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Call for Nominations: JIIC Editor for 2027

Professional OpportunitiesCall for Nominations/ Applications: Journal of International and Intercultural Communication Editor-Elect, to serve 2027-30. Deadline: January 31, 2026.

During 2025, NCA’s Publications Council will nominate an Editor-Elect (or co-Editors-Elect) for the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. The newly appointed Editor will begin processing manuscripts early in 2027 and will oversee the volumes for 2028-2030. The journal is published four times each year.

Editors of NCA journals occupy a particularly prominent leadership position in the field. In naming editorial boards, selecting reviewers for manuscripts, and making final publication decisions (among other duties), they make a vitally important contribution to the discipline, and they play a key role in maintaining the highest standards of integrity and scholarly inquiry.

The Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (JIIC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association (NCA). JIIC publishes original scholarship that expands understanding of international, intercultural, and cross-cultural communication. Widely interdisciplinary, JIIC features diverse perspectives and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, critical, and textual approaches to intellectual inquiry.

NCA: Communication Grants 2026

GrantsGrant opportunities, National Communication Association, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 1 September 2025.

Applications are being accepted for NCA’s Research Cultivation Grants, Advancing the Discipline Grants, the Communication Pedagogy Grant, grants funded by the Dale Leathers Fund to Promote Communication Studies in Emerging Democracies, and the NCA President’s L.I.F.T. Grant, new as of this year. Grant recipients will be notified in mid-November, and projects are expected to begin Jan. 1, 2026.

Research Cultivation Grants facilitate first-time grant-seeking for those without prior grant experience and/or those desiring to build a foundation for future grant pursuits. RCG-funded projects should propose innovative research (such as understudied domains, novel or creative methodologies), focus on internationalization (focused on historically marginalized groups in non-U.S. contexts, for example), and/or focus on engaged scholarship (such as research mobilized in non-academic contexts of pressing social, civic, and ethical concerns, or that translates communication theory into practice). Applicants may seek support up to $12,500.

The NCA President’s L.I.F.T. Grant seeks to support NCA members who are pursuing scholarship related to threats to academic freedom, scholarship that faces censorship due to the political or ideological content of the work, scholarship related to dehumanizing language in general and/or the dehumanization of Palestinians in particular, and other work outlined in criteria for evaluation available on NCA’s website linked below. Applicants may seek support up to $10,000.

Advancing the Discipline Grants fund projects and events that support work that is focused on the discipline itself. All funded activities align with the goals of NCA’s strategic plan and have widespread impact that reaches beyond a single department, campus, or NCA unit. Applicants may seek one-time funding not to exceed $5,000.

The Communication Pedagogy Grant is designed to support communication educators in exploring innovative pedagogical practices, assessment design, and learning environments. This grant funds proposals that aim to create long-term impacts on faculty, students, or communities, particularly in marginalized spaces, and foster critical thinking and engagement with social discourses. Applicants may seek support up to $15,000.

Named for NCA’s 78th President, the Dale G. Leathers Memorial Fund Grants promote scholarship and teaching in Communication Studies to benefit emerging democracies and their peoples. The Leathers Award varies from year to year but has recently been between $500 and $600.

CFP Marginalized Identities and Change in SWANA Region (USA)

ConferencesCall for panelists: Marginalized Identities and Change in SWANA Region, South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) caucus, National Communication Association, 20-23 November 2025, Denver, CO, USA. Deadline for abstract: 29 March 2025.

The South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) caucus invites scholars and activists for a special discussion panel on how marginalized identities, such as expats, women, religious minorities, racial minorities, and LGBTQ+ communities, balance the social struggles for recognition within their communities and the broader national/regional/global context. We invite scholars and activists whose focus is one of the countries within the SWANA region, such as Iran, Cyprus, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc, to submit abstracts addressing one or more of the following questions for their specific country:

  • Given the socio-political constraints, how do marginalized groups communicate and mobilize within the region?
  • How do activists within marginalized communities strike a balance between advocating for change within their groups and fighting for broader rights and recognition within the mainstream in the region?
    In what ways can media professionals contribute to more accurate and nuanced representations of diversity within the region?
  • What are the effects of alternative media on shaping youth attitudes and beliefs in relation to diversity and inclusion in the region?
  • How do the region’s alternative and independent media outlets contribute to pluralism and diversity in news coverage?
  • How can communication strategies be developed to more effectively address sexual health and rights within culturally sensitive contexts in the region?

