Dr. Parry-Giles is the director of the Mark and Heather Rosenker Center for Political
Communication and Civic Leadership. She is also co-editor of the journal: Voices of
Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project (with J. Michael Hogan and Skye de Saint Felix)—a
project that was initially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is also co-
editor of the Recovering Democracy Archives: Speech Recovery Project (with Skye de Saint
Felix), which received a grant from the Waterhouse Family Institute of Villanova University.
Most recently Dr. Parry-Giles has published a think piece on Vice President Kamala Harris for
the Quarterly Journal of Speech.

Areas of Interest

  • Political Communication
  • Rhetoric
  • Gender

Degrees

  • Degree Details
    Ph.D., , Department of Speech Communication, Indiana University
Current classes taught in deliberation and democracy, the rhetoric of the presidency: power and
protest, political communication, and academic writing.

Current research projects include a project that addresses the debate over the Exoduster
movement in the post-Reconstruction era that marked a mass migration of freed enslaved people
to Kansas.

Parry-Giles is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eight books. She has a book under
contract entitled, Hillary Clinton’s Life in Speeches: The Promises and Perils of Women’s
Rhetorical Adaptivity (with David S. Kaufer and Xizhen Cai). Dr. Parry-Giles also co-authored
the book (with David S. Kaufer) entitled, Memories of Lincoln and the Splintering of American
Political Thought with Penn State University Press in 2017. She also authored the following
books: Hillary Clinton in the News: Gender and Authenticity in American Politics (recipient of
the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award) and The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold
War, 1945-1955 (named a Choice "Outstanding Academic Title"). In addition, she is a co-author
of Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics,
as well as The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism (with Trevor
Parry-Giles). Dr. Parry-Giles is also co-editor of the Handbook of Rhetoric and Public
Address (with J. Michael Hogan).

Current Students

Former Students

Shawn Parry-Giles
2126 Skinner Building
African American Studies Department
Phone
(301) 405-6527
Email
spg [at] umd.edu