MIAMI – The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communications is pleased to award the 2020 Early-Career Woman Scholar Award to Danielle Kilgo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Minnesota. The award, given in partnership with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Commission on the Status of Women, honors an early-career woman scholar who demonstrates outstanding research and great potential for future scholarship.

Kilgo, who is the John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity, and Equality, examines questions of media access and media representation by analyzing issues related to conflict, including topics such as Black Lives Matter, crime, transnational social movements, international health crises, and viral social media campaigns. She is a 2019 Knight Foundation grant recipient, a 2018 AEJMC emerging scholars grant recipient, a 2018 AEJMC Mass Communication & Society division grant recipient.

This is the seventh year of the award, named in honor of Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver. Kopenhaver is dean emeritus and professor at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The award will be presented on Wednesday, August 7 during the AEJMC Conference.

The Kopenhaver Center thanks the award coordinator and judges Katie R. Place, Quinnipiac University; Lisa Burns, Quinnipiac University; Meta Carstarphen, University of Oklahoma; Spring-Serenity Duvall, Salem College; Maria Elizabeth Len-Rios, University of Georgia; Karen McIntyre, Virginia Commonwealth University (2019 Awardee); Lindsay Palmer, University of Wisconsin; Linda Steiner, University of Maryland; Elizabeth Toth, University of Maryland; Jennifer Vardeman, University of Houston; Yong Volz, University of Missouri, respectively.

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

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For more information contact Lillian Anne Abreu, MSW, MSFM at 305-919-4065, or labreu@fiu,.edu