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Political Communication

Politics depends heavily on communication among and between political elites, the media, and citizens. Scholars at Annenberg examine the role of interpersonal and mass-mediated communication on the attitudes, opinions, information-processing, and behavior of citizens, political elites, political institutions, and political systems.

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Faculty

Dolores Albarracín, Ph.D.

Amy Gutmann Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

Murali Balaji, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Eran Ben-Porath, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Carolyn Biltoft, Ph.D.

Visiting Faculty Fellow, Center on Digital Culture and Society

Dwayne Booth

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Michael X. Delli Carpini, Ph.D.

Oscar H. Gandy Emeritus Professor of Communication & Democracy

David Eisenhower, J.D.

Director, Institute for Public Service

Maya Enisman, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center and Social Action Lab

Emily Falk, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication, Psychology, Marketing, and OID (Operations, Informatics, and Decisions)

Bita Fayaz-Farkhad, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Social Action Lab

Deen Freelon, Ph.D.

Presidential Professor

Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Communication

Sandra González-Bailón, Ph.D.

Carolyn Marvin Professor of Communication

R. Lance Holbert, Ph.D.

Director of Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics (LAIC), Annenberg Public Policy Center

Daniel J. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences

Albert R. Hunt

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Aaron Hyzen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Media, Inequality & Change Center

Sarah J. Jackson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Malav Kanuga, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Media, Inequality and Change Center

Alon P. Kraitzman, Ph.D.

Howard Deshong Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Yphtach Lelkes, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Matthew Levendusky, Ph.D.

Penny and Robert A. Fox Director of the Fels Institute of Government, School of Arts & Sciences

Marjorie Margolies

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Carolyn Marvin, Ph.D.

Frances Yates Professor Emeritus of Communication

Danaë Metaxa, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Cristina Monzer, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Christopher Muhawe, J.S.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Diana C. Mutz, Ph.D.

Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication

Vincent Price, Ph.D.

Provost Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

Scott Reich, J.D.

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program

Diego A. Reinero, Ph.D.

MindCORE Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Cerianne Robertson, Ph.D.

George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

Craig Snyder

Lecturer

Philip Tetlock, Ph.D.

Leonore Annenberg University Professor of Psychology and Management, Wharton School of Business and School of Arts and Sciences

Erin Walk, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Polarization Research Lab

Ken Winneg, Ph.D.

Managing Director of Survey Research, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Guobin Yang, Ph.D.

Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology

Tukufu Zuberi, Ph.D.

Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, School of Arts and Sciences

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