An assistant professor at Augusta University has been recognized with a major journalism award.
Latria Graham, who works in the Department of English and World Language of Augusta University’s Katherine Reese Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, has received the Heising-Simons Foundation’s American Mosaic Journalism Prize.
“I’m honored to receive the American Mosaic Journalism Prize and view it as a life-changing vote of confidence in my writing and my dedication to covering under-resourced and misrepresented communities in my home region of the American South,” Graham said in a press release. “The prize also means breathing room and better resources for my research and reporting trips. I have several story ideas that require traversing thousands of miles across continents.”
Awarded for excellence in reporting
The award comes with a $100,000 cash prize and was based on confidential nominations from journalism leaders around the country. A panel of 10 judges, including journalists from The Associated Press, NBC News, NPR, Columbia Journalism Review and The 19th News, selected this year’s recipients.
The prize is awarded for excellence in long-form, narrative or deep reporting about underrepresented and/or misrepresented groups in the United States; Graham covers under-resourced and misrepresented communities in the American South.
Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and Garden & Gun magazine, among other outlets.
“I am so happy to learn that Latria Graham has been awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize,” said Kim Davies, Ph.D., dean of Pamplin College. “Her writing always moves me. She makes her readers think and feel. She is an amazing writer with keen insights, and, on top of that, she is a wonderful colleague and teacher. We are so lucky she is here at Augusta University.”
