Seven op eds or thoughtful commentaries

I wrote seven highly-researched op ed commentaries that drew on my scholarship in communication, political science, and psychology. I want to EMPHASIZE that while these commentaries are obviously not scholarly research, each of them draws on extensive scholarship, takes hours of work, and represents an application of communication, psychology, and political science issues to the public domain, representing a creative-type contribution. They fall under my professional/creative/journalistic responsibilities as a faculty member in the Journalism and Promotional Communication Division. They constitute creative and journalistic products. The first article in this FAAR period, on propaganda in World War I and today (co-authored with Anup Kumar) appeared on Cleveland.com on May 12, 2017. This was followed by these sole-authored pieces: a second piece offering a political reflection on July 4 and citizenship (Plain Dealer, July 2); a third on cell-phones and privacy, drawing on psychological/communication research (Cleveland.com, August 6); a fourth piece on the 40th anniversary of the storied election of Dennis Kucinich as mayor of Cleveland that drew on political communication and historical research and earned a plaudit from Kucinich himself (The Plain Dealer, September 18); a fifth a deeply-psychological research-based piece on racial prejudice and police killings of Blacks (Cleveland.com, December 9); the sixth a 50-year retrospective on the Tet Offensive In Vietnam (The Plain Dealer, January 31, 2018); and the seventh a deeply-felt, extensively-researched piece on Robert F. Kennedy's speech to the Cleveland City Club 50 years ago (The Plain Dealer, March 30, 2018).