Allison Betus is pursuing her Ph.D. in Communication, focusing on Media and Society. She was recently awarded the Provost’s Dissertation Fellowship as she completes a Ph.D. in Communication Studies.
Betus is a former Craigie Fellow for International Security and a 2CI Fellow in the TCV initiative. Betus has published a number of research articles on terrorism and media coverage. She earned an M.A. in Psychology from the New School for Social Research in New York. Betus also holds a B.A. in Psychology from State University of New York at Purchase.
Betus’ research interests include prejudice formation, the impact of perpetrator identity on perceptions of terrorism, radicalization, deradicalization, and member recruitment and retention in extremist groups.
Betus’ expertise includes data analysis using SPSS, SAS, and STATA. She is also experienced with Nvivo, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, Unity and Windows Movie Maker
She has also spent time working in the private sector as a Market Analyst. Betus is a member of the American Society of Criminology, the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Social and Personality Psychology.
Select Media Mentions:
2017 MSNBC with Ari Melber, July 2.
2017 Think Progress, June 19.
2017 Cato Institute, April 13.
2017 Reason, March 24.
2017 The Independent, March 13.
Kearns, E., Betus, A., Lemieux, A. (2017, March 13) Yes, the media do underreport some terrorist attacks. Just not the ones most people think of. The Washington Post.