WWU's Munro Seminar to host Danny Hayes on Nov. 14 at the Mount Baker Theatre

Professor Danny Hayes of George Washington University will give the keynote address for the 2016 Munro Seminar for Civic Education. 

His talk, "The Role of the Media in The Presidential Campaign", will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov.14 at the Mount Baker Theatre in downtown Bellingham.  Professor Hayes teaches courses on American politics, political communication, and political behavior. A former journalist, his research focuses on how information from the media and other political actors influences the public. He is the co-author of Influence from Abroad: Foreign Voices, the Media, and U.S. Public Opinion (Cambridge University Press, 2013). His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Political Communication, and Politics & Gender, among other outlets. He contributes to the Washington Post's blog The Monkey Cage. In 2014 and 2015, The Hatchet named him GW's best professor.

The Seminar will also feature on-campus panels on Money in Politics, the Media and Politics, Homelessness, and Mass Incarceration. Stay tuned for more details!

Since 1986, the Political Science Department has hosted seminars on civic education for students, educators and the community at large.  Over the years speakers have included academics, elected officials, policy experts and community activists as well as representatives from business and non-profits who join together around common themes to explore the role of civic education and civic engagement in the wider community.  For more information on the seminar, contact Vernon Johnson, program director for the Munro Institute for Civic Education.