Curriculum Vita

G. R. Boynton
Department of Political Science University of Iowa

Date of Birth: 1935

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1964

B.A., Oklahoma Baptist University, 1957

Professional Positions

Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, 1964-present, current rank: Professor

Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis, Visiting Professor: 1988

Department of Political Science, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, CIC Visiting Professor: 1985-86

Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, Chairman, 1979-82

Director, Laboratory for Political Research, University of Iowa, 1965-1975, 1979-82

Program Director for Political Science, National Science Foundation, 1972-1974

Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, 1963-64, rank: Assistant Professor

Publication

The Dynamics of Attention, ITP/ICOMM News, vol. 5, issue 2

Database: YouTube Video Stats, 2008, hosted by University of Iowa Information Technology Services

Database: Presidential Campaign Videos, 2008, hosted by Iowa Digital Library

Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton (2008) Globalizing Media and North-South Initiatives, in Rafael Reuveny and William R. Thompson, eds, North and South in the World Political Economy, Blackwell Publishing.

Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton (2007) Globalizing Terror, in Rolf Norgaard, ed. Composing Knowledge, Bedford/St. Martin's.

G. R. Boynton (2006), RSS and Learning, The ITP News, vol. 3, issue 2, p. 15.

Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton (2005) Globalizing Sympathy, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Argumentation.

Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton (2004), American Communication Journal, Globalizing Political Action: Building bin Laden and Getting Ready for 9/11.

Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton (2004) "Paths Through the Minefields of Foreign Policy Space: Practical Reasoning in the U.S. Senate Discourse about Cambodia," in Beer and Landtsheer, Metaphorical World Politics, Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, Michigan.

G. R. Boynton (2003) Legislatures, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Government and Politics.

G. R. Boynton and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, eds. (1998) special electronic issue of Political Communication.

Milton G. Lodge and G. R. Boynton (1998) Hot cognition, Political Communication.

Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton (1998) Traveling together on the information superhighway: conversations about politics, language, and distance learning, Political Communication.

G. R. Boynton and John S. Nelson (1998) Sound arguments, Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Argumentation.

G. R. Boynton and John S. Nelson (1997), Rhetorics of Political Advertising, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

How Past is Present in Writing International Affairs: Telling the Cambodian Story, (1996) in Mary Stuckey (ed.), The Theory and Practice of Political Communication Research, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

The Art of Campaign Advertising, Chatham House, Chatham, N.J., 1996

Our Conversations about Governing (1996) in David Paletz ed. Political Communication Research, Ablex Publishing Corp., Norwood, N.J.

Beer, Francis A. and G. R. Boynton (1996) Realist rhetoric but not realism; a senatorial conversation about Cambodia in Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman, eds., Realist Rhetoric, Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.

Beer, Francis A. and G. R. Boynton (1995) Speaking About Dying, in Sally Jackson, ed., Argumentation and Values, proceedings of the ninth SCA/AFA conference on argumentation, pp. 550-557

G. R. Boynton and John Nelson (1995) How Music and Image Deliver Argument in Political Advertisements on Television, in Sally Jackson, ed., Argumentation and Values, proceedings of the ninth SCA/AFA conference on argumentation, pp. 543-59

Computational Modeling: A Computational Model of a Survey Respondent, in Milton Lodge and Kathleen McGraw Political Judgment: Structure and Process Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Crossing The World Order Divide (with Peggy Dozark) in Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Argumentation Speech Communicaton Association, Annandale, VA., 1993.

Voters' Images of Candidates (with Milton Lodge) in Bruce Gronbeck and Arthur Miller (eds.) Presidential Campaigning and America's Self Images Westview, 1993.

Boynton, G. R. and Sheila Creth, eds., New Technologies and New Directions, Westport: Meckler, 1993

Legislatures, in Routledge Encyclopedia of Government and Politics, 1992

The Disappearing Sound-Bite (1991) Political Communication Report, vol. 2, no. 4, November.

Political Representation as Information Processing and Problem Solving, (with C. L. Kim), The Journal of Theoretical Politics, vol. 3, no. 4, October, 1991, pp. 437-461.

When Senators and Publics Meet at the Environmental Protection Subcommittee, Discourse and Society vol. 2, no. 2, April 1991, pp. 131-156.

The Expertise of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Valarie Hudson, ed., Artificial Intelligence and International Politics, Westview Press, 1991.

