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Robert Schmuhl Professor Robert Schmuhl

Robert Schmuhl is the inaugural Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism and Director of the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy.

He is the author or editor of eleven books, including Statecraft and Stagecraft: American Political Life in the Age of Personality (1990 and 1992) and Wounded Titans: American Presidents and the Perils of Power (1996). An edited volume, The Responsibilities of Journalism, has appeared in four foreign editions. His collection of essays, In So Many Words: Arguments and Adventures, will be published in an expanded edition in 2010. His journalism has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA TODAY, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated, and American Journalism Review. In 2009, Schmuhl returned to University College Dublin, where he’d taught in 2000, as the first John Hume Visiting Research Fellow at the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies.

Contact Information
Office: 431 Decio Faculty Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (574) 631-5128
Email: rschmuhl@nd.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 3:00-4:00 p.m. and by appointment

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