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the investigators
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Who We Are
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Stephen Maynard Caliendo is Associate Professor of Political Science at North Central College. With research emphasis in political communication and political socialization, he is the author of Teachers Matter, a book that examines the effects of political socialization on attitudes toward American political institutions. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Purdue University.
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Charlton McIlwain'scurrent research focuses on the use of racial appeals in political communication, including the semiotic construction of racial appeals in language and visual images; the effects of racial appeals on public opinion and voting behavior; framing and priming effects of race in various media; and the experiences of minority political candidates. Other work by McIlwain has focused on issues of death and dying in everyday life and popular culture. He is also interested in the philosophy of communication and research methods. His most recent book, When Death Goes Pop, was published in 2005. An edited volume, Philosophy, Method & Cultural Criticism, is forthcoming in 2007. His work in these areas have also been published or are forthcoming in journals such as Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Semiotica, Journal of Black Studies, TAMARA Journal of Critical Postmodern Organizational Science, American Behavioral
Scientist, Communication Quarterly, and others.He and Stephen Maynard Caliendo head the
Project on Race in Political Communication. CV
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The RaceProject team would like to thank all of the Research Assistants who have helped out since the inception of the project. You can find a list of RaceProject Research Assistants, past and present, here.
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