The Solution, Political Communication Report, vol. 2, num. 2, March 1990, p. 9

Special Editor, with Milton Lodge, of two issues of Political Behavior on Cognition and Political Behavior vol. 12, nos. 1 and 2, 1990.

Editors Note: Cognition and Political Action (with Milton Lodge) Political Behavior, vol. 12, no. 1, March, 1990, pp. 105.

Ideas and Action; A Cognitive Model of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Political Behavior, vol. 12, no. 2, June 1990, pp. 181-213.

Conversations About Governing, Bruce Gronbeck, ed., SPHERES OF ARGUMENT, Speech Communication Association, Annandale, VA., 1989, pp. 167-74.

The Senate Agriculture Committee Produces a Homeostat, POLICY SCIENCES, 1989, 22: 51-80.

Telling a Good Story: Models of Argument; Models of Understanding in the Senate Agriculture Committee, in Joseph W. Wenzel, ed., ARGUMENT AND CRITICAL PRACTICES, Speech Communications Association, Annandale, Va., 1987

Models of the Economy Implicit in the Public Discourse, (with Christophe Deissenberg), POLICY SCIENCES, 1987, 20: 129-151.

On Getting From Here to There; Reflections on Two Paragraphs and Other Things , in Elinor Ostrom, ed., STRATEGIES OF POLITICAL INQUIRY, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, 1982

Linking Problem Definition and Research Activities: Using Formal Languages, in Judy Gillespie, ed., MISSING ELEMENTS IN POLITICAL INQUIRY, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, 1982

The Quality of Life and Public Confidence in Government, in G. E. Lasker, ed., APPLIED SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS, vol. 1, Pergamon Press, New York, 1981.

The Mini-Micro Connection, PROCEEDINGS ACM JOINT CONFERENCE ON EASIER AND MORE PRODUCTIVE USE OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS

MATHEMATICAL THINKING ABOUT POLITICS, Longman, Inc., New York, 1980

An Analysis of Consociational Democracy, LEGISLATIVE STUDIES QUARTERLY, February, 1978, pp. 11-26

THREE PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNING, (with W. H. Kwon), American Political Science Association, Supplementary Analytic Units, 1978

The Evolution of Public Perceptions of Adenauer as a Historical Leader: Test of a Mathematical Model of Attitude Change, (with Gerhard Loewenberg), SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY, Fall, 1976

Cumulativeness in International Relations, in James Rosenau, ed., IN SEARCH OF GLOBAL PATTERNS, Free Press, New York, 1976

REPRESENTATIVES AND THE REPRESENTED, (with Samuel C. Patterson and Ronald Hedlund), Wiley, New York, 1975

LEGISLATIVE SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, (with C. L. Kim), ed., Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1975

CITIZENS, LEADERS, AND LEGISLATURES; PERSPECTIVES ON SUPPORT FOR AMERICAN LEGISLATURES, (with Samuel C. Patterson), Sage Professional Papers, Beverly Hills, 1974

The Decay of Support for Monarchy and Dictatorship in Postwar Germany, (with Gerhard Loewenberg), BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, October, 1974

POLITICAL BEHAVIOR AND PUBLIC OPINION, (with R. L. Bowman), ed., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1974

The Development of Public Support for Parliament in Germany, 1951-1959, (with Gerhard Loewenberg), BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, 3, 1973

Dimensions of Support in Legislative Systems, (with S. C. Patterson and John Wahlke) in LEGISLATURES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, Allan Kornberg, ed., McKay, New York, 1973

Citizens and the political system, Harper and Row, New York, 1973

The Individual in Society, Laboratory for Political Research of University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1972

Changing Attitudes Toward Integration, Laboratory for Political Research of University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1972

Voting Behavior in the United States: 1952-1976, Laboratory for Political Research of University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1976

Public Reactions to Civil Disobedience, Laboratory for Political Research of University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1972

Civic Perception-Expectation Differentials and Legislative Support, (with S. C. Patterson), AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, Vol. 75, No. 1, 1969

Legislative Recruitment in a Civic Culture, (with S. C. Patterson), SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, September, 1969

Missing Links in Legislative Politics: Constituency Influentials, (with S. C. Patterson), JOURNAL OF POLITICS, August, 1969

Communal Ideology and Politial Support, (with Marion Roth), JOURNAL OF POLITICS, May, 1969

Evaluation of General Research Support Program, (with Sidney G. Roth), National Institutes of Health, 1969

The Nature of Support for Legislative Institutions, (with S. C. Patterson and Ronald Hedlund), MIDWEST JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, May, 1968

Recruitment Patterns Among Local Party Officials: A Model and Some Preliminary Findings in Selected Locales, (with R. L. Bowman), AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, September, 1966

Variations in Local Party Activity, (with R. L. Bowman), JOURNAL OF POLITICS, February, 1966

Southern Conservatism: Constituency Opinion and Congressional Voting, PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY, Summer, 1965

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

Center for Research Libraries Award -- 2010 Primary Source Awardee for Research

President's Award for Technology Innovation, 2006.

