Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Philip N. Howard, Assistant Professor, Department of
Communication
Room #227, Communications Building, Box 353740, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195-3740
Office Telephone: (206) 221-6532,
Facsimile: (206) 616-3762
Email: pnhoward@u.washington.edu, Website
Portfolio: faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward
November 2005
Employment
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Washington, 2002-Present
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1999-2001
Research Fellow, Pew Trusts’ Internet and American Life Project, 2000-2001
Lecturer, Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Social and Political Sciences, 2000
Education and Training
Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University, 2002
Certificate, United Nations Civilian Training for International Peacekeeping Missions, Universita di Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, 1996
M.Sc., Development Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1994
B.A., Political Science, University of Toronto, 1993
Publications
Books
Howard, Philip N. New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen. New
York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Howard, Philip N., and Steve Jones, eds. Society Online: The Internet
in Context. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.
Peer Review
Howard, Philip N. "Deep Democracy, Thin Citizenship: Digital Media
and the Production of Political Culture." Annals of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science 597 (2005).
Howard, Philip N., Tema J. Milstein, and John Carr. "Surveillance and the Market for Political Information." Surveillance and Society (2005).
Howard, Philip N. "Digitizing the Social Contract: Producing American
Political Culture in the Age of New Media." The Communication Review
6 (2003): 213-45.
Howard, Philip N. "Network Ethnography and the Hypermedia Organization:
New Media, New Organizations, New Methods." New Media & Society
4, no. 4 (2002): 550-74.
Howard, Philip N., Lee Harrison Rainie, and Steve Jones. "Days and
Nights on the Internet: The Impact of a Diffusing Technology." American
Behavioral Scientist 45 (2001): 382-404.
Witte, James, Lisa Amoroso, and Philip N. Howard. "Method and Representation
in Internet-Based Survey Tools: Mobility, Community, and Cultural Identity
in Survey2000." Social Science Computer Review 18, no. 2 (2000): 179-95.
Howard, Philip N. "The History of Ecological Marginalization in Chiapas."
Environmental History 3, no. 3 (1998): 357-77.
Howard, Philip N. "Development-Induced Displacement in Haiti." Refuge - Canada's Periodical on Refugees 16, no. 3 (1997): 4-11.
Book Chapters
Howard, Philip N., and Tema J. Milstein. "Spiders, Spam, and Spyware:
New Media and the Market for Political Information." In Internet Research
Annual: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences,
edited by Mia Consalvo, Nancy Baym, Jeremy Hunsinger, Klaus Bruhn Jensen,
John Logie, Monica Murero and Leslie Regan Shade, 185-92. New York: Peter
Lang, 2004.
Jankowski, Nicholas, Kirsten Foot, Philip N. Howard, Steve Jones, Robin
Mansell, Steve Schneider, and Roger Silverstone. "The Internet and
Communication Studies." In Academy & the Internet, edited by Monroe
Price and Helen Nissenbaum, 168-95. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
Howard, Philip N. "Embedded Media: Who We Know, What We Know, and
the Context of Life Online." In Society Online: The Internet in Context,
edited by Philip N. Howard and Stephen Jones, 1-27. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage,
2004.
Howard, Philip N., Lee Harrison Rainie, and Steve Jones. "Days and
Nights on the Internet: The Impact of a Diffusing Technology." In The
Internet in Everyday Life, edited by Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite,
45-73. London: Blackwell, 2003.
Witte, James, and Philip N. Howard. "The Future of Polling: Relational
Inference and the Development of Internet Survey Instruments." In Navigating
Public Opinion: Polls, Policy and the Future of American Democracy, edited
by Jeff Manza, Fay Lomax Cook and Benjamin I. Page, 272-89. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2002.
Howard, Philip N., and Thomas Homer-Dixon. "The Case of Chiapas, Mexico."
In Ecoviolence: Links among Environment, Population, and Security, edited
by Thomas Homer-Dixon and Jessica Blitt, 19-65. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield,
1998.
