Awards and Calls
Calls for AEJMC Award Nominations
AEJMC membership is required for application of AEJMC Awards.
Please note: Many AEJMC calls for award and grant nominations have been revised. One of the directives during the past year for AEJMC leaders has been to revise language in all calls to better reflect inclusivity and diversity. So, if you are nominating or self-nominating, please be sure to follow the new guidelines below.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Applications: 2024- 25 Institute for Diverse Leadership in Journalism and Communication
The Institute for Diverse Leadership in Journalism and Communication seeks applicants from historically marginalized and underrepresented groups as the program is dedicated to increasing the diversity of chairs, deans, directors, and endowed chairs in journalism and communication education. Applicants MUST BE current AEJMC members. Applicants must be associate or full professors interested in administration and/or journalism and communication practitioners who have moved into the academy and have a minimum of three fulltime years in an academic setting. All application materials should be received by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, April 30. See complete call.
- Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2024 — DECEMBER 15, 2024
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award
The Blum Research Award was created to recognize people who have devoted substantial parts of their careers to promoting research in mass communication. It is named in honor of its first recipient, the late Eleanor Blum, a long time communications librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. - AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JANUARY 1, 2025 — APRIL 15, 2025
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award
The AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award recognizes journalism and mass communication academic units that are working toward, and have attained measurable success, in increasing equity and diversity among their faculty, staff and students. The unit must display progress and innovation in racial, gender, and ethnic equality and diversity during the previous three years. - AEJMC First Amendment Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JANUARY 1, 2025 — FEBRUARY 15, 2025
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award
Created in 2006, the AEJMC First Amendment Award recognizes individuals or organizations who demonstrate a strong commitment to freedom of the press and who practice or support courageous journalism. (Note that AEJMC members are not eligible to receive this award) - Krieghbaum Mid-Career Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FEBRUARY 15, 2025 — MARCH 15, 2025
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award
Formerly known as Krieghbaum Under 40 Award, the Krieghbaum Mid-Career Award honors AEJMC members who have shown outstanding achievement and effort in all three AEJMC areas: teaching, research and public service. The late Hillier Krieghbaum, former New York University professor emeritus and 1972 AEJMC president, created and funded the award in 1980. Nominees must also be AEJMC members in good standing at the time of the nomination and during the preceding two years. - Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FEBRUARY 15, 2025 — APRIL 1, 2025
An AEJMC and ACEJMC Award
The Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development was created by AEJMC and the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications in honor of the late Baskett Mosse, executive secretary of the Accrediting Committee for 26 years. The award recognizes an outstanding young or mid-career faculty member and helps fund a proposed enrichment activity. (Not awarded annually. Next award year is 2025.) - Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JANUARY 1, 2025 — MARCH 1, 2025
An AEJMC Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee Award
The Dorothy Bowles Award for Outstanding Public Service recognizes an AEJMC member who has a sustained and significant public-service record that has helped build bridges between academics and professionals in mass communications, either nationally or locally, and been actively engaged within the association. - Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2024 — DECEMBER 1, 2024
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award
The Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research recognizes a body of significant research over the course of an individual’s career. The award is named in honor of Paul J. Deutschmann, who developed the College of Communication Arts at Michigan State University. It serves as the AEJMC Research Award, recognizing the top scholars in the association who have made a major impact on the research of the field during their career. The Deutschmann Award is based on demonstrable influence on the field and is therefore not necessarily awarded every year. - AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2024 — JANUARY 15, 2025
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award
This is an annual award given to a book or project concerning Latin America or coverage of issues in Latin America. Submitted works must make an original contribution to improve knowledge about Latin America to U.S. students, journalists or the public. This award was endowed by the late Jerry Knudson, an emeritus professor at Temple University. Knudson was a long-time AEJMC member whose research and publications focused on Latin America. - Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS SEPTEMBER 1, 2024 — OCTOBER 15, 2024
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award
The award recognizes excellence in Ph.D. dissertation research that demonstrates potentially significant impact and importance in the field of journalism and communication research and includes a monetary prize. The award is named for Ralph O. Nafziger and David Manning White, authors of Introduction to Mass Communication Research, and Michael Salwen, coauthor of An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research. - Tankard Book Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS OCTOBER 1, 2024 — JANUARY 15, 2025
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Research Award
