Faculty Affiliates & Advisors

As CCCE looks to the future, we are fortunate to have talented colleagues and students from around the university to help shape our vision.

	Jessica Albano, UW Libraries
	Bethany Albertson in an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. She studies political psychology and public opinion. Her dissertation research examined the use of religious language in political appeals, and used experimental methods to understand the effects of these appeals on political attitudes. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. Her substantive research interests include persuasion, ambivalence, implicit attitudes, and race and religion in US politics.
	Gerald Baldasty is the Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and is interested in economic aspects of media; media organizations; media and politics; race, class, and gender.
	Karine Barzilai-Nahon is an Assistant Professor at the Information School, director of the Center for Information & Society, and faculty adjunct in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. Her research interests lie in information policy and politics and in the social aspects of the management of information. More specifically she studies information control and gatekeeping, self-regulation mechanisms in cyberspace and particularly in virtual communities, and "Digital Divide" measurement tools.
	Lance Bennett is Professor of Political Science and the Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication. He is the founder and Director of CCCE. His areas of interest include press-government relations, youth civic learning and engagement, and the roles of digital media in public life. He is a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar, and recipient of the Ithiel de Sola Pool and Murray Edelman awards of the American Political Science Association.  The University of Washington has recognized his work integrating research, learning, and public service with the James D. Clowes Award for the Advancement of Learning Communities.
	Alan Borning is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His principal research interests are in land use, transportation, and environmental modeling; human-computer interaction; and constraint-based languages and systems.
	David Domke, Professor of Communication, studies political elites and news media, individual values and cognition, and social change, with particular interest in the dynamics of post-9/11 America.
	Michael B. Eisenberg is Professor in the Information School, where he conducts research, writes, consults, and lectures frequently on information literacy, information technology, information management in learning and teaching, and information and library education.
	Kim England, Geography
	Kirsten Foot (Advisory Board Chair, and Associate Director CCCE) is Associate Professor of Communication. She is interested in the reciprocal relationship between information/communication technologies and society. As co-director of the WebArchivist.org research group, she is developing new techniques for studying social and political action on the Web. She is working on many projects that examine the role of the internet in politics. Her research includes the 2002 Election Web Archive in which the CCCE is a partner, and, more recently, studying web network dynamics.
	John Gastil is Professor of Communication. His research aims to improve our understanding of participatory democracy and to develop deliberative forms of democratic decision making. Toward these goals, he has studied and written on the subjects of deliberative democracy, persuasion and public opinion, democratic citizenship, and language and democracy.
	Phil Howard is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Washington and the Associate Director of the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. His current research and teaching interests include political communication and the role of new media in social movements and deliberative democracy, work in new economy and e-commerce firms, and the application of new media technologies in addressing social inequalities in the developing world.
	Richard Kielbowicz is an Associate Professor of Communication; he studies pre-Internet communication networks and communication law and policy.
	Beth Kolko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington. Her current research focuses on Internet development in Central Asia. Currently funded by the National Science Foundation, the Central Asian Information and Communications Technology project applies theory-based analyses of culture and technology in order to concretely investigate how technology is being used in diverse communities and how such technologies change the cultures in which they adopted.
	Sabine Lang, Jackson School of International Studies
	Michael W. McCann is Professor of Political Science and is the Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship. His research interests include public law, American politics, and political theory, with an emphasis on the politics of social struggle and reform movements.
	Patricia Moy is the Christy Cressey Associate Professor of Communication. Her research interests focus on how media and political discussion shape public opinion. She also studies how communication influences political behavior and what citizens know about politics.
	Gina Neff, Assistant Professor of Communication, studies the relationship between society and communication technologies, as well as between culture and communication. Her research focuses on (1) how work, communication technologies, and organizational structures relate to one another and (2) the commercial production of mediated culture in communication industries. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology and a B.A. in economics and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from Columbia University.
	Walter Parker, College of Education
	Aseem Prakash, Political Science
	Nancy Rivenburgh is Associate Professor of Communication and studies international communications, media and foreign policy, intercultural communications, development communications and cross-cultural research methods.
	Mark Smith, is a Professor of Political Science. He is a specialist in American politics with research interests in public opinion, interest groups, and public policy. His current project focuses upon the use of economic reasoning by politicians to justify and advocate policy proposals. Smith teaches courses on American politics, interest groups, public opinion, and research design.
	Matt Sparke is Professor of International Studies and Geography at the University of Washington. His interests are: globalization, global health, neoliberalism and critical geopolitics. He has recently written about the role of online activism, transnational civic-engagement, and other forms of alter-globalization resistance in Matthew Sparke, “Political Geographies of Globalization (3): Resistance,” Progress in Human Geography, 32 (1): 1 – 18. More on his work can be found at http://faculty.washington.edu/sparke/
	Douglas Underwood is Professor of Communication. He studies newspaper economics, government and the media, media coverage of business, and intellectual history of mass media.
	Student Advisors
	Toby Campbell is an MA student in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. She is also a professional musician (www.anomiebelle.com), and she studies critical theory, the political economy of the music industry, and art activism.
	Tim Jones is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at the University of Washington, Seattle; he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Washington, Bothell, where he teaches classes in international relations, American politics, and political economy. Tim coordinates the "What's the Economy for, Anyway?" educational resource project and the "Bring Your Own Bag (BYOB) Seattle campaign," both of which are under the auspices of the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement.
	Savannah Paige Peterson, an undergraduate in communication and political science, does event planning and newsletters for the center and designs flyers, business cards, and other CCCE-related materials. She assists graduate students with their research/coding, helps out with the Becoming Citizens Program (recruitment, connect the curriculum that they generate to Puget Sound Off). She is working on the marketing campaign for PSO's launch. She is also exploring the connection between PSO and Your Revolution.
	Chris Wells, Graduate Student, Communication
	Emeritus Student Advisors
	David Iozzi, Undergraduate, Communication and Political Science
	Mike Xenos, Graduate Student, Political Science