Amos Kiewe CV

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Amos Kiewe

Office Address: Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, 100 Sims
Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1230.
Email: [email protected] ; Tel.: [phone]. Fax: [phone]

Education:

Ph.D. - Ohio University, Athens, OH, 1984.
School of Interpersonal Communication.
Primary Area: Rhetoric and Public Address.

M.A. - International Affairs, Ohio University,
College of International Affairs, 1981.

B.A. - University of Haifa, Israel, 1980.
Primary Areas: Political Science and History.

Academic Positions:

Visiting Professor, York St John University, United Kingdom, 2015-18.

Chair/Director, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies
(previously, the Department of Speech Communication), The College of Visual
and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, 2001 to 2007; 2010-2013.

Associate Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University,
2001 to 2004.

Assistant Dean for graduate studies services and academic affairs, Syracuse
University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, 1998 to
2001.

Faculty Associate in several programs: The Program for the Advancement of
Research on Conflict and Collaboration at the Maxwell School, The Middle East
Program, The Maxwell School, and Judaic Studies, College of Arts and Science,
Syracuse University.

Academic Ranks:

Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, since 2004.
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Associate Professor of Speech Communication, Syracuse University, 1995-2004.

Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, Syracuse University, 1991-1995.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication, Temple University,
Philadelphia, 1990-91.

Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, the College of Wooster, Wooster,
Ohio, 1984-90. Chair of the Speech Communication Department, 1985-86.

Academic Assignments

Research Leave, Spring 2014.
Research Leave, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.
Research Leave, Fall, 1997.
Teaching at Syracuse University London Centre: Fall 1992 and Spring 1997.

Courses Taught

Seminar in Presidential Rhetoric
Advanced Public Speaking
Campaigns and Movements
Communication Ethics
Communication, Rhetoric, and Society
Contemporary Rhetorical Theories (Graduate level)
Persuasion and Propaganda
Political Communication
Pubic Memory
The Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric
Public Speaking/Presentational Speaking
Rhetoric and Social Change
Rhetorical Criticism (Graduate and Undergraduate levels)
Speechwriting
Theories of Argumentation

Administrative and Academic Service

Syracuse University:

Ad Hoc Assignments:
Joint Tenure Committee, College of Visual and Performing Arts
and the School of Education.
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Committee member, University Forum-Addressing the Terrorist
Attack of September 11, 2001.
Ex-Officio, College Tenure Committee. Set in on all tenure cases
in place of the Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts, AY
1999-2000, and 2000-01.
Dean’s cabinet representative for the Department of Retail
Management and Consumer Studies following a merger with the
College of Visual and Performing Arts, 2001-02.
Member of a Taskforce for restructuring the College of Visual and
Performing Arts, 2001-03.

University: University-wide ad-hoc committee, Vice Chancellor and Provost search,
2015.
University-wide ad-hoc committee, Chancellor search, 2014.
University Senate, 2013/14-2016/17
Senate Athletic Committee, 2013-
University College Professional Communication Subcommittee, 2006-07
Senate Curriculum Committee, 2003-2007.
Senate Diversity Committee, 2004-2007.
Board of Graduate Studies, 1998 to 2001.
Chair, Program Committee of the Board of Graduate Studies.2000-01.
University Assessment Committee, 1998 to1999.
Primary Liaison to the Future Professoriate Project, 1993-96.
Represented Syracuse University to the Lockerbie community,
Scotland, Scholarship Award Committee, 1997.

College Chair, College Curriculum Committee, 1998 to 2001.
Served on College Board, Curriculum Committee, and the By-Laws
Committee, Chair of Faculty Council, 2009-10.

Department Project Advance Coordinator (guiding high school teachers in
teaching University-level course in Presentational Speaking), 2007-
present.
Departmental Honors Advisor, 2005 to present.
Graduate Coordinator, 1998.
Served on the following committees: Information and Agenda,
Curriculum, Undergraduate Handbook. Chaired several Search
Committees. Adviser to the Undergraduate Speech Club (95-96),
Mentor to Undergraduate University Scholars.

Director of Master’s Thesis:

Chelsea Spring
Evan Johnson
Thomas McGraw
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David Richardson
Adam Gaffey
Christopher House
Tahlia Fischer
Michael Davis
Joan Hebert
Lisa Heller

Scholarship

Books:

Amos Kiewe and Davis W. Houck, Eds. The Rhetoric of Effects and the Effects
of Rhetoric: Past, Present and Future. Columbia: University of South Carolina
Press, 2015.

