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 It's not about understanding how to communicate. It's about understanding the medium and how to use it.
-Former Dean Campaign Manager Joe Trippi on the potential of the Internet in political campaigns. Trippi spoke at an SMPA conference on June 4. |
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Media Guide
The media guide provides background and contact information on SMPA faculty members.
| Sean Aday | | Title | Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs | | Expertise: | Political Communication; media coverage of war, politics, and foreign policy; media effects and public opinion, including political
and international trust.
| | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | seanaday@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-4220 |
| Mark Feldstein | | Title | Director, Journalism Program
Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs
Director, Journalism Oral History Project: Home Page | | Expertise: | Journalism history and ethics, media law (including subpoenas of reporters), broadcast news, investigative reporting, free speech, and freedom of expression. | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | feldy@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-4632 |
| Jean Folkerts | | Title | Professor of Honors and of Media and Public Affairs | | Expertise: | History of Journalism and Mass Communication, Media and Culture, American Studies, Media and Politics. | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | jfolk@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202)-994-6227 |
| Barry Fulton | | Title | Research Professor | | Expertise: | Public Diplomacy, International Studies, Cultural Affairs | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | rbfulton@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-0389 |
| Kimberly A. Gross | | Title | Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs | | Expertise: | Public Opinion, Race and Media, Media Framing | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | kimgross@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-0387 |
| Kerric Harvey | | Title | Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs
ON LEAVE 2004-2005 ACADEMIC YEAR | | Expertise: | Cultural Studies, especially as relate to past, present, and future media technologies (including robotics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality); Religion, Science, and Media; Risk Assessment and Communication Strategies; the Internet and other New Media as Cultural Systems; Best and Worst Uses of E-Mail; Privacy and Security Issues in New Technologies; Anthropology and the Arts. Special interest in Celtic and Native American Cultures, and Communications Social History of the 11-18th Centuries. | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | kharvey@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-4962 |
| Steven Keller | | Title | Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs; Director, GW Debate Team | | Expertise: | Political Debate, Campaign Debates, Political Speeches, Political Oratory, Testimony and Rhetoric | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | skeller@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-6353 |
| Steven Livingston | | Title | Interim Director, School of Media and Public Affairs
Program Director, Political Communication
Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs
Associate Professor of International Affairs
| | Expertise: | Media and political processes, advanced media and information technology's role in foreign and military policy making and operations, media and terrorism. | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | sliv@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-5888 |
| Jarol B. Manheim | | Title | Professor of Media and Public Affairs and of Political Science
| | Expertise: | Political Communication; Strategic Communication; Corporate and Anti-Corporate Campaigns; Political Public Relations; Strategic Communication in International Politics | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | | | Phone: | (202) 994-9015 |
| Albert L. May | | Title | Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs
| | Expertise: | News Coverage of Government and Politics on the Local, State and National Levels | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | almay@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-9014 |
| Pamela O'Brien | | Title | Program Director, Electronic Media
Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs
| | Expertise: | Cultural Analysis of the Relationship between Media Texts and Society; Animation for Children and Adults; Media Management; Television Production Process; Commercialization of Broadcasting | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | pcobrien@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-0042 |
| Patricia Phalen | | Title | Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs | | Expertise: | Audience Research; Socio-Economics and History of Media Institutions; Women in Media | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | phalen@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-4016 |
| Steven V. Roberts | | Title | J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs | | Expertise: | Journalism; Political Communication; Media, Society, and Politics | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | sroberts@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-0235 |
| Janet E. Steele | | Title | Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs | | Expertise: | History of Journalism; Ideology and Professional Practices of Journalism; The Press in Modern Indonesia; Narrative Journalism; Media in the Developing World | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | jesteele@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-2004 |
| Christopher H. Sterling | | Title | Professor of Media and Public Affairs
and of Public Policy and Public Administration | | Expertise: | Electronic Media and Common Carrier History and Policy; Telecommunications Policy Development; Impact of Changes in Telecommunications in Home, Office and School; Federal Law and Regulation; 1996 Telecommunications Act; International and Comparative Telecommunication Systems | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | chriss@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-0363 |
| Carl Stern | | Title | J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs | | Expertise: | Media Law; Rights and Duties of the Press, Government-Media Relations, Justice Department Issues; Federal Freedom of Information Act | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | cstern@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-1464 |
| Joan E. Thiel | | Title | Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs | | Expertise: | Radio and TV Performance, TV Directing, Media Criticism, Aesthetics of Media, Acting | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | jthiel@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-6699 |
| Lars Willnat | | Title | Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs
Associate Professor of International Affairs
Director of Graduate Studies
**Please direct all graduate program inquiries to smpa2@gwu.edu**
| | Expertise: | Public Opinion, Political Communication, International Communication | | Bio: | Click here | | E-mail: | lwillnat@gwu.edu | | Phone: | (202) 994-8467 |
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