NCA: Communication Pedagogy Grants 2024

GrantsCommunication Pedagogy Grants, National Communication Association, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 1 September 2024.

The Teaching and Learning Council supports and promotes disciplinary pedagogy. The Communication Pedagogy Grant (CPG) envisions a space for communication educators to explore innovative pedagogical practices, assessment design, and learning environments. The CPG will fund proposals that are most likely to (a) have a long-term impact on faculty, students, or community environments through the development of learning opportunities; (b) that support, challenge, experiment with, and/or advocate for impactful and enduring change in marginalized spaces inside or outside the classroom, such as (but not limited to) grants that foster critical thinking and deliberative engagement with social discourses; and (c) that support exploration of transferable instructional communication methodologies, practices, content, or models, that if adopted by others will create a meaningful teaching experience.

The CPG seeks to benefit instructors at any career stage and to address a gap in pedagogical funding to support:

  • instructors who seek to translate research findings into practice related to instructional communication methodologies, practices, models, or variables (immediacy, clarity, teacher authenticity, etc.);

  • instructors who seek to explore innovative instructional communication pedagogical methodologies, practices or models focusing on inclusivity;

  • instructors who seek to explore innovative instructional communication pedagogical methodologies, practices, or models to teach fundamental communication theories and concepts; and

  • creation of pedagogical materials that could be used by others.

    Applicants may seek support up to $15,000. Applications are due September 1 for awards given in the following calendar year.

Other NCA Grant opportunities available here.

Call for Signatures for NCA African Communication Division (USA)

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Call for signatures for a new African Communication Division, National Communication Association, USA.

NCA Members Godfried Asante, Ph.D. (San Diego State University), Chrindo Kundai, Ph.D. (Lewis and Clark University), Nana Kwame Fordjour, Ph.D. (University of Maryland College Park), Eric Karikari, Ph.D. (Towson University), and Jenna Hanchey, Ph.D. (Arizona State University), Prisca Ngongo Ph.D (Texas State University) and Anna Klyueva Ph.D (University of Houston, Clear-Lake) are leading an effort to propose a new African Communication Studies Division at NCA.

A division focused on communication topics in the diverse African continent is timely and relevant. Such a division can help further NCA’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity, as well as centralize and advance the study of communication topics on and about the African continent. While providing an academic center to those conducting research and teaching about the African continent, a new African Communication Studies Division will highlight the value of scholarship in this region and cultivate more academic interest. This Division will serve as a dedicated space to share and promote the African communication scholarship covering a range of communication subfields. Organizers seek 300 signatures from current NCA members in support of the effort. Please sign using this link.

CFP IICD of NCA 2024

ConferencesCall for submissions: International & Intercultural Communication Division, National Communication Association, 21-24 November 2024, New Orleans, LA, USA. Deadline: 5 April 2024.

The International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) of the National Communication Association invites scholarly submissions that examine, question, and/or critique communication in and across cultural, intercultural, and international contexts. Four kinds of submissions will be considered this year: (1) individual papers, (2) paper sessions, (3) panel discussions, and (4) performance sessions.

National Communication Association’s 110th annual convention theme is “Communication for Greater Regard.” The convention theme encourages scholars, teachers, practitioners, and performers in the field of international and intercultural communication to share new ideas, pursue new lines of inquiry, engage diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, foster interdisciplinary collaborations, and produce transformative scholarship. Explore communication for greater regard in three ways: 1) greater regard for what has been done before us, (2) greater regard for what is presently around us, and (3) greater regard for what will be beyond us. Specific questions to address: What does it seem the discipline has regarded for 100+ years? How does communication function in today’s climate to enrich greater regard, how has this shifted over the years, or does it need to shift in the future? How is greater regard currently exhibited in communication research, teaching, service, and practice? How are priorities and power structures shaped in the discipline and/or in human communication endeavors through greater regard or to create greater regard? What intentional contributions should we be actively undertaking to foster greater regard?

