Angela Mensah of the University of Arkansas Honored by the National Communication Association

Angela Mensah, a teaching assistant professor of African and African American studies and communication at the University of Arkansas, has been awarded the National Communication Association Activism and Social Justice Division Pedagogy Award. Dr. Mensah was honored for her development of the service-learning designated course, “Communicating Body Image.” Dr. Mensah’s course aims to identify hidden assumptions about body image as it relates to the intersections of race, class, gender, and body image in America. Students will expand their understanding of the issues through independent reading and synthesis. Students are expected to facilitate the production of systematic knowledge by applying theory to critically analyze a media-related phenomenon on content. This course is designed to stimulate student interest in feminist media studies as an academic discipline that can also provide insights to practitioners and researchers of body image and eating disorders. “I hope to continue building the program by adding more community and campus partners to give the girls a chance to do more positive activities to enrich their lives and encourage them to stay in school and build a better future for themselves and their families,” Dr. Mensah said. The post Angela Mensah of the University of Arkansas Honored by the...