Every year, the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication presents our graduate students with fellowships and awards that support their research and their ability to attend conferences related to their research interests. This section recognizes award recipients.
2024-2025 Competitive Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Recipient: Chloe Gansen (PhD)
Paper: "Responses to Politicized News Media Coverage About Health and Science: What is the role of perceived controversy?"
2023-2024 Competitive Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Dan Wackman First Year Graduate Student Research Award
Recipient: Rita Tang (PhD)
Paper: "Kill Two Birds with One Stone: The Role of Efficacy Messages in Motivating Correction of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation and General Misinformation on Social Media."
Honorable Mention [Wackman Submission]
Recipient: Gabriel Garlough Shah (MA)
Paper: "Prior Knowledge and Search Motivation on Product-Related Search Queries"
Ralph D. Casey Dissertation Award
Recipient: Katie Kim (PhD)
Paper: "Understanding Employees’ Moral Communicative Behaviors in Response to Corporate Social Irresponsibility: From a Co-creational Perspective"
2022-2023 Competitive Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF)
Recipient: Maral Abdollahi (PhD)
Paper: "Human Users’ Responses to Virtual Social Media Influencers and Strategic and Ethical Implications for Communication."
Dan Wackman First Year Graduate Student Research Award
Winner: Chloe Gansen (PhD)
Paper: "Proposing a Conceptual Model for Politicization Carryover Effects."
Ralph D. Casey Dissertation Award
Winner: Maral Abdollahi (PhD)
Paper: "“Human User’s Responses to Virtual Social Media Influencers and Strategic and Ethical Implications for Communication.”
Winner: Danford Zirugo (PhD)
Paper: "“Zimbabwean journalist as a fractured interpretive community: An analysis of news media struggles for professionalization under repressive conditions.”