Kirsten Foot, is interested in the reciprocal relationship between information/communication technologies and society. As co-director of the WebArchivist.org research group, she is developing new techniques for studying social and political action on the Web. She is working on many projects that examine the role of the internet in politics. Her current research includes the 2002 Election Web Archive to which the CCCE is a partner.

Nayna Jhaveri is Professor of Geography at the University of Wasington. Her interests include; nature-society relations; post modern ecology; geography of consumption common property; critical enviromental law; water resources; asia.

Victoria Lawson is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. Her theoretical and empirical work is concerned with the social and economic effects of global economic restructuring in the Americas.

Matt Sparke is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. His interests are; critical geopolitics; political and economic geography; social theory including post-colonial theory and feminist and anti-racist theory, U.S. and Canada

Anthony Giffard studies international media systems, media and international relations, African and European media, editing and reporting, content analysis.

Patricia Moy is Assistant Professor of Communication and studies political communication, public opinion, media effects, and research methodology.

Phil Howard is an assistant professor of Communication at the University of Washington. His current research and teaching interests include political communication and the role of new media in social movements and deliberative democracy, work in new economy and e-commerce firms, and the application of new media technologies in addressing social inequalities in the developing world.

Richard Kielbowicz is Associate Professor of Communication and studies communication history, law and policy, mass media in Canada, and history of communication technologies.

Deborah Kaplan is an assistant professor of communication. Her research and teaching interests meet in the areas of political communication, critical and constructionist approaches to the media, globalization, space and place, social movements, identity, cultural studies, discourse analysis and ethnography.

Nancy Rivenburgh is Associate Professor of Communication and studies international communications, media and foreign policy, intercultural communications, development communications and cross-cultural research methods.

David Silver is an assistant professor in the School of Communications at the University of Washington. His research interests focus primarily around the intersections between computers, the Internet, and contemporary American cultures. Since 1996, he has been building the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture.

Douglas Underwood is Associate Professor of Communication. He studies newspaper economics, government and the media, media coverage of business, and intellectual history of mass media.

Bryan Jones is the Donald R. Matthews Distinguished Professor of American Politics and Director of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy at the University of Washington. He studies political decision-making and American public policy processes at both the national and local levels.

Michael W. McCann is Professor of Political Science and is the Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship. His research interests include public law, American politics, and political theory, with an emphasis on the politics of social struggle and reform movements. more

Adam Simon is assistant professor of Political Science and pursues research relevant to political communication. Adam and Mike Xenos coordinated the data collection and analysis for the Student Voices project at the CCCE.

Paul Burstein is Professor of Sociology whose interests include political sociology, social movements, social stratification, law and policy.

Kim England is an associate professor of geography at the University of Washington. Much of her current and ongoing research is best described as a feminist consideration of the links between labour markets, the state and families

Steve Pfaff is Professor of Sociology. He specializes in historical and comparative sociology, social movements, politics, and issues concerning central and Eastern Europe.

Phil Berreano is Professor of Technical Communication. His many interests include: technology assessment; technology and social values; women, ethnic minorities, and technology; public policies regarding data technologies, genetic engineering, alternative technologies; and the environmental and ethical aspects of technologies.

Mark Smith is Professor of Political Science. He is a specialist in American politics with research interests in public opinion, interest groups, and public policy. His current project focuses upon the use of economic reasoning by politicians to justify and advocate policy proposals. Smith teaches courses on American politics, interest groups, public opinion, and research design.

Gerald Baldasty is the Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and is interested in economic aspects of media; media organizations; media and politics; race, class, and gender.

John Gastil is Professor of Communication. His research aims to improve our understanding of participatory democracy and to develop deliberative forms of democratic decision making. Toward these goals, He has studied and written on the subjects of deliberative democracy, persuasion and public opinion, democratic citizenship, and language and democracy. more

Keith Stamm, is Professor in the Department of Communication. He studies media and community integration, cognitive processes of communicators, and political communications.

Kathleen Fearn-Banks is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. She studies Public Relations and Crisis Communications.

David Domke, Assistant Professor, studies media framing and priming; personal values, cognition, and public opinion; race relations and social change; social science methods; journalism.

The CCCE is fortunate to have a number of affiliates and fellows that contribute to the intellectual mission of the Center. The faculty affiliates span five departments at the University of Washington. The CCCE seeks to establish affiliations with institutions throughout the US and around the world.

Lance Bennett is Professor of Political Science and the Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. His areas of interest include Political Communication (media and politics), Political Psychology, and American Politics (public opinion and political behavior).

Dr. Barzilai-Nahon's research interests lie in information policy and in the social aspects of the management of information systems. More specifically she studies information control and gatekeeping, self-regulation mechanisms in cyberspace and particularly in virtual communities, and "Digital Divide" measurement tools.

Dr. Michael B. Eisenberg conducts research, writes, consults, and lectures frequently on information literacy, information technology, information management in learning and teaching, and information and library education.