AEJMC Award Calls
Browse this page for AEJMC award calls. Awards Calls are listed in alphabetical order below. Awards shown below without links, do not have current announcements available. AEJMC membership is required for application of the following awards.
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Currently Open Award Calls:
- Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award
The award recognizes excellence in Ph.D. dissertation research that demonstrates potentially significant impact and importance in the field of journalism and communication research and includes a monetary prize. The award is named for Ralph O. Nafziger and David Manning White, authors of Introduction to Mass Communication Research, and Michael Salwen, coauthor of An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research. Nominations deadline: January 17, 2022. See complete call.
- AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award
Recognizes journalism and mass communication academic units that are working toward, and have attained measurable success, in increasing equity and diversity among their faculty. The unit must display progress and innovation in racial, gender, and ethnic equality and diversity during the previous three years. Application deadline is January 10, 2022. See complete call.
Upcoming Award Calls:
- Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development
The Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development recognizes an outstanding young or midcareer faculty member in journalism or mass communication. Its recipient is awarded a stipend to be used toward work on a development or enrichment activity in any appropriate aspect of teaching, research or public service. Young or mid-career faculty members teaching in ACEJMC-accredited journalism programs are eligible to apply. AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.
- Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award
The Blum Research Award was created to recognize people who have devoted substantial parts of their careers to promoting research in mass communication. It is under the purview of AEJMC’s Standing Committee on Research. AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.
- Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service
AEJMC is accepting nominations for the Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service. This award will recognize an AEJMC member who has a sustained and significant public-service record that has helped build bridges between academics and professionals in mass communications, either nationally or locally, and been actively engaged within the association. AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.
- Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research
The Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research recognizes a body of significant research over the course of an individual’s career. The award is named in honor of Paul J. Deutschmann, who developed the College of Communication Arts at Michigan State University. It serves as the AEJMC Research Award, recognizing the top scholars in the association who have made a major impact on the research of the field during their career. The Deutschmann Award is based on demonstrable influence on the field and is therefore not necessarily awarded every year. AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.
- AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize
This is an annual award given to a book or project concerning Latin America or coverage of issues in Latin America. This award was endowed by the late Jerry Knudson, an emeritus professor at Temple University. Knudson was a long‐time AEJMC member whose research and publications focused on Latin America. AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.
- Krieghbaum Under-40 Award
The Krieghbaum Under-40 Award honors AEJMC members under 40 years of age who have shown outstanding achievement and effort in all three AEJMC areas: teaching, research and public service. Nominees must be AEJMC members in good standing at the time of the nomination and during the preceding year. The late Hillier Krieghbaum, former New York University professor emeritus and 1972 AEJMC president, created and funded the award in 1980. AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.
- Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Early-Career Woman Scholar Award
Nominations are now accepted for the 2021 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Award honoring a woman-identifying early-career scholar who demonstrates outstanding research and potential for future scholarship. Sponsored by The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University and the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, this recognition is designed to honor early-career women faculty researchers and encourage them as they pursue their research agendas in the academy. AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.
- Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education
The Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education is jointly supported by the Minorities and Communication (MAC) Division and the Commission on the Status of Minorities (CSM) and recognizes outstanding individual accomplishment and leadership in diversity efforts for underrepresented groups by race and ethnicity, in Journalism and Mass Communication. AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.
- Tankard Book Award
This award recognizes the most outstanding book in the field of journalism and communication. It also honors authors whose work embodies excellence in research, writing and creativity. First presented in 2007, the award is named in honor of Dr. James Tankard, Jr., posthumous recipient of AEJMC’s 2006 Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award, former editor of Journalism Monographs and a longtime University of Texas at Austin journalism professor. AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED.
AEJMC Calls
Papers, Proposals & Editors
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- 2022 Call: News Audience Research Paper Award
Award Includes Cash Prize of $1,000. Now in its ninth year, the News Audience Research Paper Award recognizes the best AEJMC conference paper that researches the audience for news. Accepted 2022 AEJMC conference papers about some aspect of the news audience are automatically eligible to be reviewed by a specially appointed committee for this important award. In addition to receiving a certificate, the author(s) of the winning paper will receive a $1,000 cash prize. There is no separate submission process for this award. Papers on the news audience should be submitted to the division, commission or interest group that is the best fit for the paper. After the review process has been completed by each group, accepted papers will go through a separate review process for the News Audience Research Paper Award. See the complete call.
- Special Issue Call for Papers | Leadership, Mentorship and DEI in the Post-Pandemic Public Relations Classroom
Special Issue – Volume 8 (4), Journal of Public Relations Education
Special Issue Co-Editors: Juan Meng, Ph.D. Department of Advertising & Public Relations, University of Georgia, jmeng@uga.edu; Nilanjana Bardhan, Ph.D. Department of Communication Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, bardhan@siu.edu. Full manuscript submission deadline: June 1, 2022. See complete call.
- 2022 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Early-Career Woman Scholar Award
Nominations are now accepted for the 2022 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Award honoring a woman-identifying early-career scholar who demonstrates outstanding research and potential for future scholarship. Sponsored by The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University and the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, this recognition is designed to honor early-career women faculty researchers and encourage them as they pursue their research agendas in the academy. Nominations due by May 15, 2022. See complete call.
- JMCQ Publication Process & Peer Review Training Program: 2022-2023 Call for Applications
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) is seeking applications for its Publication Process & Peer Review Training Program. The program will be launched at the AEJMC 2022 convention in Detroit and will feature online sessions over two semesters (fall 2022 and spring 2023). The program is open to any doctoral students in journalism, mass communication or related field who are currently enrolled at a US or international university. Preference will be given to AEJMC members; applicants with ABD status and applicants from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged. The application deadline of the program is March 1, 2022. See complete call.
- The 2022 AEJMC Theory Colloquium
The AEJMC Theory Colloquium made its debut in 2020 as a new form of conference programming – with an eventual path to publication– that focuses on interrogation of an established or emerging journalism and communication theory. Colloquia are most similar to panels but have a different focus, format, process and outcome. Proposals are due January 15, 2022. See the complete call.