Please join us as we hear the top papers presented from the Gender & Sexuality Division. Vice Chair/Paper Competition Chair: Casey Hart, Stephen F. Austin State University
Debut Paper Competition 1st Place: Lisa Pecot-Hebert, DePaul University; Celebrity and Media Spectacle
Open Paper Competition 1st Place: Catherine A. Luther, University of Tennessee @ Knoxville, D. Renee Smith, University of Tennessee @ Knoxville; How Modern is Modern Family?: An Examination of the Program’s Depictions of Same- Sex Affection and Usage of Humor
1st Place: Janice Collins, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign; From the Classroom to the Newsroom: Are we training them to be Leaders?
2nd Place: Paul MacArthur, Utica College, James R. Angelini, University of Delaware, Andrew C. Billings, University of Alabama, Lauren Reichart Smith, Auburn University; The Canadian State of Mind: Coverage of Men and Women Athletes in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Primetime Broadcast of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games