Biography

Jennifer Rowe, professor and Carol J. Loomis Faculty Fellow, holds both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Missouri School of Journalism. She served as chair of the Magazine Journalism Faculty Group for more than six years and has taught numerous magazine classes since joining the Missouri School of Journalism in 1998. For 13 years, she was editorial director of Vox, an award-winning city magazine produced by magazine journalism students.

In 2016 Jennifer received the O.O. McIntyre Professorship in Teaching Excellence from the School of Journalism as well as the Faculty-Alumni Award from the Mizzou Alumni Association. Previously, she had earned two of the University of Missouri’s most prestigious teaching awards: the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in 2009 and the MU Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award in 2004. A faculty initiate of Golden Key and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies in 2001, she has also been recognized by MU’s chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Journalism Graduate Student Association for her work with students and has been a Mizzou ’39 faculty honoree three times in nine years.