2026 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Award Recipient
Congrats to Dr. Jennifer R. Henrichsen, Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, who is the winner of the 2026 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Early-Career Woman Scholar Award.
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.
Dr. Jennifer R. Henrichsen is an award-winning Assistant Professor at Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Senior Personnel with the VICEROY Northwest Institute for Cybersecurity Education and Research, and an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and the University of Pennsylvania’s Media, Inequality & Change Center. A former Fulbright Research Scholar, she holds an MA from the University of Geneva and an MA and PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Henrichsen’s research examines how structural conditions and evolving forms of risk shape journalistic work and what those pressures mean for journalism and democratic life. She has produced more than 30 publications, including three books and 14 peer-reviewed journal articles in outlets such as Digital Journalism and the International Journal of Communication. Her work has been cited by the U.S. Government and the United Nations, and her research has been profiled in outlets including The New York Times and NPR.
Dr. Henrichsen has delivered more than 80 conference presentations and invited lectures across North America, Europe, and Asia, and she is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, the first in Washington State University history.
The award will be presented during AEJMC’s New Orleans conference this August.
For further information, contact Carla Zensen, czensen@fiu.edu