Assistant professor

Ph.D., Ohio State University
M.S., Colorado State University
B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Maria Leonora (Nori) Comello earned her Ph.D. in the School of Communication at Ohio State University. Her research lies at the intersection of strategic communication, identity, and health. In particular, she studies the potential for messages to frame health and other issues in terms of valued identities, and in so doing, to activate identities consistent with issue support. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Communication Theory, Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication, Cases in Public Health Communication and Social Marketing, Journal of Advertising Research, Social Marketing Quarterly, Tobacco Control, and Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Prior to her doctoral program, she worked on grant-funded research projects testing the effectiveness of community-based media campaigns to prevent youth substance abuse. In addition, she has received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct tobacco-prevention research among Mexican-American youth audiences. Comello has also worked in PR for nonprofit and for-profit organizations, and she is eager to share her enthusiasm for research and PR practice with students in the classroom.

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