Nancy L. Mergler Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award

This year my dissertation project “Walls of words: The discourse of immigration and media coverage in the United States and Latin America” was selected as one of the 2017-2018 recipients of the Nancy L. Mergler Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award.

This grant is awarded by the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost of the University of Oklahoma to the seven most promising dissertation PhD proposals in the entire university. It was an extraordinary achievement for me and an incentive to continue develop research focused in the understanding of contemporary issues in the field of social sciences, specifically Communication.

I want to express my appreciation to my advisor Eric Kramer, to the Nancy L. Mergler Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award selection committee, to the Department of Communication, and to the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost of the University of Oklahoma.

Above: Dr. Randall S. Hewes, Interim Dean Graduate College OU.

With Dr. Michael Kramer, Chair and Professor Department of Communication OU & Eryn Bostwick, doctoral student.

At the OU Library.