Overview
The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media will celebrate the outstanding research carried out by our graduate students in the Spring Research Colloquium, hosted by the Hussman Graduate Student Association Wednesday, May 1 in the Freedom Forum Conference Center.
The day will begin with a keynote from Meghan Sobel Cohen '15 (Ph.D.) and Karen McIntyre '15 (Ph.D.), authors of "Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy." Research presentations by doctoral and master's students will follow, along with the presentation of graduate student research awards. Light breakfast, coffee and lunch will be provided.
Please see below to register to attend and for current research graduate students to submit their research for presentation at the colloquium.
Keynote Speakers
Meghan Sobel Cohen is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and the Master of Development Practice at Regis University in Denver. Dr. Cohen's research focuses on digital development and the role of news media in combating human rights abuses and humanitarian crises around the world, particularly in East Africa. She has given a TEDx talk about sex trafficking that has been viewed more than 1.5 million times, and she has published in journals such as Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, International Journal of Communication, African Journalism Studies and International Communication Gazette.
Karen McIntyre Hopkinson is an associate professor of multimedia journalism and the director of graduate studies in the Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Her international and interdisciplinary research focuses on journalism processes and effects. More specifically, she studies socially responsible forms of journalism, such as constructive journalism and solutions journalism. She also studies press freedom and journalism practice in East Africa and served as a Fulbright scholar in Rwanda during the 2018-19 academic year. She has traveled to more than 40 countries and is originally from Lake Tahoe, California.
Bios courtesy Oxford University press, publisher of "Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy."
Schedule
9 a.m.: Breakfast
9:30 a.m.: Keynote - Meghan Sobel Cohen '15 (Ph.D.) and Karen McIntyre '15 (Ph.D.), authors of "Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy"
11:15 a.m.: Session 1 - Research-in-progress presentations by Emily Galper, Heesoo Jang, Carolyn Schmitt
12:30 p.m.: Lunch
1:15 p.m.: Session 2 - Study presentations by Destiny Peterson, Kexin (Coco) Li, Clay Williams
2:30 p.m.: Student awards
Research Submission
We invite graduate students in UNC Hussman's M.A. Theory & Research program of study and the Ph.D. program to submit research to be considered for presentation at the colloquium. Submissions may be studies already accepted for presentation or under review at other conferences and/or peer-reviewed journals. We also welcome work-in-progress submissions.
For consideration, students should submit an abstract (250-500 words) by Monday, April 8 using this form. Submissions will be reviewed, and students will be notified of their submission status by April 15.
We look forward to hearing about and celebrating your research!