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Department of Communication Studies

Dr. Steven R. Goldzwig
Professor

Johnston Hall 516
414-288-3497 Phone
414-288-3923 Fax
steven.goldzwig@mu.edu

Courses Taught

CMST 053: Argumentation
CMST 160: Rhetoric of Social Movements
CMST 165: Ethics in Human Communication
CMST 166: Freedom of Speech

Education

Ph.D. Purdue University 1985
MA. Purdue University 1982
BA. University of Central Florida 1978

Why Marquette?

I appreciate the openness to new ideas that Marquette students display. When challenged to think out of the box, most students respond to the call. I really believe that students at Marquette value learning and that they are vitally interested in the important social dialogues occurring in contemporary society. I see my role as one of facilitating those interests further and guiding students to probe their world in a more critical and analytic fashion.

Research Interests

Political Communication
Communication & the Presidency
Cultural Values and Ethics

Professional Affiliations

National Communication Association
Central States Communication Association

Recent Books

New Approaches to Rhetoric (co-edited with Patricia A. Sullivan). Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 2004.

‘In a Perilous Hour‘: The Public Address of John F. Kennedy (with George N. Dionisopoulos). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Recent Articles

“Demagoguery, Democratic Dissent, and ‘Re-visioning’ Democracy,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9 (2006): 471-478.

“History, Collective Memory, and the Appropriation of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Reagan’s Rhetorical Legacy” (with Denise M. Bostdorff, College of Wooster), Presidential Studies Quarterly, 35, (2005): 661-690.

Recent Book Chapters

"Inaugurating the Second Reconstruction: President Harry S. Truman's Committee on Civil Rights" in James Arnt Aune & Enrique D. Rigsby (Eds.) Civil Rights and the American Presidency (pp. 83-113). College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2005.

"John F. Kennedy" (rev. for Theodore O. Windt) in Bernard K. Duffy and Richard W. Leeman (Eds.) American Voices: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Orators (pp. 231-237). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.

"Robert F. Kennedy" (with Patricia A. Sullivan, SUNY--New Paltz) in Bernard K. Duffy and Richard W. Leeman (Eds.) American Voices: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Orators (pp. 238-247). Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.

"Ralph W. Nader" (with Patricia A. Sullivan, SUNY--New Paltz) in Bernard K. Duffy and Richard W. Leeman (Eds.) American Voices: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Orators (pp. 330-338). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.

"Official and Unofficial Civil Religious Discourse," rpt. in Roderick Hart and John L. Pauley II, The Political Pulpit Revisited (pp. 161-168). West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2005.