Cheryl Ann Lambert

Assistant Professor of Public Relations

PhD, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
MA, Temple University
BA, Illinois State University

Cheryl Ann Lambert earned her doctorate from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK) in the College of Communication and Information. While at UTK, her primary area of study was public relations and her secondary area was health communication. Lambert has published work about priority information needs in the scholarly journal Communication and Social Change (2008). She was a panel presenter discussing online health information-seeking at the annual convention of the Broadcast Education Association (2008); she coauthored a paper about how news publications frame “obesity” at the annual conference of the International Communication Association (2007), and she coauthored and presented a paper at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication about how national newspapers frame “public relations” (2006). Lambert has teaching experience at UTK and at Robert Morris College in Chicago. Her professional experience includes seven years in public relations at a Fortune-100 company and five years of editorial experience at two national trade publications.