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Faculty Profile

Amos Kiewe Professor Ph.D., Ohio University 105 Sims Hall Building V (315) 443-5132 Email: akiewe@syr.edu

Courses Taught

Research Interests
Dr. Kiewe's areas of research are in rhetorical theory and criticism, political communication, presidential studies, argumentation, and persuasion.  Most recently Dr. Kiewe began teaching and researching with students unsolved Civil Rights Murders. 

Dr. Kiewe has published in journals such as Communication Studies, Legal Studies Form, Journal of American Culture, Argumentation and Advocacy, and Southern Communication Journal.  He is the author of several books, including FDR’s First Fireside Chat: Public Confidence and the Banking Crisis (Texas A&M Press, 2007), co-authored FDR’s Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability (Texas A&M Press, 2003), A Shining City on a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989 (Praeger, 1991), co-edited Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan (Greenwood, 1992), and edited The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric (Praeger, 1994). 
 
Expertise
Political Communication, Presidential Rhetoric, Jewish Rhetoric.  

Administrative work

Dr. Kiewe is the past Chair of the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies (2001-2007) as well assistant dean and associate dean in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Scholarly Publications

Kiewe, A.  Ed. (1994).  The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

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

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

Articles in Refereed Journals:
Amos Kiewe, “Whither Bound: Roosevelt’s Quo-Vadis,” Southern Communication Journal 70 (2004): 418-433.

Kiewe, A. (2003) "Theodore Herzl's The Jewish State: Prophetic Rhetoric in the Service of Political Objectives" Journal of Communication and Religion, 26, 208-239.

Kiewe, A. (1999) "The Body as Proof: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Preparations for the 1932 presidential race," Argumentation and Advocacy (special issue) 36, 88-100.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book Chapters:
Kiewe, A. (2004) “Framing Public Memory: Ronald Reagan Long Goodbyes.”  In Framing Public Memory.  Ed. Kendall Phillips.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 248-266.

Kiewe, A. (1998). “The Crisis Tool in American Political Discourse.”  In Ofer Feldman and Christ'l de Landtsheer, Eds.  Politically Speaking.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 79-90.

Kiewe, A. “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.

Book Reviews:
Kiewe, A.  Review of Shared Land / Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use. By Robert C. Rowland and David A Franks, Michigan State University. Press 2002. Argumentation and Advocacy 40 (2004):287-290.

Kiewe, A.  Review of Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War Against Nazi Germany.  By Steve Casey,  New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.  Rhetoric and Public Affairs 5 (2002): 765-767.

Kiewe, A. Book Review (2001): 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: 183-186.

Kiewe, A. (1999).  Review of John W. Sloan, The Reagan Effect: Economics and Presidential Leadership.  Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 1999.  Journal of Rhetoric and Public Affairs.

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

Kiewe, A. (1997).  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, 844-46.

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

Awards and Honors:
College Faculty Award, Syracuse University, 1998.