Brendan Nyhan

Brendan Nyhan received a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University in 2009. From 2009-2011, he will be a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. He will then join the Department of Government at Dartmouth College as an assistant professor in fall 2011.

From 2001-2004, Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer and he co-edited Spinsanity, a non-partisan watchdog of political spin that was syndicated in Salon in 2002 and the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2004. In addition, they wrote All the President's Spin, a New York Times bestseller that was chosen as one of the ten best political books of 2004 by Amazon.com. Brendan's writing has been cited in the Washington Post, New York Times and many other publications, and he received a Award of Distinction from the Center on Media and Public Affairs in the 2003 Paul Mongerson Prize for Investigative Reporting on News Coverage competition.

From 2001-2003, Brendan managed new projects and then marketing and fundraising for Benetech, a Silicon Valley technology nonprofit. In 2000, he served as the Deputy Communications Director for the Bernstein for US Senate campaign in Nevada. Brendan grew up in Mtn. View, CA and graduated with high honors in political science from Swarthmore College in 2000.