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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Jill is a Green Party Presidential Candidate, a “mother, physician, longtime teacher of internal medicine, and pioneering environmental-health advocate,” as stated in her biography on her campaign website.
She co-authored, In Harm’s Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development as well as Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging. These are two widely-praised reports that Dr. Stein has used to promote green local economies, clean power, sustainable agriculture, and freedom from toxic threats, especially concerning health threats to children. She realized politicians were not working to prevent these areas when she became an advocate for the environment in 1998. Jill Stein worked to create a “Secure Green Future” ballot initiative which worked towards speeding up renewable energy use in Massachusetts in 2008.
Dr. Stein was born and raised in Illinois, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1973 and from Harvard Medical School in 1979. She currently lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with her husband, a fellow physician. She is the mother of Ben and Noah Stein, who recently graduated from college.
