Invisible Light Awards
Invisible Light Foundation Awards
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2025 International Communication Association Innovation Award in Mass Communication Method. (Book Award)
2024 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Current Events Award. (Book Award)
2024 International Studies Association Book Runner-up in International Communication Award. (Book Award)
2023-2024 Rock Ethics Institute Seed Funding Award for Children, Youth, and Media in International
and Global Conflict Zones Initiative, Pennsylvania State University (third-time recipient).
2023-2024 Rock Ethics Institute Seed Funding Award for Human Rights and Forced Migration Initiative,
Pennsylvania State University (second-time recipient).
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2023 National Communication Association Book of the Year Award in Ethics. (Book Award)
2023 International Communication Association Activism, Communication and Social Justice Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention Award. (Book Award)
2022-2023 Rock Ethics Institute Seed Funding Award for Children, Youth, and Media in International
and Global Conflict Zones Initiative, Pennsylvania State University. (third-time recipient). (Grant for Scholarly Centers and Institutes)
2022-2023 Rock Ethics Institute Seed Funding Award for Human Rights and Forced Migration Initiative,
Pennsylvania State University (second-time recipient). (Grant for Scholarly Initiatives, Centers and Institutes)
2022 National Communication Association Applied Communication Sue DeWine Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (Book Award)
2021-2022 Rock Ethics Institute Seed Funding Award for Children, Youth, and Media in International
and Global Conflict Zones Initiative, Pennsylvania State University (second-time recipient). (Grant for Scholarly Centers and Institutes)
2021-2022 Rock Ethics Institute Seed Funding Award for Human Rights and Forced Migration Initiative,
Pennsylvania State University (second-time recipient). (Grant for Scholarly Initiatives, Centers and Institutes)
2021 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication International Communication Division Third Place Teaching Award for “Teaching Empathy and World System Categories as Research Methodologies for Critical International Communication Research.” (Teaching Award)
2019-2022 Rock Ethics Institute Seed Funding Award for Children, Youth, and Media in International
and Global Conflict Zones Initiative (establishing the Children, Media and Conflict Zones Lab), Pennsylvania State University. (Grant for Scholarly Centers and Institutes)
2019-2021 Rock Ethics Institute Seed Funding Award for Human Rights and Forced Migration Initiative,
Pennsylvania State University. (Grant for Scholarly Initiatives, Centers and Institutes)
2019 Summer Faculty Funding (Dean’s Award), Bellisario College of Communications, Pennsylvania
State University. (Grant for Scholarship)
2018 Summer Faculty Funding (Dean’s Award), Bellisario College of Communications, Pennsylvania
State University. (Grant for Scholarship)
2018 Don Davis Endowment in Ethical Leadership Summer Faculty Research Funding Grant, College of
Communications, Pennsylvania State University. (Grant for Scholarship)
2018 Rock Ethics Institute Summer Field Research Support (Director’s Award; Precursor Award for
establishing Children, Youth and Media in International and Global Conflict Zones Initiative),
Pennsylvania State University. (Grant for Scholarly Centers and Institutes)
2016 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication International Communication Division Second Place Teaching Award for “Responding to a Diverse and Global World: Ethics of International Reporting” Teaching Module (Teaching Award)
2016 Don Davis Endowment in Ethical Leadership Summer Faculty Research Funding Grant (Dean’s
Award), College of Communications, Pennsylvania State University. (Grant for Scholarship)
2011 National Communication Association International and Intercultural Communication Division Distinguished Scholarship Award for the Dissertation. (Dissertation Award)
2011 Brandeis University Schusterman Center Summer Institute for Israel Studies Faculty Fellow. (Fellowship for Scholarship)
2011 International Communication Association Global Communication and Social Change Top Dissertation Award. (Dissertation Award)
2010 Central New York Peace Studies Consortium Peace Studies Dissertation of the Year Award (one award presented across all divisions). (Dissertation Award)
2008 Middle East Studies Association Top Student Paper Award (one award presented across all divisions). (Paper Award)
2005 African and African-American Studies Research Project Outstanding Graduate Research in African Studies Award, UCSD. (Paper/Publication Award)
2004-2005 Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) Palestinian Studies Fellowship. (Fellowship for Scholarship)
2003 International Communication Association International Communication Top Student Paper Award. (Paper Award)
1997-1998 John Gardner Fellow for Public Service, Stanford University and UC Berkeley. (Fellowship for Leadership)