Celeste Wagner, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism assistant professor, is the recipient of a 2023 National Communications Association (NCA) Gerald R. Miller Doctoral Dissertation Award and the NCA Political Communications Division Lynda Lee Kaid Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Wagner defended her doctoral dissertation, “Responding to Media Coverage of Gender-Based Violence in Argentina and the United States: A Mixed Methods Study of the Intersecting Roles of Gender, Class, and Racialized Ethnicity Among General and Activist Publics,” at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in July 2022. In it, she combines analyses of audience reception and media effects in a comparative account of how contemporary coverage of gender-based violence in Argentina and the U.S., and its reception, inhibit or promote social change.

The Gerald R. Miller Dissertation Awards program was created in 1970 to recognize new scholars who have recently completed their dissertation. Up to three awards may be given in any year. The Lynda Lee Kaid Award is named for the former UFCJC Telecommunication and UF Research Foundation professor and honors a dissertation successfully defended in the two years prior to the award.

The award will be presented at the NCA 109^th Annual Convention on Nov. 18 at National Harbor in Maryland.

Earlier this year, Wagner received a prestigious 2023 Global Communication and Social Change Division Best Dissertation Award from the International Communication Association .

Posted: September 29, 2023
Category: College News
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