AEJMC Pre-Convention Workshop Women Faculty Moving Forward: “100 Years from Suffrage to Academic Leadership”

August 5, 2020, Virtual Conference

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Pre-Convention Workshop Women Faculty Moving Forward: “100 Years from Suffrage to Academic Leadership” was held virtually on Wednesday, August 5, 2020.

Sponsored by the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University and the AEJMC Council of Affiliates, this eighth annual workshop was designed for tenure-track women, and a cohort of 50 women were selected for the pre-conference workshop.

Keynote speaker for the workshop was Jennifer Greer, Dean of the College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky. Senior professor and researcher panelists include Dr. Cory Armstrong, department chair of Journalism and Creative Media, University of Alabama; Dr. Maria Len-Rios, associate dean for academic affairs and professor, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia; Dr. Andrea Miller, dean of the Mayborn School of Journalism, University of North Texas; Dr. Mia MoodyRamirez, department chair, and professor, Journalism, Public Relations & New Media, Baylor University; and Kristin Gilger, senior associate dean and Reynolds Professor in Business Journalism, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State.

Adrienne Wallace, Grand Valley State University                                            Ashton Speno, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Azeta Hatef, Emerson College                                                                                 Betsy O’Donovan, Western Washington University

Courtney Boman, University of Alabama                                                           Danielle Deavours, University of Montevallo

Danielle Kilgo, University of Minnesota                                                              Danielle LaGree, Kansas State University

Deepa Fadnis, University of Hartford                                                                  Elizabeth Fondren, St. John’s University

Ellie Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison                                                     Emily Contois, University of Tulsa

Ghislaine Lewis, University of Lynchburg                                                         Heather Shoenberger, Pennsylvania State University

Heesook Choi, Mississippi State University                                                       Jenny Jiang, Elon University

Jess Nerren, California State University San Bernardino                             Jessica Walsh, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Jolene Fisher, University of Colorado Boulder                                                Jungmi Jun, University of South Carolina

Karin Assmann, University of Georgia                                                             Kate Edenborg, University of Wisconsin-Stout

Kate Stepaniuc, Southeast Missouri State University                                   Kelly Laudien, Regen

Kelsey Whipple, University of Massachusetts Amherst                               Kyla Garrett Wagner, Syracuse University

Lakshmi Sarah, UC Berkeley                                                                              Lindsay McCluskey, SUNY Oswego

Megan Cox, University of Central Oklahoma                                                  Melissa Adams, Appalachian State University

Melissa Greene-Blye, University of Kansas                                                  Naa Amponsah Dodoo, Emerson College

Nandini Bhalla, Washington and Lee University                                         Nune Grigoryan, Cabrini University

Nur Uysal, DePaul University                                                                            Ruth Moon, Louisiana State University

Sandra Combs, Arkansas State University                                                   Sara Champlin, University of North Texas

Sara Shaban, Seattle Pacific University                                                         Serei Eng, Emerson College

Shaheen Kanthawala, University of Alabama                                           Sheryl Kantrowitz, Temple University

Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, Louisiana State University                               Shuning Lu, North Dakota State University

Sonali Kudva, University of Tampa                                                               Soojin Kim, Louisiana State University

Tanja Aitamurto, University of Illinois at Chicago                                    Xueying Zhang, North Carolina A&T State University