AEJMC Election

AEJMC leaders help guide our organization.

Leadership is an important part of AEJMC's function and progress. Our leaders represent our membership, and we rely on our members to choose those representatives each year in the AEJMC election.

AEJMC 2025 Election Results


Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2025 AEJMC Election. Leadership elections are an important part of our association, and we appreciate your involvement.

Official start date for all new officers is October 1, 2025.

Matthew J. Haught is our newly elected vice president. Dr. Haught will go through the leadership ladder and serve as the AEJMC president for 2027-28.


“My fellow scholars, educators and media professionals, I am grateful for your trust in me to lead our association. I am excited to work in growing AEJMC in the next four years. I am honored to serve an organization that has given me my career in higher education. And I am hopeful for the future of our discipline as a critical tool in growing freedom, truth, and fairness across the world. There’s much to do. Let’s get to work.”

Matthew Haught, Department Chair and Professor, joined the faculty of the Department of Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis in 2013 after earning his Ph.D. in Mass Communications from the University of South Carolina. He specializes in visual communications and teaches design, photography, creative strategy and multimedia communications to undergraduate and graduate students.


These new leaders take AEJMC office October 1, 2025:


Vice President:

Matthew J. Haught, Memphis

Accrediting Council Rep (1 elected):
Louisa Ha, Bowling Green State

Publications Committee (3 elected):
Sun Young Lee, Maryland
María De Moya, Tennessee, Knoxville
Chelsea Reynolds, Arizona State, California Center

PF&R Committee (4 elected):
George L. Daniels, Alabama
Jason Martin, DePaul
Jessica Retis, Arizona
Carol Terracina-Hartman, Murray State

Research Committee (4 elected):
Lindita Camaj, Florida
Kim Fox, American University in Cairo
Summer Harlow, Texas at Austin
Yong Volz, Missouri

Teaching Committee (4 elected):
Cara Hawkins-Jedlicka, Washington State
Katie Place, Quinnipiac
Erika Schneider, Syracuse
Amanda Weed, Kennesaw State