Christina Nickerson, a doctoral candidate in the Murrow College of Communication and research assistant in the MAC Lab, was recently awarded the 2024 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Barrow Minority Doctoral Student Scholarship.
The award is designed to aid doctoral students in journalism and mass communication programs to complete their dissertation research and academic studies. As per the award notification, Christina was selected due to her “strong demonstration of scholarly work, progress toward completing her dissertation, and potential to contribute further to the communication theory and methodology field.”
The award is co-sponsored by the Communication Theory and Methodology Division, the Newspaper and Online News Division, the Commission on the Status of Minorities, and the Mass Communication and Society Division.