Margaret Howard

After graduating from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Margaret Howard was a reporter, producer, assignment editor and news director at radio and television stations in Missouri.  Her master's thesis in political science from Missouri combined her interests in news coverage, public opinion and public knowledge of politics and government. 

She continued this research when she studied political science at the University of Michigan, graduating with a Ph.D. She has taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, the University of Missouri in Columbia, and The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She has been the MIW program manager since its initial class in the fall semester 2005.