Office: CMU 141
Phone: 221-6532
E-Mail: pnhoward@u.washington.edu

Philip Howard, Assistant Professor, joined the Faculty of Communication at the University of Washington in Fall 2002. He teaches courses on research methods, new media and society, and political communication. He earned his B.A. in political science from the University of Toronto in 1993, his M.Sc. in international relations from the London School of Economics in 1994, and his Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University in 2002.

He has written a number of articles and book chapters on new media and society, and the use of information technology in political campaigns. His first book is an edited collection with Steve Jones called Society Online: The Internet In Context (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003). His second book is New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). He is working several projects about communication technologies in developing countries, and his next book manuscript will be about how new media technologies are used to solve social problems in poor countries.