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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