The American Journal of Audiology (AJA) is pleased to announce the selection of Christina M. Roup, PhD, as editor-in-chief of the journal. Dr. Roup will begin her term on January 1, 2026, succeeding Dr. Erin Picou. Dr. Roup is an associate professor in the department of speech and hearing science at The Ohio State University, where she serves as the director of the Speech Recognition and Aging Laboratory and the graduate studies chair.
Dr. Roup’s Background
Dr. Roup earned her master’s degree in communication disorders with an emphasis on audiology from California State University Long Beach in 1995, and she earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in 2002. She served as an editorial board member (EBM) for AJA from 2018 through 2020 and for Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups in 2022. She has served as an editor for AJA since 2021.
Dr. Roup has published in AJA, JSLHR, and Perspectives,and her overall body of work has nearly 1,000 citations. Her research interests include speech perception, aging, and auditory processing.
About AJA
AJA publishes peer-reviewed research and other scholarly articles pertaining to clinical audiology methods and issues. AJA seeks to advance evidence-based practice by disseminating the results of new studies as well as providing a forum for critical reviews and meta-analyses of previously published work.
Continuously published since 1991, AJA now publishes issues quarterly. You can read thousands of articles in AJA’s archive or check out the latest from the journal.
Christina M. Roup can be reached at roup.2@osu.edu. She welcomes your input and suggestions on how AJA can best serve the audiology community—and the discipline of communication sciences and disorders at large.
