Roger Aden Benjamin Bates Christina Beck Laura Black Jennifer Bute Devika Chawla Tom Daniels David Descutner Elizabeth Graham Claudia Hale Lynn Harter Anita James Andrew Ledbetter Judith Lee Raymie McKerrow Jerry Miller Dan Modaff Nagesh Rao William Rawlins Greg Shepherd J.W. Smith Jeffrey St. John Scott Titsworth Daniel West Staff Julie Venrick Vicki Rhodes

David Descutner

Professor, Dean of University College Lasher 215 740 593 4823 descutne@ohiou.edu

Education: Ph.D. and M.A., University of Illinois; B.A., Slippery Rock State College.

Professional Experience: Director of Graduate Studies (1993-96); visiting assistant professor, Michigan State University (1984-85); director of undergraduate studies, School of Interpersonal Communication (1990-93); director of Honors Tutorial Program (1981-84); founding member of The Center for Political Communication; teaching and research assistant,
University of Illinois (1974-79).

Publications: Articles published in Quarterly Journal of Speech; Southern Communication Journal; Journal of Communication Inquiry; Ohio Speech Journal; Massachusetts Journal of Communication; Quarterly Journal of Ideology; Western Journal of Communication; author of book chapters in The Underside of Hightech; Reagan and Public Discourse in America;
Interpretive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication; American Heroes in a Media Age; review essay in Phenomenology and Social Life; numerous papers presented to speech conventions and conferences.

Honors: University Professor (excellence in teaching award, (1999-2000, 1986-87) Outstanding Honors Tutor, (1996); four time nominee as Outstanding Graduate Faculty; awarded two internal research grants; one national research grant; and two Provost's Summer Grants; Provost's Teaching Recognition award (1994).

Research Interests: Rhetoric of cultural practices/performances, political communication, rhetorical theory.

Teaching Specialization: Rhetorical and communication theory, interpretive inquiry, rhetorical criticism.