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Regina
G. Lawrence
Division of Political Science
Hatfield School of Government
College of Urban and Public Affairs
P.O. Box 751- PS
Portland State University
Telephone: (503) 725-3056
Portland, OR 97207-0751
lawrencer@pdx.edu
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Education and Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Portland State University,
1999 - present.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University, 1998-1999.
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle, 1997.
M.A., Political Science, University of Colorado at Denver, 1991.
B.A., Metropolitan State College, History/Political Science, Denver,
CO, 1985
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Fields of Research and Teaching Expertise
Political Communication: Mass Media and Politics; Public Opinion; The
Media and Public Policy.
Public Law: Introduction to Public Law; Supreme Court; Constitutional
Law; Law and Society; Politics of Law & Order.
American Politics: Introduction to American Politics; Presidency and
Congress; Campaigns and Elections; American Political Institutions;
American Political Culture.
Other: Writing for the Social Sciences.
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Publications
Rethinking Media Politics and Public Opinion: Public Reactions to the
Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal (co-authored with W. Lance Bennett, University
of Washington). Political Science Quarterly 116 (2): 1-22.
Defining Events: Problem Definition in the Media Arena. In Politics,
Discourse, and American Society: New Agendas, edited by Roderick
Hart and Bartholemew Sparrow (New York: Rowman and Littlefield Press).
2001
The Politics of Force: Media and the Construction of Police Brutality.
Berkeley: University of California Press. 2000
Game-Framing the Issues: Tracking the Strategy Frame in Public Policy
News.Political Communication 17(2).
Civic Engagement in the Era of Big Stories (co-authored with W. Lance
Bennett, University of Washington). Political Communication 17(4).
Forthcoming The Exxon Valdez and Alaska in the American Imagination
(co-authored with Thomas A. Birkland, SUNY Albany), in American Disasters:
A Reader, ed. Stephen Biel, New York: New York University Press.
·Accidents, Icons, and Indexing: The Dynamics of News Coverage
of Police Use of Force, Political Communication 13(4).
Reprint: Accidents, Icons, and Indexing: The Dynamics of News Coverage
of Police Use of Force, in Politics, Crime Control, and Culture,
ed. Stuart A. Scheingold, Hampshire, England: Dartmouth Publishing Company
(1997).
News Icons and the Mainstreaming of Social Change, (with W. Lance Bennett),
Journal of Communication 45(3) 1995.
Inside the 1994 Election: Campaigns, Issues, and the Struggle for
Party Power (with W. Lance Bennett), Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace
College Publishers. 1995
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Conference Papers and Presentations
2001 In Search of the Zeitgeist: A Systematic Approach to Measuring
Social Context. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, August.
2000 Guns, Hollywood, and Criminal Justice: Defining the School Shootings
Problem across Public Arenas (co-authored with Thomas A. Birkland, SUNY
Albany). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington D.C., August 30-September 3, 2000.
2000 Archiving Poverty: A Study in the Production of Social Knowledge
(co-authored with Jill A. Edy, Middle Tennessee State University). Presented
at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Washington D.C., August 30-September 3, 2000.
2000 Inventing Poverty: Popular Images of the Poor and U.S. Welfare
Policy, 1930 - 1996 (co-authored with Jill A. Edy, Middle Tennessee
State University). Presented at the International Communication Association
Annual Meeting, Acapulco, Mexico, May 26-29.
2000 Civic Engagement in the Era of Big Stories. Presented at the Communicating
Civic Engagement in Europe and the United States conference at the Center
for Communication and Civic Engagement, University of Washington, Seattle,
WA, May 19-20.
2000 Defining Events: Problem Definition in the Media Arena. Presented
at the New Agendas in Political Communications conference, University
of Texas, Austin, TX, April 6-8.
1999 Problem Definition in the Media Arena: Valdez, Columbine, and Event-Driven
News. Presented at the Center for American Politics and Public Policy,
University of Washington, 14 October.
Inventing Poverty: Popular Images of the Poor and U.S. Welfare Policy,
1930 - 1996 (co-authored with Jill A. Edy, Middle Tennessee State University).
Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, GA.
1999 Making Sense of Monica: Media Politics and the Lewinsky Scandal
(co-authored with W. Lance Bennett and Valerie Hunt, University of Washington).
Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, GA.