Howard, Philip N. "Environmental Scarcities and Conflict: Assessing
the Evidence in the Asia-Pacific." In The New Security Agenda in the
Asia-Pacific Region, edited by Denny Roy, 64-75. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan,
1997.
Howard, Philip N. "The Antarctic Epistemic Community." In Special Volume to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the U.N. In Southeast Asia, edited by C. Suriyakumaran, 220-39. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Centre for Regional Development Studies, 1995.
Book Reviews, Editorials, Working Papers, Policy Papers and Other
Publications
“Harold Innis”, “Marshall McLuhan”, “Meme”, “Hactivism”, and “SIG-GRAPH”
entries in Steve Jones, Ed., Encyclopedia of New Media (Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage, forthcoming in 2002).
Philip N. Howard, “Can Technology Enhance Democracy? The Doubters’ Answer,” Review Essay for Journal of Politics 63(3), August 2001: Anthony Wilhelm, Democracy in a Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace (New York, NY: Routledge, 2000); Elaine Kamarck and Joseph Nye, Democracy.com? Governance in a Networked World (New York: Hollis Publishing, 1999); and Richard Davis, The Web of Politics: The Internet’s Impact on the American Political System (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Philip N. Howard and Lee Rainie, “The Revolution That Has Not Yet Begun,” Editorial for SAIC’s Information Impacts (iMP) Magazine, May 2000.
James Witte and Philip N. Howard, “Digital Citizens and Digital Consumers: Demographic Transition & Cultural Change Online,” Survey2000 Project, Working Paper I, August 1999.
Philip N. Howard, Environmental Scarcities and Conflict in Haiti: Ecology and Grievances in Haiti’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future, Canadian International Development Agency, Working Paper 26-248, June 1998, 59 pp.
“Environmental Degradation, Migration & Conflict - Impact on Aid,” OECD-Development Assistance Committee Working Group on Environmental Security, Paris, France, October 1996.
“Environmental Scarcities and Conflict,” National Security Council and Secretary of State’s Speaker Series, US State Department, Washington, DC, May 1996.
“Natural Resources, Conflict and Conflict Resolution,” International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, August 1995.
Book reviews for Millennium Journal of International Studies, Volumes 23 & 25 (1994): Meadows et al., Beyond the Limits, and Esty, Greening the GATT.
Conference Papers & Panels
Roundtable Chair, Section on Communication and Information Technologies,
American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, August 2004.
Philip N. Howard, "Wireless Networking in the Developing World: Lessons
from Three Projects," International Communications Association, New
Orleans, Louisiana, May 2004.
Philip N. Howard, "Software Technology and Social Development Policy: Scenarios for Preventing Software Dependency and Encouraging Ingenuity," Technology and Standards in the Public Interest: Comparing Values and Approaches to Code as Law, Stanhope Center for Communications Policy Research, London, UK, December 2003.
Presenter, "Design: Conceptualizing and Entering the Site of CMC," Ethnography and Computer-Mediated Communication: Studying Cyberculture Pre-Conference, National Communication Association, Miami, Florida, November 2003.
Organizer and Chair, "New Media and International Development: Lessons from the Field," Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, June 2003.
Philip N. Howard, Kirsten Foot, Steven Schneider, and Jennifer Stromer-Galley, "The New Political Campaign Position: A Survey of Website Producers and Managers," International Communication Association, San Diego, California, May 2003.
Philip N. Howard, "The Future of Polling: Relational Inference and the Development of Internet Survey Instruments," National Communication Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2002.
Philip N. Howard, "Embedded Media," American Sociology Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 2002.
Philip N. Howard, Chair, Roundtable on Social Movements and New Media Technology, American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 2002.
Philip N. Howard, "Politics Online: Regulating Campaigns and Campaigning in the New Media Environment," Ethnographies of the Internet: Grounding Regulation in Lived Experience, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, March 2002.
Chair, Spotlight on Scholarship Panel, "The Internet and American Life," and conference paper "Terror in the Commons: The Internet after 9/11," National Communication Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2001.
