Faculty and Staff

J-school Accolades

We want to recognize the hard work and accomplishments of our faculty and staff during the 2024-2025 academic year. Watch as the listings on this page increase.

Awards

faculty holding award — The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication awarded the SJMC an honorable mention for the 2024 Equity and Diversity Award. The school was honored for efforts over the past three years that demonstrated a firm commitment to and progress toward becoming a leader in equity, diversity and inclusive excellence in teaching, research, service, and focusing on improving faculty, staff, and student composition.

Shannon Bowen, Marlene Neill and Denise Bortree were awarded the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication Top Ethics in PR Pedagogy Award. This award is a distinguished honor given annually to one exemplary paper in the field of ethics in public relations pedagogy. It recognizes groundbreaking research that significantly contributes to the understanding and teaching of ethics and responsibility in public communication.

Funded Research and Grants

Sabrina Habib and Jeff Williams are Co-PIs on a $500,000 project from the U.S. Department of Justice, “Microtrainings on Critical Policing Issues: Creating and evaluating accessible, digestible trainings based on the Excellence in Policing and Public Safety (EPPS) Masters in Public Safety Leadership.” They will be working with colleagues from the Excellence in Policing and Public Safety Program at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law.

Feili Tu-Keefner (PI), and Brett Robertson (Co-PI) - Project Library PREPARE: Planning, Response, Emergency Preparedness, and Resilience Education - $249,721

USC Propel Programs

Anli Xiao and Haley Hatfield were accepted into the USC Propel Research Mentorship Program. This one-year training program is designed to prepare faculty for securing federal grants. The application process is highly competitive, and acceptance into this program signifies the university’s recognition of exceptional research capabilities.

Sabrina Habib and Linwan Wu were accepted in the Propel AI Program which is offered by the USC vice president's office. They will represent the CIC in this one-year campus-wide discussion on AI-related research.

Mary Anne Fitzpatrick was awarded the National Communication Association's prestigious Charles H. Woolbert Research Award for her 2002 article, “Toward a Theory of Family Communication,” published in Communication Theory.

The article emerged as the top candidate owing to the endurance of family communication pattern theory, the generative impact of the theory on the field of family communication, and the far-reaching impact of the theory across several subfields of the discipline.

College of Information and Communications

J-school Accolades