The AEJMC History Division is pleased to announce the creation of the Jinx Coleman Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History.

The History Division officers unanimously voted to name the award after Broussard with the support of the full leadership team.

“I am unbelievably honored to have my name associated with this award,” Broussard said. “I hope to continue inspiring students, teachers and scholars of media history to uncover the past and make sense of the role media have played and the impact they continue to make in our world.” 

The award will be presented to the future winners of the division’s Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History ideas competition. During the annual AEMJC conference, winners present original and tested teaching strategies that address one or more of these pedagogies: diversity, collaboration, community, or justice.

“The History Division is lucky to have someone of Dr. Broussard’s stature involved with journalism history and serving as a role model for so many in teaching and research,” Division Chair Teri Finneman said. “We’re thrilled to give her this recognition and for professors for years to come to aim to reach her level of excellence.”

Broussard is a full professor and the Bart R. Swanson Endowed Memorial Professor in the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. She was the 2018 Scripps Howard AEJMC Teacher of the Year. Broussard is also the 2019 recipient of the Guido H. Stempel III Research Award from the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.

She is recognized as an expert on the history of the black press and is author of the national award-winning book titled African-American Foreign Correspondents: A History, which followed Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Four Pioneering Black Women Journalists. Broussard also does research on representation of racial and ethnic minorities, public relations, and crisis communication. Her co-authored book titled Journalism and Public Relations in Times of Crisis: A Symbiotic Relationship was published in June 2019.

“Adding Dr. Jinx Coleman Broussard’s name to our top teaching award recognizes the many years and many levels of her valued contribution to our field as a scholar and mentor,” said Kristin Gustafson, the division’s teaching standards co-chair.

The History Division will recognize Broussard with this honor during its Awards Gala at the 2020 AEJMC conference in August.