the graduate faculty
The SMPA faculty includes respected scholars who have collectively published dozens of books and thousands of journal articles, policy reports, and op-ed pieces on the intersections of politics, public affairs and communication. They are engaged scholars and global citizens. SMPA faculty have lectured and advised government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and news media on every continent. They have given invited lectures at universities and other venues from England, Holland and Denmark, to Mexico, Spain, Italy, Israel, and Kuwait, to Nepal, Lesotho, Hong Kong, Korea and Indonesia. In recent years, faculty members have received several prestigious awards and fellowships including two who have been awarded distinguished scholarly achievement awards. The faculty biographies offer details.
Our faculty also includes many with distinguished professional backgrounds in the communication industry. Among them are women and men who have served as reporters, Washington bureau chiefs, directors, producers, publishers and editors for such distinguished organizations as CNN, AP, the Atlanta Constitution, the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. Our faculty have won many of the most important awards in journalism and remain active contributors to public discourse.
A sampling from the titles of our faculty’s books conveys the breadth and significance of faculty expertise at SMPA:
• When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina
• Strategic Public Diplomacy and American Foreign Policy: The Evolution of Influence
• Watchdog Journalism in South America: News, Accountability and Democracy
• Ratings Analysis: The Theory and Practice of Audience Research.
• International News and Foreign Correspondents
• News and Newsmaking
• Eden Online: Re-Inventing Humanity in a Technological Universe
• The Death of a Thousand Cuts: Corporate Campaigns and the Attack on the Corporation.
• Stay Tuned: A History of American Broadcasting
• Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy
• The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America
• Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and US Foreign Policy
• From This Day Forward
• Shaping American Telecommunications: A History of Technology, Politics and Economics
• Wars Within: The Story of Tempo, An Independent Magazine in Suharto’s Indonesia
• Jack Anderson, Richard Nixon and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture
• The Sun Shines for All: Journalism and Ideology in the Life of Charles A. Dana.
The Graduate Curriculum
The Graduate Faculty
The University and its Location
Internship and Employment Opportunities
The Joint Master’s with the Elliott School of International Affairs
Application Process