Deadline: 3 October 2016
Applications are invited for the AEJMC Emerging Scholars Grants program, offering research and teaching grants to up to four research or teaching proposals to encourage innovative and timely projects in journalism and mass communication. This is a project of the AEJMC Strategic Plan.
The AEJMC Emerging Scholars Program is designed to develop and nurture JMC teachers and researchers by fostering an intellectually stimulating environment. This program’s mission is to identify, encourage and recognize some of AEJMC’s most promising emerging scholars by providing funding for research or teaching projects.
Awards and Benefits
In addition to the $3,500 grant, AEJMC will also provide $500 for each selected proposal to assist with travel expenses to the Conference.
Eligibility Criteria
- The proposed topic should center on Journalism and Mass Communication and related disciplines. Topics in related disciplines should also include a central element within mass communication.
- Applicants must be current AEJMC members. Check your membership status before you submit your proposal. Proposals submitted by non-members or members whose memberships are not current will be eliminated from the competition.
- Only one proposal per person will be considered. (If you submit as part of a team, that is the only proposal you may submit.)
- The program will not provide support for dissertation research.
- Graduate or undergraduate students are not eligible for this program.
- The program is looking for proposals from junior faculty members teaching full-time who have not yet achieved tenure, who are likely at the assistant professor level. Media professionals who have recently transitioned to full-time work in the academy are also welcome to apply.
- Proposals for teaching projects must include a research component or be research-based. This research component must be specifically explained in the proposal.
How to Apply
All application material must be submitted via email.
For more information, please visit Emerging Scholars Grants.