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Robert Schmuhl

Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Professor of American Studies and Journalism
Director, John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy

Degrees

B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Indiana Univeristy-Bloomington; Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington

Research Profile

Schmuhl's interests include American communications and political culture. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Statecraft and Stagecraft: American Political Life in the Age of Personality (1990 and 1992) and Wounded Titans: American Presidents and the Perils of Power (1996). His edited volume, The Responsibilities of Journalism, has appeared in four foreign editions. In So Many Words: Arguments and Adventures was published in 2006. His academic articles have appeared in SOCIETY, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, The Review of Politics, and Style. His journalism has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA TODAY, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated, and American Journalism Review. Schmuhl served as a member of the Institutions of Democracy Commission on the Press, established in 2003 by the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. He won a Kaneb Teaching Award from Notre Dame in 2004.

Contact Information

431 Decio Faculty Hall
631-5128
Robert.P.Schmuhl.1@nd.edu