Browse this page for AEJMC award calls. Awards accepting nominations are listed by latest deadline date first. 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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Please note: Many of our calls for award and grant nominations have been revised. One of the directives during the past year for AEJMC leaders has been to revise language in all calls to better reflect inclusivity and diversity. So, if you are nominating or self-nominating, please be sure to follow the new guidelines below.
- AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award [2]
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JANUARY 1, 2024 — APRIL 15, 2024
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award
The 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, staff and students. The unit must display progress and innovation in racial, gender, and ethnic equality and diversity during the previous three years. Nominations are due April 15, 2024. See complete call [2]. - Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education [3]
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JANUARY 1, 2024 — APRIL 15, 2024
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. Nominations are due April 15, 2024. See complete call [3]. - Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Early-Career Woman Scholar Award [4]
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS NOVEMBER 1, 2023 — APRIL 1, 2024
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. (This award is administered by AEJMC.) Nominations are due April 1, 2024. See complete call [4].
The following awards will soon open to accept nominations:
- Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FEBRUARY 15, 2025 — APRIL 1, 2025
An AEJMC and ACEJMC Award
The Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development was created by AEJMC and the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications in honor of the late Baskett Mosse, executive secretary of the Accrediting Committee for 26 years. The award recognizes an outstanding young or mid-career faculty member and helps fund a proposed enrichment activity. (Not awarded annually. Next award year is 2025.) - Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2024 — DECEMBER 15, 2024
An AEJMC Standing Committee on 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 named in honor of its first recipient, the late Eleanor Blum, a long time communications librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. - Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JANUARY 1, 2025 — MARCH 1, 2025
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award
The Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service recognizes 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. - Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2024 — DECEMBER 1, 2024
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award
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. - AEJMC First Amendment Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JANUARY 1, 2025 — FEBRUARY 15, 2025
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award
Created in 2006, the AEJMC First Amendment Award recognizes individuals or organizations who demonstrate a strong commitment to freedom of the press and who practice or support courageous journalism. (Note that AEJMC members are not eligible to receive this award) - AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2024 — JANUARY 15, 2025
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award
This is an annual award given to a book or project concerning Latin America or coverage of issues in Latin America. Submitted works must make an original contribution to improve knowledge about Latin America to U.S. students, journalists or the public. 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. - Krieghbaum Mid-Career Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FEBRUARY 15, 2025 — MARCH 15, 2025
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award
Formerly known as Krieghbaum Under 40 Award, the Krieghbaum Mid-Career Award honors AEJMC members who have shown outstanding achievement and effort in all three AEJMC areas: teaching, research and public service. The late Hillier Krieghbaum, former New York University professor emeritus and 1972 AEJMC president, created and funded the award in 1980. Nominees must also be AEJMC members in good standing at the time of the nomination and during the preceding two years. - Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS SEPTEMBER 1, 2024 — OCTOBER 15, 2024
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research 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. - Tankard Book Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2024 — JANUARY 15, 2025
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research 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.