about me
Jean Goodwin: After practicing law for five years on the south side of Chicago, I went for my PhD in rhetoric (yes, rhetoric) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I’m now an associate professor in the Speech Communication program of the English department at Iowa State University. (See my personal website or CV for more details).
My primary research/teaching focus is in argumentation studies; I am interested in how citizens who deeply disagree can nevertheless manage to coordinate their exchange of reasons. In the past few years, I’ve begun looking at the special problems experts face when they attempt to contribute the public sphere–a project with several threads under the general heading, Between Scientists and Citizens. Climate change controversies are certainly providing a lot of data! Feel free to contact me: goodwin@iastate.edu.
