Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Kathleen Hall Jamieson "is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on political campaigns, Jamieson has received numerous teaching and service awards, including the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award, and fellowships and grants including support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

"Jamieson is the author, co-author or editor of seventeen books including: unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (Random House, 2007), The 2000 Presidential Election and the Foundations of Party Politics (Cambridge, 2004), The Press Effect (Oxford, 2003), Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You’re Wrong (Basic Books, 2000), Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction and Democracy (Oxford, 1992), Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership (Oxford, 1995) and Spiral of Cynicism: Press and Public Good (Oxford, 1997). She received the Speech Communication Association's Golden Anniversary Book Award for Packaging the Presidency (Oxford, 1984), the Winans-Wichelns Book Award for Eloquence in an Electronic Age (Oxford, 1988) and the Decade of Behavior Research Award (2005). During the 2004 general election, Dr. Jamieson regularly appeared on NOW with Bill Moyers and The NewsHour."

• Advisory Board, Center for Public Integrity
• Trustee, Russell Sage Foundation
• Trustee, William T. Grant Foundation
• Co-Chair Press Commission, American Institutions of Democracy