UNC at the virtual AEJMC Southeast Colloquium
March 6, 2020
Six graduate students, one faculty member and various alumni will represent the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media on March 19-21, 2020, at the 45th annual Southeast Colloquium of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, held in a virtual format. These scholars will participate in panel sessions and present authored or co-authored papers and presentations.
Hussman School faculty and student activities at the 2020 AEJMC Southeast Colloquium include:
Awards and honors
- M.A./J.D. student Isabela Palmieri won the second-place student paper award for the paper, “A case of statutory construction: Carving out the First Amendment through anti-boycott legislation.”
Friday, March 19
- M.A./J.D. student Kathryn Johnson will present “An analysis of current cyber misbehavior laws and their applicability to the act of doxing.”
- Isabella Palmieri will present “A case of statutory construction: Carving out the First Amendment through anti-boycott legislation.”
- M.A. student Sydney Nicolla will present “Changing times and (un)changing judiciaries: Freedom of association, sexual orientation and discrimination in the workplace.”
- M.A./J.D. student Ashley Fox and Associate Professor Tori Ekstrand will present “Regulating the political Wild West: State efforts to address online political advertising.”
- Tori Ekstrand will participate on the panel, "Entering the Thunderdome: Hate speech and you!"
Saturday, March 20
- Ph.D. alumna Kyla Garrett Wagner and Tori Ekstrand will present “The status of communication and law research: A work in progress."
- M.A./J.D. student Morgan English will present “Black Target, Red Arrow.”
- Ph.D. student Jasmine Gray will present “Life Plotting: Healing In A Children's Hospital.”
More details about this colloquium can be found on the University of Memphis website.