1995-Present, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, UNC Chapel Hill

1990-1995, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, UNC Chapel Hill

1988-1990, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

1978-1988, Instructor, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh

Ph.D, Northwestern University, Department of Communication Studies, September 1988

MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Speech Communication, August 1984

BS, Northwestern University, Department of Communication Studies, June 1982

"Talkin’ the Talk," Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and Beyond, Essays in honor of Michael MccGwire, ed. Kenneth Booth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998): 122-132

Language entries, Oxford Companion to American Military History, Oxford University Press (in press)

Cold War Analytical Structures and the Post Post-War Era, February 1993, Praeger Press

"We Don’t Do Mountains": Image and Argument in American Military Policy Proposal under final review, Lynne Reinner Press

"The Shot Seen ‘Round the World: The Impact of the Mogadishu Photographs on American Foreign Policy," Rhetoric and Public Affairs forthcoming

"We Don’t Do Mountains: The Impact of Argument on US Decisions to Intervene," Contemporary Security Policy (forthcoming)

"Image as Argument: The Impact of Mogadishu on American Military Intervention," Armed Forces and Society 27, no. 2 (Winter 2001): 205-230

"The Place and Power of Civic Space: Reading Globalization and Social Geography Through the Lens of Civilizational Conflict," (with David Cheshier), Security Studies 8, no. 2 (Winter 1998-99): 34-67

"The Practice of Argument: Reading the Conditions of Civil-Military Relations," Armed Forces and Society, Spring 1998: 435-446

"If Somalia, Why Not Bosnia?: Argument Standards for a New World Order," in Argument and the Postmodern Challenge: Proceedings of the Eighth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, ed., Raymie McKerrow (Annandale, Va.: SCA, November 1993): 283-293

"It’s Time for a Change: A Global Assessment of the State of the Art in NDT Debate," (with Scott Deatherage) in Argument and the Postmodern Challenge: Proceedings of the Eighth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, ed., Raymie McKerrow (Annandale, Va.: SCA, November 1993): 69-71

"Negotiating From Strength: Arms Control and the Rhetoric of Denial," Political Communication and Persuasion 7, no. 2 (April-June 1990): 97-115

"Game Theory and Deterrence: A Communications Centered Perspective," International Studies Notes 15, no. 3 (Fall 1990): 91-97

"Fusion Criticism: A Call to Criticism," Spheres of Argument: Proceedings of the Sixth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, ed., Bruce Gronbeck, et al (Annandale, Va.: SCA, October 1989): 33-36

"Validity Standards and the Strategic Debate," Defense Analysis 5, no. 2 (Spring 1989): 115-128

"Debate as Empowerment," Journal of the American Forensics Association 25, no. 4 (Spring 1989): 205-207

"Through a Glass Darkly: Validity Standards in the Strategic Nuclear Debate," Journal of the American Forensics Association 24, no. 3 (Winter 1988): 168-180

"Better Dead or Red: Risk in the Nuclear Age," Proceedings of the Fifth Summer Conference on Argumentation (Backlick, Va.: SCA, October 1988): 137-142

A Symbolic Analysis of Nuclear Strategic Doctrine, doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University, receipient of the 1989 departmental Dissertation of the Year Award, Department of Communication Studies

2000 Winner (with David Cheshier) American Forensic Association Research Award, for the "The Place and Power of Civic Space"

2000 UNC Nominee to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Sawyer Seminar Series (Principal Investigator)

1999 University Research Council Grant for We Don’t Do Mountains

1998 Winner, Advanced Research Award, Military History Institute of the US Army War College

1996 Winner of the Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship from a Young Faculty Member (UNC Chapel Hill campus wide award)

1996 Arts and Sciences Foundation Grant, UNC

1996 Research Grant from the Marine Corps Historical Foundation for research in the Marine Corps Historical Center Archives for Desert Storm

1995 Winner, Vice Admiral Edwin Hooper Grant from the United States Naval Historical Center for research in the Naval Historical Center Archives for Desert Storm

1994 Winner, Air Force Historical Research Agency Grant, for research in the Historical Center archives, Maxwell AFB, for We Don’t Do Mountains

1993 Arts and Humanities Institute Fellowship, Fall semester research leave

1992 Junior Faculty Development Award, UNC Chapel Hill, for research in the Naval War College archives for Desert Storm

1993 University Research Council Grant for We Don’t Do Mountains

"’We Don’t Do Mountains’: Image and Argument in US Military Policy," Department of International Politics, University of Wales at Aberystwyth, April 20, 1999

"Where’s the Carrier? Naval and Marine Corps Budgets in the Wake of the Weinberger Doctrine," Naval Historical Center Seminar Series, Washington Navy Yard, September 30, 1996

"The Weinberger Doctrine and the Crisis in Civil-Military Affairs," Olin Institute Seminar Series in Civil-Military Affairs, School for Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, November 22, 1996

"Rhetoric and the Study of War," Triangle Institute for Strategic Studies, Dinner Seminar Series, Chapel Hill, NC, November 28, 1995

"Nuclear Strategic Doctrine as Argument Form," Faculty Colloquium Series, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, November 10, 1995, Evanston, IL.

