[Air-L] Call for ICA FSD Awards 2022 - including BRANDNEW award for emerging scholars

[K Eckert]

Dear Everyone

Please spread the word about the 2022 awards of the Feminist Scholarship Division (FSD) of the International Communication Association (ICA).

It contains its long-standing Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship as well as a BRANDNEW award for emerging scholars, the Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship, to be given out the first time in Paris in May 2022.

Below is the call and at the bottom also a link to the text.

Kind Regards

Stine Eckert

2022 Feminist Scholarship Division Awards

The Feminist Scholarship Division of International Communication Association announces calls for two awards:

  *   Teresa Award for the Advancement in Feminist Scholarship

  *   Helen Award for Emergent Feminist Scholarship

Teresa Award: Call for Nominations and Selection Committee

The Feminist Scholarship Division of International Communication Association seeks:

(1) nominees for the Teresa Awardfor the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship,

(2) volunteers willing to serve on the Teresa Award Selection Committee to help choose among the nominees.

The Teresa Award

The annual Teresa Awardfor the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship recognizes a senior feminist scholar who made a significant contribution to scholarship in communication and media studies. The awardee will receive $1000 and a plaque. The Division will hold a reception to celebrate the award during the 2022 International Communication Association conference in Paris, France.

Selection committee members

Those wishing to serve on the committee should hold a doctoral degree and have a depth of familiarity with feminist communication scholarship. Service on the committee requires a commitment of time in February after the nominations are in. Please indicate your interest in serving on the Teresa Award Committee by sending an email to the co-chairs of the Teresa Award Committee, Natalia Rybas (natrybas at gmail.com) and Elizabeth Toth (eltoth at umd.edu)

Award nominations

The nominating materials should be submitted to the co-chairs no later than February 1, 2022. Those interested in nominating self or another feminist scholar for the award should inform co-chairs of the Teresa Award Committee about their intent.


The Teresa Award recognizes work from established feminist scholars who have made significant contributions to the development, reach and influence of feminist scholarship in communication and/or media studies. While the Teresa Award Committee favors research that consists of multiple projects and publications that have made a clear, coherent and sustained contribution to the advancement of feminist scholarship over time, single works and/or activities which have been highly influential in the field of feminist communication scholarship may also qualify someone for nomination. The strongest nominees for this award will have accomplished one or more of the following:

(1) opened up new theoretical and/or methodological territory in feminist research;

(2) made other important contributions to the advancement of feminist scholarship; and

(3) engaged in feminist activism within academia that advanced feminist scholarship


Any scholar who has made significant contributions to shaping the field of feminist communication and media studies may be nominated. They do not have be a member of Feminist Scholarship Division.We encourage self-nominations as well as the nomination by others. Members of the Teresa Award Committee may not submit nominees for consideration.


Nominations should include the following:

(1) One letter of nomination, written in 12-point font and not exceeding two pages. Letters must: (a) provide full name and affiliation of the person being nominated, (b) specify the relevant body of work and/or other contributions made; (c) address the work’s and/or activity’s contributions to feminist scholarship (in the case of research, this will involve theoretical and methodological assessments); and (d) make a case for its influence and impact on the advancement of feminist scholarship.

(2) Current CV of the scholar being nominated.

(3) Three representative examples of the work cited, where appropriate. If the example is book length, only the title page, copyright page, table of contents, and one chapter should be sent for that work.

Nomination packets should be submitted electronically to the co-chairs of the Teresa Award Committee, Natalia Rybas and Elizabeth Toth at natrybas at gmail.comandeltoth@umd.eduby February 1, 2022.


The Teresa Award was established in 2007 through an endowed fund created by Dr. Yoo Jae Song of Ewha Women’s University in Korea to honor her mother, Dr. Teresa Kyuguen Cho, a Korean American and a pediatrician, who passed away in Philadelphia in 2006 at the age of 83.


