Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a Washington lecture “Foreign Policy Formulation: Journalism, Public Opinion and Divided Government in the U.S.” as part of the U.S. State Department’s Institute for International Education Visitor Leadership Program for International Journalism. The talk included findings from his recently published co-authored book, “The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government.”
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Farnsworth Discusses Elections
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, gave four recent public lectures on the 2014 U.S. and Virginia elections: to the Virginia Business Forum in Richmond, to the Fredericksburg Regional Alliance, to Mary Washington ElderStudy and to the Fredericksburg area Unitarian Universalists.
In addition, Farnsworth appeared in a number of media outlets discussing the results of the recent midterm elections, including the “Washington Post,” the “Richmond-Times Dispatch,” “Talking Points Memo,” the “Virginian Pilot,” “WJLA-TV,” and “WAMU-FM,” the Washington area National Public Radio affiliate.
After Brat, GOP Primary Challengers Hopeful (The Washington Post; Richmond Times-Dispatch; NewsOK.Com; Daily Journal.Com)
Farnsworth, Hanna and Hermerding Publish Research
A research project on the 2014 U.S. Senate election in Virginia co-authored by Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of UMW’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, Stephen Hanna, professor of geography and Benjamin Hermerding, an Alvey Scholar at UMW and a research associate at the center, was featured in the Washington Post and published in the Daily Kos, a leading online news source.