Résumé. January 1, Higher Education. Professional Experience. John S. Nelson

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1 John S. Nelson Résumé January 1, 2010 Higher Education Ph.D. in Political Science, emphasizing Political Theory and Philosophy of Science, ; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with highest honors in B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, ; University of Kentucky, with highest honors in Professional Experience University of Iowa Honors Program Director, 2005-present. Department of Political Science Executive Officer (Chair), Professor, 1987-present. Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Instructor, Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry Executive Director, Board of Directors, 1985-present. Professor, 1994-present.

2 International Programs European Studies Curriculum Chair, Executive Committee, Professor, 2003-present. Iowa and Grinnell Bridging Project for International and Interdisciplinary Studies Iowa Director, Steering Committee, Awards and Honors (from some seventy) Journal Editor: Poroi An Interdisciplinar Journal for Rhetorical Analysis and Invention, at Book Series Editor: The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences, University of Wisconsin Press, twenty-three books; and New Practices of Inquiry, University of Chicago Press, nine books. Editorial Boards: American Journal of Political Science, , 85-91; Journal of Politics, ; Political Communication, ; Social Epistemology, 1990-present. Major Conferences: Exxon Education Foundation (1), Iowa Humanities Board (2), Shambaugh Fund (3), Iowa Humanities Task Force (2), Liberty Fund (1), National Communication Association (1), National Endowment for the Humanities (1), Russell Sage Foundation (1). Major Fellowships: Earhart Foundation Research Fellowship (1), Obermann Center Interdisciplinary Research Grants (2), Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship (1), Iowa Faculty Scholarship (1). Major Institutional Grants: Carver Trust (1), Ford Foundation (1), NEH (1). Competitive Developmental Terms: Iowa Semester Research (7), Iowa Summer Research (3). Design Award from the International Publishing Management Association for Poligram, the annual newsletter for alumni and friends of Political Science at Iowa, created with Patti O Neill and Gerhard Loewenberg, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Vakava Finnish Graduate School in Political Science and International Relations, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Board of Directors of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, and

3 One of the top-10 political theorists in the Social Science Citation Index; and one of the 25-most cited political scientists with PhDs earned in : PS, 21, 2, June, 1989, pp President of the University of Iowa Faculty Senate, NEH Liaison Committee, American Political Science Association, Lasswell Symposium, American Political Science Association, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, John M. Morehead Graduate Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Graduate Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, honorary, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University, declined, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Kentucky, Oswald Awards for Undergraduate Research and Creativity, University of Kentucky, three in the social sciences and the humanities, Research Fellow, University of Kentucky Research Foundation, for assistance with a critical anthology by Gifford Blyton and Randall Capps, Speaking Out: Two Centuries of Kentucky Orators, Winston-Salem, Hunter, 1977; Outstanding Intercollegiate Debater, University of Kentucky, First Place in Intercollegiate Extemporaneous Speaking, State of Kentucky, National Merit Scholar, Michigan State University, declined, Omicron Delta Kappa, University of Kentucky, Outstanding Underclass Honors Scholar, University of Kentucky, Books Tropes of Politics, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1998, pp. xviii Hot Spots: Multimedia Analyses of Political Ads, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1997; videotape equivalent of a book with five chapters; co-produced by G. R. Boynton. Video Rhetorics, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1997, pp. xix + 235; co-authored by G. R. Boynton. ed., The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, pp. xiii + 445; co-edited by Allan Megill and D. N. McCloskey; translated into several languages.

