John Gastil is a professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State University, where he also serves as Senior Scholar at the McCourtney Institute for Democracy. The National Science Foundation has supported numerous large-scale research programs for which he has served as a principal investigator.
Gastil has worked on campaigns for federal, state, and local office in California and New Mexico. He has also written two novels, which will be published in 2020 by Cosmic Egg Books (UK). He resides in State College, PA.



