Barrow Minority Doctoral Student Scholarship
AEJMC’s Communication Theory and Methodology Division presented the Barrow Scholarship to Rowena Briones at its 2012 Conference in Chicago. The award honors the late Professor Lionel C. Barrow, Jr. of Howard University, in recognition of his pioneering efforts in support of minority education in journalism and mass communication. Briones was chosen from a field of highly qualified candidates on the basis of her capacity for and record of making significant contributions to communication theory and methodology.
Rowena Briones (M.A., University of Maryland; B.A. The College of New Jersey) is a doctoral student and graduate assistant in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. Her research agenda explores how social media and technology impact public relations and health communication in terms of campaign development and relationship building. Her dissertation research in particular focuses on evaluating the online components of a public information campaign to build toward a model of health information seeking and management.
The award in the amount of $1,400 is sponsored by the CT&M Division and is made possible in part through contributions from the Minorities and Communication Division, the Commission on the Status of Minorities and personal donations, as well as royalties from Guido H. Stempel III, David Weaver and Cleveland Wilhoit’s Mass Communication Research and Theory. It is designed to aid doctoral students in journalism or mass communication programs to complete their dissertation research.
Past winners:
2011 Adrienne Chung, Ohio State
2010 Eulàlia Puig Abril, Wisconsin-Madison
2009 Emily Elizabeth Acosta, Wisconsin-Madison
2008 Troy Elias, Ohio State
2007 Yusur Kalynago, Jr., Missouri
2006 Omotayo Banjo, Pennsylvania State
2005 Jeanetta Simms, Central Oklahoma
2004 Susan Chang, Michigan State
2003 T. Keith Gaither, North Carolina
2002 Mia Moody-Hall, Texas at Austin
2001 George Daniels, Georgia
2000 Maria E. Len-Rios, Missouri
1999 Meredith Lee Ballmer, Washington
1998 Osei Appiah, need affiliation
1997 Alice Chan Plummer, Michigan State
1996 Dwayne Proctor, Connecticut
1995 Dhavan Shah, Minnesota
1994 Qingnen Dong, Washington State
1993 Shalini Venturelli, Colorado
1991 Diana Rios, Texas at Austin
1990 Jose Lozano
1989 Jane Rhodes, North Carolina
1987 James Sumner Lee, North Carolina
1985 Barbara McBain Brown, Stanford
1983 Dianne L. Cherry, North Carolina
1982 Tony Atwater, Michigan State
1981 Sharon Bramlett, Indiana
1980 Federico Subervi, Wisconsin-Madison
1979 Gillian Grannum, North Carolina
1978 Paula Poindexter, Syracuse
1977 John J. Johnson, Ohio
1975 Norman W. Spaulding, Illinois
1974 Rita Fujiki, Washington
1973 William E. Berry, Illinois
Clay Perry, Indiana
Sherrie Lee Mazingo, Michigan State
1972 Richard Allen, Wisconsin-Madison (first)