National Science Foundation, 1999-2001, $195,000 equipment grant to upgrade network for multimedia teaching

Microsoft, Grand Prize, Innovator in Higher Education Challenge for OnLine at Iowa, 1997

University Teaching Award, 1992

Obermann Fellowship, seminar on Presidential Campaigning and American Self-Images, summer 1991

National Endowment of Humanities Fellow, fall 1990

The Dynamics of Candidate Evaluation, National Science Foundation, 1990-91

A Computer-Based Teleconference for Quantitative International Politics, National Science Foundation, 1983-85

Developmental Assignment to do Research on Organizational Theory, University of Iowa, 1982-83

Faculty Fellowship, Science Faculty Professional Development Program, National Science Foundation, 1978-1979

Developmental Assignment to Study Control Theory, University of Iowa, 1977

Social Change and Political Attention, National Science Foundation, 1976-78

The Role of Legislatures in Managing Social Conflict: Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland, Ford Foundation, 1973-1979

Public Support for Basic Institutions in Germany, Natonal Science Foundation 1971-1972

Development of Computer Based Curriculum Materials for the Social Sciences, National Science Foundation, 1969-1972

Publication of SSDATA, National Science Foundation, 1971-1973

Iowa Legislative Research Project, Social Science Research Council and National Science Foundation, 1967-1969

Evaluation of General Research Support Program of the National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Health, 1969-1970

Equipment Grant for Improving Undergraduate Education, National Science Found ation, 1966

Professional Activities

Chair, committee to select Doris Graber award for best book of the decade, Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association, 2009

Chair, ITP Connect, committee of the Information Technology and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, 2009

Member executive committee Information Technology and Politics section of American Political Science Association, 2008-2013

Member of The National Archives panel on medieval resource materials, 2003 - 2006

Publication Board, Political Communication Section of American Political Science Association 1999-2005

Managing Editor, Poroi Journal, 2000 - 2007.

Section Organizer, International Society of Political Psychology, July 1-4, 2000

Chair, Westview Award committee for paper presented at the 1999 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association

Member editorial board of Political Communication, 1995-2005

Chairman, APSA Political Communication Division, 1993-94

Chairman, International Studies Association Committee on Electronic Resources, 1993-94

Chairman, University of Iowa Committee on Statistics, 1990-91

Political Communication, Section Chair for 1991 American Political Science Association Meeting

American Political Science Association Committee on Research Support, Chairman, 1983-85

Editorial board, American Political Science Review, 1982-85

Program chairman of 1983 annual meeting of Midwest Political Science Association

Chairman, Political Science Panel, Modules and Monographs in Undergraduate Mathematics and Its Applications Project, 1976-present

Chairman, Section on Methodology and Analytical Theory for 1980 Program of American Political Science Association annual meeting

Program chairman of 1978 annual meeting of Midwest Political Science Association

Member of Social Science Curriculum Committee, CONDUIT, 1972-1976

Executive Committee, International Survey Library Association (Roper Center), 1968-1972

Executive Committee, Council of Social Science Data Archives, 1969-1970

Editorial Board, American Journal of Political Science, 1969-1972

Panel chairman, discussant, and paper presentations at a number of professional meetings

Teaching

Fall 2010
30:029	First Year Seminar	14
30:166	Global Communication and Politics	12
30:174	Multimedia Politics	15
Advisees	21
Spring 2010
30:139	Political Issues	23
30:191	Government Internship	1
Advisees	27

Service

Member department committee on stature of department, 2005

Chair, Departmental Recruiting Committee, 2000

University Accreditation Committee,

Task force on academic computing established by Provost and director of Information Technology Services

Liberal Arts task force on assessing electronic scholarship

University Library Committee, beginning fall 1998

Chair, faculty recruiting committee for Department of Political Science

Chair, Departmental committee on computing and communication

Member of executive committee