John S. Nelson

Curriculum Vitae

POROI Website
Research Fields:
American Politics
Political Theory

Contact Information

Email: john-nelson@uiowa.edu
Phone: 319-335-1685
Office: 447 BHC

Fall 2009 Office Hours:
Weekday mornings 8:30-11:30 AM, and by appointment.

 

Faculty Profile



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John S. Nelson

Professor


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).