As 2020 starts, so does my editorship of the Journal for the History of Rhetoric, the journal of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, an academic association that has been pivotal in my intellectual life ever since in my graduate school days. I am quite excited to take on the leadership of the […]

I am teaching a graduate seminar on the works of Hannah Arendt this semester, and slowly compiling a list of Arendtianisms at. . . https://twitter.com/search?q=%23readinghannaharendt&src=recent_search_click Check it out!

Kevin Hamilton and I have been busy doing podcast and radio interviews about our new book Lookout America! The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War. Here’s a spattering of interviews: An interview on the War College Podcast An interview on the New Books Network An interview on Overnight America on my […]

In commemoration of the seventieth anniversaries of Trinity, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, and in conjunction with the National Communication Association Conference, several colleagues and I are hosting a one-day academic conference at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, November 18, 2015. Information and schedule: http://cccnevada.net/2015/09/24/schedule/    

Kevin Hamilton and I presented a paper at the University of Durham’s Business of War Photography conference this past summer (2014) on the work of Harold Edgerton and his collaborators in  the development of both flash photography and atomic bomb firing during World War II. The abstract reads as follows: This paper considers the history of […]

For the next two years I will be working with a great group of faculty and graduate students at the University of Illinois on the “Learning to See Systems” initiative, sponsored by the Graduate College here under their INTERSECT program. Our goal is address in an interdisciplinary, collaborative manner the problem of “seeing” systems — […]