Jasmine Linabary, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and Applied Humanities, will receive the 2025 Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship.
The award, given by the International Communication Association’s Feminist Scholarship Division, “recognizes and supports those whose early research and leadership demonstrate strong contributions to date and significant promise for future development in feminist communication and/or media studies.” The award will be presented in June at the International Communication Association conference in Denver.
“We were very impressed with your work, including its/your collaborative nature, and connection with feminism, feminist scholarship, and feminist activism,” said an announcement from the award committee.
According to a nomination letter, Linabary’s contributions to feminist communication scholarship include co-editing a special issue and forum on feminist organization communication for Management Communication Quarterly and leading an interdisciplinary research team to explore the use of hashtags for feminist activism in response to gender-based violence. Her first-authored article about postfeminist contradictions in the hashtag #WhyIStayed has become often cited among feminist new media scholars as well as in work related to domestic violence and online and offline organizing.
In addition to her academic publications, her nominator spoke to Linabary’s collaborative work with community partners, including her long-term partnership with the nonprofit World Pulse, an independent, women-led social network for social change.
“As an engaged activist-scholar, Linabary is pushing the field forward in her use of feminist participatory action research. Thus, her influence on feminist scholarship has multiple impacts, as she is not just contributing new knowledge on issues of gender equity; she is also creating new knowledge on how to do this work differently, specifically by engaging the voices of those most affected by the issues themselves,” Linabary’s nominator wrote. “This type of creativity and leadership is unique in our field, making Linabary a go-to voice for participatory research and engaged methods.”
Last year, Linabary received the Dorrance Dean’s Award for Research & Entrepreneurialism from the College of Humanities for her project “Engaging Voices from the ‘Margin to the Center’: Activating Methods of the Humanities to #ShiftthePower.”