Faculty | John Lucaites

Professor, Department of Communication and Culture

Email: lucaites@indiana.edu
Phone: 855-5411
Office: 245

Education

Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1984

Background

Professor Lucaites's research concerns the relationship between rhetoric and social theory in the context of the relationship between race and identity, the impact of visual rhetoric on U.S. liberal-demoncratic public culture, and the fragmentation of liberalism in the U.S. at the end of the 20th century. His most recent work asks the question: What does it mean to "see" and "to be seen" as a citizen? He is a three time recipient of the National Communication Association’s Golden Anniversary Monograph Award (1997, 2002, and 2004), as well as the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award For Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address (1994), the Charles Kneupper Award from the Rhetoric Society of America (2001), and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the RCT Division of the NCA (2002). He is an editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech and Senior Editor for the University of Alabama's Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique book series. He also co-hosts a blog on rhetoric and photojournalism with Robert Hariman: www.nocaptionneeded.com.

Publication Highlights

No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. With Robert Hariman. University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Crafting Equality: America 's Anglo-African Word. With Celeste Michelle Condit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Awarded the 1994 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address.
Reader in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory. Ed. with Celeste Michelle Condit. Guilford Press, 1999.
"The Times Square Kiss: Iconic Photography and Civic Renewal in U.S. Public Culture," Journal of American History 94. With Robert Hariman. (2007): 122-31.
“Telescopic Mourning/Warring in the Global Village: Decomposing (Japanese) Authority Figures," Communication and Critical/Culture Studies 1. With James P. McDaniel. (2004): 1-28.
"Visualizing 'The People': Individualism and Collectivism in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Quarterly Journal of Speech 83 (1997): 269-88.
“Between Rhetoric and ‘The Law': Power, Legitimacy, and Social Change.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 76 (1990) : 435-49.

Recent Awards

2007 Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Research Award, Carl Couch Society.
2008 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form,
Media Ecology Association.
2008 Diamond Anniversary Book Award, National Communication Association.
2008 James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, National Communication Society.