University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Media Production, Management, and Technology (MPMT) Associate Professor Roxane Coche has been named department chair after serving as interim chair since May 2023.

During her tenure as interim chair, Coche led the process to receive approval for a new MPMT minor, started a new production immersion experience in The Agency, the College’s strategic communication firm, led curricula updates across all tracks, added five new members to the Advisory Council. She also helped develop three new sports-related study abroad programs in Munich, Frankfurt and Paris, and, in the fall, a semester-long immersion program in Paris, Madrid and Dublin.

During her tenure, MPMT enrollment increased 14%.

Coche joined the College in 2018 after three years at the University of Memphis. Her research has focused on sports media, international sports communication, and media pedagogy. She has authored or co-authored 25 peer-reviewed articles, 40 conference presentations and five book chapters. In 2019, she won a Rising Star Award from UF and the UFCJC Faculty Service Award for 2022-23. She also received the UFCJC Junior Faculty International Educator of the Year honor in 2020 and 2022.

She was named a 2022 Kopenhaver Center Fellow by the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University. Coche, who also served as associate director of the College’s Sports and Communication Program, collaborated with Eric Esterline, the Sports@CJC director, to create an online experience for students from UF and the University of Brighton in England. The project received second place in the 2022 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication International Communication Division Teaching Competition and received the “highly commended” designation for Innovation of the Year in the 2020 National Council for the Training of Journalists Awards for Excellence competition.

Coche won a BEA Research Grant in 2022 and the association’s New Faculty Research Grant in 2020. Her 2022 grant has been applied to her research project on evaluating the legacy of the 1924 Paris Summer Olympics, for which she also received a research grant from the Académie Nationale Olympique Française.

Posted: April 16, 2024
Category: College News
Tagged as: Eric Esterline, Kopenhaver Center Fellow, MPMT, Roxane Coche