Kathleen E. Kendall

Ph.D., Indiana University

Teaching and Research Area/s: Political Communication
Office: University of Maryland, Department of Communication
Phone: 301-405-6525
Fax: 301-314-9471
E-mail: kkendall@umd.edu
Home Page: Kathleen Kendall.

Dr. Kendall's research focuses on political campaign communication, particularly in the presidential primaries and in presidential debates. 

She has produced a DVD/video on the primaries ("Primaries:  Defining the Battle in New Hampshire," http://www.films.com). Dr. Kendall has received awards for her teaching and scholarship from the Eastern Communication Association, and was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University in 1997. She regularly gives her analysis of  political communication events in media interviews.

Representative Publications:

Kathleen E. Kendall, Communication in the Presidential Primaries: Candidates and the Media, 1912-2000 (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000).

Kathleen E. Kendall, ed., Presidential Campaign Discourse (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995).