Dr. Lindsay Hoffman Special Guest Speaker at COPS, 2/4/2020

Next week Dr. Lindsay Hoffman will speak to the COPS group about her career trajectory as a political communication scholar. Dr. Hoffman is Associate Professor of Communication and Associate Director of the Center for Political Communication (CPC) at the University of Delaware. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication from The Ohio State University in 2007 after completing her M.A., both under the advisement of Dr. Chip Eveland. Dr. Hoffman was one of the founding student members of COPS and presented regularly in preparation for conferences and job talks. One paper that worked its way through COPS is now one of her most highly cited papers (Hoffman & Thomson, 2009). Broadly, Dr. Hoffman's research examines how various forms of media and technology foster or suppress political behavior and communication. She is also Director of the CPC's National Agenda Series, where she talks with politicians like Joe Biden (a UD alum) and John Kasich, journalists like NPR's Domenico Montanaro (a UD alum), comedians like Chris Garcia and Ashley Nicole Black ("Full Frontal with Samantha Bee"), political cartoonists, and interesting public figures across the ideological spectrum.