Departmental News
Professors Travel to New Hampshire for '08 Presidential Primary
Research professor Kathy Kendall and professor Shawn J. Parry-Giles made their quadrennial journey to New Hampshire in January to witness first-hand the campaigning underway for the 2008 New Hampshire presidential primary.
Kendall is a nationally known expert on presidential primaries. She is the author of the book
Communication in the Presidential Primaries: Candidates and the Media, 1912-2000 and the producer of the video Primaries: Defining the Battle in New Hampshire, (www.films.com). Kendall has gone to the NH primary for several cycles, joining with faculty and students from around the nation to see the campaigning and the media coverage of it up close and personal.
Parry-Giles, director of UM's Center for Political Communication & Civic Leadership, is completing a book on the media coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton. She also attended the primary in 2004.
Kendall and Parry-Giles secured press credentials from the XM Radio channel POTUS '08 and rode the Clinton campaign press bus on Sunday, January 6 as the Democratic presidential candidate stumped for votes around the Granite State. Along with appearances on POTUS '08, Kendall and Parry-Giles blogged their impressions and experiences from the campaign trail and provided commentary and analysis to numerous media outlets in the U.S. and abroad. To read their postings from the campaign, go to http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/sociss/2008/NHBlogs.cfm.
Images from the campaign trail: Chelsea Clinton canvasses for votes with her mother and Chris Matthews from NBC News seeks an interview with the candidate. Photos courtesy of Shawn Parry-Giles
