Dr. Ryan Lee Teten

Academic Address
Dr. Ryan Lee Teten, Associate Dean of the University College, Associate Professor and Anthony Moroux/ BORSF Endowed Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, The University of Louisiana, P.O. Box 41652, Lafayette, LA 70504, (337) 482-6165 e-mail:
Education
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A. / April 2004, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
December 2002, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
n  Qualifying exams in American Politics and Political Theory
1995 – 1999 Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Double Major
n  Political Science/ English
n  Minor in History
Teaching and Administrative Experience
Associate Dean
Departmental Chair
Associate Professor:
(The University of Louisiana)
Assistant Professor:
(Northern Kentucky University)
Instructor:
(South Louisiana Community College)
(Vanderbilt University) / 2016-present: Associate Dean for the University College, University of Louisiana
2010-2012: Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts, University of Louisiana
Fall 2014-Spring2016, Summer 2010, Summer 2011: Chair for the Department of Political Science, Oversight Departmental Operations, Faculty Performance, Student Advising, Budgetary Management, Conducted TE and Endowed Chair Job Search
2008-present: Campaigns and Elections, The Congress, The Presidency, 9/11 and American Life, Sports and Politics, Political Communication, Dissecting Political Documentaries, Volatile Political Issues and Film, Politics in Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, South Park and American Politics, The Future Leaders Internship Program, Introduction to American Politics, Introduction to Political Science, Cajun Connection
2004-2008: Political Parties and Elections, The American Legislature, The American Presidency, Careers in Political Science, Popular Culture and Politics, 9/11 & American Life, Sports & Politics, and Introduction to American Politics, Political Behavior, Political Communication Congress and the Presidency
2012-2015: Introduction to American Politics
2003-2004: The American Presidency, Introduction to American Politics
Articles, Books, and Chapters, Published,Under Review and Reviewed
Contract for manuscript The President, the People, and Policy: The Evolution of the State of the Union Address and its Role in Defining the Chief Executive, forthcoming, Cambridge Scholars Press
Submitted “The Press as Politicos: Presidential Debates and Moderators and Anchors as Adversaries,” to Political Research Quarterly, August 2017
Submitted “Like, Share, or Comment: Facebook Posts, Going Negative, and SNS Constituency Engagement in the 2014 Louisiana Senate Campaign,” to the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, December 2016
“Lost and Found and Lost Again: Island Utopias and Dystopias in Contemporary Video Games” Games and Culture, March 2016
Reviewed “Does Delivery Mode Impact a President’s Style and Rhetoric?: Quantifying the Distance between Written and Spoken States of the Union,” for Presidential Studies Quarterly, June 2016
Reviewed The Big Picture, American Politics Text by Dr. Rick Swanson, February 2016
Reviewed “Unilateral Actions and Presidential Power Across Policy Areas” for American Politics Research, September 2015
Reviewed “Facebook Friend Request: Applying the Theory of reasoned Action to Student Teacher Relationships on Facebook,” for The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, August 2015
Reviewed “Framing the Future: The Presence and Variation of Expectations in Presidential Communication,” for The Journal of Communication, June 2015
Reviewed We the People 11th Edition by Ginsberg, Lowi, Weir and Tolbert for W.W. Norton, March 2015
Reviewed “From Broadcasting to Narrowcasting: An Introduction to Community Audio Towers,” for the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, October 2014
“Net Neutrality and What it Could Hold in Store for Its Users,” Invited Informational Column, The Daily Advertiser, June 26, 2014
Reviewed “The Rhetoric of Moderation in Deliberative Communication: Barack Obama’s December 1, 2009 Speech at West Point,” for the Journal of Communication Inquiry, February 2013
Content and Research Expert and Revisionist and Review for “How to Analyze the Works of John Adams: Essential Critiques” by ABDO Publishers, November 2012
Reviewed American Government: The Great Debate, by James Morone and Rogan Kersh for Oxford University Press, June 2012
The Evolutionary Rhetorical Presidency: Tracing the Changes in Presidential Address and Power, published June 2011, by Peter Lang Publishing
“Mouthpiece of the Liberal Left? Jon Stewart and The Daily Show's “Real” Coverage of Election 2008” Public Integrity, Winter 2011-12, Vol 14, Iss 1 p 67-84.
Reviewed Debating the Presidency by Richard Ellis and Michael Nelson, eds., for CQ Press, November 2011
Reviewed “The Changing Standards of Journalism: An Analysis of Taiwanese Tabloid’s Animation News,” for the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, August 2011
Reviewed “Continuity and Change: The 2006, 2008 and 2010 Elections and the Stability of the No Majority Party Realignment,” for Political Research Quarterly, June 2011
“The Perils of the Census and Redistricting: What Louisiana (and Lafayette) Can Expect,” Greater Lafayette Business Journal, February/March 2011, Vol 4, Issue 2
“What to Expect When You Are Expecting Change,” Greater Lafayette Business Journal, December/January 2011, Volume 4, Issue 1.
