Children, Adolescents and Media Senior Scholar Award

The Children, Adolescents, and Media (CAM) division is an intellectual forum for academics from all over the world who study the role of media in the lives of children and young people. The Senior Scholar Award recognizes an established scholar who has made significant contributions to the development and status of such scholarship. The successful nomination will have made clear, coherent, and sustained contributions to the advancement of Children, Adolescents, and Media scholarship over time. The Award is open to scholars from different backgrounds and disciplinary orientations and who are informed by a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches.

We allow self-nominations, as well as the nomination of others.

The Award is open to ICA members. Membership in the CAM division is encouraged but not required. Members of the Awards Committee may nominate, but nominees cannot serve on the Awards Committee.

All nominators must:

1.  Submit a letter of nomination, not to exceed two pages. The letter must: (a) specify the relevant body of work and contributions made; (b) demonstrate and argue for the influence and impact of the body of work on the field of Children, Adolescents, and Media (to that end, a brief statement addressing citation impact is suggested);

2.  Submit three (3) representative examples of the work cited;

3.  Include an up-to-date CV for the individual nominated;

4.  Have all materials submitted electronically to the Chair of the CAM division by February 15th.

DEADLINE

Nomination packages should be emailed to CAM Chair Amy Jordan (ajordan@asc.upenn.edu) no later than 15 February.