Jan Lauren Boyles
Dr. Jan Lauren Boyles began her term as director of the School of Journalism in July 2025. She previously served as associate director and professor at Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, where she led curriculum innovations and new program development.
In 2024, Boyles completed a visiting fellowship at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Prior to that, she held research roles at the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., and was named a Google Journalism Fellow.
A former reporter, Boyles’s scholarly work, which has been cited more than 1,300 times, explores how journalists engage with digital tools, practices and platforms to better serve communities. She is currently an associate editor for Digital Journalism and actively contributes to national journalism education leadership.
Boyles holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from West Virginia University and she earned her Ph.D. in communication in 2014 from American University in Washington, D.C.