Background
Robert Asen was born on July 12, 1968, in New York, United States. He is a son of Allen Asen and Fela Wierzbicki Asen.
2011
Robert Asen, educator, researcher, author.
2013
Robert Asen with his wife Susan Robinson and children.
Robert Asen, educator, researcher, author.
901 West Illinois Street, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
Robert Asen earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
103 South Building CB 9100 Chapel Hill, NC 27514, United States
Robert Asen earned a Master of Arts from the University of North Carolina.
633 Clark Street Evanston, IL 60208, United States
Robert Asen earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Northwestern University.
Robert Asen has American Forensic Association membership.
Robert Asen has National Communication Association membership.
(Explores antagonistic encounters between people, both ind...)
Explores antagonistic encounters between people, both individuals and groups, and governments. In the form of demonstrations, social movements, guerrilla warfare, and internet "hacktivism," political dissidents or "counterpublics" challenge the state and assert themselves upon the public stage. At stake in such engagements are profound issues of political and economic redistribution, individual and collective rights, political legitimacy, social stability, and identity. This book explores encounters between marginalized people and states to better understand the contours of social controversy and social transformation borne from conflict.
https://www.amazon.com/Counterpublics-State-SUNY-Communication-Studies/dp/0791451615/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=robert+asen&qid=1586529679&sr=8-6
2001
(To understand completely the welfare policy debates of th...)
To understand completely the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th Century, the various images of poor people that were present must be considered. Visions of Poverty explores these images and the policy debates of the retrenchment era, recounting the ways in which images of the poor appeared in these debates, relaying shifts in images that took place over time, and revealing how images functioned in policy debates to advantage some positions and disadvantage others. Looking to the future, Visions of Poverty demonstrates that any future policy agenda must first come to terms with the vivid, disabling images of the poor that continue to circulate. In debating future reforms, participants-whose ranks should include potential recipients-ought to imagine poor people anew.
https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Poverty-Political-Imagination-Rhetoric-ebook/dp/B00LAX00JC/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=robert+asen&qid=1586529679&sr=8-4
2002
(In Invoking the Invisible Hand Robert Asen scrutinizes co...)
In Invoking the Invisible Hand Robert Asen scrutinizes contemporary debates over proposals to privatize Social Security. Asen argues that rights-based rhetoric employed by Social Security's original supporters enabled advocates of privatization to align their proposals with the widely held belief that Social Security functions simply as a return on a worker's contributions and that it is not, in fact, a social insurance program. Â
https://www.amazon.com/Invoking-Invisible-Hand-Security-Privatization-ebook/dp/B015RMNE0S/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=robert+asen&qid=1586529679&sr=8-5
2009
(This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, p...)
This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of "the public" or "public life," and how those entities are defined and invented.
https://www.amazon.com/Public-Modalities-Albma-Rhetoric-Cult/dp/0817355855/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=robert+asen&qid=1586529679&sr=8-3
2010
(The local school board is one of America's enduring venue...)
The local school board is one of America's enduring venues of lay democracy at work. In Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, Robert Asen takes the pulse of this democratic exemplar through an in-depth study of three local school boards in Wisconsin. In so doing, Asen identifies the broader democratic ideal in the most parochial of American settings. Conducted over two years across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines, Asen's research reveals as much about the possibilities and pitfalls of local democracy as it does about educational policy.
https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Deliberation-Education-Rhetoric-Democratic-ebook/dp/B013XE1P9Y/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=robert+asen&qid=1586529679&sr=8-1
2015
(Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflic...)
Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead to the growing number of scholars who are supplementing text-based scholarship by venturing out into the field, where rhetoric is produced, enacted, and consumed. These field-based practices involve observation, ethnographic interviews, and performance. They are not intended to displace text-based approaches; rather, they expand the idea of method by helping rhetorical scholars arrive at new and complementary answers to long-standing disciplinary questions about text, context, audience, judgment, and ethics.
https://www.amazon.com/Text-Field-Innovations-Rhetorical-Method/dp/0271072105/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=robert+asen&qid=1586529679&sr=8-2
2016
Robert Asen was born on July 12, 1968, in New York, United States. He is a son of Allen Asen and Fela Wierzbicki Asen.
Robert Asen earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1991; a Master of Arts from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1994; and a Doctor of Philosophy from Northwestern University in 1998.
In 1992-1994, Robert Asen was an instructor in communication studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 1996-1999, he worked as an instructor in communication studies at Northwestern University, Evanston. In 1999, Asen began the career at the University of Wisconsin, Madison as an assistant professor at the Department of Communication Arts (1999-2004). In 2000, he became an affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin. In 2004-2009, Asen was an associate professor at the Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin. From 2009, he has been a professor of this department and in 2009 he has become a professor of rhetoric, politics, and culture.
He teaches such courses as "Introduction to Rhetorical Theory and Criticism," "Theories of the Public Sphere," "Rhetoric and Public Policy," "Rhetoric and Critical Theory," "Contemporary Rhetorical Theory," "Democratic Deliberation and American Education."
Robert Asen is a contributor to books; contributor of articles and reviews to academic journals, including Text and Performance Quarterly, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and Political Communication.
Asen is currently working on a book project titled "Democratic Relationships: Publics, Markets, and the Struggle for Education." In this book, he compares education debates at the federal level, state level in Wisconsin, and local level in communities across Wisconsin.
(Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflic...)
2016(This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, p...)
2010(To understand completely the welfare policy debates of th...)
2002(In Invoking the Invisible Hand Robert Asen scrutinizes co...)
2009(Explores antagonistic encounters between people, both ind...)
2001(The local school board is one of America's enduring venue...)
2015Robert Asen recognizes that public schools serve as vital community institutions that prepare students to discover their interests and talents and strengthen communities. He examines public discourses on education, including recent policy efforts to privatize public education and propagate market-based reforms, as well as responses by local communities to support their public schools. Asen argues that federal and state policymakers should pay greater attention to the voices in the local communities they serve.
Robert Asen married his first wife Rochelle Klaskin on July 7, 1996. They have a daughter. His second wife is Susan Robinson and they have a son.