Jason A. Edwards is a graduate of Concordia College (BA), North Dakota State University (MA), Minnesota State University (MA), and Georgia State University (Ph.D). He is an assistant professor of communication studies at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. His research interests center generally around presidential rhetoric, American foreign policy culture, and international political communication. He is the author Navigating the Post Cold War World: President Clinton's Foreign Policy Rhetoric (2008) and The Rhetoric of American Exceptionalism: Critical Essays (2011). In addition, he has published two dozen essays in venues like Presidential Studies Quarterly, Southern Communication Journal, Communication Quarterly, the Howard Journal of Communications, as well as other places. He is currently working on a rhetorical history of American exceptionalism concerning America's role in the world. Additionally, he continues to pursue a line of research that focuses on how states deal with historical injustices.Jason currently lives in Bridgewater, MA.