Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication in the Communications faculty, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center since 2003, and Program Director of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. She holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science. Jamieson earned a B.A. in Rhetoric and Public Address from Marquette University, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 as Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, serving in that role until 2003, and has held her professorship there since. Prior positions include G.B. Dealey Regents Professor of Communication and Chair of the Speech Communication Department at the University of Texas at Austin from 1986 to 1989, and assistant, associate, and full professor at the University of Maryland. She received university-wide teaching awards at each of the three universities where she taught. Her research utilizes rhetorical analysis, surveys, and experiments to investigate campaign communication, the science of science communication, disinformation, vaccine hesitancy, conspiracy theories, media effects on public opinion, presidential rhetoric, and the role of news in democracy. Jamieson co-founded FactCheck.org and its SciCheck subsidiary, and she directs the Sunnylands Constitution Project, which has produced over 30 award-winning films on the Constitution for high school students. She served as past president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Jamieson has authored or co-authored 18 books, including Democracy Amid Crises: Polarization, Pandemic, Protests, and Persuasion (2023), Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped (2022), Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President (Oxford University Press, 2018; revised 2020), The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Messages Shaped the 2008 Election (2010), Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment (2008), Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words (2008), unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (2007), The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World (2003), Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good (1997), Packaging the Presidency: A History of Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising (third edition, 1996), Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy (1992), and Eloquence in an Electronic Age: The Transformation of Political Speechmaking (1990). Six of her books received a total of 12 political science or communication book awards. Notable honors include the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal (2020), election to the National Academy of Sciences (2020), Benjamin Franklin Founders Award (2021), Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research (2022), election as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2022) and to its Board of Directors (2023), Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award from the American Political Science Association (1995), Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities from the American Philosophical Society (2016), and Everett M. Rogers Award (2018). She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. Jamieson delivered the American Political Science Association’s Ithiel de Sola Pool Lecture, the National Communication Association’s Arnold Lecture, and the NASEM Henry and Bryna David Lecture.

Professional Email: kjamieson@asc.upenn.edu