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• Steven Livingston is Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs at The George Washington University. He has served as director of the Political Communication Program (1996 ‐ 2002; 2004 – 2006) and of the School of Media and Publ...More

  Steven Livingston is Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs at The George Washington University. He has served as director of the Political Communication Program (1996 ‐ 2002; 2004 – 2006) and of the School of Media and Public Affairs (2004 – 2006) and was the founding chair of the Public Diplomacy Institute at GW (2000 – 2008). Livingston's research and teaching focus on media/information technology, national security, and international affairs. He has a particular interest in the role of advanced information technology and media in national security policymaking, governance, and public opinion. Following service in the United States Army (1975‐1981), Livingston completed a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Washington in 1990 and joined the faculty of The George Washington University in 1991. In the 1992‐93 academic year, Livingston held a Social Science Research Council Senior Research Fellowship in Foreign Policy Studies (funded by the Ford Foundation). In 1995, the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation sponsored his investigation into the role of the military and the media in humanitarian crises. In 1996, he was a Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Livingston also received a Goldsmith Award while at Harvard University. In April 2004, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Livingston has lectured at the National Defense University, the Army War College, the Strategic Studies Group at the Naval War College, the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the U.S. Institute for Peace, European Institute of Diplomacy in Austria, the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. Department of State, and at universities and think tanks in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. His research and consulting activities have led to extended stays in Northern Ireland, Russia, Eastern and Central Europe, the Middle East, and East and Central Africa. In 2008 he traveled to Iraq twice, both visits at the invitation of the United States government. He has also advised a wide range of USG and foreign government clients on matters relating to governance capacity building, media, technology, and strategic communication. Besides many articles published in peer‐reviewed journals, Livingston has written The Terrorism Spectacle (Westview Press, 1994) and When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (W. Lance Bennett and Regina Lawrence, co‐authors)(University of Chicago Press, 2007). Less

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