Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center. Six of the 18 books that Jamieson has authored or co-authored have received book awards in the Communication or Political Science fields. Her Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know (Oxford University Press, 2018) received the American Association of Publishers’ 2019 R.R. Hawkins Award. She co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication (2017) and The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication (2017). Her paper “Implications of the Demise of ‘Fact’ in Political Discourse” received the American Philosophical Society’s 2016 Henry Allen Moe Prize.

Jamieson is a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association; a member or fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Communication Association; and the 2020 recipient of the National Academy of Sciences’ Public Welfare Medal. She is the co-founder of FactCheck.org and its subsidiary site, SciCheck.