Writing

2009

Assistant and associate professor (with tenure), Lewis & Clark College; department chair, political science department, Lewis & Clark College; director, Fellowships and Awards, Lewis & Clark College; political analyst, KPAM Radio and Oregon Public Broadcasting (Portland, Oregon) (2000 - 2009)

Harry S. Truman Scholar, 1985; Special Mention Award, World Association of Public Opinion Research [WAPOR], 1998; Goldsmith Research Award, Harvard University, 1994; Greg Kannerstein Alumni Award, Haverford College, 2010

American Association of Public Opinion Research [AAPOR]; American Conference of Academic Deans [ACAD]; Academy of Financial Services [AFS]; American Political Science Association [APSA]; College Art Association [CAA]; Midwest Political Science Association [MPSA]; National Council of Arts Administrators [NCAA]; Southeastern College Art Conference [SECAC]; World Association of Public Opinion Research [WAPOR]

• "The Political Non-Apology," Society, (2011), Vol. 48: 136-141.
• "Life-Cycle Funds: International Diversification, Reverse Glide Paths, and Portfolio Risk," Second author, with Harold J. Schleef (primary author), in Journal of Financial Planning, January 2011, 50-58.
• "Why Embed?: Explaining the Bush Administration's Decision to Embed Reporters in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq," Second author, with Andrew Cortell (primary author), and Scott Althaus (third author), in American Behavioral Scientist (2009), Vol. 52 (5): 657-677.
• "What Media Bias?: liberal and conservative labeling in major U.S. newspapers, 1992-2004," Primary author (co-authors, John Koehn and Loring Veenstra). Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics (2007), Vol. 12: 17-36.
• The Evolution of Presidential Polling (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• "Partisan Absolution?: exploring the depths of forgiveness," International Journal of Public Opinion Research (2000), Vol. 12: 245-258.
• "Questioning Cynicism," Society, (July/August 2000), Vol. 37: 55-60.

"Parents, outstanding K-12, college and graduate school teachers-professors, and a constant, passionate love of learning."

Robert M. Eisinger is the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at SCAD in Savannah, Georgia. He previously worked at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he was department chair of the political science department. Dr. Eisinger's current research concerns newspaper photographs of scandalized politicians, and measuring incivility on the Internet. He is also working on a book on political and photographic representation (with photographer Meryl Truett). A political scientist by training, Dr. Eisinger has re-discovered artistic inspirations, as evidenced both by taking photographs when time permits, and by attending and exploring museums and exhibits when traveling. He is a tennis player, an avid jazz fan and a self-proclaimed mediocre golfer.

Contact Eisinger by email or by calling 912.525.5823.

2005

Assistant Professor of Writing, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania; Lecturer and Writing Consultant, Colorado School of Mines; Fiction Editor. DIVIDE, a nationally distributed journal of letters and ideas, University of Colorado; publications coordinator, Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Berkeley, California; marketing editor, The Denver Quarterly, University of Denver; associate editor, Bastard Review, San Francisco

• Publications Prize, Colorado Endowment for the Humanities (for the book Sites of Insight: A Guide to Colorado Sacred Places)
• Frank Waters Southwestern Writing Award for Literary Achievement
• Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, for researching the book This Ain't No Holiday Inn: Beats, Punks, and Fugitives at New York's Notorious Chelsea Hotel
• Lock Haven University Foundation Grant, Pennsylvania Writers' Reading Series
• Outstanding Faculty Member in the Department of Liberal Arts and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines, Award given by The Order of Omega
• First Prize, University of Denver Graduate Fiction Contest
• Colorado Council on the Arts Project Grant for Denver Quarterly's 40th Anniversary Issue ($2000)

Associated Writing Programs

Books

• Sites of Insight: A Guide to Colorado Sacred Places, (University Press of Colorado)
• Spheres of Awareness: A Wilberian Integral Approach to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art (University Press of America)

Articles
More than 70 articles, essays, short stories, and book reviews.

"Never having planned to become a teacher, I was first inspired to teach by the need to make a living. But now I relish it. The philosopher Alan Watts stressed how delightful it was for people who 'get paid for what they love to do.' I couldn't agree more."

• WRIT 410 Literary Journalism
• WRIT 480 Writing Portfolio
• WRIT 713 Nonfiction Writing I
• WRIT 725 Persuasive Writing

"Personal honesty is vital to writing personal essays and memoirs. Being ruthlessly candid about one's own motivations, assumptions, weaknesses, biases and self-deceptions actually 'frees up' writers psychologically. This adds emotional breadth and depth to their work, which readers sense and appreciate. And it helps readers to open up to their own self-honesty."