DAVID D. PERLMUTTER is Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Professor and Starch Faculty Fellow at The University of Iowa. He received his BA ('85) and MA ('91) from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota ('96). He served as a Board member of the American Association of Political Consultants and now sits on the National Law Enforcement Museum Advisory Committee for its Media Exhibit. He has been principal or co-principal investigator in multidisciplinary grants totaling about $400,000. He is a graduate of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication Leadership Workshop.
At Iowa, in addition to his School faculty and administrative duties, he serves on the Provost's Strategic Global Initiatives Council and the Advisory Council for the Office of the Vice President for Strategic Communication.
At the University of Kansas he served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research and as a member of the University Press of Kansas Editorial Board Committee and graduated from the Senior Administrative Fellows Program.
At Louisiana State University he served as interim Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, led the political communication track, and won two faculty awards including the main campus-wide award for research, teaching, and service.
A documentary photographer, he is the author or editor of nine books on political communication and persuasion including: Photojournalism and Foreign Policy: Framing Icons of Outrage in International Crises(Praeger, 1998); Visions of War: Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyberage (St. Martin's, 1999); (ed.) The Manship School Guide to Political Communication(LSU Press, 1999);Policing the Media: Street Cops and Public Perceptions of Law Enforcement(Sage, 2000); Picturing China in the American Press: The Visual Portrayal of Sino-American Relations in Time Magazine, 1949-1973(Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); (ed., with John Hamilton) From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology(LSU Press, 2007); Blogwars: The New Political Battleground(Oxford, 2008); (ed., with Robert Mann) Political Communication (LSU Press, 2011); and (ed., with Thomas J. Johnson), New Media, Campaigning and the 2008 Facebook Election (Routledge, 2011).
He has written several dozen research articles for academic journals as well as more than 200 essays for U.S. and international newspapers and magazines such as Campaigns & Elections, Christian Science Monitor, Editor & Publisher, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC.com., Philadelphia Inquirer, and USA Today. He writes a regular column, "P&T Confidential," for the Chronicle of Higher Education. In fall 2010, Harvard University Press published his book Promotion & Tenure Confidential: The People, Politics and Philosophy of Career Advancement in Academia. In 2010 he was elected to the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Standing Committee on Research. In August 2011, he began a three-year term on the AEJMC Finance Committee.
Perlmutter has been interviewed by most major news networks and newspapers, from the New York Times to CNN, ABC and The Daily Show. He regularly speaks at industry, academic and government meetings and runs workshops on personal and institutional branding via social media and on promotion and tenure in academia.
Perlmutter on The Daily Show
