Rhetoric & Public Affairs

Editor

Jay P. Childers, University of Kansas

Book Review Editor

Johanna Hartelius, University of Texas at Austin

Editorial Assistant

Krishan Siriwardhana, University of Kansas

Advisory Committee

Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
José Ángel Maldonado, University of South Florida
John M. Murphy, University of Illinois
Karrieann Soto Vega, Pennsylvania State University
Belinda A. Stillion Southard, University of Georgia
Anna M. Young, Pacific Lutheran University

Editorial Board

Angela J. Aguayo, Southern Illinois University
Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University
Robert Asen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joshua Trey Barnett, Pennsylvania State University
Timothy Barney, University of Richmond
Hamilton Bean, University of Colorado-Denver
Jeffrey Bennett, Vanderbilt University
Jason Edward Black, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Denise Bostdorff, Wooster College
Michael Butterworth, University of Texas at Austin
Leah Ceccarelli, Washington University
Catherine Chaput, Fordham University
Karma R.Chávez, University of Texas at Austin
James L. Cherney, University of Nevada, Reno
Kundai Chirindo, Lewis & Clark
Josue David Cisneros, University of Illinois
Lisa M. Corrigan, University of Arkansas
Nathan Crick, Texas A&M University
Antonio de Velasco, University of Memphis
Thomas Dunn, Colorado State University
Jason A. Edwards, Bridgewater State University
Danielle Endres, University of Utah
Jessica Enoch, University of Maryland
Cara A. Finnegan, University of Illinois
Lisa A. Flores, University of Colorado-Boulder
Whitney Gent, University of Nebraska Omaha
Lisa M. Gring-Pemble, George Mason University
Joshua Gunn, University of Texas at Austin
Atilla Hallsby, University of Minnesota
Kelly E. Happe, University of Georgia
Robert Hariman, Northwestern University
Annie Hill, University of Texas-Austin
Theon Hill, Wheaton College
Mark Hlavacik, North Texas University
Kristen Hoerl, University of Nebraska
Sarah Hae-In Idzik, Carnegie Mellon University
Robin E. Jensen, University of Utah
Paul Elliot Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
Jacob W. Justice, University of Mississippi
Jiyeon Kang, University of Iowa
Melanie Loehwing, Mississippi State University
John A. Lynch, University of Cincinnati
Kristy Maddux, University of Maryland
Jennifer Mercieca, Texas A&M University
Raquel Moreira, University of Maryland
Billie Murray, Villanova University
Meredith Neville-Shepard, University of Arkansas
Ryan Neville-Shepard, University of Arkansas
Omedi Ochieng, University of Colorado
Christa J. Olson, University of Wisconsin
Ersula J. Ore, Arizona State University
Shawn Parry-Giles, University of Maryland
Trevor Parry-Giles, University of Maryland
Damien Smith Pfister, University of Maryland
Vincent N. Pham, Willamette University
Kendall R. Phillips, Syracuse University
Kristan Poirot, Texas A&M University
Allison M. Prasch, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Erin J. Rand, Syracuse University
Angela G. Ray, Northwestern University
Cindy Koenig Richards, Willamette University 
Allison L. Rowland, St. Lawrence University
John M. Sloop, Vanderbilt University
Damariyé L. Smith, San Diego State University
Leland G. Spencer, Miami University Ohio
Roger Stahl, University of Georgia
Bjørn F Stillion Southard, University of Georgia
Paul Stob, Vanderbilt University
Mary Stuckey, Pennsylvania State University
Dave Tell, University of Kansas
Robert E. Terrill, Indiana University
Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra University
Sara C. VanderHaagen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Pamela VanHaitsma, Pennsylvania State University
Anjali Vats, University of Pittsburgh
Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Texas A&M University
Kirt H. Wilson, Penn State University
Emily Winderman, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Carly S. Woods, University of Maryland

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Citation Examples

BOOK

Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 10–12.

ARTICLE

H. W. Brands, “The Age of Vulnerability: Eisenhower and the National Insecurity State,” American Historical Review 94 (1989): 963–89.

CHAPTER

Fred Greenstein, “Eisenhower’s Leadership Style,” in Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment, ed. Gunter Bischof & Stephen E. Ambrose (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995), 55–63.

SUBSEQUENT SHORTENED CITATIONS SHOULD READ AS FOLLOWS (do not use Ibid.)

• Campbell and Jamieson, Deeds Done in Words, 10.
• Brands, “Age of Vulnerability,” 963.
• Greenstein, “Eisenhower’s Leadership Style,” in Eisenhower, 55.