Monthly Archives: June 2019

Proposed bylaws amendments outline committees

The AEJMC History Division’s leadership team is proposing a series of Constitution and Bylaws amendments for the membership to vote on at the member business meeting in Toronto (6:30 p.m. on Aug. 9).

This document contains all proposed amendments in red type, with review notes explaining each change.

Book Award Chair Lisa Burns suggested that the division create language outlining the duties and makeup of the award committees, and she drafted a section on the Book Award Committee that the division’s officers used as a template for sections on the Covert and Dicken-Garcia awards.

Discussion regarding language in the document specifying two membership chairs led to the creation of new language outlining the duties and makeup of a membership committee. The division has three membership chairs this year, and the graduate student liaisons have worked closely with them on membership initiatives. Therefore, the new proposed article on standing committees also includes a section for a newly formed membership committee, containing the two student members and up to three faculty members. The division’s newsletter remains a charge of the membership committee, but the committee chair(s) may not be the Clio editor(s), so references to the membership chair(s) as Clio editor(s) have been deleted.

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Plan your AEJMC schedule with our History Division Conference Guide

Click here to download the full guide.

AEJMC in Toronto is just two months away! Plan your schedule of History Division events now with our conference guide. It also includes suggestions for historic sites to visit if you have spare time.

The division has a jam-packed slate of events, starting with our pre-conference awards gala Tuesday evening, Aug. 6, and ending with our teaching award panel Saturday morning, Aug. 10.

Please note that pre-registration is required for two of our activities.

  • If you’re planning to attend the awards gala Aug. 6, make sure to register for it when you register for the convention. Cost is $5. If you’ve already registered and want to add it, you can do so at this form: https://aejmc2.wufoo.com/forms/2019-conference-workshops-and-luncheons-form/
  • We have limited spots available for our tour of the ArQuives with the LGBTQ Interest Group. Make sure to email Robby Byrd at rdbyrd@memphis.edu by June 28 to secure your spot. Cost is $10, to be paid on arrival at the ArQuives.

We can’t wait to see you in Toronto! If you have any questions before then, let us know at aejmchistory@gmail.com

AEJMC HISTORY DIVISION ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL DIVERSITY AWARD WINNER

Michelle Rotuno-Johnson has won the inaugural Diversity in Journalism History Research Award for her paper, “Cultural Hegemony in New York Press Coverage of the 1969 Stonewall Riots.”

Presented by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the new Diversity Award recognizes the outstanding paper in journalism or mass communication history submitted to the annual paper competition that addresses issues of inclusion and the study of marginalized groups and topics. Rotuno-Johnson will receive a cash prize during the division’s business meeting on Friday, Aug. 9 at the AEJMC National Convention in Toronto. Rotuno-Johnson is also the recipient of the third-place graduate-student research paper award.

The judges for the History Division’s Diversity Award competition were impressed by the paper’s unique combination of primary-source analysis and theory.

“The paper … sheds much needed light on the way journalists, as products of their time, enforced and reinforced negative stereotypes about members of the LGBTQ community through media coverage of this pivotal act in gay civil rights history,” said Dr. Melita Garza, one of the contest’s judges.

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