Associate Professor
Magazine Journalism

212 Lee Hills Hall
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211-1200

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Since fall of 1998 JENNIFER ROWE has taught seven magazine classes in the Missouri School of Journalism including Magazine Editing, Magazine Design, Advanced Magazine Design, Magazine Staff, Intermediate Writing, Lifestyle Journalism and Service Journalism. She also regularly serves as editorial director of Vox, an award-winning weekly city magazine that appears in the Columbia Missourian newspaper and is distributed throughout Columbia. Rowe worked as communications coordinator and editor for an association in St. Louis from 1989 to 1996. She was elected president of an association of editors during that time. She has a bachelor's and master's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism. Having been a contributing editor for Italian Cooking and Living magazine as well as the Magazine of Cucina Italiana for more than five years, Rowe has written freelance articles for Elle, Real Simple, Westways and Missouri Life magazines, among others. A speaker at a variety of conferences and workshops across the country, she has also presented at the FOLIO: show in both New York City and Chicago. In 2004 Rowe was a recipient of the Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award and in 2009 was a recipient of the prestigious William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence at MU.