STEVEN LIVINGSTON Curriculum Vita 25 June 2020 School of Media

STEVEN LIVINGSTON Curriculum Vita 25 June 2020 School of Media and Public Affairs; Elliott School of International Affairs The George Washington University 805 21st Street NW, MPA Bldg, #433 Washington, DC 20052 202.321.8054 (Mobile) 202.994.5888 (Office) [email protected] 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). He is also the founding director of the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics (IDDP). He is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Political Science and in the Space Policy Institute at GW. Livingston’s research and teaching focus on information and communication technology, development and governance, open source investigations, and transnational advocacy, especially concerning human rights, and disinformation. Among other publications, he 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); 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); and The Disinformation Age: Politics, Technology, and Disruptive Communication in the United States (an edited volume with W. Lance Bennett) (Cambridge University Press, in press). Livingston received a Ph.D. (1990) in political science from the University of Washington and joined the faculty of the George Washington University in 1991 following a year at the University of Utah. He served as the director of the Political Communication Program, then a degree-granting department within SMPA, for a total of eight years (1996-2002; 2004- 2006) and as interim 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, Harvard Kennedy School. In April 2004, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. 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. In 2016, he was a guest scholar in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Concurrently, he was a Senior Fellow in residence at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. Since 2018, Livingston has served on the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court at The Hague. He also serves on the Scientific Freedoms and Responsibilities Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In spring 2017, he was a visiting professor at St. Gallen University, Switzerland. In the summer of 2017, Livingston was a Visiting Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Governance and Human Rights, Cambridge University. 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, Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. He has appeared on CNN, CNN-International, 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, Washington Post, The Economist, and other newspapers around the world. He has also written for Newsday, USA Today, and La Stampa in Rome. His research has taken him on extended stays in Russia, Europe, South America, throughout the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. At the invitation of the US Embassy in Baghdad, he was in Iraq twice in 2008 and for a third time 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. He has visited over 50 countries, many multiple times, in the last decade. 2 EDUCATION PhD, 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 • Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs, George Washington University, 2007- present. • Interim Director, School of Media and Public Affairs, 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 • Founding Director, Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics, 2019 – present. • Member, Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2017 – present. • Technical Advisory Board, Office of the Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court at The Hague, 2018. • Advisory Council of the Media and Peacebuilding Project at GW's School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) 3 • Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Public Diplomacy Institute (The Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication), The George Washington University, 2000- 2008. AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, & GRANTS • Knight Foundation Grant, $5 million to establish the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics, 2019. • GW University Seminar Series (with Neil Johnson and David Broniatowski), 2019- 2020. • Visiting Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Governance and Human Rights, Cambridge University, May – July 2017. • Visiting professor at St. Gallen University in St. Gallen, Switzerland, April 2017. • August 2016 – present, Senior Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. • Guest scholar, Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution, May – December 2016. • Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award, American Political Science Association, for When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina, With W. Lance Bennett and Regina G. Lawrence, September 2016. • Canterbury Fellowship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, July – August 2015. • Senior Research, SFB 700, Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood, (Der Sonderforschungsbereich 700: Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit), Die Freie Universität, 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, 2013. (Approximately $50,000) • Research Fellow, SFB 700, Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood, (Der Sonderforschungsbereich 700: Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit), Die Freie Universität, December 2011. 4 • Research Grant, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, 2011 (Approximately $50,000) • Best Paper Award (with Sean Aday), Broadcast Association Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2004. • Fulbright Scholarship to Beirut, Lebanon, 2004-2005 (Declined to assume interim directorship of SMPA). • Senior Research Fellow, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2002 – 2003. • Research Grant, Elliott School of International Affairs, 1999. • Goldsmith Research Grant, Joan Shorenstein Center of the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1996. • Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, grant to organize a conference on humanitarian crises, news coverage and military operations. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John Shalikashvili, keynote speaker. • Junior Faculty Incentive Award, The George Washington University, 1994. • Faculty Research Grant, The George Washington University, 1992. • Social Science Research Council Senior Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, 1992-1993. PUBLICATIONS Books and Monographs • The Disinformation Age: Politics, Technology, and Disruptive Communication in the United States,

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