Best Dissertation Award
Pratiksha Menon, University of Michigan
Dissertation “Laughter is the Best Poison: How Humor Mainstreams the Extreme.”
Top Faculty Paper
Winner
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“S” Certification and Sex-Education Films in India: Archiving Slippages Between State Narratives and Pirate Histories
Runner-up
Raiana de Carvalho, Furman University
João Ozawa, University of North Dakota
Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Populist Connective Memories: YouTube Users' Reactions to the Coverage of the January Insurrections in Brazil and the United States"
Minkyung Kim, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Victoria Fields, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ethan Morrow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Selective exclusion for inclusion: Disrupting and consolidating the framing of refugees on humanitarian organizations’ social media"
Top Student Paper
Winner
Luz Ruiz Martinez, University of Colorado Boulder
"Indigeneity on Record: Hearing race, gender and power in late 19th and early 20th Century North America"
Runner-up
Saraniya Tharmarajah, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg University
Co-authors:
Maria Lapinski, Michigan State University
Rohini Ganjoo, George Washington University
Manoj Parida, DCor (Development Corner)
Tanisha Luthria, Johns Hopkins University
Daryl Stephens, Johns Hopkins University
Rajiv Rimal, Johns Hopkins University
"Navigating Cultural Norms from Within: Challenges Community Members in Leadership Roles Face in Resolving Gender-Based Violence and Other Topics"
Mansa Narain, U of Texas at Austin
"Global Flows, Local Frames: Netflix’s Glocalization Strategy in the Indian Market"
African Journalism Paper Award Javie Ssozi, The University of Iowa
Brian Ekdale, The University of Iowa
Sang Jung Kim, The University of Iowa
"Counterfeit Journalism as Information Warfare: Analyzing a Russian Influence Campaign in Central African Republic"
