AEJMC Membership Committee Members

Serving the AEJMC Membership Committee
for the 2024 – 2025 term

Committee Member TBA (Term 2024-2027)

Committee Member TBA (Term 2024-2027)

Committee Member TBA (Term 2024-2027)

Committee Member TBA (Term 2024-2027)

Valerie White (Term 2023-2026)
Florida A&M University

Keonte Coleman (Term 2023-2026)
Syracuse University

Jennifer Vardeman (Term 2023-2026)
University of Houston

Seungahn Nah (Term 2022-2025)
University of Florida

Shafiqur Rahman (Term 2022-2025)
South Carolina State University

Prabu David (Term 2022-2025)
Michigan State University

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AEJMC/Gene Burd Award Committee

Serving the AEJMC/Gene Burd Award Committee
for the 2024 – 2025 term

Dani Brown (Term: 2024-2027)
Michigan State University

Susan Keith (Term: 2023-2026)
Rutgers University

Rauf Arif (Term: 2022-2025)
Towson University

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AEJMC Finance Committee Members

Serving the AEJMC Finance Committee
for the 2024 – 2025 term

Bey-Ling Sha (Chair) (Term: 2023-2027)
California State University, Fullerton

Mia Moody-Ramirez (Term: 2024 – 2028)
Baylor University

Samuel Tham (Term: 2024 – 2027)
Colorado State

Carl Ciccarelli (Term: 2023 – 2026)
University of South Carolina Aiken

Teresa Mastin (Term: 2022 – 2026)
Michigan State University

Linda Aldoory (Term: 2021 – 2025)
University of Maryland

Maria Marron (Term: 2022 – 2025)
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Amanda Caldwell (Ex Officio Member)
AEJMC Executive Director

Felicia Brown (Ex Officio Member)
AEJMC Assistant Director

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AEJMC Research Committee Members

Serving the AEJMC Standing Committee on Research
for the 2024 – 2025 term

Yong Volz (Chair) (Term: 2022-2025)
University of Missouri

Lucinda Austin (Term: 2024-2027)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon
(Term: 2024-2027)
University of Minnesota

Patrick Ferrucci
(Term: 2024-2027)
University of Colorado Boulder

Jessica Willoughby
(Term: 2024-2027)
Washington State University

Deborah Chung
(Term: 2023-2026)
University of Kentucky

Melita Garza (Term: 2023-2026)
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Amber Roessner (Term: 2023-2026)
University of Tennessee

Denis Wu (Term: 2023-2026)
Boston University

Summer Harlow (Term: 2022-2025)
Texas A&M University/University of Texas at Austin

Jasmine McNealy (Term: 2022-2025)
University of Florida

Radhika Parameswaran (Term: 2022-2025)
Indiana University

Elected Standing Committees

AEJMC Publications Committee Members

Serving the AEJMC Publications Committee
for the 2024 – 2025 term

Teri Finneman (Chair) (Term: 2023-2026)
University of Kansas

Stephanie Craft (Term: 2024-2027)
University of Illinois

Keren Henderson (Term: 2024-2027)
Syracuse University

Alyssa Appelman (Term: 2024-2027)
University of Kansas

Uche Onyebadi (Term: 2023-2026)
Texas Christian University

Hyejoon Rim (Term: 2023-2026)
University of Minnesota

Maria DeMoya (Term: 2022-2025)
DePaul University

Chelsea Reynolds (Term: 2022-2025)
Arizona State University

Sun Young Lee (Term: 2022-2025)
University of Maryland

Elected Standing Committees

AEJMC Nominations and Elections Committee Members

Serving the AEJMC Nominations and Elections Committee
for the 2024 – 2025 term

Dorothy Bland (Chair) (Term: 2022-2025)
University of North Texas

Chuqing Dong (Term: 2024-2027)
Michigan State University

Yeuseung Kim (Term: 2024-2027)
Chung-Ang University

Damion Waymer (Term: 2024-2027)
University of South Carolina

Derigan Silver (Term: 2023-2026)
University of Denver

Ryan J. Thomas (Term: 2022-2025)
Washington State University

Suman Mishra (Term: 2022-2025)
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

