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Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania, the founding Director of Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center and Program Director of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. Jamieson earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Texas, Austin and the University of Pennsylvania where she served as dean of the Annenberg School from 1989-2003.  Jamieson received teaching awards at each of these universities.

Books authored by Jamieson include Packaging the Presidency (Oxford, 1984, 1992, 1996; winner of SCA Golden Anniversary Book Award), Eloquence in an Electronic Age ( Oxford 1988 and 1990; recipient of the SCA Winans-Wichelns Book Award),  Dirty Politics (Oxford, 1992 ) and Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership (Oxford, 1995).  With Joseph Cappella she wrote Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good (Oxford, 1997 winner of APSA Political Communication Division Doris Graber Award) and Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment (Oxford, 2008). She and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell co-authored Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Paul Waldman and Jamieson’s The Press Effect  (Oxford) appeared in 2003. With Richard Johnston and Michael Hagen, Jamieson wrote The 2000 Election and the Foundations of Party Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Richard Johnston and Jamieson founded the Annenberg Pubic Policy Center’s National Annenberg Election Study and she and journalist Brooks Jackson created  FactCheck.org. Jamieson’s videos for high school students on the Constitution earned  the American Bar Association’s  Greeley Award.

Jamieson’s work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Pew Charitable Trusts, among others. She currently serves on the boards of the Russell Sage and WT Grant Foundations.
Awards won by Jamieson include the APSA political communication division’s Murray Edelman Award.  She is a fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the International Communication Association.

Statement of Views

I am interested in promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration, translating the work of scholars into effective civics education in high schools and increasing Federal and foundation funding for scholarly work in political communication.