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Faculty Excellence Award 2021

The Communication Studies Graduate Forum has named Dr. Celeste Condit as the recipient of the 2021 Faculty Excellence Award. This award acknowledges the work that Dr. Condit has put into ensuring that graduate students have the necessary support to progress with their studies, as well as providing clarifiying information about the university response to this pandemic. Dr. Condit used her position as the incoming department head to facilitate…


Graduate Student Jerold L Hale 2021 Awardees

The Communication Studies department would like to congratulate Anastacia Janovec and Jessica Fabbricatore for their hard work and service to the department, recognizing both graduate students with the 2021 Jerold L. Hale award. Anastacia Janovec went above and beyond by providing encouragement, resources, mentorship and a strong example of perseverance to the graduate student body. Her work is especially notable amidst the constant transition…


CommDawg Elle Johnson Receives Dean's Award

Communication Studies PhD student Elle Johnson has been named as a recipient of a Graduate School Dean's Award for her dissertation project. Johnson's dissertation is entitled "Avoiding the Pandemic: Investigating Changes in Stress Following Supportive Conversations about COVID-19". This timely study will investigate how interpersonal support and problem-solving communications can help participants to cope with the chronic stress associated with…


CommDawg Wins CURO Top Paper Award

The UGA CURO Research Symposium recognizes excellence in papers developed from work presented at each year's symposium. The 2021 Top Paper award in Arts, Humanities and Media goes to Mary Beth Dicks for her paper entitled "Recurring Tragedy: Gun Violence and the Presidential Rhetoric of Eulogy". Mary Beth Dicks is a Communication Studies minor who graduated in December 2020, and her mentor for this project was Dr. Belinda Stillion Southard…


Lepp and Cerja Receive 2021 Debate Awards

The Georgia Debate Union competed in the District 6/SESEC Championships, where graduate students Nicholas Lepp and Cecilia Cerja both received awards recognizing their hard work and achievement with the UGA debate team. Nicholas Lepp was awarded the 2021 Matt Grindy Outstanding Graduate Student Coach award. Cecilia Cerja was named as the District 6 Graduate Student of the Year for 2021.  These annual awards are intended to…


Dr. Schaller Recieves John I. Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award

Each year the Southern States Communication Association awards a single professor with the John I. Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award, acknowledging the awardees dedication to their career in teaching communication. The 2021 awardee is UGA Department of Communication Studies' Dr. Kristi Schaller, a lecturer at UGA since 2005. In addition to her experience teaching a wide variety of courses for the department, Dr. Schaller is also…


Kesha James Receives Graduate Fellowship Award

Congratulations to Kesha James for being awarded the Jane Mulkey Green and Rufus King Green Graduate Fellowship in Arts and Humanities for 2020! The award is given each year to a graduate student in Classics, Drama, English, History, or Speech Communications, and selection is based on the individual's character, talent, and academic achievement. Kesha's research in Rhetorical Studies here at UGA is focused on studying the…


Congratulations Willson Center Graduate Research Award Recipients!

The department of Communication Studies is proud to recognize graduate students Nathan Rothenbaum and Alex Morales for being granted Graduate Research Awards by the Willson Center. The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts provides support toward research‐related expenses for arts and humanities projects that are essential components of a graduate degree program. Both Mr. Rothenbaum and Mr. Morales have designed impressive projects to…


Dr. Jiaying Liu Receives Career Award from National Institutes of Health

The National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health recently granted a Career Award (K01) to Dr. Jiaying Liu in the Department of Communication Studies. Career Awards are given to researchers to allow time for intensive development and training in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences. Dr. Liu will be using this five-year, near $1 million grant to gain additional training in functional magnetic resonance imaging…


Dr. Bjørn Stillion Southard Wins Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award

The National Communication Association (NCA) Public Address Division has given their 2020 award to Dr. Bjørn Stillion Southard, for his book,  Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement (University Press of Mississippi, 2019). Each year, the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award honors one of the most prominent leaders in public address research. The award criteria include the importance of the…
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