Faculty

Hart, Roderick
Shivers Chair in Communications; Joint Professor with Communications

Phone: 512-471-5646
rodhart@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Professor Hart received his B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Pennsylvania State University.

Research interests:
Currently the director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation, Professor Hart taught at Purdue from 1970-79 and started at U.T. in the summer of 1979. His areas of special interest are American government, politics and the media, and presidential studies.

Field(s) of Study: Political Behavior; American Politics

Awards/Honors:
He has received grant support from the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, Exxon Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Kaltenborn Foundation. He has been named a Research Fellow of the International Communication Association, a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association, and has received the Edelman Career Award from the American Political Science Association.

Recent Publications:
He is the author or editor of ten books including Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter (Oxford, 1994) and Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us (Princeton, 2000). More recently he has edited Communication in U.S. Elections with Daron Shaw and Politics, Discourse and American Society with Bat Sparrow, both with Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.