Professor Rodger Smith, GMU Communications Department and WGMU Faculty Advisor interviews Dr. Jeremy Mayer, GMU School of Public Policy.
Jeremy Mayer is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Master of Public Policy Program in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Most recently he is the co-author of Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities (Brookings, 2008), co-editor of Media Power, Media Politics, 2nd ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), co-author of Deconstructing Reagan: A Critical Analysis of Conservative Mythology (2006), and the author of American Media Politics in Transition (McGraw Hill 2006). He has written articles on diverse topics such as presidential image management, Christian right politics, federalism and gay rights, and comparative political socialization, in journals such as Presidential Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and The Historian.
Part 1 of the interview analyzes foreign policy of the Obama administration and Mitt Romney’s focus on foreign policy.
Part 2 continues the discussion of Part 1 and provides detail on why college students should care about foreign policy.
This is an interview with Dr. Stephen Farnsworth, a Professor and Director for the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg. For several years, Dr. Farnsworth taught in the Department of Communication here at George Mason University. this interview focuses on the Virginia Senate race. The interview conducted is by GMU Professor, Rodger Smith, Dept. of Communications and WGMU Faculty Advisor.
Prof. Rodger Smith, GMU Dept. of Communications and WGMU Faculty Advisor, interviews Prof. Mark Rozell, GMU Public Policy. This is a two part of interview with Mark Rozell, the author of nine books and editor of twenty books on various topics in U.S. government and politics including the presidency, religion and politics, media and politics, and interest groups in elections.
He has testified before Congress on several occasions on executive privilege issues and has lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad.
Professor Rozell writes frequent op-ed columns in such publications as Roll Call and Politico. He is often asked to comment about his areas of expertise for television and in publications such as The Washington Post and Time Magazine.
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Interview with Professor Dr. Janette Muir, Associate Provost at George Mason University by Professor Rodger Smith of the GMU Communications Department and WGMU Faculty Advisor:
Here are two parts of an interview with Dr. Janette Muir, who teaches courses in Political Communication and Rhetoric and has written several articles on presidential campaigns and political activism.
Her courses tend to be highly interactive — from taking students to New Hampshire to follow presidential candidate campaigns, to involving them in convention planning for major conferences. She also facilitated a course on Inter-generational Dialogues that paired undergrad GMU students with students from the Learning in Retirement Institute at GMU.
Dr. Muir has received a GMU Teaching Excellence Award, she is a C-SPAN Fellow, past president of the Eastern Communication Association, and she is actively involved in both the National Communication Association and the American Association of Higher Education.
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