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Hutton Honors College

 —  Lucaites, John

  John Lucaites

Associate Professor of Communication and Culture
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1984

Professor Lucaites studies the relationship between rhetoric and social theory. Much of his recent writing examines the communicative power of famous, "iconic" photographs that have made their way from news reports to a permanent place in the public consciousness. He also researches the relationship between race and "American" identity, as well as the fragmentation of liberalism in the United States at the end of the twentieth century. A member of the IU faculty since 1987, Professor Lucaites teaches undergraduate courses that include Communication and Social Conflict, Freedom of Speech, Rhetoric and American Identity, and Photojournalism and Democratic Public Culture.

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