Course Title: Writing and Reporting the News:
A Journalism Practicum
Department: Communications

Email: emalone@ucd.edu

Education

University of California-San Diego, Communication Ph,D. In Progress
University of California-San Diego, Communication M.A. Dec. 2006
University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, Advertising, Minor in Spanish B.S. May 2004
Centro de Estudios Martianos Study Abroad May 19-June 14, 2003.
Course: Cuban Culture, Society, and Language in Context. Havana, Cuba.

Experience

Graduate Community Coordinator, Office of Graduate Studies Internship July 2005- August 2007
Engaged in retention efforts among underrepresented students, created programs to build graduate community, served as a liaison between students and administration, provided support to graduate student organizations
Teaching Assistant - COGN 20: Introduction to Communication. Fall 2007
Teaching Assistant - Journalism Practicum. Academic Connections, UC-San Diego Summer 2007
Teaching Assistant - COMT 105: Stereotypes and the Media. Summer 2007
Guest Lecturer - COSF 175: Topics in Communication Social Force Fall 2004
Teaching Assistant - Social Impact of Tourism Development Spring 2004
Alameida Department of Tourism and Leisure Studies, University of Illinois.

Honors/Affiliations/Publications

2007 California Cultures in Comparative Perspectives Graduate Summer Fellowship
UCSD 2006 Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action & Diversity Award
2004 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
2002 Best Presentation Award-Summer Research Opportunities Program
All Around Scholar Award-Summer Research Opportunities Program, Horace and Kate W. King Wu Scholarship-one time award.
National Dean’s List
President’s Award- four year scholarship
Children of Veteran’s Award-four year scholarship
Graduate and Professional Student Experience Survey Committee
Cross-Cultural Center Hiring Committee
Graduate Programming Council
Office of Graduate Studies Pilot Program Funding Dispersal Committee
UCSD Collaboration on Diversity, Special Presenter
Department of Communication Graduate Affairs Committee
Department of Communication Diversity Committee, Undergraduate Liaison
American Culture Association
Pacific Sociological Association
American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association 2007 Annual Meeting.
(April 2007) Paper Presented: Keeping it Real: The objects of memory and representation.
Pacific Sociological Association 2007 Annual Meeting. (March 2007) Paper Presented: Safe Spaces: Diversity and social justice work as “caring labor.”
Summer Research Opportunities Program Annual Research Presentation Conference (July 2003) Paper presented: A Tale of Two Societies: A case study of American tourism in Cuba.
Summer Research Opportunities Program Annual Research Presentation Conference (July 2002) Paper presented: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Human Behavior in the Marketplace: The Drives to acquire, bond, learn, and defend.