Yufan Sunny Qin
Assistant Professor of Public Relations, School of Communication Studies, James Madison University Affiliate Scholar, Internal Communication Research Hub
Bio
Sunny Qin is an Assistant Professor of Public Relations in the School of Communication Studies at James Madison University. Her background is primarily in internal communication, leadership communication, employee engagement, corporate social advocacy, and relationship management. She has published articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Review, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and International Journal of Business Communications.
She received the PRNEWS Social Impact Diversity Leader Award for Graduate Student of the Year and the competitive Cision Insights Fellowship from the Institute of Public Relations in 2022. She also won multiple research paper awards from major communication and public relations conferences, such as PRSA Educators Academy Summit, International Public Relations Research Conference, Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Education
PHD, Mass Communications – University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
MA, International and Intercultural Communications – University of Florida
BA, Business Administration – Hunan Normal University, China