Biography

Mary Stuckey (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1987) is Professor of Communication and Political Science and Graduate Director in the Department of Communication. Her nine books focus on presidential communication and rhetoric, including national identity, strategic failures, the pre-presidential and presidential rhetoric of Ronald Reagan, the Challenger address, and the theory and practice of political communication research. Her most recent book is Jimmy, Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda (Texas A&M 2008), which won the 2009 Marie Hochmuth Nicols Award.  Her 50 articles and book chapters expand understanding of the presidency, the media, and governmental rhetoric aimed at American Indians. In all cases, she is interested in how political power is constructed and communicated. Stuckey has won teaching awards from the Mississippi Humanities Council and the American Political Science Association, and the Southern Communication Association, a campus-wide award from the University of Mississippi, and has been a fellow of the GSU Center for Teaching & Learning. Her work has been supported by NASA, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the Gerald R. Ford Library, and CSPAN. Stuckey has been active in the Women’s Caucus, Political Communication Division of the American Political Science Association, she is currently Vice President of APSA's Presidency Research Group. She has chaired the National Communication Association's Political Communication Division and the Southern Speech Communication Association’s Rhetoric and Public Address Division. Research Areas: Rhetorical Studies; Presidential Rhetoric; National Identity; Media and Politics. Degree Track Affiliations: Ph.D. (Public Communication), M.A. (Human Communication & Social Influence). Core Graduate Seminars Regularly Taught: Rhetoric & Identity Studies; The Rhetoric of Hatred; Communication Pedagogy; Presidential Rhetoric.