Philip N. Howard, "Social Capital Online" and "Comparative Discourses of Democracy Online," Association of Internet Researchers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2001.
Philip N. Howard, "Privatizing the Citizen: Technology Elites and the Reconstruction of Democracy in American Politics," American Sociological Association, Anaheim, California, August 2001.
Chair, Themed Panel, "Politics Online: Communication, Governance, and Democracy," and paper entitled "Privatizing the Citizen: Technology Elites and the Reconstruction of Democracy in American Politics," International Communication Association, Washington, DC, May 2001.
Philip N. Howard, "The Internet and Everyday Life," International Communication Association, Washington, DC, May 2001.
Philip N. Howard, "Privatizing the Citizen: Technology Elites and the Reconstruction of Democracy in American Politics," Chicago Ethnography Conference III, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, February 2001.
Philip N. Howard, "Research Ethics Online," and "Pew Internet & American Life Project Results," Association of Internet Researchers, Lawrence, Kansas, September 2000.
Rachel K. Gibson, Philip N. Howard and Stephen Ward, "Social Capital, Internet Connectedness and Political Participation: A Four-Country Structural Equation Model," International Political Science Association, Quebec, Canada, August 2000.
Philip N. Howard, "Why Do People Rebel? Resource Politics, Grievances and Civil Strife in Haiti and Chiapas, Mexico," Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, September, 1998.
Philip N. Howard, "Epistemic Communities and the Antarctic Treaty System," International Studies Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 1998.
Philip N. Howard, "Development Policy and Conflict in Haiti,"
International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, March 1997
Invited Lectures
“New Media and International Development,” The Guarini Center For International And Public Affairs, St. Peter’s Jesuit College, New Jersey, February 2003.
“Politics Online: Regulating US Political Campaigns and Campaigning in the New Media Environment,” Wolfson College, Oxford University, March 2002.
“Social Networks Online” and “Organizations and New Media,” Scientific Research On the Internet Webshop, Sociology Department, University of Maryland, June 2001.
“Privatizing the Citizen: Technology Elites and the Reconstruction of Democracy,” Sociology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, March 2001.
“Ethnography of Technology Elites in Politics,” Workshop on Website Analysis, Annenberg School of Political Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2000.
“Security, Resources, & the Environment,” Institute for Strategic Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, April 1996.
“Development Cooperation as Preventive Peace Policy,” German Foundation for International Development, Villa Borsig, Berlin, April 1996.
“Environment and Peacebuilding,” L.B.J. School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, March 1996.
Awards and Affiliations
2003-8 ICT and Central Asia, CoPI with PI Dr. Beth Kolko, National Science Foundation, $1.23 million.
2003 Sustainable Development and Information Technology Database, Research Royalty Fund, University of Washington, $39,000.
2003 Stanhope Center for Communications Policy, London, Visiting Fellow.
2002 Conference support from the Programme on Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford University and the Economic and Social Research Council, $7,000.
1997-2002 Full University Scholarship, from the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Research Assistantship, $15,300 annually plus full tuition fellowship.
1993 Harold Innis Award, Innis College, University of Toronto, $1,000.
Field Work
2000 Washington, DC – ethnography of technology elites in presidential campaigns.
1998 North-East India & Bangladesh – researching social movements, micro-credit programs and development policy.
1997 Haiti – researching political instability, social movements and development policy.
1995 Chiapas, Mexico – researching causes of Zapatista rebellion.
Professional Duties and Service
Reviewer for Ethnography, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Environment & Development, Millennium, New Media & Society, Social Forces, Sociological Focus, Southeastern Political Science Review.
Editorial Board, Journal of Latin American Urban Studies.
Award Committee, Section on Computers and Society, American Sociological Association.
Advisory Board, Survey2000 & Survey2001 Project, NSF-99-167.
Member, American Sociological Association, Association of Internet Researchers, International Communication Association, International Studies Association, National Communication Association.
Convener, Chicago Ethnography Conference I, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, February 1999.
Canadian Studies Advisory Board, University of Washington
Center for Internet Studies Advisory Board, University of Washington