Dr. Karen Johnson-Cartee

Dr. Cartee is a tenured professor of advertising and public relations and communication studies in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama. She served as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies for the College from 1991 to 1995. She also served as the Co-Director of The University of Alabama's Capstone Poll from 1987 to 1988.

Dr. Cartee has a B.A. in government, an M.S. in mass communication, and a Ph.D. in political science (1984). She specializes in political communication research with an emphasis on political advertising, political public relations, and political news.

Her work has been published in New Perspectives on Political Advertising, Journalism Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Southern Political Science Review, and ASJMC Insights. She is co-author of Negative Political Advertising: Coming of Age, a research text on negative political advertising published by Lawrence Erlbaum, The Manipulation of the American Voter: Modern Political Campaign Commercials and Inside Political Campaigns: Theory and Practice, published as part of the Praeger Series on Political Communication. She has made numerous presentations to academic associations on the international, national, and regional levels. Dr. Cartee is an invited speaker at both academic and professional association meetings.

In addition, she has served as the political media consultant for numerous international, federal, state and local campaigns. In 1992, Dr. Cartee was hired by the Aruban Democratic National Party to produce their radio and television advertising for the January 1993 elections in Aruba. In 1994-1995, Dr. Cartee served on a management team to restructure the government-owned television station in Aruba, Telearuba.

Dr. Cartee has taught courses in a variety of areas: beginning and advanced broadcast news, broadcast news analysis, announcing, introduction to telecommunication, audio production, international communication, introduction to mass communication, mass communication and society, political communication, political campaign communication, introduction to public relations, political advertising, media analysis, strategic planning of persuasive communication, organizational communication, the American Presidency, and Congress, Elections, and Public Opinion.

Dr. Cartee was named the University's Outstanding Young Scholar for 1985-86, and she was nominated for the National American Association of University Women Award, October 1985. Dr. Cartee has received the Knox Hagood Faculty award for excellence in teaching, research, and service. And she has received outstanding teaching awards from the Golden Key National Honor Society and Omicron Delta Kappa.

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