Activism and Social Justice Division Summer Newsletter
The Activism and Social Justice Division promotes scholarship (research and teaching) that explores relationships among communication, activism, and social justice. Activism and social justice scholarship ranges from explorations of researcher-activists and teacher-activists employing their communication resources (e.g., theories, methods, pedagogies, and other practices) in collaboration with community members whose lives are affected by oppression, domination, discrimination, and other sociopolitical struggles due to differences in race, gender, class, sexual orientation, age, ability, religion, and other identity markers, and/or with justice-oriented groups, organizations, and social movements to intervene into and reconstruct unjust discourses in more just ways, to analyses of communication enacted by activist individuals, groups, and/or organizations to promote social justice. The division welcomes conceptual, theoretical, methodological, empirical, and exploratory/experimental work about, and encourages dialogue, discussion, debate, and performance of, communication, activism, and social justice.
2024 Interest Group Leadership
- Chair: Jasmine Austin, Texas State University
- Vice Chair: Shannon B. Campbell, Appalachian State University
- Vice Chair-Elect: Leandra Hernandez, The University of Utah
- Immediate Past Chair: Amy Aldridge Sanford, Middle Tennessee State University
- Secretary: Katie Webber, University of Connecticut
Graduate Student Committee Purpose and Leadership
The purpose of the ASJD Graduate Student Committee (GSC) is to serve as a collaborative network for graduate students; to support grad students in advocacy for social justice through teaching, research, and service; and to facilitate connections between grad students and practitioners in their associated fields of study as well as between grad students and faculty within the Division.
- Chair: Jonathan Espinoza, University of Texas-Austin
- Vice Chair: Zane Austin Willard, University of South Florida
- Communication Coordinator: Abigail N Burns, Independent Scholar
2024 NCA Positions
- Legislative Assembly
- Amy Aldridge Sanford, Middle Tennessee State University
- Jasmine Austin, Texas State University
- Leandra Hernandez, The University of Utah
- NCA Nominating Committee
- Amy Aldridge Sanford, Middle Tennessee State University
ASJD Membership (2016-2024)
*Official membership count is taken every January.
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