John Louis Lucaites (born 1952) is an American academic. He is a professor emeritus of rhetoric and public culture at
Indiana University
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Campuses
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. In 2012, Lucaites was appointed as associate dean for arts and humanities and undergraduate education at Indiana University. His research concerns the general relationship between
rhetoric and
social theory
Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena.Seidman, S., 2016. Contested knowledge: Social theory today. John Wiley & Sons. A tool used by social scientists, social theories rel ...
, and seeks to contribute in particular to the critique and reconstruction of
liberalism
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...
in contemporary social, political, and cultural practices in the United States.
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Education
Lucaites obtained a BA in 1974 from Rutgers College
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, an MA in 1975 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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, and a PhD in 1984 from the University of Iowa
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.
Awards
*Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award of the National Communication Association
The National Communication Association (NCA) is a not-for-profit association of academics in the field of communication.
Organization
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, 2014, "for his work on civil rights rhetorics and in visual rhetorics"National Communication Association
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Organization
NCA is governed by the Legislative Assembly, which meets during the NCA Annual Convention. Between annual me ...
, 2008, both for ''No caption needed''
*Golden Anniversary Monograph Award, National Communications Association, 2004, for Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, “Public Identity and Collective Memory in U.S. Iconic Photography: The Image of ‘Accidental Napalm’,” ''Critical Studies in Media Communication,'' 20 (2003): 35-66.
Books
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*[Reviews of ''The Public Image'':
*Gulsum Depeli, ''Visual Studies'',
*Priscila Dorella, ''Society for U.S. Intellectual History'']
*Laurie E. Gries, ''Rhetoric and Public Affairs'', ,
*Jeff Nagel, ''Southern Communication Journal'',
*Evelyn Runge, ''MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen'',
References
External links
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Living people
1952 births
Indiana University faculty
University of Iowa alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Rutgers University alumni
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers