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Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D.
kjamieson@asc.upenn.edu


Political communication, rhetorical theory and criticism. Studies of various forms of campaign communication, as well as the discourse of the presidency.

Biography | Research Interests | Teaching | Awards |

Biography

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. Dr. Jamieson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the International Communication Association.  She is the author or co-author of 15 books including: Presidents Creating the Presidency (University of Chicago Press, 2008), Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment (Oxford, 2008) and unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (Random House, 2007).  Dr. Jamieson has won university-wide teaching awards at each of the three universities at which she has taught and political science or communication awards for four of her books.  Her forthcoming book, co-authored with Kate Kenski and Bruce Hardy, is called The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Messages Shaped the 2008 Election.

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Research Interests

Books Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph N. Cappella, Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment (Oxford, 2008); Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Brooks Jackson, unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (Random House, 2007); Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, The Interplay of Influence: Media and Their Publics in News, Advertising and Politics (Belmont, Wadsworth, 1983; 1987; 1991, 1996; Revised 5th edition, 2000). Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Advertising (Oxford University Press, 1984) 504 pages. Revised 2nd edition published in 1992. Revised 3rd edition with 2 new chapters published in 1996. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Eloquence in an Electronic Age (Oxford University Press, 1988; 1990) 313 pages. Kathleen Hall Jamieson and David Birdsell, Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate (Oxford University Press, 1988) 264 pages. Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and The Genres of Governance (University of Chicago Press, 1990) 275 pages. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction and Democracy (Oxford University Press, 1992), 327 pages. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Beyond The Double Bind: Women and Leadership (Oxford University Press, 1995), 283 pages. Joseph N. Cappella and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good (Oxford University Press) March 1997. 325 pages. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Everything You Think You Know About Politics...and Why You're Wrong, (Basic Books, June 2000), 287 pages. [(7 printings), 2nd Edition, November 2000.] Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman. The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists and the Stories that Shape the Political World, (Oxford University Press, 2003). Daniel Romer, Kate Kenski, Paul Waldman, Christopher Adasiewicz and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Capturing Campaign Dynamics: The National Annenberg Election Survey, (Oxford University Press, 2004). Richard Johnston, Michael G. Hagen and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. The 2000 Presidential Election and the Foundation of Party Politics, (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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Teaching

Introduction to Political Communication Argumentation and Public Advocacy Political Communication Research

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Awards

Teaching Awards University of Maryland:

  • Certificate for excellence in teaching awarded by Pan-Hellenic Council and Student Government Association, University of Maryland, April, 1979
  • Maryland Board of Education Award for innovative internship program (with Andrew Wolvin) 1981
  • Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award, University of Maryland, 1981-82
University of Texas
  • Graduate Student awarded "You're Someone Special Award" University of Texas, Dept. of Speech Communication, 1988.
  • "Eyes of Texas" University of Texas Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1989.
University of Pennsylvania
  • The Greek System, University of Pennsylvania Outstanding Professor Award, 1996.
  • Golden Key Honor Society, 1997.
  • Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, April 1998.
Awards for Scholarship
  • SCA Research Board's Outstanding Dissertation Award, 1972
  • SCA Golden Anniversary Book Award (1984) for Packaging the Presidency
  • SCA's Winans-Wichelns Book Award, 1989, for Eloquence in an Electronic Age: The Transformation of Political Speechmaking
  • Douglas Ehninger Award for career contribution to rhetorical scholarship, Nov. 1990
  • Speech Communication Association's Distinguished Career in Scholarship Award, 1992.
  • American Political Science Association, Political Communication Division, Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award for lifetime contribution to the study of political communications, 1995.
  • American Political Science Association's 3rd Ithiel de Sola Pool Award, September 2001
Awards for Service
  • National Communication Association Presidential Citation for Outstanding Service to the Communication Discipline, 1998.

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