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Doctoral candidate Lori Henson wraps up the semester’s Research Colloquium with her talk, "The Prophet and the Press: Barack Obama and the journalistic priesthood of American civil religion," at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, in the Ernie Pyle lounge.

Henson’s research examines news and editorial cartoon images of Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign to discover what journalists found compelling about him and the words they used in a figurative sense in covering his campaign. Her project argues that to fully understand the coverage of Obama in 2008, scholars must wed media framing theory to the concepts of American civil religion and collective memory.

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