Title: Professor and Interim Department Chairperson

Education: Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1974

Area(s) of Specialty: public communication, persuasion, rhetorical criticism, rhetoric of movements, history of communication, group interaction and discussions, and conflict management.

Research Interests: presidential and political communication; the American muckraking movement, especially the life, times and works of Upton Sinclair.

Recent Publication or Presentation: "'Once more unto the breach, dear friends': War in the Persian Gulf as a Rhetorical System," in Honor and Loyalty: Inside the Politics of the George H. W. Bush White House, Edited by Leslie D. Feldman and Rosanna Perotti. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002, pp. 347-359.

"Bush and Gore on Oprah Winfrey, or the 'Oprah-fication' of American Presidential Candidates." Accepted for presentation at the 94th Annual Convention of the Eastern Communication Association, Washington, DC, April 24 -April 27, 2003.

E-mail: smith@oswego.edu

Office address: 14 Lanigan Hall

Office extension: 315.312.3519

Honors:

Profiled in the 10th edition of Directory of American Scholars

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1993)

State of New York and United University Professions Excellence Award for Professional Service (1991)