Ernest J. Wilson III

Ernest James Wilson III (born c. 1948) is an American scholar. Wilson was the Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication, and Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication (USC Annenberg) at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California. He was replaced by Willow Bay in 2017.

Originally from Washington, D.C., Wilson obtained a B.A. from Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1970. From the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), he obtained an M.A. in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1978 in Political Science.

He began his academic career on the faculties of the University of Michigan (Michigan), Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At Michigan, he was Director of the Center for Research on Economic Development and an Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Public Policy Studies.

In 1992, he joined the University of Maryland faculty, where he was a Professor and Senior Research Scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, holding a joint appointment in the Department of Government and Politics and in the Department of African-American Studies. From 1995 to 2002, Wilson was Director of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University, and he remains a Senior Fellow of the Center today.

In 2002, he received an appointment to USC Annenberg. Additionally, he is a Senior Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, a joint project of USC Annenberg and the USC College’s School of International Relations, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy.

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