Dr. Jeannine Relly's she/her) research focuses on global and domestic influences on news media systems, government information policy, press-state relations, democratic institutions in countries in conflict, post-conflict, and political or economic transition. She also has a line of research focused on formal and informal institutions related to the policy issue of public corruption. Her research and outreach with collaborators has been conducted in Afghanistan, India, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, the U.S. the West Bank and Gaza, and Yemen. Dr. Relly holds a an appointment in the School of Journalism and a courtesy appointment with the School of Government and Public Policy. She is an affiliated faculty member with the university's Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Center for Border and Global Journalism. She is a former head of the International Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and served as the chair of the organization's Elected Standing Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibiity. She is a former research fellow of The Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and has served on the advisory board of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute at The University of Arizona. Dr. Relly received a Fulbright-Nehru grant to conduct research for five months in India 2016-2017) She currently serves on the Humanitarian Assistance Technical Support Faculty. In the School of Journalism, Dr. Relly oversaw diversity and inclusion initiatives for more than five years. Before joining the faculty, Dr. Relly worked for more than a dozen years as a journalist reporting in a number states, the Caribbean and the Mexico-U.S. borderlands.