St. Cloud State University

Roya Akhavan-Majid

Dr. Akhavan-Majid’s areas of teaching and research interest focus on theory and methodology, media management and policy, and international communication.  Her research has been published in a wide range of national and international journals, including Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mass Communication and Society, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Telecommunications Policy, Newspaper Research Journal, Current Politics and Economics of Japan, and Gazette: International Journal for Communication Studies.  Professor Akhavan-Majid has lived and worked in four different cultures, Persian, Japanese, American and Chinese.  Her most recent article, “Mass Media Reform in China: Toward a New Analytical Framework,” published in the Gazette, was a product of field research while living and working in China.

During the 2007-2008 academic year, Dr. Arkhavan-Majid taught undergraduate and graduate courses, and continues to serve as General Manager of our award-winning radio station, KVSC FM 88.1. She also developed and administered assessment surveys/test for the department and worked on gathering information for the department's Accreditation Self-Study. In addition, she worked on a joint agreement with China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing, which allow students to transfer to SCSU to obtain a degree in Mass Communications, and SCSU faculty and students to teach/study in China.

During the last few years, Professor Akhavan-Majid has worked on developing student and faculty exchanges with Chinese universities. She took a group of students to Beijing in May 2005 to study the most recent economic and media reform in China, and participated in a College-level faculty exchange with China Youth University for Political Science (CYUPS) during Fall 2006. Currently, she is working on an articulation agreement with CYUPS aimed at enabling the ST. CLOUD STATE faculty and students to spend a semester in China and providing Chinese students with the opportunity to transfer to ST. CLOUD STATE for the last two years of their undergraduate study.

Professor Akhavan-Majid continues to maintain an active role in community and professional service.  During the past two years, she continued to serve as a reviewer for refereed journals and an Executive Member of the Association of Minnesota Educational and Public Radio Stations, as well as a speaker at several community forums, including as Keynote Speaker, Model United Nations, University of Minnesota, March 28, 2006,;  Speaker, United Nations 60th Anniversary, Church of the Epiphany, St. Cloud, November 16, 2005; and Speaker, “Denial of Higher Education to Baha’is in Iran,” Minneapolis Baha’i Center, January 2006.

Her most recent work includes:

• "Chinese Mass Media in Transition," refereed panel presented at AEJMC, Chicago, IL, August 2008.
• "The Effects of Risk-reducing Advertisements on Consumer Attitudes and Purchase Intentions," co-author, presented paper at AEJMC, Chicago, IL, 2008.
• Reviewer for the academic journal, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.
• Wrote and produced "The Root Causes of War and the Achievement of World Peace," a series of five short-wave radio broadcasts.

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