Montague Kern

Montague Kern has been a principal investigator in research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Joyce Foundation. She has also been a fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. 

She is a co-author of “The Kennedy Crises: the Press, the Presidency and Foreign Policy” (University of North Carolina Press, 1984) which examines news and opinion about global crises, and concludes that news frames vary across media outlets – from the New York Times and the Washington Post, to regional newspapers. This book argues that a “domestic political prism” frames U.S. foreign policy news.

Kern is the editor of “Framing Terrorism: Mediated Political Violence, Government and the Public” (Routledge, NY, 2003) and the author of “Thirty-Second Politics” (Praeger-Greenwood, 1989). She is also co-author of “Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates and the Media in a Presidential Campaign” (University of Chicago Press, 1996), and “How Citizens Construct Images of Political Candidates: The Role of Political Advertising and Televised News” (Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1994).

Ph.D., School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
M.A., American University School of International Service
B. A., Bryn Mawr College