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Carol Darr

Associate Professorial Lecturer - The Ethics, Law & Politics, and Machiavelli's Philosophy and Political Advice (PMGT 265)


Carol C. Darr is an Associate Professorial Lecturer at The George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management, and served as the director of its Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet (IPDI) from 2001 to 2007. In the fall of 2007, she was an Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where she taught "New Media and Contemporary American Politics" and was affiliated with the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics & Public Policy. She is the co-author of several IPDI publications, including Poli-fluentials: The New Political Kingmakers and Online Political Influentials in the 2004 Presidential Campaign.

She is a frequent commentator on online politics and has appeared on ABC News, CBS Morning News, The NewsHour, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, and Fox, as well as in a number of national and international publications; and has written OpEds for USA Today and WashingtonPost.com.

Carol Darr has spent most of her career in national politics and government. During the Clinton-Gore Administration she served as the Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce. She served as the General Counsel to the Democratic National Committee in the 1992 election. She has worked in a number of presidential campaigns, including as Chief Counsel to the Dukakis/Bentsen Committee in 1988 and as Deputy Counsel to the Carter/Mondale Presidential Committee in 1980. She received an M.Litt in History from Christ's College, Cambridge University, and a J.D. and a B.A. from the University of Memphis.