Stephen Farnsworth

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, delivered a co-authored research paper,  “An Extended Presidential Honeymoon? Coverage of Barack Obama in The New York Times During 2009 and 2010,” at this year’s meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association in Boston.

Stephen Farnsworth

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is coauthor of a refereed journal article entitled, “Event-Driven Environmental News in the US and Canada,” published in the current issue of Electronic Media and Politics. The article grew out of a research project that originated during Dr. Farnsworth’s time as a Canada-US Fulbright Scholar at McGill University in Montreal.

Stephen Farnsworth

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, and Stephen P. Hanna, professor of geography, had opinion columns on the changing nature of Virginia politics published in the Washington Post and the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, has been elected chair of the political communication section of the American Political Science Association.

Farnsworth will lead the section, which includes nearly 500 political scientists who study media and politics, for two years. He previously served as vice chair of the section, as a member of its executive council, and as the section’s conference program chair.

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, appears in the BBC News segment “U.S. Election: Could South Asians Decide Who Wins the White House?” The piece, in which Farnsworth discusses the impact of South Asians in the Northern Virginia area to the upcoming presidential election, originally aired on Tuesday, Oct. 30.

Farnsworth is also the co-author, with Benjamin Hermerding, of an opinion column, “Virginia Senate candidates ratchet up attacks, seek last sliver of undecided voters,” published in The Chamberlink, a publication of the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce.

UMW political science students pose in front of the U.S. Capitol building.

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, took a group of political science students to Washington, D.C., on Monday, Oct. 22. During the trip, the students met with recent UMW graduates about making the transition from college to work and met with Brian Lamb and Steve Scully of C-SPAN.

The students were able to ask questions about the debates and the election from a variety of panelists live on C-SPAN on Monday afternoon. Farnsworth provided commentary and analysis, along with professors from other universities.

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, delivered a lecture entitled, “The 2012 Presidential Election Campaign: Polls, Money and the Media,”  at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki, Finland on October 16.

In addition, Farnsworth was recently quoted in a Washington Post news article regarding high levels of absentee voting in Republican counties in Virginia.