Michael Cornfield, a political scientist, studies campaign politics, the public discourse, and the Internet. Michael currently serves as a Senior Research Consultant to the Pew Internet and American Life Project (www.pewinternet.org), and a senior adviser to RightClick Strategies, a political consulting firm to associations, interest groups, and member-based organizations. He is an adjunct professor at The Graduate School of Political Management of The George Washington University, where he helped found its Semester in Washington Program for undergraduates, and its Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet. Michael is the author of Politics Moves Online: Campaigning and the Internet and The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values, co-edited with David M. Anderson (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). Michael received his B.A. from Pomona College and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.