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DR. VOLHA KANANOVICH

Grants and awards

My work has been supported by internal and external grants and recognized through awards for research, teaching, and professional service.

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Grant funding

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Awards & honors

  • Second Place, Linda Shockley Award for Excellence in Teaching (2025)
    Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
    Newspaper & Online Newspaper Division, Scholastic Journalism Division
     

  • Outstanding Scholarship and Creative Activity Award (2024)
    College of Fine and Applied Arts, Appalachian State University
     

  • First Place Award, Best Teaching Idea competition (2024)
    AEJMC Political Communication Division
     

  • Best Professor Award (2023)
    The Appalachian, “Best of Boone” readers-choice edition
     

  • Kopenhaver Center Fellow (2023)
    AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women
    Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication
     

  • Top Reviewer Award (2022)
    AEJMC Cultural and Critical Studies Division
     

  • Graduate Research Excellence Award (2019)
    The University of Iowa
     

  • Rita Mitra Subramanian Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research (2019)
    The University of Iowa, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
     

  • Top Scholar Award (2019)
    Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication
    Leslie G. Moeller Chapter, The University of Iowa
     

  • Carl J. Nelson Memorial Research Award (2019)
    The University of Iowa, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
     

  • Best Student Poster Award (2018)
    AEJMC International Communication Division
     

  • Rita Mitra Subramanian Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research (2018)
    The University of Iowa, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
     

  • Top Three Paper, 20th Annual Jakobsen Memorial Graduate Conference (2018)
    The University of Iowa
     

  • Top Two Paper, Moeller Student Competition Award (2017)
    AEJMC Mass Communication and Society Division
     

  • Top Paper, 19th Annual Jakobsen Memorial Graduate Conference (2017)
    The University of Iowa
     

  • John F. Murray Outstanding Doctoral Student Award for Research (2017)
    The University of Iowa, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
     

  • Honorable Mention, McCombs Shaw Award for Best Student Paper  (2016)
    AEJMC  Political Communication Interest Group
     

  • Kotok Family Scholarship in Quantitative Journalism (2014)
    The University of Iowa, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

  • U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative (2023–2025)
    “Identifying and measuring user and platform vulnerabilities to strategic information operations.”
    Role: co-Principal Investigator.
     

  • Appalachian State University, Undergraduate Research Assistantship grant (2025)
    "Seen at Last? How local and national media framed Appalachian communities in photo coverage of Hurricane Helene"
    Role: Principal Investigator.
     

  • Appalachian State University, Undergraduate Research Assistantship grants (2022, 2023) 
    "An asset or liability? How U.S. local newspapers frame their localness to readers in public-facing appeals for financial support." Role: Principal Investigator.
     

  • Appalachian State University, Undergraduate Research Assistantship grant (2021) 
    "From 'angry mobs' to 'citizens in anguish': The international news coverage of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol across the democracy-autocracy spectrum."
    Role: Principal Investigator.
     

  • Appalachian State University, University Research Council Grant (2020–2021)
    "Who’s picking up the tab? The effects of the news framing of spending taxpayer money on citizens’ demands for government accountability."
    Role: Principal Investigator.

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