Graduate students make strong showing at AEJMC Southeast Colloquium

Twenty of the school’s graduate students presented a total of 18 refereed papers at the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium March 8 – 10 in New Orleans.

Kirsten Beattie, a second year master’s student, won the Law Division's prize for best student paper. Master’s student Andrei Khrapavitski and doctoral students Hai Tran, Ying Du and Reaz Mahmood co-authored the winning student paper in the Open Division.

Other students presenting papers were:

Scott Dunn
Julia Vail
Julia Connors
Sarah Whitmarsh
Matt Moorlag
Jennifer Kowalewski
Josh Godwin (2)
Derigan Silver (2)
Jeff Soplop
Bart Wojdynski
Dean Smith
Kristin Simonetti
Peter Bobkowski
Rebecca Blatt
Erin Coyle

In addition, Rachel Mersey chaired the paper competition for the Magazine Division; and Godwin, Silver, Coyle and Bobkowski moderated sessions at the colloquium.

School faculty Cathy Packer, Frank Fee, Rhonda Gibson and Ruth Walden served as paper discussants.

The Southeast Regional Colloquium is the oldest and most successful regional journalism and mass communication meeting, giving hundreds of graduate students their first crack at presenting their scholarly research at an academic conference. It has allowed scores of professors and students to try out ideas and theories, many of which ultimately blossomed into articles, monographs and books.