Biography: 

Kathleen Searles, Ph.D., is the Olin D. Johnston Chair of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. Her interests include news media, information communication technology, and political psychology. She has two co-authored books with Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, respectively, and she has been awarded more than 7 million dollars in grant monies, including 4 National Science Foundation grants. She is the co-Pi of Expert Voices Together, a team working to address internet-facilitated abuse of experts, and a founding member and executive emerita of Women Also Know Stuff, an organization designed to decrease the gender imbalance in media representation of experts. She is a co-convener of the Election Coverage and Democracy Network, which works with journalists to cover electoral politics.