Moniza Waheed

Background

About Moniza Waheed

Moniza Waheed is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). She obtained her Bachelor in Communication from UPM, her M.A. in Communication from Western Illinois University, and her PhD in Political Communication from the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include Political Communication, Journalism, and Intercultural Communication. She has published articles in various international peer reviewed journals. In 2015, she won UPM’s top researcher award for the young researcher in the Social Sciences category. In 2017, she won 1st place as well as 3rd place for the top paper awards at the World Communication Association Biennial Conference held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In 2018, she received the Outreach Lecturing Fund awarded by the U.S. Department of State to lecture at Hawaii Pacific University. She is the current Editor for Human Communication, a flagship journal of the Pacific and Asian Communication Association. Her most treasured experiences are of her being a Malaysian Fulbright Visiting Scholar to the University of Houston in Texas in 2018, interning as a speech writer at Bursa Malaysia in 2002 and as an in-house journalist at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in 2010.