Steven Livingston Faculty Member
Positions
- Associate Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs 1996 -
- Professor of Media & Public Affairs and International Affairs, School of Media and Public Affairs , Columbian College of Arts and Sciences 2002 -
- Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs 2007 -
- Director, School of Media and Public Affairs , Columbian College of Arts and Sciences 2000 - 2008
- Associate Professor, School of Media and Public Affairs , Columbian College of Arts and Sciences 1996 - 2007
- Interim Director, School of Media and Public Affairs , Columbian College of Arts and Sciences 2004 - 2007
- Director, School of Media and Public Affairs , Columbian College of Arts and Sciences 2004 - 2006
- Program Director, School of Media and Public Affairs , Columbian College of Arts and Sciences 1996 - 2002
- Assistant Professor, School of Media and Public Affairs , Columbian College of Arts and Sciences 1991 - 1996
- Assistant Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs 1992 - 1996
Steven Livingston is a professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs at George Washington University with appointments in the School of Media and Public Affairs and the Elliott School of International Affairs. He also has affiliate appointments in the political science department and the Space Policy Institute. He has also been a Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University. He also serves on the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court at The Hague. In 2021 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University f Helsinki. In 2016-2017, Livingston was a Visiting Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Governance and Human Rights, POLIS, University of Cambridge. In spring 2017, he was a visiting professorship at the University St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 2016-17 he was a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution’s program in Governance Studies. His research centers on the role of technology in governance and the provisioning of public goods, including human security and rights. At present, he is working on several projects revolving around the use of digital technologies and data by human rights organizations. Among other publications, Livingston has written When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (W. Lance Bennett and Regina Lawrence, co-authors) (University of Chicago Press, 2007). In 2016, it won the Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award, American Political Science Association. With Gregor Walter-Drop he edited Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood (Oxford University Press, 2014). Africa’s Evolving Infosystems: A Pathway to Security and Stability (NDU Press, 2011) and Africa’s Information Revolution: Implications for Crime, Policing, and Citizen Security (NDU Press, 2013). Over the last decade, Livingston has worked in over 50 countries, mostly in Africa and South America, but also on several occasions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Research Areas
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