the author of You, the People: American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric. Her research has also been published in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Political Communication, and elsewhere. She has received numerous departmental , university-wide, and regional teaching awards. DENISE M. BOSTDORFF is associate professor of communication at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. Her research has focused on political rhetoric, particularly presidential rhetoric dealing with crises and “the other,” such as foreign and terrorist enemies, gays, and ethnic minorities. She is the author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis and has published articles in journals including Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. During the course of her career, she has been recognized for her undergraduate teaching on ten occasions. ROGER DANIELS is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati. Daniels has written widely on the history of immigration. His two most recent books are Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882 and Prisoners without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. 280 | contributors ANNE T. DEMO is an assistant professor of communications at Vanderbilt University. Her research examines the intersection of U.S. cultural politics and visual rhetoric. Demo has published scholarly articles on immigration policy and visual rhetoric in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Environmental History, and Women’s Studies in Communication. ROBERT H. FERRELL is distinguished professor emeritus of the history department at Indiana University. His research focuses on American foreign policy. Ferrell has written, coauthored, and edited numerous books on U.S. diplomatic history and U.S. presidents, including two books on Harry S. Truman, one on Warren G. Harding, and one on the U.S. Civil War. He is also the editor of the papers and diaries of presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower. His most recent book, published in 2005, is titled Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I. MICHELLE HALL KELLS is assistant professor in the rhetoric and writing program at the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on problems related to ethnolinguistic stratification and intercultural communication. She is the coauthor of Attending to the Margins: Writing, Researching, and Teaching on the Front Lines and a coeditor of Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy. Kells is also the author of the forthcoming book Inclusion Not Revolution: The Everyday Rhetorics of Dr. Héctor P. García and the Emergence of a Post–World War II Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. MICHAEL NOVAK is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. He researches the three systems of the free society—the free polity, the free economy, and the culture of liberty—and their springs in religion and philosophy. Twice the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and once to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Novak directs AEI’s social and political studies. He is the author of twenty-five influential books, many of which have been translated into other languages. CRAIG R. SMITH is director of the Center for First Amendment Studies and chair of the Department of Film and Electronic Arts at California State University, Long Beach. He has published more than fifty schol- contributors | 281 arly articles and fifteen books, including The Four Freedoms of the First Amendment. CHARLES J. STEWART is University Distinguished Professor of Communication at Purdue University. His primary research interests are rhetorical criticism and message analysis, persuasion, and the rhetoric of social protest. His scholarly work has been published in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Western Journal of Communication, and elsewhere. He is also the author of Interviewing: Principles and Practices, currently in its tenth edition, and...