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AEJMC Committee on Career Development

Serving the AEJMC Committee on Career Development
for the 2024 – 2025 term

Committee Member TBA (Term: 2024-2027)

Committee Member TBA (Term: 2024-2027)

Committee Member TBA (Term: 2024-2027)

Kristen Eddy (Term: 2024-2026)
Pew Research Center

HongMei Shen (Term: 2023-2026)
San Diego State University

Weiwu Zhang (Term: 2023-2026)
Ball State University

Kelly Kaufhold (Term: 2022-2025)
Texas State University

Sabine Baumann (Term: 2021-2025)
Professor of Digital Business at the HWR Berlin

Steve Bien-Aimé (Term: 2021-2025)
University of Kansas

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About the AEJMC Committee on Career Development

The AEJMC Committee on Career Development works to:

  • Implement plans for institutionalizing career service sessions at AEJMC conferences
  • Foster coordination among AEJMC groups that conduct career development sessions
  • Hold its own unique recurring career development events related to careers and
  • Support AEJMC initiatives to aid underrepresented groups in journalism and mass communication education.

The appointed committee consists of at least a chair plus eight members, approved by the AEJMC President.

Members meet over the course of the year to work on committee activities.

AEJMC Committee on Teaching Members

Serving the AEJMC Committee on Teaching
for the 2024 – 2025 term

Tiffany Gallicano (Chair) (Term: 2022-2025)
University of North Carolina Charlotte

Laura K. Smith (Term: 2024-2027)
University of South Carolina

Mas Biswas (Term: 2024-2027)
Loyola University Maryland

Jeremy Littau (Term: 2024-2027)
Lehigh University

Hazel Cole (Term: 2024-2027)
University of West Georgia

Nandini Bhalla (Term: 2023-2026)
Texas State University

Lisa Burns (Term: 2023-2026)
Quinnipiac University

Theresa de los Santos (Term: 2023-2026)
Pepperdine University

Gabriel Tait (Term: 2023-2026)
Ball State University

Tracy Everbach (Term: 2022-2025)
University of North Texas

Chris Roberts (Term: 2022-2025)
The University of Alabama

Amanda Weed (Term: 2022-2025)
Kennesaw State University

Elected Standing Committees

ACEJMC Representatives

Serving the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (ACEJMC)
for the 2024 – 2025 term

Dorothy Bland
(Term: 2024-2027)
University of North Texas

Christopher McCollough (Term: 2024-2027)
Jacksonville State University

Jessica Pucci (Term: 2023-2026)
Arizona State University

Suzanne Horsley (Term: 2022-2025)
University of Alabama

Elected Standing Committees

AEJMC Professional Freedom and Responsibility Committee Members

Serving the AEJMC Professional Freedom and Responsibility Committee
for the 2024 – 2025 term

George L. Daniels (Chair) (Term: 2022-2025)
University of Alabama

Celeste González de Bustamante (Term: 2024-2027)
University of Texas at Austin

Holly Overton (Term: 2024-2027)
Pennsylvania State University

Mimi Perreault (Term: 2024-2027)
University of South Florida

Ingrid Sturgis (Term: 2024-2027)
Howard University

Genelle Belmas (Chair) (Term: 2023-2026)
University of Kansas

Steve BienAime (Term: 2023-2026)
University of Northern Kentucky

Pallavi Guha (Term: 2023-2026)
Towson University

Meg Heckman (Term: 2023-2026)
Northeastern University

Sabine Baumann (Term: 2022-2025)
Jade University, Germany

Colleen Connolly-Ahern (Term: 2022-2025)
Penn State University

Katie Place (Term: 2022-2025)
Quinnipiac University

Elected Standing Committees