Allyson Carol Volinsky allyson.volinsky@asc.upenn.edu 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (484) 432-5897 EDUCATION Ph.D. Candidate, Communication University of Pennsylvania 2019 (anticipated) Dissertation: Variation on a theme: Comparing strategies for choosing health communication campaign message topics Committee: Robert C. Hornik (Chair), Joseph N. Cappella, Emily Falk Teaching Certificate in College and University Teaching 2017 University of Pennsylvania Center for Teaching & Learning M.A., Communication University of Pennsylvania 2016 M.S.Ed., Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development University of Pennsylvania 2014 Graduate School of Education B.A., magna cum laude, Communication and Psychology University of Pennsylvania 2013 College of Arts and Sciences Thesis: Uncivil liberty: Discussion of incivility and norm enforcement on cable news Advisor: Kathleen Hall Jamieson PUBLICATIONS Sangalang, A., Volinsky, A. C., Liu, J., Yang, Q., Lee, S., Gibson, L., & Hornik, R. C. (2019). A multi-method approach to identifying promising campaign themes to prevent youth initiation of electronic cigarette use. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 56(2, Supplement 1), S65-S75. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2018.07.039 Volinsky, A. C., & Sangalang, A. (2019). Addressing [HEALTH TOPIC] among [POPULATION]: A fill-in-the-blank activity to promote understanding of formative health communication campaign decisions. Communication Teacher, 33(2), 122-126. doi:10.1080/17404622.2018.1536799 Hornik. R. C., Volinsky, A. C., Mannis, S., Gibson, L. A., Brennan, E., Lee, S. J., & Tan, A. S. L. (2019). Validating the Hornik & Woolf approach to choosing media campaign themes: Do promising beliefs predict behavior change in a longitudinal study? Communication Methods & Measures, 13(1), 60-68. doi:10.1080/19312458.2018.1515902 Volinsky, A. C., Kranzler, E. C., Gibson, L. A., & Hornik, R. C. (2018). Tobacco 21 Policy Support by U.S. Individuals Aged 13-25 Years: Evidence from a Rolling Cross-sectional Study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 55(1), 129-131. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2018.03.008
BOOK CHAPTERS Jamieson, K. H., Volinsky, A., Weitz, I., & Kenski, K. (2017). The political uses and abuses of civility and incivility. In K. Kenski & K. H. Jamieson (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of political communication. New York: Oxford University Press. REPORTS Sangalang, A., Volinsky, A. C., Yang, Q., Liu, J., Lee, S., Gibson, L. A., & Hornik, R. C. (2016). Identifying promising campaign themes to prevent youth initiation of electronic cigarette use. Philadelphia, PA: UPenn Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. TEACHING Temple University Research Methods (PR 2551); Instructor Summer 2018 Klein College of Media & Communication, Public Relations University of Pennsylvania Introduction to Communication Behavior (COMM 125); Instructor Summer 2017 College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) Co-instructor: Elisabetta Ferrari Introduction to Communication Behavior (COMM 125); Teaching Fellow Fall 2016 Instructor: Amy B. Jordan AWARDS & HONORS Best Mentor, Mentor and Mentee at Penn 2018 University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students 2017 Charles Morris Price Prize, 2013 Psi Chi, International Honors Society in Psychology 2013 GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS Wharton Risk Center Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship 2018 2019 Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center Graduate Research Assistantship 2013 2014 Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program 2011 Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Siegel, S., Volinsky, A., Kranzler, E., & Gibson, L. A. (2019). Trends in Tobacco 21 media coverage and policy support: An exploratory content analysis using machine learning. Presentation to be given at the 2019 annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington, D.C. Hornik, R., Gibson, L.A., Sangalang, A., Volinsky, A., Williams, S., Kikut, A., Kim, Y., Binns, S., & Emery, S. (2019). Consistency of messages across media sources for tobacco and electronic cigarettes over 36 months: Evidence for a public communication environment. Presentation to be given at the 2019 annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington, D.C. Siegel, S., Volinsky, A., Kranzler, E., & Gibson, L. A. (2019). Trends in Tobacco 21 media coverage and policy support: An exploratory content analysis using machine learning. Poster presentation to be given at the 2019 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Hornik, R., Gibson, L. A., Binns, S., Emery, S., Epstein, V., Jeong, M., Kim, K., Kim, Y., Kranzler, E., Lee, S., Liu, J., O Donnell, M. B., Siegel, L., Tran, H., Volinsky, A., Williams, S., Yang, Q. (2019). Effects of mass media and social media coverage of anti-tobacco content on youth and young adult smoking intentions. Oral presentation to be given at the 2019 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Hornik, R., Gibson, L. A., Sangalang, A., Volinsky, A., Williams, S., Kikut, A., Kim, Y., Binns, S., & Emery, S. (2019). Consistency of messages across media sources for tobacco and electronic cigarettes over 36 months: Evidence for a public communication environment. Poster presentation to be given at the 2019 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Gibson, L.A., Siegel, L., Kranzler, E., Volinsky, A., O Donnell, M.B., Williams, S., Yang, Q., Kim, Y., Binns, S., Tran, H., Epstein, V.M., Leffel, T., Jeong, M., Liu, J., Lee, S., Emery, S., & Hornik, R.C. (2019). Automated content analysis to quantify theme mentions in e-cigarette and other tobacco coverage across mass media and social media sources. Poster presentation to be given at the 2019 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Hornik, R. C., Volinsky, A. C., Gibson, L. A., Mannis, S., Brennan, E., Lee, S. J., & Tan, A. S. L. (2018). Validating the Hornik & Woolf approach to choosing media campaign themes: Do promising beliefs predict behavior change in a longitudinal study? Paper presentation at the 2018 annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Prague, Czech Republic. Volinsky, A. C., Sangalang, A., Yang, Q., & Hornik, R. C. (2018). Wild and daring' or 'Gross and weird'? An elicitation survey of adolescents' perceptions of e-cigarette use and peer users.
