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American Politics
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Email: john-nelson@uiowa.edu
Phone: 319-335-1685
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Ph.D.: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1977.
Fields: Political Theory, Political Communication and Political Inquiry, Director of the University of Iowa Honors Program, and Journal Editor Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Rhetorical Analysis and Invention.
Sample Publications:What Should Political Theory Be Now? SUNY (ed., 1983); Video Rhetorics: Televised Advertising in American Politics, University of Illinois (with G. R. Boynton, 1997); Tropes of Politics: Science, Theory, Rhetoric, Action, University of Wisconsin Press (1998).