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Dr. Allison Prasch

Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Politics & Culture, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Allison Prasch is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research and teaching focuses on U.S. presidential rhetoric, public address, foreign policy, space/place, and rhetorical history, theory, and criticism.

In her first book, The World is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War (University of Chicago Press, 2023), she examines how U.S. presidents used their rhetoric abroad as a persuasive strategy during the Cold War. Drawing on archival research from five presidential libraries, the Department of State, and the United States Information Agency and fieldwork in Europe, she shows how five chief executives used their international tours—and, importantly, the widespread media coverage of such tours—as a way to extend the United States’ global influence, expand the reach of presidential power in foreign affairs, and bolster their own image at home and abroad. Her current research considers how questions of race, place, geography, and identity shaped the early history of the U.S. capital city.

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