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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Jim Henson

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Jim Henson directs the Texas Politics project and teaches in the Department of Government at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also received a Ph.D. He helped design public interest multimedia for the Benton Foundation in Washington D.C. in the late 1990’s, and has written about politics in both general interest and academic publications. He is also Associate Director of the College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services unit at UT-Austin, where he has helped produce several award winning instructional media projects. In 2008, he and Daron Shaw established the first statewide, publicly available Internet survey of public opinion in Texas using matched random sampling. He lives in Austin, where he also serves as a member of the City of Austin Ethics Review Commission.

j.henson@austin.utexas.edu