The Arthur W. Page Society is a professional association for senior public relations and corporate communications executives who seek to enrich and strengthen their profession.
The membership consists primarily of chief communications officers of Fortune 500 corporations, the CEOs of the world’s largest public relations agencies, and leading academics from the nation’s top business and communications schools who have distinguished themselves teaching corporate communications.
In addition to serving as the College’s Associate Dean, Dr. Martinelli teaches advanced public relations and graduate research methods classes. She also has taught public relations courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Elon University and Ohio University. While at Ohio, she received the prestigious University Professor teaching award and advised the school’s national award-winning Public Relations Student Society of America chapter.
Martinelli is a member of the national journalism honorary Kappa Tau Alpha and has held national committee and/or officer positions in the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). In 2011 she won the WVU Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award and the AEJMC Mass Communication and Society Distinguished Educator Award.
She received a West Virginia PRSA Crystal Award in 1998 and has presented and published her research nationally and internationally. She serves on the editorial boards of Public Relations Journal and Mass Communication and Society. She regularly gives public relations and communication seminars to government, professional and academic audiences and has secured or been part of grant projects totaling more than $1.1 million.
Dr. Martinelli earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the WVU Reed College of Media in 1985 and 1995, respectively. She was awarded a Park Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she completed her Ph.D. in mass communication in 2001.