The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is announcing that Edgar Simpson of the University of Southern Mississippi, has won this year’s Top Faculty Paper Award.

He will receive a plaque and a $100 cash prize for her paper, “Spinning hate: Mississippi’s post-Brown PR offensive and the secret campaign against ‘agitators,’ 1956-1960.”

The second-place faculty paper award goes to Perry Parks of  Michigan State University for “Often it is disastrous to take a single note”: Memory and Materiality in a Century of Journalism Textbooks.”

Third place faculty paper goes to Yu-li Chang Zacher of Bethel University for “First Chinese American Newspaperwoman: Mamie Louise Leung at Los Angeles Record, 1926-1929″

In the student paper competition, the top award winner is Anna Lindner of the Wayne State University for her paper “Race and Social Status: A Content Analysis of the Colonial Cuban Newspaper Gaceta de la Habana, 1849.” She will receive a plaque and a $100 cash prize.

The second place student award goes to Diflin Mulupi of the University of Mayland College Park for “Eugenic Sterilization in the New York Times Between 1905-1910 and 1925-1929.”

Third place was won by Grayce Limpert of the Minnesota State University Mankato for “Framing My Lai in Print News: Archival Case Study of The My Lai Massacre Coverage in Newspapers.”