Political Communication Section Leadership
Chair
Kevin Coe
Department of Communication
University of Utah
kevin.coe@utah.edu
Vice Chair
TJ Billard
School of Communication
Northwestern University
billard@northwestern.edu
Secretary/Treasurer
Jessica Collier
Lamb School of Communication
Purdue University
jrcollie@purdue.edu
Program Chair (2025)
Ariel Hasell
Communication and Media
University of Michigan
hasell@umich.edu
Section Committee Members
Executive Board Committee At-Large
Nominations Committee
Katherine Haenschen, Northeastern University (Chair, 2022-2025)
Joint Publications Committee
Patricia Moy, University of Washington (Chair, ICA term 2023-2026)
Kathleen Searles, Louisiana State University (APSA term 2023-2026)
Lindsay Hoffman, University of Delaware (APSA term 2024-2027)
Travis Ridout, Washington State University (APSA term 2022-2025)
Eike Rinke, University of Leeds (ICA term, through 2024)
Chris Fei Shen, City University of Hong Kong (ICA term, 2023-2026)
Sebastian Valenzuela, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (ICA term, through 2025)
Ex Officio
Kate Kenski, University of Arizona (Chair, ICA Political Communication Division)
Kevin Coe, University of Utah (Chair, APSA Political Communication Section)
Curd Knüpfer, Freie Universität Berlin (APSA-ICA Political Communication Webmaster/Social Media Director)
Regina Lawrence, University of Oregon (Editor, Political Communication)
2025 APSA POLCOMM AWARD COMMITTEES:
- David Karpf (Chair), George Washington University, dkarpf@gwu.edu
- Deen Freelon, University of Pennsylvania, deen.freelon@asc.upenn.edu
- Shannon McGregor, University of North Carolina, shannonmcg@unc.edu
- Patrícia Rossini, University of Glasgow, Patricia.Rossini@glasgow.ac.uk
- Jaime Settle (chair), College of William and Mary, jsettle@wm.edu
- Dan Lane, University of California Santa Barbara, dlane@ucsb.edu
- Dale Mineshima-Lowe, Parami University, d.mineshima-lowe@parami.edu.mm
- Will Schultz, Stanford University, wschulz@stanford.edu
- J. Cherie Strachan, University of Akron, jcw39@uakron.edu
- Tiago Ventura (chair), Georgetown University, tv186@georgetown.edu
- Katherine Kountz, Georgia Highlands College, kkountz@highlands.edu
- Ashley Muddiman, University of Kansas, ashley.muddiman@ku.edu
- Amanda Wintersieck, Virginia Commonwealth University, wintersieal@vcu.edu
- Eddy Fung (chair), Emory University, shing.fung.yeung@emory.edu
- Andy Guess, Princeton University, agues@princeton.edu
- Rajeshwari Majumdar, Yale University, rajeshwari.majumdar@yale.edu
- Elizabeth Stein, United States Coast Guard Academy, elizabeth.a.stein@uscga.edu
- Anirvan Chowdhury (chair), University of Louisville, anirvan.chowdhury@louisville.edu
- Nichole Bauer, Lousiana State University, nbauer4@lsu.edu
- Alon Kraitzman, University of Pennsylvania, alon.kraitzman@appc.upenn.edu
- Emily Van Duyn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, evd@illinois.edu
- Eunji Kim (chair), Columbia University, eunji.kim@columbia.edu
- Michael Bossetta, Lund University, michael.bossetta@kom.lu.se
- Christoph Mergerson, University of Maryland, cm495@umd.edu
- Annelise Russell, University of Kentucky, arussell@uky.edu
- Diana Zulli, Purdue University, dzulli@purdue.edu