Staff Bio

Bartholomew Sparrow

Sparrow studies American political development and, in particular, the conjunction between the American state and the international system. He teaches courses on American territorial expansion, American political institutions and processes (graduate), American politics and government (introductory), political communication, and the politics of food in America. He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center […]

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Nachman Shai

Nachman Shai is an Israeli journalist and politician serving as Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs. He previously served as a member of the Knesset and its Deputy Speaker, as well as the IDF spokesman.

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John Dancy

In his thirty-year career at NBC News, Dancy covered every major beat in Washington and served twice as a foreign correspondent, based in Berlin, London, and Moscow. Dancy reported on four wars for NBC: the 1973 Middle East war, the 1974 Cyprus war between the Greeks and Turks, the beginning of the Lebanese civil war

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Denis McQuail

Denis McQuail was a leading scholar in the field of media studies and mass communication. He is best known for his textbook “McQuail’s Mass Communication Theory (1994)”, a comprehensive survey of how the media works.

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Ronnie Dugger

Dugger has published hundreds of articles in Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Progressive and other periodicals. In 2011 Dugger won the George Polk Award in recognition of his lifelong achievements in journalism.

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Steven Livingston

Steven Livingston is the Founding Director of the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics (IDDP) and Professor of Media and Public Affairs. He also holds an appointment in the Elliott School of International Affairs and is a non-resident senior fellow in the Illiberal Studies Program in the Elliott School.

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Paolo Mancini

Paolo Mancini is Chair of the undergraduate Program in Scienze della Comunicazione (Communication Sciences) and Chair of the Ph.D. program in Teoria e Ricerca Sociale e Politica (Social and Political Theory and Research), both at the Università di Perugia.

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Colin Seymour-Ure

His publications cover the role of the press and broadcasting in a wide range of issues and institutions: Downing Street and White House news management; election campaigns; images of Tony Blair and John Major in the Sun and Daily Mirror; press partisanship; the power of media barons; media policy; political rumours.

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