Mount Professor of Communication Awarded NCA Grant for Advancing the Discipline
11/9/2016
Riverdale, N.Y. – The National Communication Association (NCA) has awarded Mount Saint Vincent Assistant Professor of Communication Michelle Scollo an Advancing the Discipline grant designed to advance the field of Communication for a conference focusing on the Ethnography of Communication next summer. While there are many funding outlets for communication scholars to seek support for academic research, NCA states it is uniquely positioned to support work that is focused on the discipline itself. The grant is being used to organize the conference, “New Horizons in the Ethnography of Communication,” which will be held at Mount Saint Vincent on June 6-8, 2017.
Dr. Scollo received the grant in partnership with Dr. Trudy Milburn, Director of Academic Programs for the School of Liberal Arts and Continuing Education at SUNY Purchase. Mount Saint Vincent has generously given Drs. Scollo and Milburn an additional subvention to make the conference possible.
“We expect more than 50 national and international Ethnography of Communication [EC] scholars and students to attend,” Dr. Scollo said. “We will be collaborating on the latest in EC research, pedagogy, and practice, as well as working together to advance EC and the Communication field.”
“We are thrilled to have received this grant,” Dr. Scollo added. “Not only does it recognize the importance of work in EC to the Communication field, but also the important work we will do at this conference to advance the field of Communication itself.”
She added that the Mount was a perfect location for the gathering. “The beautiful campus will offer us peace, quiet, and refuge from the city, where we can collaborate together and focus on this important work,” Dr. Scollo said. “Many of the goals of EC resonate with the Mount and the Sisters of Charity; for example, studying cultural and intercultural communication so that we may increase cultural understanding and awareness and communicate in more culturally sensitive, productive ways, as well as using communication and culture as lenses to study and offer entrée into complex problems in groups, organizations, and communities.”
Many EC practitioners today, she continued, are also using EC methodology in applied work in areas such as environmental communication, health communication, government, and public discourse.
For more information about the conference, contact Dr. Scollo at Michelle.Scollo@mountsaintvincent.edu.
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