4 ed., Tradition, Interpretation, and Science, Albany SUNY Press, 1986, pp. xvi ed., What Should Political Theory Be Now? Albany, SUNY Press, 1983, pp. xv Articles and Essays (from some fifty) Realism as a Political Style, Poroi, 5, 2, November, Laughing All the Way to Washington, Poroi, 5, 1, September, 2008, coauthored by G. R. Boynton. Political Rhetorics for Film, Poroi, 4, 2, July, Horror Films Face Political Evils in Everyday Life, Political Communication, 22, 3, July-September, 2005, pp Conspiracy as a Hollywood Trope for System, Political Communication, 20, 4, October-December, 2003, pp John le Carré and the Postmodern Myth of the State, Finnish Yearbook of Political Thought, 3: Conceptual Change and Contingency, 1999, pp Reading Films through Political Classics, Politiikka, 4, 1998, pp Story and More, American Communication Journal, 1, 2, February, 1998, co-authored by Anna Lorien Nelson. Account and Acknowledge, or Represent and Control? Accounting, Organizations and Society, 18, 2-3, February-April, 1993, pp When Words Gain Their Meanings, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 21, 3, Summer, 1991, pp Approaches, Opportunities, and Priorities in the Rhetoric of Political Inquiry, Social Epistemology, 2, 1, January-March, 1988, pp Rhetoric of Inquiry, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 72, 1, February, 1986, pp ; co-authored by Allan Megill. Narrative Reason in Public Argument, Journal of Communication, 35, 4, Autumn, 1985, pp ; co-authored by Michael Calvin McGee. Political Science and the Humanities: A Report of the American Political Science Association, PS, 18, 2, Spring, 1985, pp ; co-authored. Stands in Politics, Journal of Politics, 46, 1, February, 1984, pp Tropal History and the Social Sciences, History and Theory, 19, 4, 1980, pp Politics and Truth, American Journal of Political Science, 22, 2, May, 1978, pp The Ideological Connection, I-II, Theory and Society, 4, 3-4, Fall-Winter, 1977, pp and

5 Toltechs, Aztechs, and the Art of the Possible, Polity, 8, 1, Fall, 1975, pp Accidents, Laws, and Philosophic Flaws, Comparative Politics, 7, 2, April, 1975, pp Once More on Kuhn, Political Methodology, 1, 2, Spring, 1974, pp Chapters (from some forty) Popular Rhetorics for Non-Linear Politics, Argument and Cognition, Scott Jacobs, ed., Washington, DC, NCA, 2009, forthcoming. Words and Pictures in Politics, Engaging Argument, Patricia Riley, ed., Washington, DC, NCA, 2006, pp ; co-authored by Anna Lorien Nelson. Voice and Music in Political Telespots, Critical Problems in Argumentation, Charles Arthur Willard, ed., Washington, DC, NCA, 2005, pp Prudence as Republican Politics in American Popular Culture, Prudence, Robert Hariman, ed., University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003, pp Arguing War, Arguing Communication and Culture, G. Thomas Goodnight, ed., Annandale, VA, NCA, 2002, pp ; co-authored by G. R. Boynton. Imaginative Etymology, Composing Useful Pasts, Edmund E. Jacobitti, ed., Albany, SUNY Press, 2000, pp Argument by Mood in War Movies, Argument at Century s End, Thomas A. Hollihan, ed., Annandale, VA, NCA, 2000, pp Argument without Truth, Argument in a Time of Change, James F. Klumpff, ed., Annandale, VA, NCA, 1998, pp Making Sound Arguments, Argument in a Time of Change, James F. Klumpff ed., Annandale, VA, NCA, 1998, pp ; co-authored by G. R. Boynton. The Rhetoric of the Social Sciences, Cultural and Social Studies, Volume 2, tr. and ed., by Po-Keung Hui, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1997; adapted in Chinese, co-authored by Allan Megill and D. N. McCloskey. How Music and Image Delivery Arguments in Political Advertisements on Television, Argumentation and Values, Sally Jackson, ed., Annandale, VA, SCA, 1996, pp Virtual Politics, Argumentation and Values, Sally Jackson, ed., Annandale, VA, SCA, 1996, pp Genres in the Rhetorics of Politics Ads, Argument and the Postmodern Challenge, Raymie E. McKerrow, ed., Annandale, VA, SCA, 1993, pp

6 Commerce among the Archipelagos, The Core and the Canon, L. Robert Stevens, G. L. Seligmann, and Julian Long, eds., Denton, TX, University of North Texas Press, 1993, pp Approaches, Opportunities and Priorities in the Rhetoric of Political Inquiry, The Recovery of Rhetoric, R. H. Roberts and J. M. M. Good, eds., London, Bristol Press, 1993, pp Tropes of Political Argument in America, Argument in Controversy, Donn W. Parson, ed., Annandale, VA, SCA, 1991, pp The Rhetoric of Political Economy, From Political Economy to Economics... And Back? James H. Nichols Jr. and Colin Wright, eds., San Francisco, ICS Press, 1990, pp ; co-authored by D. N. McCloskey. Political Foundations for Rhetoric of Inquiry, The Rhetorical Turn, Herbert W. Simons, ed., Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1990, pp Political Mythmaking for Postmoderns, Spheres of Argument, Bruce E. Gronbeck, ed., Annandale, VA, SCA, 1989, pp Orwell s Political Myths and Ours, The Orwellian Moment, Robert L. Savage, James E. Combs, and Dan d. Nimmo, eds., Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1989, pp Discipline and Present, Argument and Critical Practices, Joseph W. Wenzel, ed., Annandale, VA, SCA, 1987, pp Facing the Holocaust, Human Rights / Human Wrongs, Robert Hobbs and Fredrick Woodard, eds., Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1986, pp ; co-authored by Babara J. Hill. Models, Statistics, and Other Tropes of Politics, Argument in Transition, David Zarefsky, Malcolm O. Sillards, and Jack Rhodes, eds., Annandale, VA, SCA, 1983, pp Administration and Service (from a hundred) Director, University of Iowa Honors Program, 2005-present. Director, Bridging Project for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, Chair, Review Committee for the Department of Sociology, Executive Director, University of Iowa Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry, Director, Undergraduate studies in Political Science at Iowa, and Executive Officer (Chair), Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, Academic Leadership Program, Committee on Institutional Cooperation,

