Jonathan Stone is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign specializing in rhetoric and cultural historiography. His dissertation is about the sonic rhetorics of the first U.S. folk renaissance: 30s-era vernacular performance, oral/aural history, and the politics of sonic authenticity during the interwar period. The project traces the work of folklorists John and Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress from field recordings made in African-American prisons in 1933 to Alan Lomax’s work for CBS’s American School of the Air radio program in 1939-40. Jonathan is interested in rhetoric’s power across the sensorium and, in addition to the sonic, teaches classes focused on the digital, visual, and other mediated aspects of rhetorical practice and culture.