Stephen Farnsworth

       Stephen J. Farnsworth

       Professor and Director, Center for Leadership and Media Studies

        (Ph.D., Georgetown University)

–areas of specialization:

American Government: the Presidency, Media and Politics, Elections

–scholarly achievements:

- The Nightly News Nightmare: Media Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1988-2008 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011, coauthored).

- Spinner in Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves (Paradigm, 2009).

- The Mediated Presidency: Television News and Presidential Governance (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, coauthored).

- Political Support in a Frustrated America (Praeger, 2003).

- dozens of scholarly articles on the presidency, the mass media, U.S. public opinion and Virginia politics in peer-reviewed journals

- Canada-U.S. Fulbright Research Chair in Public Policy, McGill University, Montreal.

- Provided U.S. government-funded reporter training seminars in Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Armenia and Estonia.

- Recipient, Mary W. Pinschmidt Teaching Award.

- Recipient, Alumni Association Outstanding Young Faculty Award.

- Recipient, the Richard Palmieri Outstanding Professor Award.

To send e-mail to Professor Farnsworth: sfarnswo@umw.edu