Professor, Ph.D. student awarded $10k grant to study sexual health risk and media

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media doctoral student Elise Stevens and associate professor Francesca Dillman Carpentier received a $10,000 grant from the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

The grant, which was given by the AEJMC Mass Communication and Society Division at its annual conference in Montréal in August, will help support a series of studies involving sexual health risk and media depictions of sex and romance.

The Mass Communication and Society Division’s research grant awards outstanding research proposals focused on some aspect of mass communication research.

Previous UNC winners of the grant include Dan Riffe, Richard Cole Eminent Professor, and doctoral alumnus Brendan Watson, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.

Pictured: Elise Stevens, left, and Francesca Dillman Carpentier.