Ellen Mickiewicz is James R. Shepley emeritus professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Political Science Association’s Murray Edelman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Political Communication, the National Association of Broadcasters Electronic Media Book of the Year. She has been Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Cultural Research in Vienna and Lombard Professor [Visiting] at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She is a Fellow of The Carter Center and since 1991 has directed with former President Jimmy Carter the Commission on Media Policy of which she is currently co-chair with Erhard Busek, former Vice-Chancellor of Austria.
Selected Writings
No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders (Oxford University Press, 2014) Expanded and translated into Russian as Television, Power, and Society [Телевидение, Власть и Общество] (Aspect Press, Moscow, 2013)
Efficacy and Evidence: Evaluating U.S. Goals at the American National Exhibition in Moscow 1959 (Journal of Cold War Studies, Harvard University and MIT, Fall 2011, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 138-171)
Television, Power, and the Public in Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2008)