Directory
Stephen Robb
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
M.A., Indiana University
B.A., Brooklyn College
Office: BRNG 2146M.A., Indiana University
B.A., Brooklyn College
Office Phone: (765) 494-3310
Email: srobb@purdue.edu
Research
Dr. Robb's primary interest is in contemporary public address and mass communication with emphasis placed on advertising as goal-directed persuasion involving identification of demographic and psychographic groups and persuasion as a focus for understanding recent history as related to politics and art.
Representative Publications
- Fundamentals of Evidence and Argument, 1976
- The Voice of Black Rhetoric: Selections, 1971
- Psychographics and the Liquor Industry, 1983
- "Crisis Management and the Paradigm Case," (with D. Berg), in E. Toth and R. Heath (Eds.), Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1992.



