Trevor Parry-Giles is the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research in the College of Arts and Humanities and a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. He previously served as ARHU’s first Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Dr. Parry-Giles’s research and teaching focus on the historical and contemporary relationships between rhetoric, politics, law, and popular culture. He is the author or editor of four books, including The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process and The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism (with Shawn J. Parry-Giles). His research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Presidential Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Celebrity Studies, the Journal of Communication, and elsewhere. Dr. Parry-Giles is a Distinguished Research Fellow and a Distinguished Teaching Fellow of the Eastern Communication Association. In 2019, he received the University of Maryland’s Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award. Dr. Parry-Giles is a frequent commentator about contemporary and historical political communication and has appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, the NBC Nightly News, Maryland Public Television, CCTV, and all the network affiliates in Washington, DC. He is quoted often in political news coverage, including in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Politico, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Bon Appetit, and elsewhere.