Graduate Students
Mary Allison Long
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BIOGRAPHY
Allison Long is a first-year M.A. student at the University of South Florida’s Department
of Communication focusing on health communication. She was born in Louisville, Ky.,
and grew up in Sarasota, Fla. She then went on to the University of Florida in Gainesville,
where she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism. During her award-winning photojournalism
career, she worked for a number of newspapers, including The Biloxi (Miss.) Herald, The
Tallahassee Democrat and The Kansas City (Mo.) Star and covered, among other events,
two World Series, the chaos of the 2000 presidential election, numerous hurricanes--including
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi--and the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2019, she returned home to Florida to serve as multi-media
journalist for University of South Florida Health.
As a communications professional, and a health communications professional in particular,
she is fascinated daily by what she and others like her can do to reach the public
and provide the information they need to make the best choices to protect and improve
the health of themselves and their families.
RESEARCH AREAS
Health Communications, Media Studies, Visual Culture and Political Communication
ADVISOR
Marleah Dean Kruzel