Monthly Archives: May 2020

Award Call: 2020 Outstanding Thesis

The History Division is accepting nominations for the 2020 outstanding master’s thesis in journalism and mass communications history.

Any master’s thesis on a topic in mass communication history will be considered, regardless of research method. Submissions must be in English. The thesis must have been submitted, defended, and filed in final form to the author’s degree-granting university between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020. Membership in the AEJMC History Division is not required to submit.

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Katie Day Good Wins 36th Annual Covert Award

The 36th annual Covert Award in Mass Communication History is awarded to Katie Day Good, assistant professor of strategic communication, Department of Media, Journalism and Film, and affiliate faculty, American Studies, at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 

Katie Day Good

Good won for her article “Sight-Seeing in School: Visual Technology, Virtual Experience, and World Citizenship in American Education, 1900–1930.” Technology and Culture, 60, no. 1 (2019): 98-131.

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Zboray and Zboray Win Sweeney Award

Ronald Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray have won the third annual Michael S. Sweeney Award for their article, “Recovering Disabled Veterans in Civil War Newspapers: Creating Heroic Disability.”

Ronald Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray

Named for former Journalism History editor Mike Sweeney, the award recognizes the outstanding article published in the previous volume of the scholarly journal Journalism History.

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