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Alex Morales Awarded 2020 Jerold L. Hale Award

The Communication Studies department is proud to recognize Alex Morales for his hard work and service to the department with the Jerold L. Hale Award. Dr. Hale served as the 5th head of the Communication Department and has exemplified the value of service to the discipline and to the universities where he has served.  The Department created the award in his honor in 2009.  Alex went above and beyond during the recruitment of…


Grant Award: Jiyeon So

Dr. Jiyeon So and her collaborators in the Department of Geography, Dr. Andrew Grundstein (lead PI) and Castle Williams, recently received a research grant from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; $178,203).  The project is entitled “Implications of inconsistent visual displays on end user uncertainty, risk perception, and behavioral intentions” and will examine the effects of inconsistent information about severe weather…
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Harris to Receive Diversity Leadership Award

The Department of Communication Studies extends its congratulations to Dr. Tina M. Harris, who has been named the faculty recipient of UGA’s 2017-2018 Excellence in Diversity Leadership Award. The Excellence in Diversity Leadership Awards are given annually by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Office of Inclusion and Diversity Leadership to one Franklin faculty member and one member of the Franklin staff in recognition of their efforts…


Steiner Receives Coaching Award

On February 18, 2018, at the District 6 Southeast Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) Regional Championship at the University of West Georgia, graduate student Becca Steiner was awarded The 2018 Matt Grindy Outstanding Graduate Student Coach. This annual award is intended to recognize both the pedagogical and competitive contributions to the growth and development of policy debate by graduate student coaches, who are…

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So Recipient of M.G. Michael Award

Dr. Jiyeon So, assistant professor of Communication Studies, is a recipient of this year’s M.G. Michael Award. The M.G. Michael Award was established in 1944 to reward research excellence and encourage creative initiatives in the University of Georgia's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. The award comes with $3,000 research support and will be honored in a recognition ceremony later this year.

E. Michelle Ramsey, former doctoral student and recipient of the OSCLG's 2017 Feminist Teacher-Mentor Award. Photo credit: Theo Anderson, Penn State University
PhD Graduate Receives Mentoring Award

E. Michele Ramsey, a graduate of the Department of Communication Studies's doctoral program and former advisee of Dr. Bonnie Dow, has received the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender's (OSCLG) 2017 Feminist Teacher-Mentor Award. In a Penn State press release announcing the award, Ramsey, Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women's Studies at Penn State Berks, credits her own…


Doctoral Graduate to Receive Prestigious Woolbert Award

Raka Shome, a former doctoral student in Rhetorical Studies, has been awarded the prestigious Charles Woolbert Award from the National Communication Association for her work in postcolonial communication and media studies, and particularly for the essay she co-authored (as lead author) with Radha Hegde: "Postcolonial Approaches to Communication: Charting the terrain, engaging the intersections" (in 2002). Hegde will also receive the…

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2017 Communication Department Awards and Recognitions

This year’s Olive M. Cone Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to Devin Sinclair.  Devin is one of our most talented and hardest working students.  Not only will she graduate Magna Cum Laude in December, she is a Zell Miller Scholarship winner, a Presidential Scholar, and on the Dean’s List.    Devin puts her communication studies knowledge to work every day.  She has tutors for the Athletic Association, will ring you…

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Dr. Tina Harris Recognized with 2017 Engaged Scholar Award

Dr. Tina Harris, a professor in the communication studies department in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is this year’s recipient of the Engaged Scholar Award. This annual award recognizes a full-time, tenured faculty member for significant contributions in public service, outreach and community engagement. This honor recognizes Dr. Harris’s significant engaged scholarship endeavors such as: engaged research and scholarship that is…


Doctoral Student Lee Pierce Wins Prestigious Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the National Communication Association

Lee Pierce, former doctoral student and lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia, recently received the National Communication Association’s 2016 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Given annually, the award recognizes new Communication scholars who completed outstanding dissertations during the previous academic year. Pierce was recognized for her dissertation, “Syntaxing the Nation…
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