Selected Publications

The God strategy: How religion became a political weapon in America.
Oxford University Press: New York, January 2008 (with Kevin Coe).

"Going public, crisis after crisis: The Bush administration and the press
from September 11 to Saddam," Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 10: 195-220 (with
Sue Lockett John, Kevin Coe, and Erica Graham).

"Masculinity as political strategy: George W. Bush, the 'war on
terrorism,' and an echoing press," Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy,
29: 31-55 (with Kevin Coe, Meredith Bagley, Sheryl Cunningham, and Nancy
Van Leuven).

“Going public as political strategy: The Bush administration, an echoing press, and passage of the U.S.A. Patriot Act,” Political Communication (July-September 2006), 23: 291-312, with Erica Graham, Kevin Coe, Sue Lockett John, and Ted Coopman.

“Petitioners or prophets? Presidential discourse, God, and the ascendancy of religious conservatives,” Journal of Communication, June 2006, 56: 309-330, with Kevin Coe.

God Willing? Political Fundamentalism in the White House, the "War on Terror," and the Echoing Press. Published August 2004, Pluto Press.
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"U.S. national identity, political elites, and a patriotic press following September 11," Political Communication (January-March 2004), 21, 27-51, with John Hutcheson, Andre Billeaudeaux, and Philip Garland.

"Insights into U.S. racial hierarchy: Racial profiling, news sources, and September 11," Journal of Communication (December 2003), 53: 606-623, with Philip Garland, Andre Billeaudeaux, and John Hutcheson.

"News framing and cueing of issue regimes: Explaining Clinton's public approval in spite of scandal," Public Opinion Quarterly (fall 2002), 66: 339-371, with Dhavan V. Shah, Mark D. Watts, and David P. Fan.

"The primes of our times?: An examination of the 'power' of visual images," Journalism (August 2002) 3(2): 131-159, with David Perlmutter and Department of Communication PhD student Meg Spratt.

"Racial cues and political ideology: An examination of associative priming," Communication Research (December 2001), 28: 772-801.

Awards

2008 University of Washington Graduating Class Favorite Professor

2006 Washington state Professor of the Year, Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education

2006 Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for Oustanding Achievement in Research, Teaching, and Public Service, Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication

2005 National Doctoral Honors Seminar leader, National Communication Association

2004 Inaugural Knight Forum in Media and Religion Lecture, University of Southern California

2002 University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award

1998 Catherine Covert Award for Year's Outstanding Article in Journalism and Mass Communication History

1997 Nafziger-White Award for field's outstanding dissertation (given by Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication).