Ph.D. student, Department of Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin. Galit Marmor-Lavie holds a M.A. in Political Communication, a B.A. in Communications, and a B.A. in Political science all from the University of Haifa, Israel. She won the Provost's prize for an outstanding master's degree thesis for the academic year 2002\2003. After and throughout her M.A. education, Marmor-Lavie was a spokesperson for the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, P.R consultant and a research advisor to several private and public institutions, among them The Second Television and Radio Authority (Israel's Commercial Television and Radio Regulator). She published her work on political advertising and emotions in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. Recently she attempts to bring spirituality within the scope of advertising research. She also taught at the University of Haifa for two year
E-mail: galit_ml@mail.utexas.edu