Reviewed “POLS 101—What is it Good For? Absolutely Everything: Or How I Learned to Stop Blaming My Students and Love 101 Classes,” for the Journal of Political Science Education, January 2011
Reviewed Readings in American Politics by Ken Kollman for W.W. Norton & Company, November 2010
Reviewed “Dragging the Ticket Down: The Influence of the Vice President on Vote Choice,” for Political Research Quarterly, August 2010
Reviewed Investigating American Democracy by Thomas Lindsey for Oxford University Press, July 2010
“Reaching the Unreachable: Using Jon Stewart’s America: The Book as a Textbook for Introductory Level Classes to American Politics” Journal of Political Science Education, Volume 6, Number 2, June 2010: 163-187
Reviewed Congress: A Performance Evaluation by Andrew Taylor for Westview Press, June 2010
Reviewed “Who Really Leads Whom? Leadership and Responsiveness Among multiple Publics in Reagan’s Central America Policy,” for Political Research Quarterly, August 2009
Reviewed The Presidential Pardon Power by Jeffrey Crouch, University Press of Kansas for American Review of Politics, May 2009
Reviewed “Presidential Proclamations for Policy Making and Leadership,” for the Journal of Leadership Studies, March 2009
“The Evolution of the Rhetorical Presidency and Getting Past the Traditional/Modern Divide.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 38, Number 2, June 2008: 308-314.
Reviewed “A Transaction Costs Approach to Understanding Unilateral Presidential Action,” for American Politics Research, April 2008
Reviewed “Explaining the President’s Issue Based Liberalism: Pandering, Partisanship, or Pragmatism,” for the Journal of Politics, January 2008
Reviewed “Defining the Enemy for the Post-Cold War World: Bill Clinton’s Foreign Policy Discourse in Somalia and Haiti,” for the International Journal of Communication, January 2008
““We the People:” The “Modern” Rhetorical Popular Address of the Presidents During the Founding Period,” Political Research Quarterly 2007 60: 669-682.
“Japanese-Americans,” in The Encyclopedia of the Home Front: World Wars I and II, Dr. Thaddeus Russell, General Editor, ABC-CLIO press, 2006
“Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act,” in The Encyclopedia of the Home Front: World Wars I and II, Dr. Thaddeus Russell, General Editor, ABC-CLIO press, 2006
“Internment Camps” in The Encyclopedia of the Home Front: World Wars I and II, Dr. Thaddeus Russell, General Editor, ABC-CLIO press, 2006
Reviewed “The Rhetorical Nature of the Modern Executive: Foundations of Rhetorical Strategies in the Thought of Machiavelli and Hobbes,” for Polity, June 2006
Reviewed “The Impact of Rally Effects on the President’s Legislative Success,” for The Journal of Politics, January 2006
“The Presidential Election of 1788-1789,” In The Encyclopedia of American Parties and Elections, Dr. Larry J. Sabato and Dr. Howard R. Ernst, editors. Facts on File, January 2005
“The Presidential Election of 1792,” In The Encyclopedia of American Parties and Elections, Dr. Larry J. Sabato and Dr. Howard R. Ernst, editors. Facts on File, January 2005
“The Presidential Election of 1800,” In The Encyclopedia of American Parties and Elections, Dr. Larry J. Sabato and Dr. Howard R. Ernst, editors. Facts on File, January 2005
“The Presidential Election of 1804,” In The Encyclopedia of American Parties and Elections, Dr. Larry J. Sabato and Dr. Howard R. Ernst, editors. Facts on File, January 2005
“The Presidential Election of 1824,” In The Encyclopedia of American Parties and Elections, Dr. Larry J. Sabato and Dr. Howard R. Ernst, editors. Facts on File, January 2005
“Experimenting With the Balancing Hypothesis,” Political Psychology, Vol 25 No. 1, February 2004, (with co-authors)
“Beginning the Great Experiment: Elections from the Founding to the Early Nineteenth-Century, 1787-1824,” and “Elections in Uncertain Times: Post-Civil War to the Late Nineteenth- Century, 1868-1892,” In The Encyclopedia of Public Opinion, ABC-CLIO press, April 2004.
“Evolution of the Modern Rhetorical Presidency: Presidential Presentation and Development of the State of the Union Address,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, June 2003
“Assessing Changing Views of the President: Revisiting Greenstein’s Children and Politics.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Sept 2002, with Amy Carter
Research in Progress
“All in Favor Please Say Aye: Using Congressional Simulations In the Classroom to Teach the Operations and Strategies of Congress.”
