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257 Contributors • Robert Asen is professor of rhetoric in the Department of Communication Arts and an affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research explores the connections between political and economic inequalities, public deliberation, and public policy. He is the author of Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination and Invoking the Invisible Hand: Social Security and the Privatization Debates. He has also coedited two books. Denise M. Bostdorff is professor of communication at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. She is the author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis and Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms, which won the 2010 Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Research Award, as well as scholarly and pedagogical essays related to political rhetoric. She wishes to thank Abbey Smanik, Class of 2011 at the College of Wooster, who served as a research assistant on this project. 258 Contributors Karlyn Kohrs Campbell is professor of communication studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author or coauthor of seven books, including the groundbreaking two-volume work Man Cannot Speak for Her: A Critical Study of Early Feminist Rhetoric. She is the recipient of a Shorenstein Center fellowship from Harvard University’s Kennedy School, the National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar Award, the Lauren Ecroyd outstanding teacher award, and the Woolbert Award for scholarship of exceptional originality and influence, and she was named the 2002 Distinguished Woman Scholar in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Minnesota. G. Thomas Goodnight is professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. His areas of interest include rhetorical theory and practice, public address, and argumentation, particularly in instances of post-traumatic cultures across time. James Jasinski is professor of communication at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of Sourcebook on Rhetoric : Key Concepts in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies and various essays and book chapters in rhetorical criticism and American public address. He currently serves as editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Michael Leff was professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis. At the time of his death in 2010 he was president of the Rhetoric Society of America. He was named a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association and received the Distinguished Research Award from the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. Much of his scholarship in rhetorical criticism illustrates the approach of close textual reading, which he pioneered in the field of rhetoric and public address. Martin J. Medhurst is distinguished professor of rhetoric and communication and professor of political science at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is the author or editor of thirteen books, most recently Words of a Century: The Top 100 American Speeches, 1900–1999 (with Stephen Contributors 259 E. Lucas). His interest areas include presidential rhetoric, civil-religious discourse, and the rhetoric of the Cold War. He is also the founder and editor of the interdisciplinary quarterly Rhetoric & Public Affairs. John M. Murphy is associate professor of communication at the University of Illinois. His research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. His teaching interests include the history of American public address, the U.S. presidency, and rhetorical criticism. He is a recipient of the National Communication Association’s Golden Anniversary Monograph Award. Kathryn M. Olson is professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) and director of UWM’s Rhetorical Leadership Graduate Concentration/Certificate Program. Her research interests include rhetorical criticism and theory, argumentation, and contemporary public address. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and Argumentation and Advocacy. She has won numerous awards for her research, including two National Communication Association Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards. Michael William Pfau is associate professor of communication at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. His book, The Political Style of Conspiracy : Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln, was published by Michigan State University Press in 2005. His scholarship has appeared in a number of journals, including Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and Argumentation and Advocacy. Benjamin Ponder is an executive in the educational software industry. He is also the author of American Independence: From Common Sense to the Declaration (2010). Kirt H. Wilson...

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