Curriculum Vita STEVEN LIVINGSTON the George

Curriculum Vita STEVEN LIVINGSTON The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs 805 21st Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20052 Telephone: (202) 994-5888 FAX: (202) 9945806 [email protected] Revised January 29, 2016 Steven Livingston is Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs with appointments in the School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) and the Elliott School of International Affairs (ESIA) at The George Washington University. His research and teaching focus on information and communication technology, human security, development and governance. Among other publications, Livingston has written The Terrorism Spectacle (Westview Press, 1994); When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (with W. Lance Bennett and Regina Lawrence) (University of Chicago Press, 2007); Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood (with Gregor Walter-Drop) (Oxford University Press, 2014). Two major studies of information technology and individual and collective security were funded by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies: Africa’s Evolving Infosystems: A Pathway to Security and Stability (NDU Press, 2011) and Africa’s Information Revolution: Implications for Crime, Policing, and Citizen Security (NDU Press, 2013). At present he is writing Digital Activists Without Borders (working title), a study of the use of digital technologies by human rights organizations. Livingston received a Bachelors degree in political science from the University of S. 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. He served as the director of the Political Communication Program, a degree-granting department within SMPA (1996-2002; 2004- 2006) and as acting director of the School of Media and Public Affairs, from 2004 - 2006. He is also the founder of the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication at GWU in 2000 and served as the chairman of the Board of Directors until 2008. In the 1992-93, Livingston was a Social Science Research Council Senior Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies (funded by the Ford Foundation). In 1995, he 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. Livingston also received a Goldsmith Award while at Harvard. In April 2004, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship (declined to assume SMPA directorship). In 2015 he was awarded an Erskine Canterbury Fellowship at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Later in 2015, he was appointed as senior research fellow at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood" at the Freie Universität Berlin. Livingston has lectured at the National Defense University, the Army War College, the Strategic Studies Group at the Naval War College, the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the U.S. Institute for Peace, European Institute of Diplomacy, Vienna, the Foreign Service Institute, the U.S. Department of State, and at universities and think tanks in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He has appeared on CNN, CNNI, ABC, CBC, BBC, NPR, VICE News, al Jazeera, al Jazeera English and many other news organizations. He has also been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Economist, and many other newspapers around the world. He has also written for Newsday, USA Today, and La Stampa in Rome. His research has led to extended stays in Northern Ireland, Russia, Europe, South America, the Middle East, South Asia and East and Africa. At the invitation of the US Embassy in Baghdad, he was in Iraq twice in 2008 and again in 2009. At the invitation of the Canadian government and NATO, he was in Afghanistan in 2009 and again in 2010. He has advised a wide range of governments, the U.N. and NGOs, and the World Bank on matters relating to international affairs, media, and technology. 2 1/29/16 Steven Livingston School of Media and Public Affairs; Elliott School of International Affairs The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 EDUCATION Ph.D., Political Science, University of Washington, 1990 M.A., Political Science, University of Washington, 1984 B.A., Political Science, (Magna Cum Laude), University of S. Florida, 1981 ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD • Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs, The George Washington University, 2007-present. • Interim Director, School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University, 2004 - 2006. • Director, Political Communication Program, The George Washington University, 1996 - 2002; 2004 - 2006. • Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University, 1996 - 2007. • Associate Professor of International Affairs, The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, 1996 - 2007. • Assistant Professor of International Affairs, The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, 1992 - 1993. • Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah, 1990 - 1991. • Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington, summer 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, & 2004. OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD • Chairman, Board of Directors, Public Diplomacy Institute, The George Washington University, 2000-2008. 3 1/29/16 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION State-media theory, information/communication technology and foreign policy processes, collective action, human security, and global politics. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS (partial listing) • Canterbury Fellowship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, July – August 2015. • Senior Research Fellow In-residence, SFB 700 - Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit (Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood), Freie Universitat-Berlin, September - December 2015. • Staub Faculty Excellence Award for 2015, School of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University. • Research grant, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Research paper No. 5, 2013. • Research Fellow In-residence, SFB 700 - Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit (Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood), Freie Universitat-Berlin, December 2011. • Research grant, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Research paper No. 2, 2011. • Best Paper Award, Broadcast Education Association Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2004. • Fulbright Scholarship to Beirut, Lebanon, 2004-05 (declined). • Senior Research Fellow, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2002 –2003. • Research Grant, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, 1999. • Goldsmith Research Grant, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996 • Research Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996 • Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, grant to organize a conference concerning humanitarian crises news coverage and military operations. • Junior Faculty Incentive Award, The George Washington University, 1994. 4 1/29/16 • Faculty Research Grant, The George Washington University (travel grant), 1992. • Social Science Research Council Senior Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, (funded by the Ford Foundation), 1992-93. • University of Utah Faculty Research Grant, 1991 (Declined to accept position at GW). PUBLICATIONS Book and Monographs • Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). Gregor Walter-Drop, co-editor. • Africa’s Evolving Infosystem: A Pathway to Security and Stability, (Washington, DC: NDU Press 2011). • Africa’s Information Revolution: Implications for Crime, Policing, and Citizen Security, (Washington, DC: NDU Press, 2013). • When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2007). W. Lance Bennett and Regina Lawrence, co-authors. • Beyond the CNN Effect: An Examination of Media Effects According to Type of Intervention (Cambridge, MA.: The Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996). • Humanitarian Crises: Meeting the Challenges (Chicago, Illinois: The Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, 1995). • The Terrorism Spectacle: The Politics of Terrorism and the News Media, (Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1994). Refereed Journal Articles • Catie Snow Bailard and Steven Livingston, “Crowdsourcing Accountability in a Nigerian Election,” Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 11:4, 2014, pp 349-367. • Steven Livingston, “From Regimes to Ecologies: Globalizing Bruce Bimber’s Model of Information and Politics,” Revista Internacional de Sociologia, Vol 69, No. 3, September – December 2011. • Steven Livingston, The CNN Effect Reconsidered (again): Problematizing ICT and Global Governance in the CNN Effect Research Agenda,” Media, War & Conflict, April 2011 vol. 4 no. 1 20-36. 5 1/29/16 • Steven Livingston and Gregory Asmolov, “Networks and the Future of Foreign Affairs Reporting,” Journalism

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