Colleen Connolly-ahren
Associate Professor
Advertising/Public Relations
Pennsylvania State University
United States of America
Biography
Colleen Connolly-Ahern joined the Penn State faculty in 2004. She brings a mix of teaching, research and public service that match well with the College of Communications’ mission to train future communications professionals for careers and for life. Connolly-Ahern’s research interests include international political advertising and health communications, as well as issues of culture, framing and media access in strategic communications. She has published more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles, as well as one law review article, and her work has appeared in journals such as Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Public Relations Research, and Communication, Culture and Critique. Since coming to Penn State, she has presented more than 25 papers at academic conferences. She is a former head of the Public Relations Division of AEJMC, a member of the editorial board of JPRR, and has served as a member of the Advisory Board for the Penn State Yearbook, La Vie.
Research Interest
International Political Advertising, Health Communications, Strategic Communications
Publications
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Fraustino JD, Connolly-Ahern C (2015) Corporate associations written on the wall: Publics’ responses to Fortune 500 ability and social responsibility Facebook posts. J Public Relat Res 27: 452-474.
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Ahern L, Connolly-Ahern C, Hoewe J (2016) Worldviews, issue knowledge, and the pollution of a local science information environment. Sci Commun 38: 1-23.
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Sreenivasan A, Bien-Aime S, Connolly-Ahern C (2017) Connecting homeland and borders using mobile telephony: Exploring the state of Tamil refugees in Indian camps. J Inform Policy 7: 86-110.
