about Jeffrey P. Jones

Jeffrey P. Jones is Executive Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards, Director of the Peabody Media Center, and Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys at the University of Georgia. He is the author and editor of six books, including Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Civic Engagement; Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era; and Television, the Peabody Archives, and Cultural Memory. His research focuses on popular politics, or the ways in which politics are presented and engaged through popular culture.