The Exxon Valdez and Event-Driven Policy Discourse (co-authored with
Thomas A. Birkland, SUNY Albany). Presented at the International Communication
Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
1999 Making Sense of Monica: Public Reactions to the Clinton-Lewinsky
Scandal (co-authored with W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington).
Presented at the International Communication Association Annual Meeting,
San Francisco, CA.
1999 The Exxon Valdez: Wilderness, Environmental Catastrophe, and the
Place of Alaska in the American Imagination (co-authored with Thomas
A. Birkland, SUNY Albany). Presented at the Western Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
1998 Politicians, Publics, and the Game of Politics: How the News Covered
the Welfare Reform Debate. Presented at the Political Psychology Workshop
Series, Columbia University.
1998 Politicians, Publics, and the Game of Politics: How the News Covered
the Welfare Reform Debate. Presented at the American Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
1997 The News about Brutality: Media Coverage of Police Violence. Presented
at the Law and Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.
1997 Rodney King and the Rise of Community Policing: A Case Study in
News Icons and Public Problems. Presented at the International Communications
Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec.
1997 Normalizing Force: Typical News Representations of Police Use of
Force, presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, Tucson, Arizona.
1996 Constructing Brutality: Causal Stories and Problem Definition in
the White and Black Press. Presented at the Western Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
1995 Policing Brutality: New York Times Coverage of Police Use of Force
in the Aftermath of Rodney King. Presented at the American Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
1995 Icons, Indexing, and Police Brutality: An Exploration of Journalistic
Norms. Presented at the International Communications Association Annual
Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1994 The Journalist's Tool Kit: News Icons and the Mainstreaming of
Social Change (co-authored with W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington).
Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting,
New York City.
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Additional Research Activities and Publications
Research Director, Northwest Communications Research, a project of the
Center for Public Health Studies, School of Community Health, Portland
State University. Current projects include an analysis for the Reclaiming
Futures project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of news coverage
of juvenile substance abuse, the criminal justice system, and substance
abuse treatment.
Co-author, Starting a New Conversation: An Analysis of News Coverage
of Antibiotic Resistance. August 2001. Supported by a grant from the
Nathan Cummings Foundation.
Co-author, Starting a New Conversation: Environment, Health, and Interconnectedness.
August 2000. Supported by a grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
"Reading Between the Lines on Measure 7" (co-authored with
Liana Winett, DrPH, and Gerald Sussman, PhD). Oregon's Future, vol.
II, no. 4, Spring 2001.
"Is There a Policing Problem? We May Never Know." Newsday,
February 28th, 2001 (invited op-ed).
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Honors, Grants, and Awards
Nominee, Paul Lazarsfeld Award, American Political Science Association,
for "Archiving Poverty: A Study in the Production of Social Knowledge"
(co-authored with Jill A. Edy, Middle Tennessee State University), 2000.
Winner, Top Paper in Political Communication Award, International Communication
Association, for "The Exxon Valdez and Event-Driven Policy Discourse"
(co-authored with Thomas A. Birkland, SUNY Albany), 1999.
Nominee, Paul Lazarsfeld Award, American Political Science Association,
for "Making Sense of Monica: Media Politics and the Lewinsky Scandal"
(co-authored with W. Lance Bennett and Valerie Hunt, University of Washington),
1999.
Recipient, University of Washington Dissertation Fellowship, 1996.
Recipient, Goldsmith Research Award, from The Joan Shorenstein Center
on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, September 1995.
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Committee Service
Executive Committee, Public Affairs and Policy program, Portland State
University.
PhD development exploratory committee, Portland State University.
Urban and Public Affairs Library Steering Committee, Portland State
University.
Graduate Studies Committee, Division of Political Science, Portland
State University.
Curriculum Committee, Division of Political Science, Portland State
University.
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Service to the Department, Profession, and Community
Member, Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award, Political Communication
Section, American Political Science Association, 2001.
Chapter Adviser, Nu Pi chapter of the National Political Science Honor
Society.
Faculty head, Political Science Club.
Pre-law adviser, Political Science Department.
Co-coordinator of "Energy and the Environment," a public forum,
College of Urban and Public Affairs, June 1, 2001.
Co-coordinator of "Elections 2000: Beyond the Pundits, Behind the
Headlines," a public forum, College of Urban and Public Affairs,
October 24, 2000.
Outreach to Portland Community College: personal appearance and development
of outreach materials for prospective transfer students to PSU.
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