Doris Appel Graber (11 November 1923 – 17 February 2018) was an American political scientist.

Doris Appel was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on 11 November 1923, to Ernst and Marta Appel. She had a sister, Ruth.^[4] Doris Appel earned bachelor's (1941) and master's (1942) degrees in political science from the Washington University in St. Louis, and completed a doctorate at Columbia University in 1949.^[5][6] She studied international law and relations and her dissertation was titled, The Development of the Law of Belligerent Occupation: 1863-1914, A Historical Survey.^[7] She taught at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and North Park College, prior to accepting a position as lecturer at University of Illinois at Chicago in 1963.^[8] Graber was founding editor of the journal Political Communication.^[9] She won the academic Goldsmith Book Prize in 2003, for Learning From Television in the Internet Age, published in 2001.^[10] She retired from teaching at UIC in 2012.^[8] The Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association has awarded the Doris Graber (Book) Award since 2000, in her honor.^[11][12]

Doris Appel was married to Thomas M. Graber from 1941 until his death in 2007.^[4][6] The couple had five children, including Lee Graber, an orthodontist.^[6][8] Doris Appel Graber died in Evanston, Illinois, on 17 February 2018.^[4][8]

Selected works

• Verbal Behavior and Politics (1976)
• Mass Media and American Politics (1980)
• Crime News and the Public (1980)
• President and the Public (1982)
• Processing the News: How People Tame the Information Tide (1984)
• Processing Politics (2001)
• The Power of Communication: Managing Information in Public Organizations (2002)
• On Media: Making Sense of Politics (2012)

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