CGCS Advisory Board
Jacques deLisle
Jacques deLisle is Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law at Law School and Director of the University's Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS).
DeLisle’s research and teaching focus on contemporary Chinese law and politics, including: the relationships between legal and political change in China; law and economic reform in China; China’s approach to international law; Taiwan’s international status and relations with China; Hong Kong’s transition to and development under Chinese rule; and public international law.
Devesh Kapur
Professor Devesh Kapur was appointed Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India in 2006. He is an associate professor of political science at Penn, and holds the Madan Lal Sobti Professorship for the Study of Contemporary India. Prior to arriving at Penn, Professor Kapur was an associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, and before that the Frederick Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard. His research focuses on human capital, national and international public institutions, and the ways in which local-global linkages affect political and economic change in developing countries. Professor Kapur has focused in particular on India, and the impact of international institutions and diasporas on India. He is completing a book manuscript, under contract with Princeton University Press, entitled Democracy, Death and Diamonds: The Impact of Migration From India on India. Professor Kapur holds a BTech in chemical engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University; an MS in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota; and a PhD from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.
Elihu Katz
Elihu Katz is a sociologist who has spent most of a lifetime in research on communication. His first book, co-authored in 1955 with his Columbia University mentor, Paul Lazarsfeld, was an attempt to observe the flow of influence at the intersections of mass and interpersonal communication. His subsequent work in this tradition includes studies on the diffusion of medical innovation (with James Coleman and Herbert Menzel), and on the diffusion of fluoridation among American cities (with Robert L. Crain and Donald Rosenthal).
He follows the writings of the French social psychologist, Gabriel Tarde, in conceptualizing the public sphere as an arena of interaction among media, conversation, opinion and action. In the mid 70s, Katz and Daniel Dayan began assembling a library of live broadcasts of historic occasions that enthralled a whole nation, or the world. Their 1992 book, Media Events, representing some 15 years of collaboration, is now in print in seven languages.
Katz joined the faculty of the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania as Trustee Professor in 1992, and also directed its experimental Scholars program for post-doctoral study. In Jerusalem, he is emeritus professor of sociology and communication, and former director of the Institute of Applied Social Research. Katz is winner of the UNESCO-Canada McLuhan Prize, the Burda Prize (in media res), and other distinctions, including honorary degrees from the Universities of Ghent, Montreal, Paris and Haifa. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Vincent Price
Vincent Price (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Provost, University of Pennsylvania and the Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication and Political Science. He was formerly chair of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, where he also served as a Faculty Associate with the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research.
Price has published extensively on mass communication and public opinion, social influence processes, and political communication. His research on media framing of issues, the measurement of media exposure and political information, social identification processes, and third-person effects of mass communication is widely cited; and his book Public Opinion (Sage, 1992) has been translated and published in five languages. Price was editor-in-chief of Public Opinion Quarterly from 1997-2001, guest editor for special issues of Communication Research and Political Communication, and has served on a number of journal editorial boards. His recent research, funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Annenberg Public Policy Center, focuses on the role of online political conversation and deliberation in shaping public opinion.
Joseph Turow
Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. A 2005 New York Times Magazine article referred to Professor Turow as "probably the reigning academic expert on media fragmentation." He has authored eight books, edited five books, and written more than 100 articles on mass media industries. A few of his titles are Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2006); Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World (University of Chicago Press, 1997; paperback, 1999; Chinese edition 2004), The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (edited with Lokman Tsui, U of Michigan Press, 2008), and Playing Doctor: Television, Storytelling and Medical Power (Oxford, 1989).
Robert Vitalis
Robert Vitalis joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in July 1999 as associate professor of political science and director of the Middle East Center. He stepped down as Center director in July 2006 and was promoted to full professor in July 2008. Vitalis received his Ph.D. in political science from MIT in 1989. His graduate work included a three-year residence in Cairo where he studied Arabic and researched the political strategies of Egyptian business firms. His first book, When Capitalists Collide: Business Conflict and the End of Empire in Egypt, was published in 1995. The Organization of American Historians awarded him the Bernath Prize in 1996 for his work on Egypt's political economy. He has continued to develop and expand the scope of his interests in historical comparative analysis in his second book, America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier, which was published in October 2006 by Stanford University Press, and named a book of the year in the London Guardian. His new book project, The End of Empire in American Political Science, moves away from the Middle East to explore the unwritten history of international relations, development, and area studies and to recover the African-American internationalist tradition. Recent honors include fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation (2003), the Woodrow Wilson International Center (2002), the International Center for Advanced Study, NYU (2002), and the American Council of Learned Societies (2002). He was a MacArthur Award nominee in 1998.
Barbie Zelizer
Barbie Zelizer (Ph.D. 1990, University of Pennsylvania; MA 1981, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; BA 1976, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is Professor of Communication, holds the Raymond Williams Chair of Communication and is Director of the Annenberg School's Scholars Program in Culture and Communication.
A former journalist, Zelizer's work focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism, with a specific interest in journalistic authority, collective memory, and journalistic images in times of crisis and war. She also works on the impact of disciplinary knowledge on academic inquiry.
Coeditor and founder of the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism (Sage), Zelizer also has served on the editorial boards of numerous book series and journals, including Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Popular Communication, and Critical and Cultural Studies in Communication. Zelizer has lectured widely both internationally and nationally, and her essays on the media have appeared in The Nation, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Newsday, and other publications.
Currently the President of the International Communication Association, Zelizer has been both a Guggenheim Fellow, a Research Fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, and a Fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Her previous academic appointment was at Temple University.
