Montague Kern is associate professor at the  School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University.   Her most recent book  is Framing Terrorism:  Mediated Political Violence, Government and the Public (edited, with  Pippa Norris and Marion Just)  (Routledge, New York, 2003).

She is the author of Thirty-Second Politics  (Praeger-Greenwood 1989),  and  is 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).

She is also 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, the Washington Post, to regional newspapers.  A “domestic political prism” frames U.S. foreign policy news.

She 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 been a fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.