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September 2020 CURRICULUM VITAE DAFNA LEMISH Associate September 2020 CURRICULUM VITAE DAFNA LEMISH Associate Dean for Programs Distinguished Professor School of Communication and Information Rutgers The State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington St. New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 [email protected] Education 1982, Ph.D. Communication, Ohio State University 1977, M.A. Communication, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 1974, B.A. Geography and Education (Minor), Tel Aviv University, Israel Military Service 1969-1971 Veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) at the rank of Sergeant Academic Appointments July 2019- Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Programs School of Communication and Information Rutgers The State University of New Jersey October 2016- Professor and Associate Dean for Programs June-2019 School of Communication and Information Rutgers The State University of New Jersey 2014-2016 Professor and Dean, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts Southern Illinois University, IL 2012-2014 Professor and Interim-Dean, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, IL. 2010-2012 Professor and Chair, Department of Radio, Television, and Digital Media, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University, IL. 2008-2010 Visiting Scholar, The Center on Media and Child Health, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA. 2 1995-2010 Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Israel. (1996 Senior Lecturer with tenure; 2002 Associate Professor; 2008 Full Professor) 2001-2006 Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Sep 2006 Visiting Scholar, Danish Research Center on Education and Advanced Media Materials, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. July-Sept 2004 Visiting Scholar, International Institute for Youth and Educational TV (IZI), Munich, Germany. 1990-1996 Senior Lecturer, The New School of Media Studies, Academic College of Management; Head of the Community and Education Media Division, Tel Aviv, Israel. 1993 Research Scholar, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. (Spring semester) 1988-1990 Director, The Institute for Media and the Family (NGO), Haifa, Israel. 1987, 1989,1993 Visiting Lecturer, Broadcast Communication Arts, San Francisco State University, CA (Fall Semesters and Summer Semester). 1983-1990 Lecturer, Oranim Academic College of Education, Tivon, Israel. 1982-1983 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Research on Children and Television, Department of Human Development, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 1980-1982 Editorial Assistant, Journal of Broadcasting, Ohio State University. 1979-1980 Research Assistant, Center for Developmental Disabilities, Ohio State University. 1978-1979 Research Assistant, School of Journalism, Ohio State University. 1977-1979 Instructor, Jewish and Near Eastern Studies, Ohio State University. 1975-1977 Training Coordinator, Israel Education Television, Tel Aviv, Israel. 1973-1974 Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 1972-1973 Associate Editor, Student Association Newspaper, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 1971-1972 Publications Assistant, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Interests and Specialties Children and media Gender representations Construction of gender identities Immigration, media and identities Qualitative methods . 3 Awards, Honors and Fellowships Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research 2020 Rutgers Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Academic Leadership Program (ALP) Fellow for the 2017-18 academic year. The Charles Klotzer International Media Literacy Award, The Gateway Media Literacy Partners, 2015 Inaugural recipient of the Senior Scholar Award of the Children, Media and Adolescents Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), Phoenix Arizona, 2012. “Master Lecturer” the International Communication Association (ICA), Phoenix Arizona 2012. Nominated for President of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2011. Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), July 2010. The first recipient of the Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship, The Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2009. Visiting Scholar Fellowship, The Center on Media and Child Health, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Public Health School, Boston, MA., 2008-2010 The Rector’s [Provost] Distinguished Course Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Spring Semester 2008. Active Scholar Award Grant, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 2008. Active Scholar Award Grant, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 2007. Active Scholar Award Grant, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 2006. Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Danish Research Center on Education and Advanced Media Materials, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, September 2006. The Rector's [Provost] Award for Excellence in Teaching, Tel Aviv University, 2001. Scholars Fellowship Program, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 1993. Post-doctoral Fellowship, Center for the Research of the Influences of Television on Children (CRITC), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 1982. The Sonkin Memorial Award for Peace and International Understanding, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1981. The Walter Emery Award for Excellence, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1981. 4 Scholarship for Excellence, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1974. Scholarship for Excellence, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1973. Research Grants Awarded Aging+Communication+Technologies (ACT) Canada: Grant to study “Senior mediators: How grandparents mediate young children’s media use” (With Nelly Elias and Galit Nimrod, Ben Gurion University, Israel), 2017 ($8,000). Binational Science Foundation United States Israel (BSF): Grant to study interactive mobile media use by children and their parents in public places: A cross-cultural comparison of behaviors and communication patterns (with Nelly Elias, Ben Gurion University, Israel), 2017 ($220,000) Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation (IZI), Munich, Germany: Grant to sponsor two MCMA students’ participation and research during the Prix Jeunesse International Festival of Quality television for Children, 2012 (€6,000) Sesame Workshop: Grant to study implementation of Shalom Sesame DVDs in Jewish homes, 2011 ($7,000) Israeli Science Foundation: Grant to study online humor and Israeli Students: The Construction of National, Ethnic, and Gender Identities with Limor Shifman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2010 ($50,000) The International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI), Munich, Germany: Grant to study representations of families in children’s television cross-culturally, 2008 (€4,000) The International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI), Munich, Germany: Grant to study gender in children's television cross-culturally, 2008 (€5,000) Israeli Science Foundation: Grant to study children and news, 2006-2008 ($45,000) Israeli Internet Association: Grant to study Israeli-Children-Go-Online, 2006 ($14,000) The Herzog Institute for Communication, Society and Politics, Tel Aviv University, Israel: Grant to study the media's coverage of violence against women, 2005 ($2,500) The International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI), Munich, Germany: Grant to study children and humor, 2005 (€10,000) Denmark-Israel Foundation: Grant to study media and immigrant children, 2004 ($4,000) Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation (IZI), Munich, Germany: Grant to study gender on children's television globally, 2004 (€5,000) . 5 Burda Center, Ben Gurion University, Israel: Grant to study media and immigrant children (with Nelly Elias), 2004 ($4,000) The International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI), Munich, Germany: Grant to study children, media and the war in Iraq, 2003 (€4,000) Cellcom, Ltd., Israel: Grant to study social implications of cellular telephony in Israel (with Akiba A. Cohen), 2002-2005 ($75,000) The International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI), Munich, Germany: Grant to study children's make believe worlds, 2001 (€10,000) Tel Aviv University, Israel: Seed grant to study Arab children and the media environment, 1998 ($1,250) Rothschild Foundation, Ministry of Communication, and School of Education Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel: Grant to study young people and media environment (with Tamar Liebes), 1996 ($15,000) Ministry of Communication, Israel: Grant to study effects of TV violence on children, 1995 ($4,000) Membership on Editorial Boards of Journals 2019- Journal of Children and Media (upon stepping down as editor) 2014-2018, 1998-1999 Journal of Communication 2011-2013 Human Communication Research 2010-current Global Media Journal-American Edition 2008-current Communication Theory 2007-2010 Journal of Global Mass Communication 2007-current Communication, Culture & Critique 2007-current Journal of Girlhood Studies 2006-2009 New Media & Society 2004-2016 Communication Yearbook 2001-current Feminist Media Studies Additional Occasional Journal Reviewer Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education Asian Women Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Communications: European Journal of Research Communication Review Critical Studies in Media Communication . 6 Critical
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