With Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson is a distinguished award-winning communications professor from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Jamieson’s trail-blazing scholarship and public leadership demonstrate a deep commitment to democratic justice, particularly fair elections and fact-based information. On the first CSB/SJU Community Engagement Day—September 25– we virtually brought her to campus for the 14th Annual Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture. 

Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the university’s Annenberg Public Policy Center. She spoke on “Russian hackers, trolls and #DemocracyRIP.” Her lecture synthesized what is known about the impact of the Russian interventions in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, outline the contours of the #DemocracyRIP, Russian plans to undercut the presidency of Hillary Clinton if she had been elected and ask what’s next and what can we do about it.

Jamieson’s lecture follows up on her book, Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President, which won the Association of American Publishers’ 2019 R.R. Hawkins Award and was published in a revised paperback edition by Oxford University Press in June 2020. 

In April, Jamieson received the Public Welfare Medal, the top award from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). NAS President Marcia McNutt said Jamieson’s “approach to science communication and her political analysis have proven to be invaluable national resources … The integrity of science relies on a respect for facts. The integrity of facts [relies] in no small measure, on Kathleen Hall Jamieson.”

Jamieson is a 1964 graduate of St. Benedict’s High School in St. Joseph, Minnesota and received a bachelor’s degree from Marquette University and a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.

Special thanks to the SJU Chair in Critical Thinking for co-sponsorship and Anna Jonas at the bookstore for facilitating the book distribution.