Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Curriculum Vitae
James T. Hamilton
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117 Sanford Bldg
Durham, NC 27708(919) 613-7358 (office) 
(email)
- Education
PhD Harvard University 1991 B.A. Summa Cum Laude Harvard University 1983
- Areas of Research
Environment and Media
- Professional Experience / Employment History
- Duke University
- Charles S. Sydnor Professor, Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science, July 2004-present
- Oscar L. Tang Family Professor, Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science, July 2003-June 2004
- Associate Director, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, July 2001-June 2002
- Oscar L. Tang Family Associate Professor, Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science, July 2000-June 2003
- Associate Professor, Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science, July 1998-June 2000
- Director, Duke Program on Violence and the Media, September 1993-June 2000
- Assistant Professor, Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science, September 1991-June 1998
- Visiting Positions
- Visiting Associate Professor, Marvin Chair in Global Communications, Harvard University, July 2002-December 2002
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, June, 2005
Resources for the Future Fellow in Environmental Regulatory Implementation, Duke University, 2002
David N. Kershaw Award, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2001
Bass Society of Fellows, Duke University, 2000
Goldsmith Book Prize from Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government, 1999
Vernon Prize, 1995
Oak Ridge Associate Universities Faculty Award, 1994
Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award, Duke University, 1993
John Olin Law and Economics Fellow, Duke Law School, 1990-1991
Allyn Young Prize for Excellence in Teaching the Principles of Economics, Harvard University, 1988
Harvard Danforth Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 1987, 1988
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1985-1988
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1985-1988
Phi Beta Kappa Junior Twelve, 1982
John Harvard Scholar, 1980-1983
Presidential Scholar, 1979
- Professional Service
- A&S Council
- Member,Faculty Advisory Committee of Nicholas Institute, December 18, 2003 - August, 2008
- Board Member, SSRI, 2004 - 2006
- University Committee
- Chair, Bass Chair Committee,, Fall 2006
- Chair, AS Distinguished Chair Committee, Fall 2006
- Fuqua Dean Search Committee Member, Fall 2006
- DUS
- Director of Undergraduate Stuides, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, July 2004-June 2007
- Dept Committee
- Chair, Patterson Chair Search Committee, August, 2008 - May, 2009
- Chair, Knight Chair Search Committee, August, 2008 - May, 2009
- Chair, Kelley Tenure Review Committee, August, 2008 - December, 2008
- Member, American Politics Search Committee, Poli Sci Dept, August, 2008 - December, 2008
- Chair, Krishna Tenure Review Committee, Fall 2006
- Rogerson Review Committee, Member, 2006
- Computer Committee Member, Ongoing
- International Policy Search, Member, Fall 2006
- Vigdor Tenure Review, December 2005
- Wilkinson Tenure Review, December 2005
- Whetten Tenure Review Committee, Fall
- Papers Refereed
- Advisory Editor, International Journal of Communication, 2006-Ongoing
- Univ Services
- Director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, 2008 - present
- Community Service
- Editorial Board Member, Regulation and Governance, 2006-0ngoing
- Lectures
- Invited Lectures:
- Economics of News, Knight Media Learning Seminar, Coral Gables, FL, Feb. 2008
- Economics of News, USC Annenberg Journalism Seminar, April 2008
- Economics of News, Knight Digital Media Center Leadership Seminar, July 2008
- Economics of News, USC Conference for Newspaper Editors, 2007
- Economics of News, Knight Digital Media Center Conference, UC Berkeley, 2007
- Panelist at Changing Media, Changing Politics Panel, IPSA, Fukuoka, Japan, July 2006
- Panelist, Changing Media, Changing China Conference, UC San Diego, May 2006
- All the News That's Fit to Sell, Lead lecture, UC Berkeley Conference on Changing Economics of News, April 14, 2005
- Participant/Dinner speaker, Annenberg Journalism Futures Conference, June, 2005
- Working group on Media, Yale-Aspen Institute conference on Global Warming, October, 2005
- All the News That's Fit to Sell, Fordham Media Seminar, November 2004
- All the News That's Fit to Sell, Federal Communications Commission Seminar, Spring
- All the News That's Fit to Sell, University of Tokyo Panel on Political Information, Spring
- Media Coverage of CEOs, Stanford Business School Conference on Media Economics, Spring
- Media and the Marketplace, Annenberg Conference on the Institutions of the Media, Palm Springs, CA, Spring
- All the News That's Fit to Sell, Duke Law School Information Ecology Lecture Series, Spring
- All the News That's Fit to Sell, Fuqua School Conference on the Marketplace of Ideas, Summer
- All the News That's Fit to Sell, AEJMC Panel, Toronto, Canada, Summer
- Presentation on "Regulation through Revelation", Resources for the Future, December 2003
- Presentation on "All the News That's Fit to Sell", Harvard, Kennedy School of Government, December 2003
- Presentation on "All the News That's Fit to Sell", Dept. of Political Science, UCSD, November 2003
- Presentation on "Environmental Equity and the Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities in OECD Countries" to OECD Environment Directorate Workshop on the Distribution of Benefits and Costs of Environmental Policies, Paris, France, March 2003
- Economics of News, USC Annenberg Journalism Seminar, April 2008
- Publications (listed separately)
Last modified: 2009/07/03