She currently serves as Conference Chair for the 2023 annual meetings of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) in Salzburg, Austria, see the call for abstracts here: https://wapor.org/events/annual-conference/current-conference/ Semetko was born in Trenton, Michigan.
[5] In 1994, Semetko was a research fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.
In 1999, she coauthored the book On message: Communicating the campaign with Pippa Norris, John Curtice, David Sanders, and Margaret Scammell.
[7] Semetko received the 1992 Robert M. Worcester Prize which is given by the World Association for Public Opinion Research to the best article in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, for an article that she coauthored with Joanne Bay Brzinski, David Weaver, and Lars Willnat.
[13] At the end of her tenure as Director, then-Provost Earl Lewis wrote that the "Halle Institute's visibility, its programs and partnership, affiliated faculty and publications, have grown significantly under Dr. Semetko's creative leadership", citing the examples of her creation of an Emory-Nanjing Visiting Scholars Program and expanding various opportunities for Halle Institute scholars to conduct research abroad.