Holli A. Semetko is vice provost for International Affairs and director of Office of International Affairs and The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning, where she is also a professor of political science.

Before coming to Emory in 2003, Dr. Semetko spent 8 years at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as professor and chair of Audience and Public Opinion Research in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She served as chair of the Department of Communication Science and founding chair of the Board of the Amsterdam School for Communications Research, a school for advanced research recognized by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW).

Major grants from the European Union and Dutch National Science Foundation supported her work on political communication and media effects in the context of European governance, referendums and elections, and the European political and economic integration process. With more than 80 publications, including five books and 35-plus peer-reviewed journal articles, Semetko has or currently holds elected offices in the American Political Science Association (APSA), International Political Science Association (IPSA), International Communication Association (ICA) and the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR).

Recognized internationally for her research on news contents, uses and effects in a comparative context, she has received numerous grants, honors and awards including the Samuel H. Beer Prize for the best dissertation on British politics and the ICA’s article of the year for “The Divided Electorate: Effects of Media Use on Political Involvement” in The Journal of Politics, a leading journal in the field. A fellowship from the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. supported her research in Germany in 1990-91, where she held a visiting position at the Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA) in Mannheim. She was a research fellow at The Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University in 1994.

She took M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in London at The London School of Economics and Political Science and has held teaching and research positions at Syracuse University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In addition to publishing on news and effects in the EU’s cross-national comparative context, she is currently working on the topic of media and public diplomacy in an international context. Over the past two decades, she has worked in newsrooms and studied the news and public opinion in national elections in Germany, Spain, and the UK. Her most recent book, co-authored with Claes de Vreese, is Political Campaigning in Referendums: Framing the Referendum Issue (Routledge, 2004). The author or co-author of numerous book chapters, her many articles have appeared in such journals as the British Journal of Political Science, Political Communication, Journal of Communication, Communication Research, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, European Journal of Political Research and the Harvard International Review of Press/Politics.