Julia Andsager


Julie Andsager (Ph.D. in Communications, University of Tennessee, 1993) is an associate professor in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University. Dr. Andsager teaches public relations writing, PR campaigns, and gender and the media. She is associate director of graduate studies for the School of Communication and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Women's Studies. Andsager's research focuses primarily on media framing of women's issues and the social construction of gender as well as public opinion regarding freedom of expression; she is the first author on a forthcoming book, Free Expression and Five Democratic Publics: The United States, Israel, Russia, and Hong Kong (2001, Hampton Press). Her research has appeared in the major scholarly journals in the field of communications. Additionally, Andsager currently is the head of the Communication Theory & Methodology Division of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, and she serves on the board of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research. She is a member of the editorial board for Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and the Journal for Public Relations Research.

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