Portrait of Dr. Kristen Sussman

Dr. Kristen Sussman

  • Assistant Professor at School of Jrnlism & Mass Comm, College of Fine Arts & Communication

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Organizer, Google AI for Education Accelerator. August 8, 2025 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Advertising. November 21, 2024 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Interactive Advertising. February 2024 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Current Issues in Research in Advertising. February 2024 - Present.
  • Participant, Grad Committee Meeting. October 13, 2023 - Present.
  • Participant, SJMC Brown Bag Research Meeting. September 29, 2023 - Present.
  • Participant, Texas State Athletics (Fan). August 2023 - Present.

2025

  • Organizer, University Designee for Tufts study of National Student Learning, Voting and Engagement (NSLVE) study. March 1, 2024 - December 2025.
  • Organizer, Networking and Recruiting Industry Expertise: Michael Brito. February 6, 2025 - September 15, 2025.
  • Participant, AI for Everyday Teaching: Getting Started with Gemini & NotebookLM. September 4, 2025.
  • Participant, Meltwater Product Workshop. September 3, 2025.
  • University Mentor. March 27, 2025 - May 5, 2025.
  • Organizer, Waymo Guest Lecture. January 15, 2025 - April 3, 2025.
  • University Mentor, SXSW Waymo Party. March 10, 2025.
  • Participant, Budgeting with Funds 101. February 14, 2025.
  • Organizer, Qrious Insight. February 3, 2025 - February 7, 2025.
  • Mentor, Texas State University. February 6, 2025.
  • Participant, Research GPS: Charting Your Course Through Managing Awards. February 6, 2025.
  • University Mentor, Job Placement — AnaBelle Elliott. February 1, 2025 - February 5, 2025.
  • Participant, SJMC faculty and Communication Studies faculty meeting with Provost Aswath. January 31, 2025.
  • Organizer, Mass Comm Week Speaker Recruitment. January 16, 2025 - January 31, 2025.

2024

  • University Mentor, Job Placement — Seth Davis. October 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024.
  • Organizer, TXST Votes Campaign. August 21, 2024 - December 12, 2024.
  • Reviewer / Referee, 2025 American Academy of Advertising Conference. October 11, 2024 - November 8, 2024.
  • Organizer, MassComm Week 2024. August 10, 2024 - October 31, 2024.
  • University Mentor, Informal Coffee Chat. October 3, 2024.
  • Participant, Brown Bag Lunch. September 26, 2024.
  • Attendee / Participant, Computational Social Science Speaker Series. September 20, 2024.
  • Participant, Discussion on the Potential Development of an Interdisciplinary Applied Humanities Ph.D. Program at the Intersection of the Humanities and STEM. September 13, 2024.
  • University Mentor, STEP #1: Finding Funding for Scholarship. September 13, 2024.
  • Attendee, Applied Humanities PhD Panel Discussion. September 13, 2024.
  • Participant, New Tenure-Track Orientation Round Table Leader. August 21, 2024.
  • University Mentor, NSF Biosketch Coordination for New Faculty. August 20, 2024.
  • Judge, Jay Chiat Creative Awards. June 28, 2024 - July 31, 2024.
  • Judge, 4A's Jay Chiat Awards. June 28, 2024 - July 31, 2024.
  • University Mentor, Lunch. May 7, 2024.
  • Participant, Unofficial TXST Marketing Analyst. January 31, 2024.

2023

  • Reviewer / Referee, 2024 American Academy of Advertising Conference. October 11, 2023 - November 8, 2023.
  • Participant, TXST Advertising Faculty — Halloween. October 31, 2023.
  • Participant, Lunch and Guest Lecturer Coordination. October 20, 2023 - October 24, 2023.
  • Organizer, Mass Comm Week. October 2, 2023 - October 6, 2023.
  • Member, Computational Advertising Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) speaker outreach & coordination. May 15, 2023 - September 2023.
  • Participant, Speaker Recruitment - Chris Kocek. September 28, 2023.
  • Participant, The Translational Health Research Center (THRC) Research Network Meeting. September 27, 2023.
  • Participant, Industry Relations - David Pena and Chip Peck. September 14, 2023.
  • Member, AEJMC Ad Division Graduate Scholarship Committee. June 2023 - August 2023.
  • Participant, TXST Orientation Round Table Speaker. August 16, 2023.
  • Speaker, UT Alumni Panel - Landing an Academic Job Faculty. July 18, 2023.
  • Organizer, Bobcat Day Deck Revisions. February 1, 2023 - April 14, 2023.
  • Speaker, UT Alumni Roundtable. March 29, 2023.
  • Participant, Scholarship & Teaching Excellence Program. September 9, 2022 - March 24, 2023.
  • Graduate Advisor, Prospective Graduate Student Interest in Research. March 2, 2023.
  • Participant, Bobcat Day. February 18, 2023.

2022

  • Reviewer / Referee, Electronic Commerce Research. December 10, 2022.
  • Reviewer / Referee, 2023 American Academy of Advertising Conference. October 11, 2022 - November 8, 2022.
  • Participant, Introduction to Bayesian Statistics Using Stata. October 13, 2022.
  • Participant, BIG WIG AWARDS 2022. October 12, 2022.
  • Organizer, Mass Comm Week. October 4, 2022 - October 8, 2022.
  • Participant, Advertising Majors Meeting. October 4, 2022.
  • Participant, 2022 New Faculty Reception. October 3, 2022.
  • Participant, Faculty Meeting. September 30, 2022.
  • Participant, Civilian Response for Active Shooter Events (CRASE). August 18, 2022.