Every year, the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication gives out several awards for students to be able to do research and attend various conferences related to their research interests. Below, students utilized provided fellowship funds for conference attendance, conference participation, and/or research materials and expenses. Titles listed under student’s names represent the work they submitted to our graduate committee for either continuous research or for presenting the work at a conference.
2020-2021 Competitive Fellowship Recipients
Dan Wackman First Year Graduate Student Research Award
Winners: Nick Mathews (PhD)
Paper: " "The Community Caretaker Role: How Weekly Newspapers Shielded Their Communities While Covering the Mississippi ICE Raids."
Ralph D. Casey Dissertation Award
Winner: Allison Steinke (PhD)
Paper: "The Institutionalization of Solutions Journalism"
Michael H. Anderson Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Clara Juarez Miro (PhD)
2021-2022 Competitive Fellowship Recipients
Diversity of Views and Experience (DOVE) Fellowship
Recipient: Folasade Adesanya (PhD)
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Recipient: Allison Steinke (PhD) (Paper: "The Institutionalization of Solutions Journalism")
Dan Wackman First Year Graduate Student Research Award
Winner: Bugil Chang
Paper: "I Distrust You Because One of You Did Something Wrong: Spillover Effect of Distrust Elicited by an NPO's Crisis on Overall NPO's"
Honorable Mention [Wackman]: Rowan McMullen Cheng: Busking the News: "Institutional Journalistic Critique and Author-Audience Relationship on Substack"
Ralph D. Casey Dissertation Award: Clara Juarez Miro: "Who are “The Pure People”? Populist Supporters and the Role of Media in the Populist Imagined Community"
Vincent Bancroft Shea Travel Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Sarah Wiley (PhD)
Folasade Adesanya (PhD)
Jonathan Anderson (PhD)
Clara Juarez Miro (PhD)
Yuming Fang (PhD)
Nick Mathews (PhD)
Danford Zirugo (PhD)
Michael H. Anderson Graduate Fellowship Recipients
Clara Juarez Miro (PhD)
Sarah Wiley (PhD)