Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication
Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication
Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication
Founded in association with the LLK Center at FIU in 2020, the Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication works collaboratively across Rowan campuses and throughout the counry to promote gender equity and foster advancements for women working in all fields of communication, both in academia and in industry. The Center is committed to empowering women as leaders in communication and upholding diversity and inclusion initiatives in communication practice and research for all, regardless of gender identification.
A Level Playing Field: Female Leaders in Sports Communication
This event featured two leading communication professionals, Gail Dent from NCAA Sports and Marisabel Muñoz from Major League Soccer & Soccer United Marketing, who shared insight into their career experience and provided advice to students. Check out the full story in The Whit!
Day at the Museum: Exploring Communication Careers in Museums and Public Spaces
This workshop welcomed two leading communication professionals, Vonda Givens from the Stickley Mueseum at Craftsman Farms and Julissa Marenco from the Smithsonian Institution for a virtual workshop on museum and public space communication.
Spotlight on Student Scholarship: Images of Gender in Contemporary Advertising
This event highlighted student research projects exploring gender and contemporary advertisements in this virtual spotlight event. Five students presented their work from throughout the semester.
Meet the Director
Dr. Julie Haynes, Professor of Communication Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, has been named Director of the Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Rowan University.
Dr. Haynes’ research explores how categories of identity, such as gender, race, and class, influence public discourse, particularly in mediated and pop culture settings. She is especially interested in how regional identity complicates or enriches our understanding of self and place, and frequently writes on gender and region in the areas of reality television, horror, sport, and country music. Her work has been presented at numerous national and international conferences, including at Oxford University, and published in edited volumes and journals, such as Feminist Media Studies. Her dissertation on gender in country music videos is housed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives and was consulted in the making of Ken Burns’ documentary, Country Music. She teaches a variety of courses including, Rhetorical Criticism, Images of Gender in Popular Culture, Rhetoric of Sport, Women and Gender in Perspective, Hitchcock and Gender, Rhetoric of Reality Television, Gender and Horror, and Rhetoric of Social Protest and Resistance. She is a Bildner Fellow and previously served as the Associate Dean of the College of Communication and Creative Arts.
