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Faculty

As a student in the M.A. in Global Communication program, you will have the opportunity to study with a full-time faculty of leading scholars and practitioners. This faculty includes the core faculty listed below as well as literally hundreds of other experts in the Elliott School of International Affairs, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Media and Public Affairs.

Full-time core faculty:

Sean Aday (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)
Expertise: Political Communication; media coverage of war, politics, and foreign policy; media effects and public opinion, including political and international trust

Robert Entman (Ph.D., Yale University)
Expertise: Political communication, Media and foreign policy, Media and race/ethnic relations

Amitai Etzioni (Ph.D., UC Berkeley)
Expertise: Sociological analysis of international relations, civil society, and transnational norms and institutions

Henry Farrell (Ph.D., Georgetown University)
Expertise: European Union and European integration, e-commerce, politics and blogs

Lee Huebner (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Expertise: Journalism, communication, and political research

Karl Inderfurth (M.A., Princeton University)
Expertise: U.S.-South Asian Relations; National Security Council; United Nations and Peacekeeping; Disarmament and Security Affairs

Steven Livingston (Ph.D., University of Washington)
Expertise: Political communication

Kristin Lord (Ph.D., Georgetown University)
Expertise: International security and public diplomacy

Marc Lynch (Ph.D., Cornell University)
Expertise: Arab media and public opinion, Islamist movements, constructivism in international relations, and public diplomacy

Jarol Manheim (Ph.D., Northwestern University)
Expertise: Political Communication; Strategic Communication; Corporate and Anti-Corporate Campaigns; Political Public Relations; Strategic Communication in International Politics

Patricia Phalen (Ph.D., Northwestern University)
Expertise: Audience Research; Socio-Economics and History of Media Institutions; Women in Media

Jerrold Post (M.D., Yale University)
Expertise: Political psychology, psychiatry

Frank Sesno (B.A., Middlebury College)
Expertise: Media and public policy; issues of fairness and bias in news media; impact of global real-time media on war and terrorism

Janet Steele (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)
Expertise: History of Journalism; Ideology and Professional Practices of Journalism; The Press in Modern Indonesia; Narrative Journalism; Media in the Developing World

Silvio Waisbord (Ph.D., UC San Diego)
Expertise: International Journalism, Media and Development, Media and Health

Lars Willnat (Ph.D., Indiana University)
Expertise: Public Opinion, Political Communication, International Communication

Last updated: 02.14.08