Dr. Jim Schnell, Professor of Communication Studies, has been on the Ohio Dominican University faculty since 1989. He was tenured in 1992 and promoted to full professor in 1999. Prior to coming to Ohio Dominican he had faculty appointments at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio University and Miami University (with undergraduate and graduate faculty status). He has published six books, over 50 book chapters & journal articles, and delivered over 130 presentations at professional conferences dealing with political rhetoric, cross-cultural communication and communication studies issues. During periods of 2005-2006, he served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, where he assisted with the development of the new Cambodia Communication Institute and the training of a new generation of journalists whose predecessors were killed or fled during the Khmer Rouge genocide and subsequent civil strife.  He has completed two fellowships and been honored as an Official Research Visitor at the East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii). Schnell is included in Who's Who in Media & Communications and has earned Master Teacher recognition at Ohio Dominican (receiving the Booth-Ferris Master Teacher Award in 2002). Schnell is a sustaining member of the National Communication Association (the primary organization in communication studies) and has presented research findings each year since 1983 at their annual meeting. He has functioned as a paid political analyst on television and radio. His primary area of research focuses on U.S.-China political rhetoric. He has served as a visiting professor at Northern Jiaotong University in Beijing on numerous occasions since his initial assignment there in 1987. He has traveled on over 50 trips to over 55 countries and territories outside of the continental United States, with visits to all the continents (except Antarctica), including 17 trips to mainland China. Schnell is a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve where he is assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency as a political/cultural analyst. Previous assignments include duty with Joint Special Operations University, Special Operations Command/Pacific, Commander-in-Chief/Pacific, National Security Agency, National Air Intelligence Center, and USAF Security Service. He is a graduate of Air War College, Air Command & Staff College, and Squadron Officer School, and has completed over 25 military courses of instruction. He earned the Defense Meritorious Service Medal in 2004 and has held a Top Secret security clearance since entering active duty in 1977.