Amos Kiewe. Confronting Anti-Semitism: Seeking an End to Hateful Rhetoric.
London: Troubador, 2011.

Amos Kiewe. FDR’s First “Fireside Chat”: Public Confidence and the Banking
Crisis. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2007.

Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe. FDR’s Body Politics: The Rhetoric of
Disability. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2003.

Amos Kiewe. Ed. The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric. Westport, Conn.:
Praeger, 1994. Contributors: Carole Blair, Greg Dickinson, Charles J. Griffin,
Davis W. Houck, Robert L. Ivie, Martin J. Medhurst, Kurt Ritter, Craig A. Smith,
Kathy B. Smith, Mark Pollock, and Enrico Pucci.

Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe. Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public
Speeches of Ronald Reagan. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. Second
printing, 1994.

Amos Kiewe and Davis W. Houck. A Shining City on A Hill: Ronald Reagan’s
Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989. New York: Praeger, 1991.

Book Chapters

Amos Kiewe, “The Temporal Roots of Anti-Semitism and Its Impact on the Arab-
Israeli Conflict,” in Toward a Critical Rhetoric on the Israel-Palestine Conflict,
Matthew Abraham, Ed. South Carolina: Parlor Press, 2015, pp. 61-75.

Denise M. Bostdorff, Martin Carcasson, James M. Farrell, Robert L. Ivie, Amos
Kiewe, Kathleen B. Smith, “Report of the National Task Force on Presidential
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Rhetoric in Times of Crisis,” in James A. Aune and Martin J. Medhurst, Eds. The
Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2008,
pp.355-378.

________, (1999). "The Body as Proof: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Preparations for
the 1932 Presidential Campaign." An unsolicited reprint in Theodore F. Sheckles,
Janette Muir, Terry Robertson, Lisa Gring-Pemble, Eds. Readings on Political
Communication. State College, PA: Starta Publishing, Inc., 2007, pp. 319-330.

________, “Framing Memory through Eulogy: Ronald Reagan Long Good-bye.”
In Kendall Phillips, Ed. Framing Public Memory. Tuscaloosa: University of
Alabama, 2004, pp. 248-266.

________, “The Crisis Tool in American Political Discourse.” In Ofer Feldman
and Christ’l de Landtsheer, Eds. Politically Speaking:A Worldwide Examination
of Language Used in The Public Sphere. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1998, pp. 79-90.

_________, “Benjamin Disraeli’s Speech on the Jewish Disabilities Act:
Contextualizing the Inventional Approach.” Reprint of journal article, in Samuel
Edelman, Ed. The Book of Jewish Rhetoric. Hampton Press. Forthcoming.

_________. “From A Rhetorical Trap to Capitulation and Obviation: The Crisis
Rhetoric of George Bush’s ‘Read My Lips; No New Taxes’.” In Amos Kiewe,
Ed. The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric. Westport, Conn.: Praeger,
1994, pp. 179-201.

Journal Articles

Amos Kiewe, “Herbert A. Wichelns at the discipline’s centennial mark: Re-
reading a prospectus for rhetoric as an independent discipline,” The Review of
Communication (2014):

________, “Time in Rhetoric: An Investigation into Temporal Probabilities in
Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate, Journal of Communication and Religion 34 (2011):
143-159.

________, “Whither Bound: Roosevelt’s Quo-Vadis,” Southern Communication
Journal 70 (2004): 418-433.

________, “Theodore Herzl’s The Jewish State: Prophetic Rhetoric in the Service
of Political Objectives,” The Journal of Communication and Religion 26 (2003):
208-239.
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________, "The Body as Proof: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Preparations for the 1932
presidential race," Argumentation and Advocacy (special issue) 36 (Fall 1999):
88-100.

________, "The Public vs. the Private: Bill Clinton's Speech of August 17, 1998,"
The American Communication Journal (1999),
http://www.americancomm.org/~aca/acj

________, "A Dress Rehearsal for A Presidential Campaign: FDR's Embodied
'Run' for the 1928 Governorship," Southern Communication Journal 64 (1999):
155-167.

_________, “Benjamin Disraeli’s Speech on the Jewish Disabilities Act:
Contextualizing the Inventional Approach.” The Journal of Communication and
Religion 19 (1996), pp. 13-25.

_________, and Davis W. Houck, “The Rhetoric of Reaganomics: A Redemptive
Vision.” Communication Studies 40 (1989), pp. 97-108.

