Marion Just

Marion Just is a professor of political science at Wellesley College and a research associate of the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is a consultant to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a member of the advisory board of the Reform Institute, and the editorial board of the Harvard International Journal of Press Politics.

Professor Just received a B.A. from Barnard College, an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She has been a visiting professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University, and a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor Just is a co-author of We Interrupt This Newscast: How to Improve Local News and Win Ratings, Too (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates and the Media in a Presidential Campaign (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and Common Knowledge: News and the Construction of Political Meaning (University of Chicago Press, 1992). She co-edited Rethinking the Vote: The Politics and Prospects of American Electoral Reform (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Framing Terrorism: News Media, Government and the Public (Routledge, 2003).  She has written numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Ford Foundation, among others. In 2007 she received the American Political Science Association’s Distinguished Career Award in Political Communication. She received the “Excellence in Mentoring Award” from the Women’s Caucus of the American Political Science Association in 2002, and in 2003, her co-authored book, Crosstalk, received an award for the Outstanding Book in Political Communication for the Past 10 Years. Professor Just is a past president of the New England Political Science Association, the Northeastern Political Science Association and past chair of the Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association. Her current projects concern political campaigns, psychological aspects of voting, local television news and political uses of the Internet.

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Profile last updated: 9/07