"’Time for Us to Go’: Exit Strategies as Argument Construct," AFA/NCA Conference on Argument, Alta, UT, August 4, 2001

"Space, Place, Vector, Grid: The Use of Space in Contemporary Military Doctrine," National Communication Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, November 10, 2000

"Poisoning the Well: the Weinberger Doctrine and US Military Policy," Conference sponsored by the UK Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Defense and the University of Birmingham, April 17, 1999, Birmingham, UK

"Embodying Foreign Policy: Imagery and US Decisionmaking in Mogadishu," Southern States Speech Communication Association Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX, April 5, 1998

"The Power of Civic Space," (with David Cheshier), Speech Communication Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, November 21, 1997

"Spatial Construction in US Military Doctrine," SCA Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, November 26, 1996

"An Argument Centered Approach to the Crisis in Civil-Military Affairs," Conference on Civil-Military Affairs, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 11, 1996

"Orientalist Discourse and the War in the Gulf," SCA Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX, November 24, 1995

"Criticism That Counts: Argument in the Real World," SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT, August 3, 1995

"Casualties in the Gulf War: How Numbers Count in Narrative Argument," Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT, August 3, 1995

"Nation Building and the Lessons of Vietnam," Southern States Speech Convention, New Orleans, LA, April 4, 1995

"Genocide, Military Intervention and the Mass Media," Conference on Courage and Conformity, UNC Chapel Hill, October 21, 1994

"Deterrence in a Post-Cold War World: An Argument Centered Perspective," Conference on Deterrence Sponsered by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Office of Ballistic Missile Defense, and the Science Applications International Corporation, Airlie, VA, September 27, 1994

"If Somalia, Why Not Bosnia?" Eighth Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT, August 1993

--Appointed Chair, Forces Development and Utilization Subcommittee and member, Executive Committee, for 1999

--Appointed Editorial Board, Argumentation and Advocacy, 1997-1999

--Chair 1993 Policy Caucus Conference on Tenure and Promotion Standards for Directors of Forensics

--Appointed Chair, Working Group of the National Debate Tournament Committee on Reevaluating Qualification Procedures for the National Debate Tournament, 1992

--Elected Chair, National Debate Tournament National Committee, 1989-1990

--Appointed Acting Chair, Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense for Spring 1997 and Acting Executive Director, Triangle Institute for Security Studies

--Appointed Advisory Committee to the Curriculum on Peace, War, and Defense, UNC Chapel Hill, 1990-1993, reappointed for 1993-1996 and 1996-1999

--Invited Participant, National Security Seminar, June 6-11, 1999, US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA

--Principal Organizer, Interdisciplinary Conference on Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy under the auspices of the Triangle Institute for Strategic Studies, January 10, 1998

--Invited Participant, Distinguished Visitor Tour, USS Enterprise, June 1998

--Invited Participant, US Army War College Outreach Visit to National Training Center, Ft. Irwin, CA, August 1998, under the auspices of the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College

--Invited Participant, Current Strategy Forum, Naval War College, June 1992

--Invited Participant, US Air Force Public Outreach Tour, Air Combat Command, Langley AFB, VA

Seminar in Public Argument, Seminar in Rhetoric of National Security

Courses in Public Policy Argument, Rhetoric of Desert Storm, and War in American Culture

Courses in Public Policy Argument, War in American Culture, Basic Course in Public Argument and Public Speaking

Director of Forensics, UNC Chapel Hill, 1990 to 1999. Tenth ranked team in the nation 1992, multiple teams qualified to the National Debate Tournament and to elimination rounds throughout the period; coached winners of multiple speaker awards.

Director of Forensics, University of Pittsburgh, 1987 to 1990. Qualified teams to the NDT every year, ninth ranked team in the nation in 1989 and sixteenth in 1990. Multiple elimination rounds and speaker awards.

Host of over fourteen intercollegiate and national high school tournaments throughout this period.

Instructor, High School Debate Institutes at Dartmouth College, the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Georgetown University, Guest lecturer at Dartmouth, Northwestern, Georgia State