The division also encourage submitters to consider the following: How do international and intercultural communication scholars explore the past, the present, and the future of our field? What issues have been ignored/dismissed in our field and should be given attention/consideration? What are the new trends within international and intercultural communication? How can we reconcile past, present, and future trends to help our field move forward? How do we think about intercultural and international communication in the current political climate and crisis of wars? How do we move forward with international and intercultural communication while thinking about social justice? How is intercultural communication responding to racial justice movements, anti-Blackness, indigeneity, and hate crimes against Asian communities? How is technology influencing culture and politics? How do we develop critical intercultural ethics in the face of global pandemics and health crises?

Call for Nominations: Communication & Race Editor

Professional Opportunities

Call for Nominations/ Applications: Communication and Race, Editor-elect. Deadline: January 31, 2022.

 

The journal Communication and Race is a new peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. The journal publishes original scholarship on the centrality of race, racism, and colonialism to the praxis of communication. The journal contributes in distinct ways to the Communication discipline by building on the theories and epistemologies of Black, Ethnic, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian studies scholars.

During 2022, NCA’s Publications Council will nominate an Editor-Elect (or co-Editors- Elect) for the new journal. The appointed Editor, who will serve as the journal’s founding Editor, will begin processing manuscripts early in 2023, and will oversee the volumes for 2024-2026. The journal is to be published four times each year.

Call for Nominations: JIIC Editor

Professional OpportunitiesCall for Nominations/ Applications: Journal of International and Intercultural Communication Editor-Elect. Deadline: January 31, 2022.

The Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (JIIC) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association (NCA). JIIC publishes original scholarship that expands understanding of international, intercultural, and cross-cultural communication. Widely interdisciplinary, JIIC features diverse perspectives and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, critical, and textual approaches to intellectual inquiry.

During 2022, NCA’s Publications Council will nominate an Editor-Elect (or co-Editors- Elect) for JIIC. The newly appointed Editor will begin processing manuscripts early in 2023 and will oversee the volumes for 2024-2026. The journal is published four times each year.

NCA IDEA Strategic Plan Task Force

Professional OpportunitiesCall for Participation: NCA IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access) Strategic Plan Task Force, National Communication Association, Washington, DC. Deadline: January 15, 2021.

NCA is committed to inclusion, diversity, equity, and access and seeks to address how the association can be responsive and transformative in this historical juncture when questions of justice and representation dominate both our national conversations as well as our professional and institutional inquires and actions. Following in the spirit of the recent renaming of the NCA Diversity Council as the IDEA Council, the commitment to create several NCA IDEA Awards for scholarship and institutional excellence, and other significant progress that NCA has made in changing key processes, the next step is to engage in the creation of a comprehensive IDEA – inclusion, diversity, equity, and access – strategic plan for NCA.

This call seeks volunteers to be members of this IDEA Strategic Plan Task Force. Additionally, any volunteers who are interested in co-chairing this Task Force also are welcome. To volunteer, please send an e-mail message explaining your interest in being on the Task Force and highlighting your experience in inclusion, diversity, equity, and access work in NCA or at your home institution. Please send your statement of interest and a CV to Roseann M. Mandziuk by January 15, 2021.

The IDEA Strategic Plan Task Force will be officially constituted and publicly announced by February 1, 2021. The Task Force’s charge will be to produce an IDEA Strategic Plan to be submitted to NCA’s Executive Committee by February 1, 2022.

Collaborative work among Task Force members to create the IDEA Strategic Plan will take place using video conferencing and other electronic means. The Task Force will meet at the 107th NCA Convention in Seattle in November 2021, and also will host a discussion forum at this Convention to gather member input and to share their work to that point. Pending approval by the NCA Executive Committee, the NCA IDEA Strategic Plan would be officially presented at our 108th Annual Convention in 2022 to the Legislative Assembly for adoption, after which the Task Force will be disbanded.

Promise & Perils of Interracial Dialogue

Applied ICDRamasubramanian, S., & Wolfe, A. (2 November 2020). The promise and perils of interracial dialogue. Spectra.

 

At its best, dialogue promises to bring together people with different worldviews, life experiences, stakes, interests, and goals and provide opportunities for perspective-taking, learning, open-mindedness, and turn-taking.

The authors are co-directors of the Difficult Dialogues Project at Texas A&M University. In this essay for Spectra, the newsletter of the National Communication Association, they provide a long list of accessible resources (such as Scaffolded Antiracism Resources) and academic publications for those interested in the topic to explore.