The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communications is pleased to award the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Junior Woman Scholar Award for 2018 to Summer Harlow, Ph.D., of the University of Houston.

The award, given in partnership with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Commission on the Status of Women, honors a woman junior scholar who demonstrates outstanding research and great potential for future scholarship.

Summer Harlow, assistant professor at the University of Houston, researches the intersection of emerging media technologies, international journalism, activism, alternative media.  She has authored more than 50 conference or peer-reviewed academic papers and is a 2018 AEJMC Emerging Scholars Grant recipient for her research regarding journalistic coverage of U.S. protests.

Kopenhaver stated, “Dr. Harlow represents the best of the academy in the remarkable research agenda she has pursued and the accomplishments she has achieved. This award is designed to encourage and honor young women like Dr. Harlow who have published outstanding research and hold great potential for future scholarship.”

This is the fifth year of the award, named in honor of Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver. Kopenhaver is dean emeritus and professor at Florida International University’s School of Communication and Journalism. The award, a check for $250 and a certificate, will be presented on Sunday, August 5, at the 2018 AEJMC Conference in Washington, D.C.

The Kopenhaver Center thanks the coordinators and judges for this year’s competition, which were Katie R. Place, Quinnipiac University; Linda Steiner, University of Maryland; Maria Len-Rios, University of Georgia, Mia Moody-Ramirez, Baylor University; and Jessica Gall Myrick, University of Indiana-Bloomington, and the 2017 Junior Woman Scholar Award recipient.

AEJMC is a nonprofit organization for journalism and mass communication scholars, educators, students and professionals.

More information about the survey is available from the Kopenhaver Center at 305-919-4065, or labreu@fiu,.edu