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Jenny Nelson
Associate Professor
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Dr. Nelson is an Associate Professor in the School of Media Arts and Studies, with teaching interests in Media Criticism (including TV, comics & vlogs), Critical Cultural Media Theory, Qualitative Research, and Media in the Middle East and North Africa.. She was named Outstanding Graduate Faculty at OU in 1993, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Morocco in 1996, was elected to the Board of Scholars by the International Communicology Institute in 2007, and recently returned from two years teaching in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Nelson has authored several refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. She has directed over 40 doctoral dissertations, the last 3 of which were awarded first prizes by the International Communication Association’s Cross-Cultural Division. When she’s not watching American Idol and Dancing with the Stars for their endless capacity for exploiting everything known to be good and human, she’s gardening and practicing her Arabic, occasionally casting sidelong glances at her teenaged children and sighing.
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