Amos Kiewe, “The Court-Martial of Benedict Arnold: Legal Argumentation and
Reasoning as a Prelude for Treason.” Legal Studies Forum 14 (1990), pp. 175-
195.

_________. “Alexis de Tocqueville Observing American Public Address.”
Journal of American Culture 12 (1989), pp. 39-45.

Book Reviews:

Review Essay of: Mary E. Stucky, Slipping the Surly Bonds: Reagan’s Challenger
Address. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2006; and, Martin J. Medhurst,
Editor. The Rhetorical Presidency of George H. W. Bush. College Station: Texas
A&M Press, 2006. Political Psychology, 28 (2007), pp. 505-508.

Review of: Stephen K. Shaw, William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams, EDS.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court. Armonk,
NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 8 (2005): 709-712.

Review of: Robert C. Rowland and David A. Frank. Shared Land/Conflicting
Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use. East Lansing, MI:
Michigan State University Press, 2002. Argumentation and Advocacy 40 (2004):
287-290.

Review of: Steve Casey. Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American
Public Opinion, and the War Against Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2002. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 4 (2002): 765-767.
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Review of: Caroline Wiedmer. The Claims of Memory: Representations of the
Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1999. The Review of Communication 1 (2001): 183-186.

Review of: John W. Sloan, The Reagan Effect: Economics and Presidential
Leadership. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1999. Journal of Rhetoric and
Public Affairs. Vol. 3, no. 1 (2000): 116-118.

Review of: Gary L. Rose, The American Presidency Under Siege. Albany, SUNY
Press, 1997. Journal of Rhetoric and Public Affairs Vol. 1, no. 2 (1998): 290-92.

Review of: Matthew J. Dickinson, Bitter Harvest: FDR Presidential Power and
the Growth of the Presidential Branch. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1996. Presidential Studies Quarterly 27 (1997): 844-46.

Book proposal review: St. Martin’s Press. Thomas Hollihan’s proposed book:
Political Communication and the 1996 Presidential Campaign. 1996.

Book proposal review: St. Martin’s Press. Craig R. Smith’s proposed book: The
Relevance of Rhetoric in Western Civilization. 1996.

Review of: Paul R. Henggeler, The Kennedy Persuasion: The Politics of Style
Since JFK. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee Inc., 1995. Presidential Studies Quarterly 25
(1995): 578-79.

Conference Presentations:

Amos Kiewe. Respondent. Panel devoted to my book Confronting Anti-
Semitism: Seeking an end to hateful rhetoric. National Communication
Association, Chicago, November 2014.

_______. “The Public Memory of the Massacre of the Jews of York,” Cultures of
Memory Conference, York St John University, York, United Kingdom, October
2014.

_______. Organized and chaired a penal focusing on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s at
the Democratic National Conventions: 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. Presented a
paper on Roosevelt and the 1940 DNC. National Communication Association,
Chicago, November 2014.

_______. Chair and Respondent. Panel on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, FDR’s Dog, map and airplanes. Rhetoric Society of America. San
Antonio, TX, May 25, 2014.
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_______. “Nullification and rhetorical economy: Andrew Jackson’s management
of a national crisis.” National Communication Association, Washington DC,
November 2013.

_______. “Herbert Wichelns at the discipline’s centennial mark: Re-reading a
prospectus for rhetoric as an independent discipline,” National Communication
Association, Orlando, FL, November 2012.

_______. “Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel’s Centenary of Emancipation Proclamation:
An Uncompromising Prophetic Rhetoric.” National Communication Association,
New Orleans, November 2011.

_______. “President Obama’s Noble Prize speech: A case for Rhetoric’s Effects,”
National Communication Association, San Francisco, November 2010.

________. Organizer of a pre-NCA conference on Rhetoric’s Effects. Chicago,
November, 2009.

________. “Letters to FDR: The Effects of FDR’s First Fireside Chat,” National
Communication Association,” San Diego, November 2008.

________. “Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Fireside Chat: At the Crossroad of the
Textual and Contextual.” National Communication Association, San Antonio,
TX, November 2006.

________. “A Festival of Hate: The 2001 Durban Conference on Racism and the
Rhetoric of Anti Semitism,” National Communication Association, Boston,
November 2005.

________. “Confronting anti-Semitism,” Panel organizer, chair, and panelist.
National Communication Association annual meeting, Chicago, November 2004.

