Professor Dimitrova will deliver a talk at our Research Talk Series on March 16, and will also teach a class in our master program. We are delighted to be able to host her for the upcoming summer semester.



CV: Daniela Dimitrova (Ph.D., University of Florida) is a Professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University, USA. Her research interests include political communication, cross-cultural journalism studies and media framing of politics. Her recent work focuses on the impact of social media on political knowledge and civic engagement as well as refugee communications.

Dimitrova is the incoming editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, the oldest refereed scholarly journal in mass communication. She has published extensively in journals such as Communication Research, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, New Media & Society, The International Journal of Press/Politics, and the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Dimitrova is the recipient of multiple awards, including the LAS Excellence in Graduate Mentoring and International Service Award from Iowa State University, and was featured in the Women Impacting ISU calendar.

She has been actively involved with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) where she served as Head, Vice Head and Research Chair of the Communication Technology Division.

Welcome to our department, Professor Dimitrova!