Ph.D.: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1977. Fields: Political Theory, Political Communication, and Political Inquiry. Sample Publications: What Should Political Theory Be Now? SUNY (editor, 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). Journal Editor: Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Rhetorical Analysis and Invention.