Hello! Welcome to this episode of the Architects of Communication Scholarship podcast series, a production of the ICA Podcast Network. I’m Ellen Wartella. Today, we’re hearing from Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Dr. Jamieson is currently the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication of the Annenberg School for Communication and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, both at the University of Pennsylvania. After receiving degrees from Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jamieson started as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland in 1971. Her career has taken her to the University of Texas, where she served as the G.B. Dealey Regents Professor of Communication and Chair of the Speech Communication Department, to the University of Pennsylvania, where she served as the Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, to Capitol Hill as the Director of Communication for the House Committee on Aging. Over the course of her career, Dr. Jamieson has authored or co-authored 17 books, including the acclaimed Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President in 2018 and The Obama Victory in 2010. She’s won the R.R. Hawkins Award, the PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers, among other honors, for her writing. She’s also a celebrated trailblazer for women in the field of communication science, having won the Women in Communications Hale Lifetime Achievement Award and been named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania by The Pennsylvania Commission for Women. Our interviewer today is Dr. Kate Kenski, a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Arizona. Dr. Kenski specializes in political communication, public opinion, and research methods, and was previously at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania — she has worked with Dr. Jamieson on several occasions. Here’s Kate.