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Robert Mathew Entman  

Robert Mathew Entman

J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public and International Affairs

Director, Global Communication Program

 
MPA 428
805 21st Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-0039
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: entman@gwu.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Yale University

Expertise:
Political communication, Media and foreign policy, Media and race/ethnic relations

Background:
Robert M. Entman is J.B. and M.C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. He earned a Ph.D. in political science as a National Science Foundation Fellow at Yale, and an M.P.P. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of California (Berkeley). He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke, where he earned his A.B. in political science. Prior to joining GW, Dr. Entman served on the faculties at Duke, Northwestern and North Carolina State.

His most recent books include Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy (University of Chicago, 2004); Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy (Cambridge, 2001, edited with Lance Bennett), which was published in Chinese translation by Tsinghua University Press in 2006; and The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America (University of Chicago, 2000, with A. Rojecki), which won Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize, the Lane Award from the American Political Science Association, and other awards. For his work on media framing, he won the 2005 Woolbert Research Prize from the National Communication Association. Other books include Democracy Without Citizens (Oxford, 1989) and Media Power Politics (Free Press, 1981, with D.L. Paletz). He has also published dozens of journal articles, reports, and book chapters in such fields as political communication, public opinion, race relations, and public policy.

Dr. Entman is currently writing a book called Media Bias Scandals and, with Clay Steinman, is editing an anthology called Key Works in Communication Studies for Blackwell Publishers. He also edits the book series Communication, Society and Politics (with Lance Bennett) for the Cambridge University Press. Dr. Entman lectures frequently at universities in the U.S. and abroad and served as the Lombard Visiting Professor at Harvard in 1997 and a visiting professor of communication at the University of Rome in 2005. In 2006 Entman was awarded the APSA Political Communication Division's Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Achievement Award

Courses Taught:
SMPA 102 Introduction to Political Communication
SMPA 194 Media Bias, Scandal and Demo
SMPA 199 Senior Seminar - Political Communication
SMPA 250 Media Bias, Scandal and Demo

Last update: 4/8/2008

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