The President, the People, and Policy: The Evolution of the State of the Union Address and its Role in Defining the Chief Executive
“Fair for the States, Fair for the Candidates, Fair for the Party, Fair for the People: The Case for the Presidential Primary Lottery System©, Or The Case for the PPLS© Plan”
Papers and Reports Presented/Lectures Delivered
“Proposal for a Bachelor’s of Interdisciplinary Studies Degree at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette,” Report and Letter of Intent Created and Presented, Fall 2016
“Faculty Welcome to Potential Freshmen.” Spring 2012-Present, University of Louisiana Preview Days, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
“The Press as Politicos: Presidential Coverage and Debates and Moderators and Anchors as Adversaries” for presentation at the 2017 Annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, BC, April 13-15, 2017
“Four Traps to Academic and Career Success,” presentation to the University of Louisiana President’s Top Scholars Banquet, April 7, 2016
“Like, Comment or Share: Facebook use in the 2014 Louisiana Senate Campaign,” presented at the Southern Political Science Association Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 7-10, 2016.
“The College of Liberal Arts and You,” presentation to the attendees at the first annual College of Liberal Arts Day, October 9, 2015
“Teaching and Engagement Strategies for Retention,” Presented at the University of Louisiana Teaching and Learning Conference, March 24, 2015
“Lost and Found and Lost Again: Island Utopias and Dystopias in Contemporary Video Games,” presented at the Southern Political Science Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA January 17, 2015
Chair and Discussant, “Nature and Authority in Literature and Film,” Panel at the Southern Political Science Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 17, 2015
“The Value of an Honors Program Education,” The University of Louisiana Honors Program Awareness Fundraiser, March 28, 2014
“International Programs at Universities Across the Country.” Executive Summary and Report delivered to Internationalization Task Force, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, April 23rd, 2012.
“Student engagement with College Faculty and Majors.” The 2012 meeting of the Southern Association of College Admission Counseling, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, April 12, 2012
“Why Your Vote Doesn’t Matter,” Presentation to the University of Louisiana Philosophy Club, Lafayette, LA, February 15th, 2012
“Interdisciplinary Majors, Development of Interdisciplinary Programs, and Examination of the College of General Studies.” Executive Summary and Report Delivered to Academic Affairs Committee, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, January 20, 2012.
“Faculty Welcome to Potential Freshmen.” Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 University of Louisiana Preview Days, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
“The Great Identifier: Barack Obama's use of Presidential Identification Rhetoric Compared with Presidents of the Past,” 2012 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA January 12-14, 2012
“Beginning your own Beginning,” Presentation during Freshman Convocation, University of Louisiana, August 21st, 2011
“Academic Success and Preparation for your Freshman Year,” Presentation during University of Louisiana SOULcamp, Tall Timbers, Louisiana, Fall 2011
“Do’s and Don’ts: From a Professors Perspective,” Presentation to incoming UL freshmen at seven orientation sessions during Summer 2011.
“Mouthpiece of the Liberal Left? Jon Stewart and The Daily Show's Coverage of Election 2008” 2011 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA January 5-9, 2011
“Do’s and Don’ts: From a Professors Perspective,” Presentation to incoming UL freshmen at seven orientation sessions during Summer 2010.
“The Health Care Bill and its Passage,” Presentation/Forum at Teurlings High School, February 2, 2010
“Reaching the Unreachable: Using John Stewart’s America in Introduction to American Politics Classes” 2009 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA January 6-8 2009
“Fair for the States, Fair for the Candidates, Fair for the Party, Fair for the People: The Case for the Presidential Primary Lottery System©, Or The Case for the PPLS© Plan” presented to The National Association of Secretary of States Election Committee Chair, Secretary of State (KY) Trey Greyson, April 11, 2008
“From Hard Work to Holiday: The Development and Use of the Presidential Proclamation” 2008 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 10-13, 2008.
“Same Language, Different War: Presidential Communication in Times of Conflict” 2007 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 30-September 2, 2007
“Reaching the Unreachable: Using John Stewart’s America in Introduction to American Politics Classes” 2007 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 30-September 2, 2007
“Political Cynicism Toward the President and the Political Socialization of Children,” 2007 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 3-7, 2007.
““We the People:” The “Modern” Rhetorical Popular Address of the Presidents During the Founding Period,” 2006 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 30- September 3, 2006.
“Children and Politics in the new Millennium,” 2006 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 4-7, 2006.
“The Modern Rhetorical Presidency Reconsidered,” 2005 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., September 1-4, 2005.
“Samuel Alito and the Confirmation Process,” and “John Roberts and the Confirmation Process,” guest on the Culture Check radio program, WTSJ. (1050AM), January 14, 2006 and July 23 and August 20, 2005
“The Education of Politicians and the Electorate,” address to the Kenton County Republican’s Women’s Club, Taylor Mill, KY, March 28, 2005.
“‘We the People’: The ‘Modern’ Rhetorical Popular Address of the Presidents of the Founding Period,” paper delivered at he annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 6-8, 2005