Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S), a program of the USC Annenberg School’s Norman Lear Center, announces a call for entries for the seventh annual Everett M. Rogers Award for Achievement in Entertainment Education. 

 

Nominations of practitioners in the field of entertainment education, including artists and/or producers of entertainment education programs, are welcome. Nominations of scholars or researchers who study the impact of these messages are also invited for consideration.

 

The award, named in memory of internationally recognized communication scholar and former USC Annenberg School associate dean Everett M. Rogers, was presented in 2010 to Martine Bouman, director of the Center Media & Health in the Netherlands. Other previous winners are Soul City creator Charles “Garth” Japhet, Mexican writer/producer Miguel Sabido, entertainment education scholar Arvind Singhal, Stanford University professor Albert Bandura and international entertainment educator and activist David Poindexter.

 

Nomination packages should consist of the practitioner or scholar’s resume, including presentations and publications; a letter of nomination from a knowledgeable scholar or practitioner in the field of entertainment education explaining the excellence and innovativeness of the candidate’s work; and a copy of a publication or sample of the project for which the nomination is made. All materials are due by Tuesday, July 5th, 2011, and should be submitted to Mandy Berkowitz; USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center; 8383 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 650; Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

 

Recipients of the Everett M. Rogers Award for Achievement in Entertainment Education will be recognized at the annual Sentinel for Health Awards event in September 2011 in Los Angeles. In addition, the Rogers Award recipient will present his or her work at a USC Annenberg colloquium open to the University’s students and faculty, as well as visit classes and seminars.