This award recognizes the most outstanding book in the field of journalism and communication. It also honors authors whose work embodies excellence in research, writing and creativity. First presented in 2007, the award is named in honor of Dr. James Tankard, Jr., posthumous recipient of AEJMC’s 2006 Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award, former editor of Journalism Monographs and a longtime University of Texas at Austin journalism professor. - Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Early-Career Woman Scholar Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS NOVEMBER 1, 2024 — APRIL 1, 2025
A Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University and AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women Award
This recognition is designed to honor early-career women faculty researchers and encourage them as they pursue their research agendas in the academy. (This award is administered by AEJMC.) - Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JANUARY 1, 2025 — APRIL 15, 2025
An AEJMC Minorities and Communication Division and AEJMC Commission on the Status of Minorities Award
The award recognizes outstanding individual accomplishment and leadership in diversity efforts for underrepresented groups by race and ethnicity, in Journalism and Mass Communication. - NOW OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS
The 2024 Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS MARCH 1, 2024 — APRIL 30, 2024
An Urban Communication Foundation and AEJMC Award
This award recognizes high-quality urban reporting or critical analysis relevant to city problems, programs, policies, and public priorities in urban life and culture. The award, for a journalist with a distinguished record of work in urban journalism. The deadline for nominations is April 30, 2024. See complete call. - Journalism & Mass Communication Administrator of the Year Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JULY 1, 2024 — OCTOBER 15, 2024
A Scripps Howard Fund and AEJMC Award
This call is open to full-time administrators of a journalism, mass communication or communication program who, over a period of years, has consistently demonstrated an environment of leadership excellence by ongoing contributions to the improvement of learning and teaching. Open to accredited and non-accredited schools. - Journalism Teacher of the Year Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JULY 1, 2024 — OCTOBER 15, 2024
A Scripps Howard Fund and AEJMC Award
This call is open to full-time faculty members or teaching journalism who, over a period of years, has consistently demonstrated an environment of excellence by ongoing contributions to the improvement of student learning. Open to nominees who teach students how to gather, assess, create, and present news, information and commentary via print and electronic media. Nominees may be from accredited or non-accredited schools, but must consistently teach primarily journalism courses. - Best Practices in Teaching Award Competition
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JANUARY 1, 2025 — FEBRUARY 15, 2025
An AEJMC Standing Committee on Teaching Competition
his competition honors innovative teaching ideas from JMC colleagues. Each year, the AEJMC Teaching Committee selects winners in a themed competition highlighting different areas across the journalism and mass communication curriculum. Winning entries are published in an e-booklet. - AEJMC Senior Scholar Grants
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 — OCTOBER 1, 2025
An AEJMC Program
The AEJMC Senior Scholars Program awards grants to senior (typically tenured) scholars to fund innovative and timely research projects in journalism and mass communication. Applicants must be AEJMC members. - AEJMC Emerging Scholar Grants
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 — OCTOBER 1, 2025
An AEJMC Program
The AEJMC Emerging Scholars Program award research and teaching grants to emerging scholars to fund research or teaching proposals to encourage innovative and timely projects in journalism and mass communication. Applicants must be current AEJMC faculty members.
- News Audience Research Paper Award
ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS JANUARY 1, 2025 — APRIL 1, 2025
An AEJMC and News Engagement Day Award
The News Audience Research Paper Award encourages research about the news audience and recognizes the best AEJMC conference paper on the audience for news. There is no separate submission process for this award.
Calls for Papers, Proposals & Editors
- AEJMC Pre-Conference Workshop – Women Faculty Moving Forward: Freedom to Succeed
Philadelphia, PA • Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Sponsored by the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, and the AEJMC Council of Affiliates, this 12th annual workshop, Women Faculty Moving Forward, is designed to help women faculty members move forward in their careers through mentoring, networking, and preparing for tenure and promotion and administration or other leadership positions. The program, which features women professors and administrators, is designed for tenure-track women, but some exceptions may be made. We are seeking a cohort for our pre-conference workshop on August 7, 2024, 1-5 p.m. at the AEJMC annual Conference in Philadelphia. Applicants must be AEJMC members. The deadline for applications is July 1, 2024. See complete call. - AEJMC Champions of Editing Linda Shockley Award for Excellence in Teaching
AEJMC is seeking submissions for the 2024 Champions of Editing Linda Shockley Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Deborah Gump launched the Champions of Editing, formerly known as the Breakfast of Editing Champions, about 20 years ago. In the spirit of celebrating excellence in teaching editing, the Champions of Editing is announcing a teaching prize open to AEJMC members from all divisions, interest groups, etc. The prize is named for Linda Shockley, former managing director of the Dow Jones News Fund, for her commitment to advancing the careers of young professionals and longtime support of the Champions of Editing. The prize will highlight innovative approaches to teaching editing. Editing is a nearly universal component of journalism and mass communication. Submission deadline: May 26, 2024. See complete call.
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