Draft:Ned O'Gorman

Ned O'Gorman is an U.S. professor and author in communication studies. His research focuses on the history of rhetoric, media studies, and political culture. O'Gorman's work emphasizes the rhetorical and ideological legacies of the Cold War and their implications for American political culture.

He is the author of several books, most recently Politics for Everybody: Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times (University of Chicago Press). Prior to Politics for Everybody, he was the author of three books on the Cold War and its aftermath including, with Kevin Hamilton, the award-winning ''Lookout America! The Secret Hollywood Film Studio at the Heart of the Cold War'', published in 2019 by Dartmouth College Press. The book is centered on the history of Lookout Mountain Air Force Station Laboratory. It was the basis of the Smithsonian documentary "Atomic Age Declassified: Filming the Bomb " and has informed other documentaries and exhibits on the nuclear age in the United States and Europe.

O'Gorman has also published in political theory, rhetorical theory, and media studies. He is currently the editor of the Journal for the History of Rhetoric, published by Penn State University Press and the American Society for the History of Rhetoric.

He has taught at the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2005. In addition to teaching, he is affiliated at Illinois with the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, the Center for Global Studies and the Center for Writing Studies at UIUC. He has also been a writer at The Infernal Machine, the Huffington Post, and The Hedgehog Review.

Education
O'Gorman obtained his B.A. from Saint Louis University. He received his M.A. from University of Tennessee and his Ph.D. in 2005 from The Pennsylvania State University.

Selected Honors and Awards

 * 2014 – College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Illinois
 * 2016, Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Research Award, National Communication Association
 * 2019, Diane S. Hope Book Award, Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association
 * 2020 – University of Illinois University Scholar
 * 2021 –  University of Illinois Impact Award for teaching service

Selected Publications

 * O'Gorman, N., Politics for Everybody: Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times, University of Chicago Press, 2020
 * Hamilton, K. and O'Gorman, N., Lookout America! The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War, Dartmouth College Press, 2019
 * O'Gorman, N., The Iconoclastic Imagination: Image, Catastrophe, and Imagination in America since the Kennedy Assassination, University of Chicago Press, 2016
 * O'Gorman, N., Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy, Michigan State University Press, 2011