Phillip C. Arceneaux (Ph.D., University of Florida) is Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication at Miami University (of Ohio). His research interests include political public relations, public diplomacy, computational propaganda, and international law and policy. This interdisciplinary approach studies the growing political and regulatory uses and impacts of emerging communication practices on the governmental, defense, commercial and non-profit sectors. His work has been published in New Media & Society, Journal of International Communication, Journal of Public Affairs, Journal of Public Interest Communication and American Behavioral Scientist.

Dr. Arceneaux, recipient of CPD's 2018-19 doctoral dissertation grant, presented his doctoral research at the 2017 CPD-Oxford Doctoral Conference on Digital and Public Diplomacy at the University of Oxford, as well as at the 2018 Emerging Research and Trends in Public Diplomacy and Nation Branding Doctoral and Postdoc Pre-Conference prior to the International Communication Association’s annual conference in Prague, Czechia.

He also brings professional strategic communication experience spanning the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Naval Academy, Central Intelligence Agency and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Project for Countering Influence Operations.