Patricia H. Longstaff

Patricia Longstaff is a policy analyst and educator specializing in issues surrounding the communications sector. Her assignments at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications (Television Radio & Film Department) include the media business and communications law/policy. She is a Research Affiliate at Harvard University's Program for Information Policy Research (PIRP). Her most recent work concerns managing and regulating organizations in complex, unpredictable environments. Her most recent book, The Communications Toolkit: How To Build or Regulate Any Communications Business, was published by MIT Press in the Spring of 2002. This book integrates ideas from her interdisciplinary search for clues for answers to the problems confronting communications businesses and their regulators. She is a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications Policy.

She has earned the following advanced degrees:
Harvard University, Master of Public Policy (1994)
University of Iowa, JD (1976), and MA in Communications (1976).

Contact her at
1-315-443-3854 (Office)
plongsta@deas.harvard.edu or phlongst@syr.edu

PIRP
Maxwell Dworkin 125
33 Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02138-2901
USA

Newhouse School of Public Communications
Syracuse University
215 University Place
Syracuse, NY 13244
USA