NCA Honors Ramasubramanian with Distinguished Scholar Award
Ramasubramanian, who holds the Newhouse Professorship endowed chair position, will also receive the NCA Organizational Communication Division’s Service Engagement Award at next month’s conference.
This story was updated to include information about the Service Engagement Award. It was originally posted Oct. 1, 2024.
The National Communication Association (NCA) is honoring Srivi Ramasubramanian with a Distinguished Scholar Award, the latest accolade recognizing the Newhouse communications professor’s pioneering work addressing contemporary global issues related to media, diversity and social justice.
Ramasubramanian has also been honored with a Service Engagement Award from the NCA’s Organizational Communication Division. She and other honorees will be recognized at the NCA’s annual conference next month in New Orleans.
The highest honor bestowed by NCA, the Distinguished Scholar Award recognizes association members for a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the study of human communication. Ramasubramanian received the award in her first year of eligibility, 20 years after receiving her Ph.D. (from Pennsylvania State University in mass communication).
She is the editor-in-chief of Communication Monographs, the flagship journal of the discipline and NCA publication, and is the first woman of color to hold the position.
Ramasubramanian, who joined the Newhouse School in 2021, is widely recognized for her pioneering work on race and media, media literacy initiatives, implicit bias reduction and scholar-activism. Ramasubramanian is the first woman and person of color to hold the Newhouse Professorship, an endowed chair position at the Newhouse School.
Ramasubramanian has over 140 publications to her credit, including work in top-tier journals, books, encyclopedias and major media outlets. Ramasubramanian is also the founder and director of CODE^SHIFT, a multidisciplinary research lab housed in the Newhouse School, which focuses on data justice, community-focused initiatives and critical media literacy
Ramasubramanian has won over 40 awards for her scholarship, including the IDEA Scholarship, Gerald M. Phillips Distinguished Applied Comm Award, Kibler Award, Presidential Citation from NCA and the International Communication Association’s highest honor of Fellow status and the Applied/Public Policy Award.
Ramasubramanian is the second Syracuse University faculty member in three years to win the prestigious honor. Charles E. Morris III, a professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies and affiliated professor of LGBT studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, was named an NCA Distinguished Scholar in 2022.