Dr. LeeAnn Kahlor

School of Advertising and Public Relations

Dr. Kahlor’s primary research interest is in health and environmental risk communication with an emphasis on information seeking and processing. She has won awards from the International Communication Association and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for her research on science communication and television viewing. Prior to and throughout her graduate education, Kahlor was a reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel, a Corporate Communications specialist for Ameritech (now SBC) and the Communications Officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Program Office “Paths to Recovery.” Her work has appeared in Science Communication, Public Understanding of Science, Risk Analysis, Sex Roles, Communication Research, Human Communication Research, Media Psychology and the Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media.