Communications Faculty Members Receive Faculty Research and Development Funds

Two faculty members were granted one-semester sabbaticals, eight received summer fellowships, three received FR&D summer funding and/or Hultquist stipends, and three other faculty members (plus one summer fellowship recipient) were granted course releases for scholarship.

The following faculty members were awarded FR&D funds:
 

One-semester sabbaticals in 2010-11:

• Anthony Hatcher (associate professor) for a book project titled “Your God, My God, iGod: Religious Community in the Information Age”
• Byung Lee (associate professor) for a research project titled “People’s Attitudes Toward Movie Piracy”
   

Summer fellowships:

• Brooke Barnett (associate professor) for a book project titled “Digital Media Production: Visual Theory and Practice in an Interactive World”
• David Copeland (professor) for a book-chapter project for the “Oxford Handbook of Religion and the News”
• Vic Costello (associate professor) for a book project titled “Multimedia: Core Principles and Skills for Digital Media Production”
• Michelle Ferrier (associate professor) for a pedagogical project titled “Digital Media Entrepreneurship Course and Incubator”
• Kenn Gaither (assistant professor) for a book project titled “Public Relations and Globalization: Issues and Cases”
• Harlen Makemson (associate professor) for a research project titled “Marjorie Hunter: Pioneer for Women in the Newsroom”
• George Padgett (associate professor) for a new edition of his book titled “New Directions in Diversity”
• Glenn Scott (assistant professor) for a research/book project titled “Redefining Journalism in a Digital Era”
   

Summer funding and/or Hultquist stipends:

• Naeemah Clark (assistant professor) for a research project titled “Seeing Michelle: An Analysis of the Photos of Michelle Obama in Essence Magazine”
• Dan Haygood (assistant professor) for a book project titled “History of the Broadcasting and Sponsoring of ACC Basketball Games”
• Phillip Motley (assistant professor) for an art project titled “Creative Development of Visual Images”
   

Course releases for scholarship:

•  Janna Anderson (associate professor) for a fourth book project in the “Future of the Internet” series
• Barbara Miller (assistant professor) for a research project titled “The Values Basis of Public Response to Marketplace Advocacy and Effects on Environmental Attitudes”
• Glenn Scott (assistant professor) for a book project titled “Redefining Journalism in a Digital Era”
• Frances Ward-Johnson (associate professor) for a book project titled “Icons of African American Politics”