Senior Scholar

Paul Freedman (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is Associate Professor of American Politics in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He has served as a consultant with the Pew Partnership since 1998 and has contributed to a number of Pew Partnership publications including What Makes a Solution? Lessons and Findings from Solutions for America and University and Community Research Partnerships: A New Approach.  His work has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly, The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Political Communication, Campaigns and Elections, and Slate. He has recently completed a book about television campaign advertising and American democracy. Freedman served as research director for the Project on Campaign Conduct at the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership and has been an election analyst for ABC News in New York since 2000.