Faculty Recognition Archive
USC Annenberg’s esteemed faculty include award-winning leaders in the fields of communication, journalism, public relations and public diplomacy.
2020-21 Faculty Recognition
Miki Turner
Assistant Professor of Professional Practice of Journalism
Winner of a 2021 USC Mentoring Award for her work with undergraduate students.
Amara Aguilar
Associate Professor of Professional Practice
Winner of a 2021 USC Mentoring Award for her work with undergraduate students.
Peter Monge
Professor Emeritus of Communication
Received the Fellows Book Award from the International Communication Association, awarded each year to recognize distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication, for his book Theories of Communication Networks.
Allissa Richardson
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication
Received the Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones & the New Protest #Journalism.
2019–20 Faculty Recognition
Mike Ananny
Associate Professor
Named Faculty Fellow in USC’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities and awarded the 2020 USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Faculty, Postdoctoral Scholars, Medical Residents, and Fellows.
Laura Castañeda
Professor of Professional Practice
2019 recipient of the Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship, awarded by the American Society of News Editors to recognize outstanding efforts to encourage students of color in the field of journalism.
Janet Fulk
Professor Emerita
Best publication of the Year award in Organizational Communication and Information Systems for her article titled “The Value of Questions in Organizing: Reconceptualizing Contributions to Online Public Information Goods.”
Peter Monge
Professor Emerita
Best publication of the Year award in Organizational Communication and Information Systems for his article titled “The Value of Questions in Organizing: Reconceptualizing Contributions to Online Public Information Goods.”
Channing Joseph
Lecturer
Awarded the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for his book, House of Swann: Where Slaves Became Queens.
Henry Jenkins
Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education
Awarded the 2020 USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students.
Dmitri Williams
Associate Professor of Communication
Awarded the 2020 USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students.
Michael Wissot
Adjunct Lecturer
Awarded the 2020 USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Students.
Joe Saltzman
Professor of Journalism and Communication
Winner, AEJMC Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History
2018 – 19 Award-Winning Faculty
Laura Castañeda
Professor of Professional Practice
Journalism Fellow, Gerontological Society of America
Hernan Galperin
Research Associate Professor
Invited to join the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Information and Entertainment for the 2018 – 2019 term
Robert Hernandez
Associate Professor of Professional Practice
Appointed to the Board of Directors as Academic At-Large Officer, National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Eunjin “Anna” Kim
Assistant Professor of Journalism
Awarded the Mary Alice Shaver Promising Professor Award at the 2019 American Academy of Advertising conference
Mike Ananny
Associate Professor
Named 2018-19 Berggruen Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; Joined the editorial advisory board for Oxford University’s series, “Journalism and Political Communication Unbound.”
2017 – 18 Award-Winning Faculty
Amara Aguilar
Associate Professor of Professional Practice
Tow-Knight Disruptive Education Fellow
EducationShift20, EducationShift
Mike Ananny
Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism
Fellow, Columbia University Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Manuel Castells
University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society
Doctorate of Letters (Honoris Causa), University of Cambridge
Peter Clarke
Professor of Communication
Applied Research Award, International Communication Association
Jeff C. Fellenzer
Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Faculty Advisor, USC Sports Business Association
Advisor of the Year, Office of Undergraduate Advising and Student Affairs, USC Marshall School of Business
Henry Jenkins
Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education
Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Social Science, Upsalla University
Philip Seib
Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy
International Communication Book Award, International Studies Association
Stacy Smith
Associate Professor; Founder and Director, Annenberg Inclusion Initiative
Honored as a leader of the gender parity movement, Women in Film gala segment “45 Years of Advocacy Celebration”; Trailblazer Award from Women and Hollywood
Roberto Suro
Professor of Journalism
Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Undergraduate Students, University of Southern California
Dmitri Williams
Associate Professor of Communication
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