Newswise — Syracuse University faculty experts are available to discuss topics related to the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration. Satellite broadcast interviews can be arranged from campus.
Nancy SnowAssociate Professor of Public Diplomacy S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Expertise: U.S. foreign policy; American persuasion, influence, and propaganda; entertainment and media culture in American society; and communications in the public interest.
Background: Snow recently completed the book "Persuader-in-Chief: Global Opinion and Public Diplomacy in the Age of Obama," due out on Jan. 20. Snow's professional experience includes serving as a political consultant to The History Channel and Douglas, Cohn and Wolfe public relations. During Election 2000, Snow served as an online American Politics expert for Hungry Minds, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif., which also featured her in its national advertising campaign in USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. She has served as a public diplomacy advisor to the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy and U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee overseeing changes in U.S. public diplomacy legislation since 9/11.
Snow is lead editor with Philip M. Taylor (University of Leeds, UK) of the 2008 Routledge "Handbook of Public Diplomacy." She is the author of "The Arrogance of American Power: What U.S. Leaders Are Doing Wrong and Why It's Our Duty to Dissent" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006); "Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9/11" (Seven Stories Press, 2004), and "Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World" (Seven Stories Press, 2002), She is editor with Yahya Kamalipour of "War, Media and Propaganda: A Global Perspective" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).
Media experience: Snow writes a regular column for Huffington Post on presidential politics and is a frequent media source to popular and online media about American persuasion and propaganda, with more than 300 appearances.
Amos KieweProfessor, Department of Communication and Rhetorical StudiesCollege of Visual and Performing Arts
Expertise: political communications and speeches; presidential studies; argumentation; and rhetorical theory and criticism.
Background: Amos Kiewe has published in various journals such as Communication Studies, Legal Studies Form, Journal of American Culture, Argumentation and Advocacy, and Southern Communication Journal. He co-authored "A Shining City on a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989" (Praeger, 1991), co-edited "Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan" (Greenwood, 1992), edited "The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric," (Praeger, 1994), co-authored "FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability" (Texas A&M Press, 2003), and authored "FDR's First Fireside Chat: Public Confidence and the Banking Crisis" (Texas A&M University Press, 2007). Kiewe also contributed to the History Channel on a documentary on FDR.
Media Experience: Kiewe has extensive experience with print and radio interviews
Robert D. McClureChapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy and Professor of Political Science and Public AffairsMaxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Expertise: political leadership and the presidency; democratic institutions, particularly Congress and political parties; and mass communication.
Background: Robert McClure has authored and co-authored "Political Ambition: Who Decides to Run for Congress," "Misguided Democracy: The Policy of Free-Lance Politics," and "The Unseeing Eye: The Myth of Television Power in National Elections," which was named by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the field's most influential books written in the past 50 years. Previously, McClure served as legislative assistant to former Congressman Lee H. Hamilton and as a journalist for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers and the St. Petersburg Times.
Media Experience: McClure has extensive experience with print, radio and television interviews.
Grant Reeher Associate Professor of Political ScienceMaxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Expertise: American political analysis; the democratic process; legislative politics; and the political role of the Internet.
Background: Reeher has published on legislative politics, distributive justice, health care policy, and democratic politics and the Internet, and is currently at work on two books: one on health care reform and distributive justice, and the second on the Internet and political life, focused on the 2004 election cycle. Reeher is the author of "First Person Political: Legislative Life and the Meaning of Public Service" (2005); "Narratives of Justice: Legislators' Beliefs About Distributive Fairness" (1996); co-author of "Click on Democracy: The Internet's Power to Change Political Apathy into Civic Action" (2002); and co-editor of "Education for Citizenship" (1997). From 1995 to 1997, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan.
Media Experience: Reeher writes a regular political column for the Syracuse Post-Standard and has published a number of op-ed pieces in national newspapers. He does frequent broadcast and print interviews.
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