Doris Graber

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]