Recent Awards/Recognitions

Taylor & Francis

2024-2025 Bob Franklin Journal Article of the Year Award (short listed) for “It’s Not Hate, but…” Marginal Categories in Rural Journalism

Journal of Communication Inquiry

Journal of Communication Inquiry Best Article of 2024 for “Metajournalistic discourse and reporting policies on white nationalism”

Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication

Second-place Faculty Paper, Media Management Division 2025

Appalachian Office of Research

Grant Project: Harassment in Rural Journalism: Rural Journalists on mitigating online audience harassment/ $5000, PI/ 2023

Appalachian State University Research Council

Grant Project: Moderating Hate: Journalists on Comment Moderation of Digital White Nationalism / $3960, PI/ 2023

Fulbright Austria and the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies

Fellowship: Digital Journalist Role Conception in Austria and America [Fulbright-Botstiber Fellowship in Austrian-American Studies. U.S. Scholar Research Award.]/ $22,000, PI/ 2021-2022