I was born in New York City, and was a public school teacher there for eight years. I have taught college and university students for more than thirty years. At present, I teach two online courses--on political campaign imagery and political campaign communication--at Ithaca College, as well as a graduate course on communication campaigns...
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I was born in New York City, and was a public school teacher there for eight years. I have taught college and university students for more than thirty years. At present, I teach two online courses--on political campaign imagery and political campaign communication--at Ithaca College, as well as a graduate course on communication campaigns there. I received a Ph.D. in instructional systems technology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1982.
I spent four years researching and writing my book, Posters, Propaganda, and Persuasion in Election Campaigns Around the World and Through History. David Welch, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda and War, University of Kent, England stated: "This important and beautifully illustrated book is quite simply the best study of the modern political poster that I have read." Lynda Lee Kaid, Professor of Telecommunication in the College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida, wrote that I had "provided an outstanding description of how American political campaigns have used political posters." Simon Downs, Editor of the journal, The Poster, and The Graphic Communication Handbook, and Lecturer at Loughborough University, England wrote: "The book is as tightly packed as an egg with good things; it is crammed with well-crafted arrays of facts that capture the minute flows of political manoeuvres across the centuries.... Written in a deceptively easy style, the book allows the reader to consider the material without battling the delivery."
In 2010, my book won the Park Faculty Writing Award. I also was presented with the International Visual Literacy Association's Research Award in 2010--only the ninth recipient of this honor in the past twenty years.
As for my reading preferences, I like historical novels (American and Celtic), as well as history books on the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and on Scotland (the Picts, Robert Bruce, etc.). I find reading time-travel novels enjoyable, too, and love classic films.
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