Call for Nominations:

2024 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Early-Career Woman Scholar Award

Nominations deadline: July 1, 2024

Nominations are now accepted for the 2024 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Award honoring an early-career woman scholar who demonstrates outstanding research and potential for future scholarship.

Sponsored by 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.

An early-career faculty member is defined as a scholar who has the Ph.D., but does NOT have tenure, and is preferably on a tenure-track, but might also be considered if a collegiate-level instructor/lecturer. Nominees must be current members of AEJMC.

To nominate a scholar, please send:

• a letter outlining qualifications
• a one-page summary of her research agenda
• a curriculum vita

We welcome nominations for scholars from various cultural backgrounds and institutions, including international scholars. We realize that outstanding scholarship can manifest itself differently from scholar to scholar, so we encourage the nomination letters and research statements to be explicit about highlighting the candidates’ unique strengths. Both quantity and quality will be considered. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged.

The winner will be chosen by a panel of scholars and honored with a check for $250 and a plaque in August 2024 at the AEJMC conference in Philadelphia. Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, dean emeritus and professor at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will present the award.

Please send any questions to the award committee chair, Sonali Kudva, at skudva@methodist.edu.

Award nominations can be submitted using this online form.