Richard A. "Tony" Parker  

 

Professor Emeritus of Speech Communication
Email: Richard.Parker@nau.edu 

 

 

Research and teaching interests

Critical analyses of legal communications, especially judicial opinions and the writings of legal scholars, regarding the First Amendment rights of free expression. These analyses juxtapose the work of communication scholars with re-presentations of communication theory and practices in the legal literature.

Representative research and creative activity

“Communication Studies and Free Speech Law” (pp. 9-19) and “Brandenburg v. Ohio” (pp. 145-159), in Free Speech on Trial: Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions, edited by Richard A. Parker (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2003).

“Revising Revisionist History: Consensus Theories of the Framers’ Intent” (pp. 1-10), in Free Speech Yearbook 1987, vol. 28, edited by Stephen A. Smith.

Links of interest

natcom.org (National Communication Association)

Education

PhD, in Speech: 1981, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Emphases: Rhetoric, Argumentation.
MA, in Speech: 1971, University of Houston, Houston, TX. Emphases: Rhetoric, Public Address.
BA, in Speech: 1969, University of Houston, Houston, TX. Emphasis: Public Communication.