Jan Lauren Boyles

Associate Professor [GSJC], Associate Director

Contact

Dept:Greenlee School Journalism/Communication
Email:jboyles@iastate.edu
Office:101B Hamilton
613 Wallace Rd.
Ames IA
50011-4010
Phone:515-294-0484
Office Hours:Mondays/Fridays from 8:30-10 a.m.
Vita:https://iastate.box.com/s/zrfoqal306cpxksg1bffpt9tku75i4v0

Topics of interest: civic technology, data journalism, news

Education: Ph.D., Communication, American University, 2014
M.S.J., Journalism, West Virginia University, 2006
B.S.J., News-Editorial, West Virginia University, 2003

Bio

Jan Lauren Boyles currently serves as Associate Director and Associate Professor (with tenure) at Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. She is Associate Editor for Digital Journalism. She also recently completed a Visiting Fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. She previously held appointments as Faculty Fellow for High Impact Practices within ISU’s Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost and as Director of Graduate Education within ISU’s Greenlee School of Journalism. She was elected to a four-year term on the Board of Directors for her professional disciplinary association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). She has received awards from the International Communication Association, the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, among others. At ISU, she has been recognized with internal honors for exemplary research, instruction, service and graduate mentoring. Boyles joined Iowa State from the Pew Research Center in Washington.