Affiliated Faculty
Steven Livingston (PhD, University of Washington)
(206) 994-4946
e-mail: Sliv@gwu.edu
Steven Livingston is Associate Professor of Political Communication and International Affairs at The George Washington University (GWU) and served as the director of the Political Communication Program in the School of Media and Public Affairs from 1996 to 2002. He is also cofounder of the Public Diplomacy Institute (PDI) at GWU and serves as chairman of the board of the PDI. He holds a joint appointment in the Elliott School of International Affairs, is a research professor in the Political Science Department, and is a Faculty Associate in the Space Policy Institute. In 2002-2003 he is a senior research fellow in the Center for American Politics and public Policy at the University of Washington in Seattle. Livingston's research and teaching focus on media/information technology and international affairs. He is particularly interested in the role of information technology and media in national security policymaking.
Following service in the United States Army, Livingston received a Bachelors degree in political science from the University of South Florida (1982) and a Masters (1984) and Ph.D. (1990) in political science from the University of Washington. He joined the faculty of The George Washington University in 1991. In the 1992-93 academic year, Livingston was a Social Science Research Council Senior Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies (funded by the Ford Foundation). In 1995, Livingston received funding from the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation to investigate the role of the military and the media in humanitarian crises. In 1996, he was a Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also received a Goldsmith Award while at Harvard. He has also participated regularly in the Cantigny FoundationÕs Media/Military conferences that bring together flag rank military leaders with representatives of the national press corps.
Livingston has lectured at the National Defense University, the Army War College, at universities and think tanks in the Middle East and Africa. He has appeared on CNN, CNNI, ABC's 20/20, and many other news organizations commenting on public policy and politics. His research and consulting activities have led to extended stays in Northern Ireland, Russia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and East Africa.
Among other publications, Livingston has written Clarifying the CNN Effect: An Examination of Media Effects According to Type of Military Intervention (a monograph published by Harvard University in 1996) and The Terrorism Spectacle (Westview Press, 1994). His more recent publications include: "The New Information Environment and Diplomacy," in Cyber-diplomacy in the 21st Century, Evan Potter (ed.); "Remote Sensing Technology and the News Media," in Commercial Observation Satellites: At the Leading Edge of Global Transparency, John Baker, Kevin O'Connell, and Ray Williamson (eds.); "Transparency and the News Media," in Power and Conflict in the Age of Transparency, Bernard Finel and Kristin Lord (eds.). Presently, with Jarol Manheim he is writing Politechnique: How Technologies are Changing Politics under contract with LSU Press. |
