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Hamilton Bean, PhD

Assistant Professor 

E-mail: Hamilton Bean 
Web sites:
http://hamiltonbean.wordpress.com/
Office Location: Plaza 102Q
Phone: 303-352-3876
Fax: 303-556-6018
Areas of Expertise:
Organizational Communication, National Security Discourse 

Education & Degrees

PhD, Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009

MA, International Communication, American University, School of International Service, 2001

MBA, Management of Global Information Technology, American University, Kogod School of Business, 2001

Bio

Hamilton Bean specializes in organizational communication. His research intersects the fields of organizational discourse and national security. From 2001 to 2005, he served in management positions for a Washington, D.C.-based provider of analytical support services to U.S. and international clients in government and industry. Since 2005, he has been affiliated with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a U.S. Department of Homeland Security-funded Center of Excellence. His research has been funded by the Department of Homeland Security and published in Intelligence and National Security, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Homeland Security Journal, and the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. He has won awards for scholarship from the National Communication Association and the Western States Communication Association.

Select Publications

2012. Comor, E., & Bean, H. America’s ‘engagement’ delusion: Critiquing a public diplomacy consensus. International Communication Gazette, 74, 203-220.

2011. Bean, H., Keranen, L., & Durfy, M. "This is London: Cosmopolitan Nationalism and the Discourse of 'Resilience in the Case of the '7/7' Terrorist Attacks." Rhetoric & Public Affairs. In Press.

2011. Bean, H. No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence. Praeger, Santa Monica, CA.

2010. Bean, H., Susan Maret (ed.). “Is Open Source Intelligence an Ethical Issue?”  Government Secrecy (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, 19, 385-402.

2010. Bean, H. Foucault’s Rhetorical Theory and U.S. Intelligence Affairs. Poroi, 6(2), 15-32.

2010. Bean, H., R. A. Denemark (ed.), “U.S. Intelligence Culture” by Hamilton Bean in The International Studies Association Compendium Project. Blackwell, Oxford Press. http://www.isacompendium.com/public/2011.

2009. Bean, H. "A Complicated and Frustrating Dance: National Security Reform, the Limits of Parrhesia, and the Case of the ‘9/11 Families.'" Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 12(3).

2009. Bean, H. "Organizational Culture and US Intelligence Affairs." Journal of Intelligence and National Security, 24, 479-498 (lead article).​

Courses Taught

COMM 4635/5635 Principles of Public Relations
COMM 4640/5640 Advanced Public Relations
COMM 4665/5665 Principles of Advertising
COMM 5710 Organizational Discourse​
COMM 4995/5995 Narratives of the New China​