We accept nominations from scholars who publish in languages other than English. However, there are certain issues that the nominators must be aware of: accessibility of the materials to the group who use English as the language of operation, and fairness to all nominees who either publish or do not publish in English. We recommend that the nominators primarily follow the instructions in the award call. The nomination letter and the CV should be in English. To facilitate accessibility, we ask the nominator to provide at least 1-2-page abstracts in English for the work published in other languages and to identify 2-3 bilingual scholars who might be asked to participate in the deliberation process. If the nominators consider it appropriate, a publication in English can be included among the three required for the nomination.

Helen Award: Call for (Self)-Nominations

The Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association seeks nominees for the Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship.

The Helen Award

The Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship is an annual award for an emerging feminist scholar in communication and/or media studies. The aim of the award is to recognize and support those whose early research and leadership demonstrate strong contributions to date and significant promise for future development in feminist communication and/or media studies.



The award winner will receive a certificate and a stipend of $300. The award will be presented to the awardee during the 2022 International Communication Association conference in Paris, France.

Award Nominations

The Helen Award recognizes work from emerging feminist scholars whose scholarship will have demonstrated substantive efforts to shape feminist scholarship in terms of theory, methodology, and/or pursuit of inquiry that help address the role of communication and media in the gendered power dynamics at institutional (including within media/journalism institutions), societal, and/or global levels. The winner will be a productive early- to mid-career scholar who has received a Ph.D. (or other terminal degree) within 10 years prior to the nomination. The winner’s body of work is expected to demonstrate a sustained commitment to feminist scholarship.



While the committee for the Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship favors nominees who have produced multiple projects and publications that show clear, coherent, and sustained potential for significant contributions to feminist scholarship over time, single works and/or activities that have had a demonstrable impact on feminist communication and media scholarship may also qualify. Nominees should have have engaged with the Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association.



We encourage self-nominations as well as nomination by others. Members of the Helen Award Committee may not submit nominees for consideration.



Requirements for a (self-)nomination

(1) One letter of nomination, not to exceed two pages, in English. Letter must:

(a) provide the full name and affiliation of the person being nominated;

(b) address the works and/or activities that demonstrate the nominee’s strides toward significant contributions in feminist research (in the case of research, this will involve theoretical and methodological assessments); and

(c) make a case for its demonstrable potential for or impact on feminist communication and media scholarship.

(2) Current CV of the nominee, in English.

(3) Three representative examples of the work cited, where appropriate. If the example is book length, only the title page, copyright page, table of contents, and one chapter should be sent for that work.

(4) Note on language: We accept nominations from scholars who publish in languages other than English. However, nominators must be aware of certain issues, including the following two: accessibility of the materials to the group who use English as the language of operation and fairness to all nominees who either publish or do not publish in English. We recommend that the nominators primarily follow the instructions in the award call. The nomination letter and the CV should be in English. To facilitate accessibility, we ask the nominator to provide at least 1-2-page abstracts in English for the work published in other languages and to identify 2-3 bilingual scholars who might be asked to participate in the deliberation process. If the nominators consider it appropriate, a publication in English can be included among the three required for the nomination.

Due date

Nomination packets should be submitted electronically in a single PDFto the chair of the Helen Award Committee, Stine Eckert at stine.eckert at wayne.eduby February 1, 2022.



The Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship was established in 2020. The first award will be given in 2022. Dr. Linda Steiner made a significant contribution to establish this award, which is named for her mother, Helen Steiner. Born in Prague in 1927, Helen came to the US with her family in 1939. Having earned a BA from Vassar College and an MS from SUNY-Albany, she taught elementary school for several decades, in Idaho Falls and in upstate New York. She is famous for her interest in politics, witty sense of humor, loyalty to her friends and community, and her volunteer work and philanthropy.

You can also find the call here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z60sQiBFzFbiT_PRvdoFo06e_kEnTR-frN-F7tzb1JM/edit#

Please spread the word to anyone interested.




Stine Eckert, Ph.D. (she/her)

Associate Professor

Department of Communication

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI 48201


@stineeckert

http://stineeckert.com/

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