Shawn M. Powers

Shawn Powers (PhD, University of Southern California) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University. His research specializes in international political communication with particular attention to the geopolitics of information and technology policy. Powers is a faculty affiliate of GSU’s Transcultural Violence and Conflict initiative and co-leads its British Council and U.S. Institute of Peace funded project on Civic Approaches to Religious Conflict. He is also an associate director at the Center for International Media Education and co-directs its Open Society Foundation funded initiative on Reform in Iraqi Higher Education. Previously, Powers has been a fellow at: Central European University’s Center for Media, Data and Society and the Institute for Advanced Studies; LSE’s Polis; the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Global Communication Studies; and Oxford’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy.