What's Inside President's Message: ICA Welcomes Its New Executive
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Volume 44, Number 1: JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2016 What's Inside ICA Welcomes its New Executive Director Nomination Deadlines for Officer Elections in Fall 2016 Travel Grant Deadlines Conference Update: Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk Hotel ICA Student Travel Fund Campaign Administrators' Breakfast Fukuoka History Spotlight on Preconferences Journal News Membership Student Column Member News & Updates Divison News Call For Papers Available Positions and Job Opportunities President's Message: ICA Welcomes its New Executive Director Executive Committee Amy Jordan, ICA President, U of Pennsylvania Amy Jordan, President, U of Pennsylvania Peng Hwa Ang, President Elect, Nanyang Technological U Nanyang Technological U Peter Vorderer, Immediate Past President, U of Mannheim Francois Heinderyckx, Past President, U Libre de Bruxelles Cynthia Stohl, Finance Chair (ex-officio), U of California-Santa Barbara Laura Sawyer, Executive Director Michael L. Haley (ex-officio), Executive Director Emeritus Members-at-Large Colleen Mills, U of Canterbury Akira Miyahara, Seinan Gakuin U Lilach Nir, Hebrew U Magdalena Wojcieszak, U of Amsterdam Student Members Francois Allard-Huver, Paris Sorbonne U - CELSA Charlotte Loeb, U of Mannheim Executive Director Laura Sawyner Division Chairs and Executive Director Emeritus Michael Haley Sahara Byrne, Children, Adolescents, and the Media, Cornell U ICA welcomes A href="http://www.icahdq.org/about_ica/contact_us.asp"Laura Sawyer, Cornell U who joined us as Executive Director on 11 January. Laura has already become immersed James A. Danowski, Communication & Technology, in association activities; she attended the midyear board meeting in January and has U of Illinois at Chicago begun working with President ElectPeng Hwa Ang (Nanyang Technological U) in the Richard Popp, Communication History, U of Wisconsin - planning of the Fukuoka conference in June. Milwaukee Seamus Simpson, Laura comes to ICA from the Washington DC-based nonprofit Joy of Motion Dance Communication Law & Policy, U Center (JOMDC), where she oversaw 17 full-time staff and 110 dance faculty. Prior to of Salford Richard Doherty, Environmental joining JOMDC, she was an Associate Executive Director of the North American Spine Communication, U of Leeds Society (NASS), a 9,000-member professional association comprised of medical Federico Subervi, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Kent researchers, doctors, and medical school faculty. During her 18 years with NASS she State U served in a variety of roles, including as Executive Director of the World Spine Society Natalia Rybas, Feminist served in a variety of roles, including as Executive Director of the World Spine Society Natalia Rybas, Feminist (WSS), in which she represented WSS and its associated philanthropic initiative for Scholarship, Indiana U East Terry Flew, Global meetings in China, Brazil, Australia, Dominican Republic, Malawi, and Egypt. Laura Communication and Social received her BA in Communication and her MA in English from DePaul U in Chicago. She Change, Queensland U of Technology is also a Certified Association Executive (CAE). Kevin Wright, Health Communication, George Mason U "Throughout this process, Laura performed exceptionally well, showing an awareness of Kevin Wise, Information the strengths of the association as well as opportunities for improvements, along with a Systems, U of Illinois Aaron Boyson, Instructional & very caring attitude in staff management," said Search Committee CochairsFrancois Developmental Communication, U of Minnesota - Duluth Heinderyckx (U Libre de Bruxelles) and Cynthia Stohl (U of California - Santa Barbara). U of Minnesota - Duluth Stephen Croucher, Intercultural "She also exhibited the cultural sensitivity needed to run an international organization as Communication, U of Jyvaskyla well as an important depth of understanding for how a communication association might Ascan F. Koerner, Interpersonal Communication, U of Minnesota have a different set of needs than other associations with which she has held leadership Matt Carlson, Journalism positions." Studies, Saint Louis U Alena L. Vasilyeva, Language & Laura has many interesting and important ICA initiatives to focus on in the coming year. Social Interaction, U of Massachusetts Amherst Board members approved three new interest groups - Public Diplomacy, Computational Lance Holbert, Mass Methods, and Communication Science and Biology - which will hold their first organizing Communication, Temple U meetings in Japan. In addition, ICA is currently vetting proposals from publishers for our Craig Scott, Organizational Communication, Rutgers U ICA journals, and a new 5- to 7-year contract should be inked by July, 2016. TheAnnals of Alison Hearn, Philosophy, the International Communication Association will launch in 2017, with Dave Ewoldson Theory, and Critique, U of Western Ontario (the Ohio State U) at the editorial helm. Communication, Culture and Critique will welcome Jesper Stromback, Political the editorial team of Sarah Banet-Weiser (U of Southern California) and Laurie Ouellette Communication, Mid Sweden U Melissa Click, Popular (U of Minnesota), and Human Communication Research will transition to Eun-Ju Lee Communication, U of Missouri - (Seoul National U) as editor. Laura is excited about the opportunity to meet Columbia Chiara Valentini, Public communication scholars from around the world, not only at the annual meeting in June in Relations, Aarhus U Fukuoka but also at ICA Regional Conferences being held in Malaysia and Kenya. Giorgia Aiello, Visual Communication Studies, U of As an association, we have truly thrived under the leadership of Michael Haley. Michael Leeds has now assumed the title of Executive Director Emeritus, and will remain with ICA to help Interest Group Chairs Nicholas Bowman, Game Laura learn the ins and outs of the association's practices and ease the transition. Studies, West Virginia U Michael will officially retire at the close of the annual conference in June; but before he Travers Scott, Lesbian, Gay, does, he will have to submit to a celebratory send-off during the ICA Awards Ceremony Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies, Clemson U and Presidential Address. Eve Ng, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies, Ohio U Janice Krieger, Intergroup Communication, U of Florida Patricia Phalen, Media Industry Studies, George Washington U Veronika Karnowski, Mobile Communication, Ludwig Maximillans U Munich Andrew Billings, Sports Communication Chair, U of Nomination Deadlines for Officer Elections in Fall 2016 Alabama Editorial & Advertising Jennifer Le, ICA Administrator and Conference Coordinator Michael J. West, ICA, Publications Manager Jennifer Le, ICA, Executive Assistant Kristine Rosa, ICA, Member Services Associate ICA Newsletter is published 10 times annually (combining January-February and June-July Members wishing to submit nominations to stand for office in ICA's fall 2016 elections issues) by the International must do so by Monday, 29 February 2016 at 23:00 GMT, the deadline for receipt of all Communication Association. nominations. Members may nominate candidates for president-elect select, a member-at-large, and a student board member. Communication, Culture, The President-Elect-Select serves for 1 year, but winning the ICA presidential election is a & Critique 5 1/2-year commitment to the Executive Committee: Winners serve 6 months as Radhika E. Parameswaran, Editor Indiana U president-elect select; 1 year as president-elect and conference program chair; 1 year as School of Journalism ICA president; 2 years as past president; and 1 year as chair of the ICA Finance Ernie Pyle Hall 200 Bloomington, IN 47405 USA Committee. At-large members serve 3-year terms and come from parts of the world [email protected] underrepresented in ICA membership. The Student Board Members serve 2-year terms. Human Communication Any ICA member may nominate any other ICA member for office. Nominations must Research include a letter of nomination and statement about the candidate's credentials and record John Courtright, Editor U of Delaware of service to ICA. Nominees will be asked to provide a vita and list of references. Department of Communication 237 Pearson Hall Questions on the nominating process may be directed to Terry Flew, Nominating Newark, DE 19716 USA Committee Chair, ([email protected]). All nominations must be emailed to Terry Flew [email protected] ([email protected]) by 29 February 2016. Communication Theory Online balloting in the fall 2016 ICA elections will begin on 1 September and continue Karin Wilkins, Editor U of Texas - Austin until 15 October 2016. Department of Radio-TV-Film CMA 6.118 I University Station Austin, TX 78712-1091 USA [email protected] Journal of Communication Silvio Waisbord, Editor George Washington U 4901 46th Street, NW Washington, D.C., 20016 USA [email protected] Travel Grant Applications for Accepted Paper Submitters Due 1 March Journal of Computer-Mediated Jennifer Le, ICA Administrator and Conference Coordinator Communication S. Shyam Sundar, Editor Pennsylvania State U & Sungkyunkwan U College of Communication 122, Carnegie Building University Park, PA 16802-5101 USA [email protected] Communication Yearbook Elisia Cohen, Editor U of Kentucky Department of Communication 231 Grehan Building Lexington, KY 40506-0042 USA [email protected] Participants from developing/ transitional countries and students from U.S. ethnic minority groups who have been accepted to present papers can apply for travel grants to the ICA