Thomas STEINFATT

Dr. Thomas Steinfatt is an American Professor at the University of Miami’s School of Communication (Florida USA) specializing in international and intercultural health Communication, statistical methodology and measurement. He received his BSc in Mathematics and Statistics and his PhD in Communication and Social Psychology from Michigan State University. His research on human trafficking has been funded by the US State Department through USAID, and by the United Nations through UNESCO, UNIAP, and UNODC. In November 2007 he received the top award in the UNIAP international competition for Best Methods of Measuring Human Trafficking, resulting in his current (2008) large-scale project to measure the number of trafficked women and children in Cambodia. Dr. Steinfatt has received the Florida Communication Scholar of the Year Award and the University of Miami Excellence in Teaching Award. He is also a Fulbright Senior Scholar, working with the Royal University of Phnom Penh Cambodia. He has served as a consultant on communication and quantitative research for US corporations, NGOs, and the US and Cambodian governments, and as an expert witness on propaganda, texts, and corporate documents for various legal firms, individuals, and corporations in Federal District Court and in State courts in America including the tobacco trials of the late 1990s. His publications include over sixty scholarly articles, chapters, and monographs in journals such as Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and four books, most recently Working at the Bar : Sex Work and Health Communication in Thailand (2002, Greenwood), and papers detailing the extent of trafficking in women and children in Cambodia in 2002 and 2003. Dr. Steinfatt’s ongoing research interests also include failures of medical personnel in communicating false-positive error rates to HIV patients and in other diagnostic testing ; the intelligence communication of the CIA, FBI, NSA, ONI, G-2, MI-6, KNVD, KGB, and other intelligence gathering organizations. He serves as a commentator on political communication for Miami television stations and National Public Radio. He is also a co-founder, with Pierre Le Roux, of the International Observatory on Slavery and Human Trade.

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