Buddy Howell

• Reagan at the Summit: Presidential Public Diplomacy and the Collapse of Soviet Communism (monograph in process for submission to Michigan State University Press).
• “Margaret Thatcher: The ‘Iron Lady’ and ‘Feminization’ of the Cold Warrior”
  

• PhD, Texas A&M University
• MA, Baylor University
• BA, Baylor University

• The Rhetorical Tradition
• Communication Skills
• Introduction to Communication Studies
• Presidential Rhetoric political communication
• History & Criticism of American Public Address
• Rhetorical Criticism
• Argumentation & Public Advocacy
• Public Speaking
• Persuasion

• University Sporn Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Subjects, Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research and the Virginia Tech Academy for Teaching Excellence, 2020
  
• Leon Geyer Award

Journal Articles

“Continuity & Change in Victory and Concession Speeches: Race, Gender, and Age in the Last Speeches of the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign,” American Behavioral Scientist 55 (June 2011): 765-783.

“Reagan and Reykjavik: Arms Control, SDI, and the Argument from Human Rights,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 11 (October 2008): 389-415.

“Ronald Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University: A Rhetoric of Conciliation and Subversion,” Southern Communication Journal 68 (December 2003): 107-120.

“Ending the 2000 Presidential Election: Gore’s Concession Speech and Bush’s Victory Speech,” American Behavioral Scientist 44 (August 2001): 2314-2330.  (with Dr. Kurt Ritter).

Encyclopedic Entries

“Aristotle” in Lynda Lee Kaid and Christina Holtz-Bacha, ed., Encyclopedia of Political Communication (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008).

Published Book Reviews

Review of Robert C. Rowland and John M. Jones, Reagan at Westminster:  Foreshadowing the End of the Cold War, in Presidential Studies Quarterly 41  (September 2011): 658-660.

Review of Richard J. Jensen, Reagan at Bergen-Belsen and Bitburg, in Rhetoric & Public Affairs 12 (Summer 2009): 334-337.

Review of Mary E. Stuckey, Slipping the Surly Bonds: Reagan’s Challenger Address, in Southern Communication Journal 72 (June 2007): 207-209.

Research in Progress

Reagan at the Summit: Presidential Public Diplomacy, U.S-Soviet Summits, 1985-88, and the Collapse of Soviet Communism (book manuscript in preparation for submission to Rowman & Littlefield press, Lexington Studies in Political Communication).