Matthew A. Baum

Matthew A. Baum is a Visiting Associate Professor of Public Policy. He joined the Kennedy School faculty in July 2006 and is an associate professor of political science and communication studies at UCLA. Baum’s research focuses on integrating domestic political variables into theories of international conflict and cooperation in general and American foreign policy in particular, as well as on the role of the mass media and public opinion in contemporary American politics. In 2003, Baum published Soft News Goes to War: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy in the New Media Age. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly and Public Opinion Quarterly. Baum received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in political science in 2000. He will teach two courses in the spring, “Political Communication” and “Mass Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy.”