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Timothy Cook

Reilly Chair Professor
Phone: 225-578-2565

E-mail: tec@lsu.edu
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:: Ph.D., 1982, University of Wisconsin - Political Science
 

Timothy Cook assumed the Kevin P. Reilly Sr. Chair in Political Communication in 2001.   He was the first occupant of the Laurence Lombard Chair at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's  Kennedy School of Government.  Cook serves as a Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and Professor of Political Science at Williams College.  

Selected Works:

"The Empirical Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Politics: Assessing the First Wave of Research," American Political Science Review 93 (September 1999): 679-692.

"Senators and Reporters Revisited," in Burdett A. Loomis (ed.), Esteemed Colleagues: Civility and Deliberation in the U.S. Senate (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2000), pp. 164-193.

"The Future of the Institutional Media," in W. Lance Bennett and Robert Entman, eds., Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 182-200.

"Splitting Images: The Nightly Network News and the Politics of the Lesbian and Gay Movement, 1969-1978," (co-authored with Bevin Hartnett), in Mark Blasius, ed., Sexual Identities, Queer Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2001).
 

Cook, T. (1998). Governing with the News: The News Media as a Political Institution. University of Chicago Press.

Just, M., Crigler, A., Alger, D.M., Cook, T., Kern, M.,  & West, D. (1996). Crosstalk: Candidates, Media, and Citizens in a Presidential Campaign. University of Chicago Press.
 

Cook, T. (1989). Making Laws & Making News: Media Strategies in the U.S. House of Representatives. Brookings Institution Press.
 

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