Teri Finneman (Kansas) has launched a new podcast, The First Ladies. Lisa Burns is the first guest discussing why studying first ladies matters. Burns and Finneman are editing a book, A Cambridge Companion to First Ladies, that will release next year.
Finneman’s book, Reviving Rural News, with Nick Mathews (Missouri) and Pat Ferrucci (Colorado Boulder) released in February.
Elisabeth is an assistant professor of journalism at St. John’s University in New York. Her research focuses on the history of propaganda, international journalism, media-public affairs, and press-military tensions in the twentieth century.
1. What is the primary focus or central question(s) of your history research?
My research broadly explores the history of international journalism, government propaganda, military-media relations, and freedom of speech during wartime. I research reporters’ interactions with propagandists during past conflicts and, collectively, my scholarship argues how important it is to: 1) have journalists as eyewitnesses and foreign news as sources of information during conflicts, and 2) for scholars to dig deep and reveal how governments continue to build proficiency in propaganda and censorship that restrict reporters’ access to all sides of the story.
Continue readingIn May, the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) will begin accepting paper entries, panel proposals, and abstracts of research in progress on any facet of media history for its 43rd annual convention in Pittsburgh, PA, from Oct. 3-5, 2024. The deadline for all submissions is June 1, 2024, 11:59 p.m. (EST).
A full version of AJHA’s 2024 call can be found here.
Continue readingThis award is presented to the winners of the AEJMC History Division’s teaching competition. Members may submit an innovative teaching technique to the contest, which is judged by a committee each spring.
Teaching ideas should be original, tested, and creative techniques used by the author in teaching media history and could be used by other instructors or institutions. The competition welcomes a variety of teaching ideas, including those taught across a quarter/semester or taught as a module within an individual course. Of particular interest are teaching ideas that help instructors address one or more of these pedagogies: diversity, collaboration, community, or justice. The 2024 deadline for submissions is May 8.
The applications should be submitted as one document saved in a PDF format to aejmchistory@gmail.com using the subject line “Jinx C. Broussard Award” and should include:
Continue readingFeminism is “the social, economic and political equality of ALL genders.”
A sign on my desk says, “Behind Every Great Man is a Woman Rolling Her Eyes.” So, to say I am a feminist is not surprising, to say the least, but it might be surprising to know that one of my strongest feminist role models was my father, Richard Grant. Whenever I attempted to use my gender as an excuse, he quickly reminded me, “You are a Grant and we can do anything.” All my extroverted tendencies came from my mother, but my confidence came from my father. As a young child, I would threaten the beautician that if she burned me with the hot comb I was going to tell “my Daddy.”
It was his goal and determination that my siblings and I were going to be fully-equipped members of society. This included knowing how to cook, cleaning/dusting, wash clothes, iron clothes, and sew on a button. So traditional gender roles didn’t exist within the household and every Saturday morning we all did a deep cleaning of the house. I say deep cleaning because my father served in the Air Force so clean wasn’t really clean to him. It was clean.
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