Robert Entman
J.B. and M.C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs and Professor of International Affairs
Phone: 202-994-0039
E-mail: entman@gwu.edu
Office: MPA 428
Expertise
Political communication
Race relations and the media
Media bias
Framing and public opinion
Selected Works
Scandals of Media and Politics (forthcoming, Polity Press, 2010)
Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy (Chicago, 2004)
Communication in the Future of Democracy (Cambridge, 2001, edited with Lance Bennett)
The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America (University of Chicago, 2000, with Andrew Rojecki)
Democracy Without Citizens: Media and the Decay of American Politics (Oxford, 1989)
Robert M. Entman is J.B. and M.C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. Author most recently of Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy (Chicago, 2004), he is working on Framing Failure with GW colleagues Sean Aday and Steven Livingston as well as a book tentatively entitled Media Biases. His Scandals of Media and Politics is scheduled for publication by Polity Press in 2010.
His other books include Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy (Cambridge, 2001, edited with Lance Bennett); The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America (University of Chicago, 2000, with Andrew Rojecki), which won Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize, the Lane Award from the American Political Science Association, and other awards; and Democracy Without Citizens: Media and the Decay of American Politics (Oxford, 1989). 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.
For his work on media framing, he won the 2005 Woolbert Research Prize from the National Communication Association. In 2006 Entman won the American Political Science Association’s Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Achievement Award in Political Communication, and in 2007 was recognized as a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association.
Dr. Entman edits the book series Communication, Society and Politics (with Lance Bennett) for the Cambridge University Press. He lectures frequently at universities in the U.S. and abroad, most recently Zhejiang University (China), City College of London, the University of Vienna, and the University of Porto (Portugal). He served as the Lombard Visiting Professor at Harvard for the fall semester of 1997, visiting professor of communication at the University of Rome during May 2005 and Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Duke for the academic year 2008-09.
Dr. Entman 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 taught at Duke, Northwestern and North Carolina State.