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Michael Cornfield
Associate Research Professor, Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet - Strategy and Message Development, Politics and New Media, Media and Politics (PMGT 207, 218, PSC228)
Vice President, ElectionMall.com
Michael Cornfield, a political scientist, studies and advises on campaign politics, public affairs, and the internet. He is the author of two books on the subject: Politics Moves Online: Campaigning and the Internet (The Century Foundation, 2004) and The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values, co-edited with David M. Anderson (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
Together with Alan Kelly, Cornfield writes and manages “Plays for the Presidency,” a nonpartisan interactive blog that describes and prescribes the moves and counter-moves of the 2008 race for the White House. “Plays for the Presidency” runs on the ground-breaking political news site www.politico.com .
Currently Vice-President of Public Affairs for ElectionMall.com, a nonpartisan campaign technology company, Cornfield has worked with Rightclick Strategies, Buzzmetrics, and other firms in consulting capacities.
Cornfield is interviewed frequently about online politics by the press, and has lectured on the subject at colleges, universities, and professional conventions throughout the world. Among his many journalistic publications, he co-authored (with Lee Rainie) a review of the state of online campaigning in 2006 for the “Outlook” section of the Washington Post. He has contributed chapters to numerous academic anthologies, the latest being The Sixth Year Itch: The Rise and Fall of the George W. Bush Presidency (Larry J. Sabato, editor, Longman, 2007), and Rewired Politics: Presidential Nominating Conventions in the Media Age (Costas Panagopoulos, editor, LSU Press 2007). From 1999 until 2007, Cornfield wrote a monthly column for Campaigns & Elections magazine.
Cornfield is an Adjunct Professor at The Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) of The George Washington University, where he has taught the core course on strategy and message development since 1994. While at the GSPM full time, he helped found its Semester in Washington Program for undergraduates, and its Institute for Politics, Democracy, & the Internet.
Cornfield has served as a Senior Research Consultant to the Pew Internet & American Life Project (www.pewinternet.org), where he pioneered the study of political online advertising, blogs, and subscriber email, collaborated in survey research and analysis of political media use by citizens, and commented on related new developments in online campaigning.
Cornfield received his B.A. from Pomona College and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Before coming to The George Washington University, he taught at the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary. He lives with his wife Kathryn Mimberg and son Matthew in Arlington, Virginia.
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