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Updates & Announcements from the Organization for Research on Women and Communication

Michelle A. Holling, California State San Marcos

 

Greetings fellow fem’s! On behalf of ORWAC and its Executive Officers, who are Bernadette Calafell, Ph.D. (VP), Valerie Renegar, Ph.D. (Treasurer), Stacey Sowards, Ph.D. (Institutional Membership Coordinator), Brenda Allen, Ph.D. (Webspinner), and Cindy Griffin, Ph.D. (Editor, WSIC), we appreciate the opportunity to continue publishing in Women’s Voices.  I have a few announcements and calls to share with members of the Women’s Caucus (WC) and Feminist & Women’s Studies Division (FWSD) of NCA. 

 

At WSCA 2008, we implemented the first annual ORWAC Research Development Grant. Two categories were available—one for graduate students and another for lecturers, tenure/track faculty—each of which offered $1,000 in support for research or creative projects that advance understandings about the intersectionality and complexity defining women’s lives. ORWAC’s Executive Officers reviewed outstanding applications that reflect the stellar scholarship underway by new as well as more established scholars.

 

Following deliberation on the submitted applications, two scholars have been awarded the 2008 ORWAC Research Development Grant: Dr. Susan Szmania for her project “Social Support Networks Among Iraqi Refugee Women Living in Sweden” and Megan Parker for her project “From the Front Porch to the Platform: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement.”  Congratulations! Beginning in February 2009 we will announce calls for the second cycle of grants.

 

Over the next couple of months ORWAC seeks to fill two positions—the Vice President and WSIC Editor. Self-nominations are encouraged for both positions. In brief, the Vice President will serve during the 2009-2010 year, then becoming President for the subsequent two years. A few of the VP’s duties include: preparing the ORWAC newsletter, serving as reviewer, taking minutes at the business meeting and attending pre-conference planning sessions for ORWAC-WSCA. Serving as Vice-President, and later President, is important to maintaining the vitality of the organization. As well, there are opportunities to implement desired or needed initiatives that advance the interests and mission of ORWAC. I invite members of the WC and/or FWSD of NCA to consider applying. For additional information of the VP’s duties interested individuals may contact me, Michelle, at mholling@csusm.edu and/or we can arrange a time to talk further at NCA.

 

Women’s Studies in Communication is the premier journal publishing feminist scholarship in the field.  Editorship enables the elected candidate not only to maintain a tradition of scholarly inquiry about gender, women, intersectionality and communication, but also to conceive and publish a special issue of interest. Interested individuals for WSIC editor are encouraged to submit the following: a letter outlining her/his philosophy, experience, ability to set-up and work with a good editorial board, as well as time commitment, institutional commitment and research experience. Also required are two letters of recommendation and a letter detailing institutional support. Applications, in hard copy and electronic format (preferably pdf), are due Nov. 10, 2008, and will be reviewed by the Executive Committee of ORWAC.  Please forward materials to: Dr. Michelle A. Holling, ORWAC President, Dept. of Communication, California State University San Marcos, 333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road, San Marcos, CA  92096-0001. For more information please contact either Dr. Holling at mholling@csusm.edu or Dr. Cindy Griffin, WSIC editor, at wsic@colostate.edu. Formal interviews will be held at NCA, Nov. 21-24, 2008.

 

Finally, if your membership is about to expire or you want to become a member so as not to miss all the latest and greatest feminist scholarship in communication, contact Valerie Renegar (vrenegar@mail.sdsu.edu) for a membership form or visit ORWAC’s website to download a form www.orwac.org.

 

In closing, I hope to see you all soon and look forward to more collaborations across organizations.

 

Regards, Michelle A. Holling, ORWAC President

Last Updated 23 October 2008

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