Patrick J. Kenney is the dean of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Foundation Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Kenney came to ASU in 1986 and received his bachelor's, master's and doctorate from the University of Iowa. Professor Kenney has authored and co-authored articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics and several other journals. He has co-authored three books with Kim Fridkin, "The Spectacle of U.S. Senate Campaigns" (Princeton Press, 1999), "No-Holds Barred: Negativity in U.S. Senate Campaigns" (Prentice Hall, 2004), "The Changing Face of Representation" (University of Michigan Press, 2014) and "Taking Aim at Attack Advertising" (Oxford University Press, 2019). He has received funding from the National Science Foundation.