Stanford
Communication Department

Two Comm Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

 

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Shanto Iyengar, Chandler Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science and James Fishkin, Janet M. Peck Chair in International  Communication and Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Iyengar and Fishkin join Professor Jon Krosnick who was elected in 2009.

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