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Kent Alan Ono is an American academic, author and educator. He is a Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University. He is the second Vice President Elect of National Communication Association, slated to be President for 2020.

Ono's research focuses on media representations of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation. His work in the area of rhetoric and communication theory has been focused in the areas of critical rhetoric, and race and colonialism. He has also contributed to research in rhetoric and media, where his work on television shows such as Mad Men, Star Trek, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and his work on films such as Pocahontas, Avatar, and Come See the Paradise, have had a significant impact on critical media research. He has authored and edited six books including Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past (2009), Asian Americans and the Media (2009) and Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187 (2002).

He is past editor of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies and Critical Studies in Media Communication. He is also the founding editor of the book series, Critical Cultural Communication, at New York University Press.

Early life and education
Ono was raised in Wyoming. He attended the University of Wyoming for three years, then transferred to DePauw University, in Greencastle, Indiana, where he completed a B.A. in English in 1987. He went on to be a news reporter at the Redlands Daily Facts, and later worked for United Press International in Los Angeles. Subsequently, he completed an M.A. in Communication from Miami University in 1988. In 1992, he completed his Ph.D. in Rhetorical Studies from University of Iowa. His dissertation focused on Japanese American protest rhetoric during World War II.

Career
After completing his Ph.D., Ono join University of California, Davis as an Assistant Professor, becoming Associate Professor in 1998. At Davis he directed the Cultural Studies Program (1999-2002) and served on the Dean's Advisory Committee of the Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies Division of the College of Letters and Science.

In 2002, Ono left University of California, Davis to join University of Illinois as Professor of Asian American Studies, Media and Cinema Studies. He was appointed the Director of the Asian American Studies Program in 2002 and served in this position until 2007. From 2005 to 2006, he was the Interim Director of the Center on Democracy in a Multicultural Society.

Ono left University of Illinois in 2012 and joined University of Utah as Professor of Communication, where he chaired the Communication Department from 2012 to 2017. In 2019, he moved to Arizona State University, becoming a Research Fellow and an Adjunct Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Communication.

Ono was the co-Editor of Critical Studies in Media Communication, with Ronald L. Jackson II, from 2011 to 2013 and the Editor of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies from 2013 to 2014. He has been the Associate Editor of Journal of Sports and Social Issues since 2002, of Pan Japan: The International Journal of the Japanese Disapora since 2002, of Quarterly Journal of Speech since 2015, and of Western Journal of Communication since 2018. From 2006 to 2014, he was the series co-Editor. with Sarah Banet-Weiser, of Critical Cultural Communication.

Ono has been a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation, the American Library Association, the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council.

Research and work
Much of Ono's research in the beginning of his career in the mid 1990s dealt with the topic of neocolonialism. He wrote a paper entitled 'Domesticating Terrorism: A Neocolonial Economy of Différance' in 1996. He further wrote about the neocolonialism rhetoric in Pocahontas and Power Rangers. This led to an interest in how race and culture is portrayed in the media. In 2000, he wrote a Chapter entitled 'To Be a Vampire on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Race and ('Other') Socially Marginalizing Positions on Horror TV' in the book Fantasy Girls.

Some of his research in the early 2000s dealt with the topic of Native Americans and how they have been portrayed in the media. In 2003, he wrote the book, Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187. The book discussed... https://search.proquest.com/openview/e8216b84a518e3b94827def824addda5/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=47585 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/378460 In 2004, the book received Book of the Year Award by the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association.

Towards the mid 2000s, Ono's research began to focus on Asian American studies: the emergence of Asian American communication studies, the politics of Asian American transnationalism and Asian American studies after 9/11. This work led to several publications on how Asian Americans are portrayed in the media. In 2009, he co-authored, with Vincent Pham, the book Asian Americans and The Media. Published by Polity Press, the book studies the U.S. media representation of Asian Americans. It also discusses ways Asian Americans have responded to those representations, mostly through their own media productions. Reviewing the book in Journalism Studies, ???? wrote that "Significant books reveal gaps in knowledge and compel readers to share an author's ideas. This excellent book succeeds on both counts." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10304310903294812 Ono has continued his research on Asian Americans in the media well into 2010s, writing 'Branding Blasians: Mixed Race Black/Asian Americans in the Celebrity Industrial Complex' in 2012 and 'The Shifting Landscape of Asian Americans in the Media' in 2017.

In 2009, Ono's book Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past was published by Peter Lang publishing. The book studies the rhetoric of colonialism in the United States and has been translated into Chinese. Beginning in early 2010s, he started research on intercultural communication.

Awards and honors

 * 2008 - Charles H. Woolbert Research Award, NCA
 * 2014 - Grazier Distinguished Lecture in Communication, University of South Florida
 * 2015 - Teachers on Teaching Award, NCA
 * 2015 - Distinguished Scholar Award, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division, NCA
 * 2015 - Distinguished Scholar Award, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, NCA
 * 2016 - Outstanding Article of the Year Award, International and Intercultural Division, NCA
 * 2018 -	Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award, NCA
 * 2018 - Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities Award, College of Humanities, University of Utah

Books authored

 * Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's "Proposition 187" (2002)
 * Asian Americans and the Media (2009)
 * Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past (2009)

Books edited

 * Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek (1996)
 * Asian American Studies after Critical (2005)
 * A Companion to Asian American Studies (2005)
 * Critical Rhetorics of Race (2011)

Selected articles

 * Ono, K. A., & Sloop, J. M. (1995). The critique of vernacular discourse. Communication Monographs, 62(1), 19–46.
 * Ono, K. A., & Sloop, J. M. (1992). Commitment totelos—a sustained critical rhetoric. Communication Monographs, 59(1), 48–60.
 * Ono, K. A., & Buescher, D. T. (2001). Deciphering Pocahontas: Unpackaging the commodification of a native American woman. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 18(1), 23–43.
 * Buescher, D. T., & Ono, K. A. (1996). Civilized Colonialism:Pocahontasas Neocolonial Rhetoric. Womens Studies in Communication, 19(2), 127–153.