Diana B Carlin Author & Editor

Diana B. Carlin is a professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. She has conducted research on presidential debates since 1980 and created the DebateWatch project. She served on the advisory board for the Commission on Presidential Debates from 1987 until 2000. She is also the co-editor of and contributor to The 1992 Presidential Debates in Focus.

Kelly M. McDonald is an assistant professor at The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication where he served as Director of Forensics for five years. He is active in the Consortium for Strategic Communication, an initiative focused on national security and terrorism related questions from a message based perspective. He has published articles in Argumentation & Advocacy and in proceedings from the Conference on Argumentation.

Tammy Vigil is an Assistant Professor at Boston University's College of Communication. Her research interests include political communication, rhetoric, and popular culture.

Susan Buehler served as a graduate research assistant on the 1996 Ford Foundation grant project that started DebateWatch. She currently works as a part-time administrator for the University of Kansas.