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Dr. Kelly M. McDonald
Assistant Professor and Director of Forensics
Argumentation, Political Communication, Public Sphere
STA 474
(480) 965-2027
kelly.mcdonald@asu.edu
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Kelly M. McDonald (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1998) joined The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication in August 2000. He was an Academic Professional and Director of Forensics for five years, when leading ASU’s national award winning speech and debate team. Since becoming an Assistant Professor, he has been active with the Consortium for Strategic Communication, a strategic initiative of the HDSHC focused on national security and terrorism related questions from a message based perspective. His principal research interests are political communication and public argument. Recent work looks at issues of participation and voter education from political debates, visual argument and the impact of the images of torture from Abu Graib and the role / import of political cartoons in the post 9/11 era. His interests focus at the intersections of public deliberation and public making, enhancing the mechanisms of deliberative democracy, and the use of forensic pedagogy to improve the learning outcomes for K-12 and University students.
McDonald serves as the Treasurer for the Cross Examination Debate Association. He serves as an editorial board member on the Western Journal of Communication and recently was co-program planner and associate editor for the National Communication Association / American Forensic Association’s Alta Summer Conference on Argumentation.
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