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Allen B. Shivers Chair in Communication and Government and Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication Dean, College of Communication The University of Texas at Austin Roderick P. Hart received his B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1966 and his M. A. and Ph. D. degrees from the Pennsylvania State University in 1968 and 1970. He taught at Purdue University from 1970-1979 and has taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1979 to the present. His area of special interest is politics and the mass media. Hart has served as Dean of the College of Communication at The Univeristy of Texas at Austin since 2004. Hart is the author of "Public Communication" (Harper & Row, 1975, 1983), "The Political Pulpit" (Purdue University Press, 1977), "Verbal Style and the Presidency" (Academic Press, 1984), "The Sound of Leadership: Presidential Communication in the Modern Age" (University of Chicago Press, 1987), "Modern Rhetorical Criticism" (Allyn and Bacon, 1990, 1997), "Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter" (Oxford University Press, 1994), "Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us" (Princeton University Press, 2000), and "Political Keywords: Using Language that Uses Us" (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is also co-editor of "Politics, Discourse, and American Society: New Agendas" and "Communication in U.S. Elections: New Agendas" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).Hart has published in such journals as the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, and the Journal of Communication. He has authored over ninety convention papers and has co-edited two series of books, one for Science Research Associates and one for Scott, Foresman Publishers.
As a teacher, Hart has been inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, he had been designated Professor of the Year for the State of Texas from the Carnegie/C.A.S.E. Foundation, and received the Eyes of Texas Student Involvement Award and the Texas Excellence Teaching Award (from the University of Texas), the Excellence in Teaching Award in the Humanities from Purdue University, and the Outstanding Young Teacher Award from the Central States Communication Association. Between 1970 and the present he has supervised sixty graduate theses and dissertations. | |||
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During the last twenty years, Hart has delivered public lectures at more than sixty colleges and universities throughout the United States. He has received grant support from the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Annenberg Foundation, Exxon Foundation, David Ross Foundation, and the Kaltenborn Foundation. A former Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Hart is currently listed in Who's Who in America, the Directory of American Scholars, International Who's Who in Education, and American Men and Women of Science. He has received the Diamond Anniversary Book Award, the Winans-Wichelns Book Award, the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award, and has thrice received the Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards from the National Communication Association. In 1993 he was named a Research Fellow of the International Communication Association and a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association. In 1995 he received the National Scholar of the Year Award from the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. In 2000, he received the Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award from the American Political Science Association.