Barrow Award for Distinguished Achievement
in Diversity Research and Education

The Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education is given annually by the Minorities and Communication (MAC) Division and the Commission on the Status of Minorities (CSM).

The award recognizes outstanding individual accomplishment and leadership in diversity efforts for underrepresented groups by race and ethnicity in journalism and mass communication. The late Dr. Lionel (Lee) C. Barrow, Jr. was a long-time AEJMC member who provided leadership and guidance during his many years of service. As a member of AEJMC, Lee pioneered and founded in 1968 the Ad Hoc Committee on Minority Education, in an effort to recruit, train and place minorities in communications. In 1970, he founded and became the acting head of the Minorities and Communication Division. The Communication Theory and Methodology Division renamed its diversity scholarship after Lee in 1997, the same year he received the AEJMC Presidential Award for his contributions.

In 2005, he was recognized with one of AEJMC’s highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award, for his outstanding service in promoting diversity within the association and the discipline.

The Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award will be presented during the 2022 AEJMC annual conference in Detroit. Nominees are judged by their outstanding contributions in TWO of the three following areas: (1) a sustained record over time of publication on racial and ethnic minorities in journalism and mass communication; and/or (2) a sustained record over time of contribution to teaching and service of racial and ethnic minorities in journalism and mass communication; and/or (3) the publication of an impactful book on racial and ethnic minorities in journalism and mass communication.

Previous Winners of the Barrow Award

2023 — Bey-Lyng Sha, California State University Fullerton
2022 — Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Arizona State
2021 — Earnest Perry, Missouri
2020 — Meta Carstarphen, Oklahoma
2019 — Rochelle Ford, Elon
2018 — Mia Moody-Ramirez, Baylor
2017 — Loren Ghiglione, Northwestern
2016 —Joel Beeson, West Virginia
2015 — Alice Tait, Central Michigan
2014 — Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Marketing and Media Consultant
2013 — Clint C. Wilson II, Howard
2012 — Federico Subervi, Texas State
2011 — Félix Gutiérrez, Southern California
2010 — Robert M. Ruggles, Florida A&M
2009 — Paula M. Poindexter, UT - Austin (inaugural)