Awards & Grants

Below is a list of awards, honors, and grants I have received during my academic career.

2023 

• • Mass Communications and Society Faculty Research Award ($10,000), MC&S Division, 2023 AEJMC National Conference, Washington, D.C.
  • Arthur W. Page Center’s 2023 Page/Johnson Legacy Scholar Grant ($5,000), Prosocial Communication Research Award
  • College of Journalism and Mass Communications (UNL) Seed Grant ($5,000), How journalists participated in the online conversation around #RoevWade

2022   

• • University of Nebraska Medical Center ($11,550), College of Public Health Innovation Fund, The role of media in birthing provider decision
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln Public Insight Lab, How journalists use #roevwade

2021   

• • University of Nebraska Collaborative Initiative Grant ($7,500), #NarcanSavesLives
  • Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Fellow, Florida International University, Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication

2020   

• • First place student paper, AEJMC Minorities and Communication Division, 2020 AEJMC National Conference, San Francisco, CA (Virtual)
  • Kappa Tau Alpha, Conferred membership into the National Honor Society for Journalism and Mass Communication, April 2020
  • Breakthrough Graduate Scholar, One of 14 graduate students recognized campus-wide for excellence in teaching and research, University of South Carolina, January 2020

2019   

• • Mass Communications and Society Graduate Research Award ($5,000) MC&S Division, 2019 AEJMC National Conference, Toronto, Canada
  • Mary Gardner Award for Graduate Student Research, Commission on the Status of Women, 2019 AEJMC National Conference, Toronto, Canada
  • Third place student paper, AEJMC Law & Policy Division, 2019 AEJMC National Conference, Toronto, Canada.
  • The Graduate School at USC Conference Travel Grant Award ($500), University of South Carolina, May 2019
  • Top Student Paper, AEJMC Newspaper & Online News Division, 2019 Southeast Colloquium, Columbia, SC
  • University of South Carolina Graduate School Fellowship ($26,000 p/yr), University of South Carolina, 2016 – 2019

2018   

• • Third place student paper, AEJMC History Division, 2018 AEJMC National Conference, Washington, DC
  • Excellence in teaching award ($500), 2018 Graduate student excellence in teaching award, University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications
  • Top student paper, AEJMC Law and Policy Division, 2018 Southeast Colloquium, Tuscaloosa, AL

2017   

• • Second place student paper, AEJMC Minorities and Communication Division, 2017 AEJMC National Conference, Chicago, IL 
  • The Graduate School at USC Conference Travel Grant Award ($500), University of South Carolina, April 2017