Kimberly A. Gross
Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs

Phone: (202) 994-0387
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: kimgross@gwu.edu
Office: MPA 444

Expertise

Public Opinion, Race and Media, Media Framing

Courses Taught

PCM 100, Introduction to Political Communication
PCM 190, Public Opinion, Media, and Democracy
SMPA 190, Race, Media, and Politics
SMPA 190, Elections and Media
SMPA 210, Media and Public Affairs
SMPA 250, Race, Media, and Politics

Selected Works

Kimberly Gross and Lisa D’Ambrosio. 2004. “Framing emotional response.” Political Psychology 25(1):1-29.

Paul Brewer, Kimberly Gross, Sean Aday and Lars Willnat. 2004. “International trust and public opinion about world affairs.” American Journal of Political Science 48(1)93-109.

Gross, Kimberly and Aday, Sean (2003). "The Scary World in Your Living Room and Your Neighborhood: Using Local Broadcast News, Neighborhood Crime Rates, and Personal Experience to Test Agenda Setting and Cultivation Hypotheses." Journal of Communication.

Paul Brewer, Sean Aday and Kimberly Gross. 2003. “Rallies all around: The dynamics of system support.” In Pippa Norris, Montegue Kern and Marion Just (Editors) Framing terrorism: Understanding terrorist threats and mass media. Routledge: NY.

Kimberly Gross and Paul Brewer. "Thinking about Frames: News Framing Effects on Opinion and Emotions," paper presented at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Kimberly A. Gross and Donald R. Kinder. 1998. "A Collision of Principles: Free Speech, Racial Egalitarianism and the Prohibition of Racist Speech." British Journal of Political Science, 28:445-471.

Background

Kimberly Gross began teaching at the School of Media and Public Affairs in 2001. Prior to her arrival, she was a visiting instructor for the department of political science at St. Olaf College. Her work focuses on media framing and public opinion and has appeared in the Journal of Communication, the American Journal of Political Science and Political Psychology. She has several ongoing research projects including an examination of the effect of media frames on emotional response, an exploration of the psychological processes that underlie framing effects and a project exploring the nature and consequences of media coverage of hate crime with Seth Goldman for which Goldman received a George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Along with Paul Brewer and Sean Aday, she received National Science Foundation and Russell Sage Foundation grants to conduct a panel survey examining trust in government in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Gross has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation research examined the effects of media coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots on public opinion.

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Michigan, 2001

B.A., Political Science, University of Wisconsin, 1990