________. Member and panelist of the Taskforce on “The Presidency During
Times of Crises,” Presidential Rhetoric conference, The Center for Presidential
Studies, Texas A&M University, March 2003. Invited.

________. “Theodore Herzl’s Rhetoric and Ideology.” Panelist and panel
organizer. National Communication Association annual meeting, Miami,
November 2003.

________.“Whither Bound: Roosevelt’s Quo-Vadis” National Communication
Association, annual meeting, Atlanta, November 2001. Competitive paper.
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________. Panelist. The University Forum: The Global Response to Terrorism.
Access to Information in Wartime. Syracuse University (November 15, 2001),
Invited.

_________. Panelist. The University Forum: Global Response to Terrorism. U.S.
foreign policy in the Middle East: Is this the key to peace? Syracuse University
(October 2001), Invited.

________. “Writing His Own Eulogy: Ronald Reagan Long Goodbye.” Paper
presentation, Framing Public Memory conference, Syracuse University,
September 2001. Invited paper.

________. “Writing His Own Eulogy: Ronald Reagan Long Goodbye,” National
Communication Association, Seattle, November 2000. Competitive panel.

________. Respondent to David Zarefsky's address on President Bush and Civil
Rights. Presidential Rhetoric conference, The Center for Presidential Studies,
Texas A&M University, March 2000. Invited.

_________. "FDR 1932 Presidential Campaign: Part I," National Communication
Association, New York City, November 1998. Competitive panel.

_________. “Is there Jewish Political Rhetoric?” National Communication
Association, Chicago, November 1997. Invited paper.

_________. “The Rhetoric of Confidence Economics: FDR’s First 100 Days.”
Speech Communication Association, San Diego, November 1996. Invited paper.

_________. Respondent to a panel. “Prime Minister’s Rabin’s Funeral: The
Rhetoric of Public Memory.” Speech Communication Association, San Diego,
November 1996. Panel organizer.

_________. Respondent to a major paper on President’s Carter’s Rhetoric,
Presidential Rhetoric conference, The Center for Presidential Studies, Texas
A&M University, March 1996. Invited.

_________. Chair and panelist. Spotlight on the scholarship of Donald N.
McCloskey. Speech Communication Association, San Antonio, November 1995.
Panel canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.

_________. “Benjamin Disraeli’s Speech on the Jewish Disabilities Act:
Contextualizing the Inventional Approach.” Speech Communication Association,
San Antonio, November 1995. Refereed.
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_________. Chair, “The Politics and Pedagogy of Public Morality.” Speech
Communication Association, San Antonio, November 1995. Invited.

_________. Discussant. Scholars Roundtable. Inaugural conference on
Presidential Rhetoric, The Center for Presidential Studies, Texas A&M
University, March, 1995. Invited.

_________. “George Bush’s Inaugural Address: Negotiating the Tension between
Change and Continuity.” Speech Communication Association, New Orleans,
November 1994. Refereed.

_________. “Reading George Bush’s 1992 State of the Union Address as a Crisis
Speech: Challenges to the Generic Approach.” Speech Communication
Association, Miami, November 1993.

_________. Chair, “The Rhetoric of Resistance.” Speech Communication
Association, Miami, November 1993. Invited.

_________. “From A Rhetorical Trap to Capitulation and Obviation: The Crisis
Rhetoric of George Bush’s ‘Read My Lips; No New Taxes’.” Eastern
Communication Association, Portland, Maine, May 1992. Refereed.

_________. “From the Principle of Retaliation to the Policy of Constraint: Israeli
Rhetoric of Consistency and Flexibility.” Special panel on the rhetoric of the War
in the Gulf. Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, April 1991.
Invited.

_________. “The Messianic Idea and its Rhetorical Constituencies in Judaism and
Christianity.” Speech Communication Association, Atlanta, November 1991.
Refereed.

_________. “The Court-Martial of Benedict Arnold.” The American Culture
Association. St. Louis, April 1989. Refereed.

_________. “Communication and Technology: Some Pedagogical Implications.”
Speech Communication Association, San Francisco, November 1989. Panel
organizer.

_________. “A Detour Communication Model of Courtroom Process.” Speech
Communication Association, San Francisco, November 1989. Refereed.

_________, and Dan L. Garan, “ABC, CBS, and NBC Coverage of the Geneva
Summit, 1985: A Narrative Paradigm Analysis.” The American Culture
Association, New Orleans, March 1988. Refereed.