DAVID PERLMUTTER
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research/Professor
Stauffer-Flint Hall 203B
785-864-7622 (office)
ddp@ku.edu
J-School profile

Expertise

Dr. Perlmutter served as a board member of the American Association of Political Consultants and now sits on the National Law Enforcement Museum Advisory Committee for its Media Exhibit.  A documentary photographer, he is the author or editor of seven books on political communication and persuasion. He has also written several dozen research articles for academic journals as well as over 150 essays for U.S. and international newspapers and magazines. He writes a regular column, “P&T Confidential,” for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been interviewed by most major news networks and newspapers, from the New York Times to CNN and ABC. He is editor of the blog of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at KU.

Keywords

Persuasion, blogs, political communication, photojournalism

Education

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1996.

M.A., University of Pennsylvania

B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Funding

Co-PI, $180,000 grant, KU Transportation Research Institute: “Improving Highway Workzone Safety,” 2007-2008.

PI, $9,200 grant, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education: “Can Blog Usership Increase Newspaper Readership?” 2006-2007.

Co-PI, $227,000 grant, KU Transportation Research Institute: “Driver Safety and the Boomer Dilemma: ‘Advanced Driver Training’ as Addressing the Attention Challenge,” 2007-2008.

Selected Publications

Perlmutter, D.D. (1998). Photojournalism and Foreign Policy: Framing Icons of Outrage in International Crises. Praeger Press.

Perlmutter, D.D. (1999). Visions of War: Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyberage. St. Martin’s Press.

Perlmutter, D.D. (1999). The Manship Guide to Political Communication. LSU Press.

Perlmutter, D.D. (2000). Policing the Media: Street Cops and Public Perceptions of Law Enforcement. Sage Press.

Perlmutter, D.D. (2007). Picturing China in the American Press: The Visual Portrayal of Sino-American Relations in Time Magazine, 1949-1973.  Rowman & Littlefield Press.

Perlmutter, D.D. & Hamilton, J. (2007). Pigeons to News Portals: New Technology & Foreign Affairs Reporting.  LSU Press.

Perlmutter, D.D. (2007). Blogwars: The New Political Battleground. Oxford Press.

Selected Honors

Louisiana State University Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, Research & Service, 2001.

Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1997-1998.