Prior to joining Temple in July 2015, he held positions at University of Pennsylvania and Louisiana State University. His primary focuses are science, health, and political communication; knowledge acquisition, opinion formation and behavior; emergent technologies and society; and advanced research methods. His work has been published in numerous academic journals, including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Environmental Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, and Political Communication. Hardy’s research has won national and international scholarly awards from the American Publishers Association, the International Communication Association and the National Communication Association. He is also a Distinguished Research Fellow with the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center.