Ethan Porter is an associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science at George Washington University. He is also the Cluster Lead of the Misinformation/Disinformation Lab at GW's Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics. His research has appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Politics, Social Forces, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Communication and other journals. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and other popular publications, and has received grant support from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the Omidyar Network. He is currently an associate editor at Science Advances. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago.
False Alarm: The Truth About Political Mistruths in the Trump Era, a book co-authored with Thomas J. Wood, was published in 2019 by Cambridge University Press. His second book, The Consumer Citizen, was released in 2020 by Oxford University Press.
He can be reached at evporter at gwu dot edu.
False Alarm: The Truth About Political Mistruths in the Trump Era, a book co-authored with Thomas J. Wood, was published in 2019 by Cambridge University Press. His second book, The Consumer Citizen, was released in 2020 by Oxford University Press.
He can be reached at evporter at gwu dot edu.
