Daniel J. O’Keefe
Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University

BIOSKETCH

Daniel J. O’Keefe is the Owen L. Coon Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on persuasion and argumentation. He has received the National Communication Association’s Charles Woolbert Research Award, its Golden Anniversary Monograph Award, its Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division Distinguished Scholar Award, and its Health Communication Division Article of the Year Award, the International Communication Association’s Best Article Award and its Division 1 John E. Hunter Meta-Analysis Award, the American Forensic Association’s Daniel Rohrer Memorial Research Award, the International Society for the Study of Argumentation’s Distinguished Scholar Award, and teaching awards from the Central States Communication Association and the University of Illinois. He is the author of Persuasion: Theory and research (Sage Publications).

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Department of Communication Studies
School of Communication
Northwestern University