Background
Stephen J. Hartnett was born on April 21, 1963, in East Lansing, Michigan, United States.
New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Hartnett graduated from Rutgers College (present-day Rutgers University) in 1986, receiving a Bachelor of Arts.
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
Hartnett got a Master of Arts (1990) and a Doctor of Philosophy (1992) from the University of California, San Diego.
New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Hartnett graduated from Rutgers College (present-day Rutgers University) in 1986, receiving a Bachelor of Arts.
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
Hartnett got a Master of Arts (1990) and a Doctor of Philosophy (1992) from the University of California, San Diego.
https://www.amazon.com/Democratic-Dissent-Cultural-Fictions-Antebellum/dp/0252027221/ref=sr_1_12?dchild=1&keywords=Stephen+John+Hartnett&qid=1607337739&sr=8-12
2002
(Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry wit...)
Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of qualitative research. Based on ten years of teaching in, writing about, and protesting at prisons across America, Harnett weaves together the hopes of prisoners, their families, and friends with the stories of activist communities struggling against the death penalty, the war on drugs, and a culture that treats prisoners as commodities. Full of materials from philosophers, poets, and historians, rich in personal detail, and written as a passionate and urgent call for justice, Incarceration Nation shows the power of ethnographic poetry to give voice to the hopes and horrors of a generation confronted by the mass-production of criminality.
https://www.amazon.com/Incarceration-Nation-Investigative-Crossroads-Qualitative-ebook/dp/B00BQW3S50/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=Stephen+John+Hartnett&qid=1607337739&sr=8-8
2003
(A pointed diagnosis of the fate of democracy in an age of...)
A pointed diagnosis of the fate of democracy in an age of globalization and empire. This book probes the discrepancies separating President Bush’s stated reasons for waging war on Iraq, the deeper political and economic reasons for the invasion, and the consequences of the Bush administration's policies for the future of globalization.
https://www.amazon.com/Globalization-Empire-Invasion-Twilight-Democracy/dp/0817315012/ref=sr_1_12?dchild=1&keywords=Stephen+J.+Hartnett&qid=1607337433&sr=8-12
2006
(Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of A...)
Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital punishment in America. This examination begins in 1683 when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured servants of Philadelphia and continues up until 1807 when the Federalists sought to impose law-and-order upon the New Republic. This volume offers a lively historical overview of how crime, violence, and capital punishment influenced the settling of the New World, the American Revolution, and the frantic post-war political scrambling to establish norms that would govern the new republic. By presenting a macro-historical overview, and by filling the arguments with voices from different political camps and communicative genres, Hartnett provides readers with fresh perspectives for understanding the centrality of public debates about capital punishment to the history of American democracy.
https://www.amazon.com/Executing-Democracy-Punishment-1683-1807-Rhetoric-ebook/dp/B007XUSUD4/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Stephen+J.+Hartnett&qid=1607337433&sr=8-4
2010
(This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the fir...)
This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 1835 and 1843 when pro-death penalty Calvinist minister George Barrell Cheever faced off against abolitionist magazine editor John O’Sullivan. In contrast to the macro-historical overview presented in volume 1, volume 2 provides micro-historical case studies, using these debates as springboards into the discussion of the death penalty in America at large. Incorporating a wide range of sources, including political poems, newspaper editorials, and warring manifestos, this second volume highlights a variety of perspectives, thus demonstrating the centrality of public debates about crime, violence, and punishment to the history of American democracy. Hartnett’s insightful assessment bears witness to a complex national discussion about the political, metaphysical, and cultural significance of the death penalty.
https://www.amazon.com/Executing-Democracy-Punishment-1835-1843-Rhetoric-ebook/dp/B00AF6AK2C/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=Stephen+J.+Hartnett&qid=1607337433&sr=8-6
2010
(Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument agains...)
Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners instead of incarcerating them. Experts and activists who have worked within and against the prison system join forces here to call attention to the debilitating effects of a punishment-driven society and offer clear-eyed alternatives that emphasize working directly with prisoners and their communities. Â
https://www.amazon.com/Challenging-Prison-Industrial-Complex-Educational-Alternatives-ebook/dp/B01L2T0HF0/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Stephen+John+Hartnett&qid=1607337739&sr=8-2
2010
https://www.amazon.com/Working-Justice-Handbook-Education-Activism-ebook/dp/B00CRQS48A/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=Stephen+John+Hartnett&qid=1607337739&sr=8-10
2013
(Standing as the world's two largest economies, marshaling...)
Standing as the world's two largest economies, marshaling the most imposing armies on earth, holding enormous stockpiles of nuclear weapons, consuming a majority share of the planet’s natural resources, and serving as the media generators and health care providers for billions of consumers around the globe, the United States and China are positioned to influence notions of democracy, nationalism, citizenship, human rights, environmental priorities, and public health for the foreseeable future. These broad issues are addressed as questions about communication - about how our two nations envision each other and how our interlinked imaginaries create both opportunities and obstacles for greater understanding and strengthened relations.
https://www.amazon.com/Imagining-China-Rhetorics-Nationalism-Globalization-ebook/dp/B0746PXSP2/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=Stephen+J.+Hartnett&qid=1607337433&sr=8-8
2017
Stephen J. Hartnett was born on April 21, 1963, in East Lansing, Michigan, United States.
Hartnett graduated from Rutgers College (present-day Rutgers University) in 1986, receiving a Bachelor of Arts. He also got a Master of Arts (1990) and a Doctor of Philosophy (1992) from the University of California, San Diego.
Stephen Hartnett is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. In addition, he is the convener of the NCA's Task Force on Fostering International Collaborations in the Age of Globalization. His work as a historian of American culture and politics has appeared in his award-winning books Democratic Dissent & the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America and the 2-volume Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America. His work on United States foreign policy has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, the South Atlantic Quarterly, Cultural Studiesó Critical Methodologies, and others.
One of his previous books in this area, Globalization and Empire, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2006. His latest book in this area of inquiry is the co-edited Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in the Age of Globalization (2017).
In terms of his writings about United States foreign policy in Asia, Hartnett has spent the past ten summers working in China, Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong, Nepal, and India, where he has been gathering data, photographs, and interviews. This embodied research has resulted in a slew of peer-reviewed journal articles, the Imagining China book mentioned above, and a series of conferences about United States-China communication, which he has co-organized and co-hosted in locations across America and China. His work bridging the United States and Chinese communication cultures has resulted in his delivering keynote addresses before Chinese audiences at conferences in Beijing in 2015, 2016, and 2018, in Shenzhen in 2016 and 2018, and in Xi'an in 2018.
Hartnett has spent the past 29 years teaching in, writing about, and protesting at America's prisons and jails. He has taught in prisons and jails in Colorado, California, Texas, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan, and has lectured on prisons and/or the death penalty in 28 states. His commentary on prison education has appeared on MSNBC and in outlets such as Slate, Salon, In These Times, and over 100 different radio stations.
He is the editor of the books Challenging the Prison Industrial Complex and Working for Justice, both published by the University of Illinois Press.
Hartnett is one of the co-founders of PCARE, a national group of scholars who work on Prison Communication Activism Research and Education.
Stephen is also a musician and poet, and he has collaborated with other artists and filmmakers in a variety of capacities, from grant writing to directing projects that showcase the views of their creators.
Stephen John Hartnett is a widely recognized educator and author, who has taught and protested at prisons and written about the subject of prison reform for many years. In recognition of his work, Hartnett has received numerous awards, including the Northwest Communication Association's 2008 Human Rights Award, the University of Colorado's 2010 Thomas Jefferson Award, the 2011 National Communication Association's Golden Monograph Award.
(Standing as the world's two largest economies, marshaling...)
2017(This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the fir...)
2010(Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument agains...)
2010(Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry wit...)
2003(Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of A...)
2010(A pointed diagnosis of the fate of democracy in an age of...)
2006Through his writings and broad participation in both academic and non-academic projects, Stephen J. Hartnett shares his progressive views on civil liberties, human rights, drug policy, globalization, military conflicts, and various other issues.
Stephen served as the 2017 President of the National Communication Association.
Stephen is married to Brett Kaplan. The couple has a daughter, Anya.
