Kristin Gustafson elected to Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication’s teaching committee

Members of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) elected IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson to the organization’s Teaching Committee. The 3,700-member professional, nonprofit, international organization is “the oldest and largest alliance of journalism and mass communication educators and administrators at the college level.”

Gustafson will serve a three-year term beginning October. She said that she anticipates engaging pedagogies of diversity, collaboration, community, engagement, and access with others during her service term, as well as exploring roles and pathways for teaching faculty and institutions in the changing arena of higher education.

In the new role, Gustafson will build on her previous leadership in AEJMC’s History Division. There, as a teaching chair since 2015, she launched a Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History teaching competition; wrote 14 columns for the Division’s newsletter Clio, featuring pedagogies of diversity, collaboration, community, and justice; and co-organized and moderated four teaching panels for the annual conference.

Other publications appear in American Journalism, Journalism, Journalism History, Newspaper Research Journal, and Visual Communication Quarterly. AEJMC describes its mission as: “’to promote the highest possible standards for journalism and mass communication education, to encourage the widest possible range of communication research, to encourage the implementation of a multi-cultural society in the classroom and curriculum, and to defend and maintain freedom of communication in an effort to achieve better professional practice, a better informed public, and wider human understanding.”