Media organizations requesting interviews or appearances should contact Sherine B. Walton, Deputy Director at sbwalton@usc.edu,
Tel: (213) 821-2078
Director of Debate and Assistant Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication
Stables’ research focuses on exploring questions related to the challenges of communicating (and understanding) military conflicts in a mass-mediated age, including the difficulties associated with developing theories and strategies for public diplomacy. His work takes many forms, including:
• A discussion of the limitations of public diplomacy strategies that rely on traditional concepts of civil society, found in the Spring 2004 issue of Controversia, titled “The Lone Superpower Communicates with the Arab Street: Dimensions of Civil Society in American Public Diplomacy.”
• An examination of the role of gendered representations in the promulgation of justifications for the Kosovo military operation in 1999), found in the March 2003 edition of Critical Studies in Media Communication, titled “Justifying Kosovo: Representations of Gender, Masculinity, and Race.”
Stables teaches a variety of courses, including Argumentation and Advocacy, Political Communication, Communication as a Liberal Art, and graduate seminar in Public Diplomacy. In the fall of 2004, he is teaching an Argumentation course which is utilizing the War on Terror as a case study. You can review the documents compiled for the course.
He is also the District One representative to The National Debate Tournament and the Southern California regional representative for the Cross Examination Debate Association. He also serves as the Chair of the Educational Development and Practices Committee of the American Forensics Association.
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