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Holli A. Semetko Professor Vice Provost for International Affairs Director The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning 150 Gambrell Hall Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 404-727-7504 (Office) 404-727-2772 (FAX) holli.semetko@emory.edu (Email)

Holli A. Semetko (PhD, The London School of Economics & Political Science 1987) Professor of Political Science, is Emory University’s Vice Provost for International Affairs, and Director of The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning. Her teaching and research interests include political communication; comparative media and political systems; campaigns, elections and media contents and effects; survey research, content analysis, and methods for media contents, uses and effects.

She received numerous fellowships and grants for her research over the years. Her PhD dissertation on media and politics in Britain was awarded the Samuel H. Beer Prize. In 1990-91, she was awarded a Research Fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. and held a visiting position at the Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA) in Mannheim. In spring 1994 she was a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. Her research has been supported by the Joyce Foundation, the British Economic and Social Research Council, the Dutch National Science Foundation, the European Union, the German Federal Press and Information Agency and The Halle Foundation.

Her most recent book, Political Campaigning in Referendums: Framing the Referendum Issue (Routledge, 2004), co-authored with Claes de Vreese, focuses on the impact of the media in referendum campaigns with special reference to Europe. Her recent articles appear in the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Communication, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and the Harvard International Review of Press/Politics. Her publications include dozens of journal articles and book chapters on politics and public opinion, news media, and elections, as well as several co-authored books, The Formation of Campaign Agendas: A Comparative Analysis of Party and Media Roles in Recent American and British Elections (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991), Germany's 'Unity Election': Voters and the Media (Hampton, 1994), On Message: Communicating the Campaign (Sage, 1999), and The Media, Journalism and Democracy (Ashgate, 2000) co-edited with Margaret Scammell.

Before moving to the Netherlands in mid-1995 to take a chair as professor of audience and public opinion research in the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), she was associate professor at Syracuse University with a joint appointment in political science and the Global Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School and at the Newhouse School. At the UvA from 1995-2003, she was the founding chair of the board and chair of a research domain in the Amsterdam School of Communications Research which is a multi-disciplinary institute for advanced research and teaching accredited by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, where she continues to be affiliated and supervises PhD students. Semetko also chaired the UvA's Department of Communication Science for several years before moving to Emory in 2003.

Semetko has held or currently holds elected offices in the American Political Science Association (APSA), International Political Science Association (IPSA), International Communication Association (ICA) and the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). She received the Robert Worcester Prize for the 1992 article of the year in the International Journal for Public Opinion Research. Her 2003 article in The Journal of Politics, one of the top journals in the field, was named article of the year.