2024 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver 

Congrats to Kelli Boling, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who is the winner of the 2024 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.

Kelli S. Boling is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As a cultural studies scholar, her research focuses on the lived reality of media audiences (specifically women, women of color, or victims of domestic violence), how those women are depicted, and how they interpret and make meaning from the media they consume. Her research has been published in Mass Communication & Society, Feminist Media Studies, Journalism Studies, and Journalism History, among others. Her research on women in podcast audiences has also been cited by traditional media outlets such as TIME magazine and The Washington Post, and she has been interviewed about her research by broadcast media such as Scripps News, the ACLU At Liberty podcast, and RTE, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland’s National Public Service Media.

The award will be presented during AEJMC’s Philadelphia conference this August.

The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication in the College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts at Florida International University is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with a yearlong program, A Decade of Celebrating Women’s Voices—the voices of students, alumni, scholars, and professionals in our community and beyond who participated and continue to participate in webinars and workshops, leadership training activities, national networking opportunities, and mentorship programs. The center began its programming in 2013. Its mission is to become the nation’s premier hub for the training and promotion of a diverse and inclusive cadre of the next generation of exceptional women leaders and visionaries who will join the workforce of the future and make a difference in their communities and in their professions.

For further information, contact Lillian A. Abreu  labreu@fiu.edu