Margot Opdycke Lamme, Ph.D., APR

lamme@apr.ua.edu

Phone: 205-348-5628

Fax: 205-348-2401

Dr. Lamme joined the Department of Advertising and Public Relations as an assistant professor in 2005. Her research interests are in public relations history, specifically the influence of social reform, religion, and women on the development of the field. Her work has appeared in American Journalism, Atlanta Review of Journalism History, Journalism History, Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, and the Encyclopedia of Public Relations. She also has written a chapter on public relations for Mass Communication in the Global Age, edited by David A. Copeland and Anthony Hatcher (Vision Press, 2004, 2007).

Between her work at UA and the University of Florida, she has taught a range of courses for undergraduate classes, including introduction to public relations, public relations writing, management, and campaigns, and for graduate students, including historical methods, public relations foundations and management classes, integrated communications, and trends in advertising and public relations. Additionally, she has served on a number of doctoral and master's thesis committees that have addressed historical, qualitative, or quantitative approaches to mass communication research.

She has more than 15 years of public relations experience in the corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors. Her work and work she supervised has been recognized by, among others, the Atlanta chapters of the Public Relations Society of America (Phoenix Awards, 1994-1997) and the International Association of Business Communicators (Honorable Mentions and Golden Flame awards, 1992, 1994-1997).

Education

Ph.D., College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama, 2002.

M. Comm. (Master of Communication), Georgia State University, Atlanta, 1988.

B.A., psychology and political science, Emory University, Atlanta, 1980.

Professional affiliations

American Journalism Historians Association

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Public Relations Society of America

  • Accredited in Public Relations (APR) by PRSA/Universal Accreditation Board

Kappa Tau Alpha

Academic honors and awards

American Journalism Historians Association

  • 2003: Honorable Mention, Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation of the Year Awards
  • 1999: Robert Lance Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division

  • 2002: Warren Price Prize for top student paper

University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences

  • 2001: Knox Hagood Student Award
  • 2001: Outstanding Ph.D. Research Assistant