7 Founding Editor, Poligram, Newsletter for Political Science Alumni and Friends, Chair, Charter Committee on University Libraries, Chair, Review Committee for Urban and Regional Planning, Member, Strategic Planning Committee for the University of Iowa, Chair, Iowa Faculty Senate Committee on University Relations, Member, Review Committee for the Office of Public Information, Member, Review Committee for Faculty Developmental Programs, Chair, Review Committee for Communication Studies, Conferences, Panels, and Symposia (from forty) Organizer, Symposium on Refiguring the Human Sciences, Organizer, Symposium on Learning and Iowa, Organizer, Conference on Communities of Inquiry and Information, Organizer, Shambaugh Conference on Rhetorics as Politics, Organizer, Liberty Fund Conference on the Rhetorical Culture of Liberty, Organizer, Iowa Humanities Symposium on the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences, Organizer, Shambaugh Conference on Political Theory, Seminars and Workshops (from thirty) Founder and Organizer, Annual Workshop on Political Myth, Rhetoric, and Symbolism; sponsored by the Foundations of Political Theory Division of the American Political Science Association, 1990-present. Founding Member and Organizer, Rhetoric Seminar; sponsored by the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry, University of Iowa, 1980-present. Steering Committee, Topical Seminar on Ethics; sponsored by the College of Business, POROI, and International Programs at the University of Iowa, Convener, Topical Seminar on Environmental Politics and Rhetorics; sponsored by POROI at the University of Iowa, Director, Iowa Teachers Workshop on the Rhetoric of Teaching and Rhetoric; sponsored by POROI at the University of Iowa, Organizer, Bridging Project on How to Internationalize the Eurocentric Canon; sponsored by the Ford Foundation at the University of Iowa and Grinnell College,

8 Director, Iowa Scholars Workshop on the Rhetoric of Political Argument, sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities and POROI at the University of Iowa, Convener, Topical Seminar on Political Communication; sponsored by POROI at the University of Iowa, Leader, Workshop on Political Communication; Governor s School for Talented and Gifted Students, sponsored by the Belin-Blank Center at the University of Iowa, Participant, Triple-I Seminar on Complex Systems; selected faculty in political science from the University of Illinois, Indiana University, and the University of Iowa, Participant, Project 87 Summer Seminar on Bureaucracy, Positive Government, and Politicization: The Twentieth Century Challenge to Constitutionalism; directed by Herman Belz and sponsored by the American Historical Association and the American Political Science Association in Washington, DC, Participant, Workshop on Women and American Politics; sponsored by the American Political Science Association and the Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education in Chicago, IL, Participant, Summer Seminar on Human Rights and Discrimination; directed by Vernon Van Dyke and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities at the University of Iowa, Participant in the Ethical Issues Seminar on The Status of a Citizen; directed by Nannerl O. Keohane and sponsored by the American Political Science Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, DC, Teaching Director or Co-Director of fifteen doctoral dissertations, 1978-present. 30+ graduate seminars for Political Science, Communication Studies, and the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry, 1976-present. 50+ undergraduate courses for Political Science, Honors, and the PEOPLE Program, 1975-present. Instigator of Iowa's Initial Web-based Courses, addressing politics of film, sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Division of Continuing Education, Top-Rated Professor in Political Science at the University of Iowa based on student-outcomes assessments by graduating majors who name their best courses and teachers,

9 Instigator with G. R. Boynton of Online at Iowa, electronic literacy course that won the 1997 Grand Prize in the Microsoft Innovators in Higher Education Challenge, Liberal Arts Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 1988.