Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Goodnight, G. Thomas
Communication
Contact Information
Email: gtg@usc.edu
Phone: (847) 491-5841
Biography
Professor G. Thomas Goodnight is from Houston, Texas. He hails from a family of German and French academics. He is married to his wife Lynn also from Houston who directed the Summer Programs at USC and Northwestern University for a number of years. The Goodnights have 3 children, James (a polymath), Katherine (a doctor) and Mark (a banker). They are an active part of the wide Trojan Family.
Professor Goodnight was elected as Distinguished Scholar in 2014 by the National Communication Association. Professor at Northwestern University 2015-2002; Professor at the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism 2002-2023 and on. Goodnight has directed over 50 doctoral dissertations in Communication and Rhetoric, several receiving awards and most leading to successful careers in the field. A Fulbright Senior Scholar, he has traveled, researched, and spoken extensively at Communication Programs across the globe, including Sustainability and Deliberation, Resilience and the City, Social Theories and the Cybersphere and Governance. This fall he is a Fellow at Fudan University, Shanghai and a guest of Tsingua
University, Beijing.
Courses:
- COMM 323: Public Deliberation
- COMM 413: Propaganda, Ideology and Public Controversy
- COMM 561: Leading and Communicating Change in Global Organizations
Expertise:
- Public, technical and person sphere—communication and rhetoric.
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Think tanks and knowledge communities--argumentation. History of Propaganda.
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Energy communications—globalizations and infrastructures.
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Democracies and public address. China: Network Pragmatics and Environmental Culture.
Research and Practice Areas:
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Civic Engagement and Social Justice
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Health
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Science, Technology and Innovation
Center Affiliations:
- USC – China Institute
- Communication Advisory Board: Jiaotong University
- Zhejiang Project
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October 20, 2024
October 20, 2024
Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
RSVP link: https://forms.gle/1zer188RE9dCS6Ho6
Events
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.