Poster presentation at the 2018 Kentucky Conference on Health Communication, Lexington, KY. Volinsky, A. C., Kranzler, E. C., Gibson, L. A., & Hornik, R. C. (2018). Support for Tobacco 21 policy among youth and young adults (2014-2017). Poster presentation at the 2018 Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Volinsky, A. C., Sangalang, A., Yang, Q., & Hornik, R. C. (2017). Lonely, edgy, antisocial, rebel : An elicitation survey of adolescents perceptions of e-cigarette use and peer users. Poster presentation at the Annual Fall National Institutes of Health All Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science Grantee Meeting, Bethesda, MD. Volinsky, A. C., Sangalang, A., & Hornik, R. C. (2017) Formative research for a youth antielectronic cigarette campaign: Avoiding unintended consequences across subgroups and behavior. Oral presentation at the 67 th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, San Diego, CA. Sangalang, A., Volinsky, A. C., Yang, Q., Liu, J., Lee, S., Gibson, L. A., & Hornik, R. C. (2017). Identifying promising campaign themes to prevent youth initiation of electronic cigarette use. Oral presentation at the 2017 Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy. Gibson, L., Yang, Q., O Donnell, M. B., Liu, J., Lee, S. J., Kranzler, E. C., Volinsky, A., Jeong, M., & Hornik, R. (2016). Automated methods for content analysis in Health Communication: Comparing dictionary and supervised machine learning (SML) methods. Oral presentation at the 102 nd Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA. Sangalang A., Volinsky, A. C., Yang, Q., Liu, J., Lee, S., Gibson, L. A., Hornik, R. C. (2016). A multi-method approach to identifying promising campaign themes to prevent youth initiation of electronic cigarette use. Poster presentation at the Annual Fall National Institutes of Health All Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science Grantee Meeting, Bethesda, MD. Gibson, L. A., Sangalang, A., Volinsky, A., O Donnell, M. B., Jeong, M., Yang, Q., & Hornik. R. C. (2016). Could a fragmented communication environment reshape the narrative?: Evidence from tobacco and e-cigarette media networks. Oral presentation at the Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, Washington D.C. Volinsky, A. C., & Kranzler. E. C. (2016). Recall of e-cigarette advertising and policy beliefs among youth and young adults. Poster presentation at the 2016 Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. RESEARCH POSITIONS Research Fellow, Penn Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) Faculty supervisor: Robert Hornik 2014 present
Research Assistant, Children s Social Interactions and Relationships Laboratory 2013 2014 Faculty supervisor: Xinyin Chen Penn Graduate School of Education Senior Researcher, The Civility Project 2011 2014 Faculty supervisor: Kathleen Hall Jamieson Annenberg Public Policy Center SERVICE Ad-hoc reviewer Nicotine & Tobacco Research; International Communication Association Alumni mentor, Mentor and Mentee at Penn University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education 2017 present Messaging & Impact Workshop Series 2016 2017 at Roxborough High School Annenberg Professional Development Committee 2015 2017 Annenberg Graduate Student Symposium Committee 2017 Annenberg Graduate Student Council 2016 2017 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of Pennsylvania Write On Program Mentor, Kelly Writers House 2013 2014 Advised student leaders of Write On, a creative writing program run through the Kelly Writers House, serving 6 th through 8 th graders from the Henry C. Lea School Peer Manager, College of Arts and Sciences Advising Program 2012 2013 One of three Peer Managers employed by the College of Arts and Sciences advising program, serving 1,500 entering freshmen and 170 Peer Advisors MEDIA Producer, 3620 Podcast. Penn Flutes: Community Ensemble. Available from http://podcast.asc.upenn.edu/2018/03/episode-67-penn-flutes-community-ensemble/ PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES International Communication Association Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2014 present 2018 present
Penn Flutes (all-flute ensemble) 2010 present REFERENCES Robert C. Hornik, Ph.D. Wilbur Schramm Professor of Communication and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 robert.hornik@asc.upenn.edu (215) 898-7057 Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D. Gerald R. Miller Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 joseph.cappella@asc.upenn.edu (215) 898-7059 Amy B. Jordan, Ph.D. Professor of Journalism and Media Studies School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 a.jordan@rutgers.edu (848) 932-8789