UPDATE (9/10/18): The ratification poll has closed. Members approved the appointments by a vote of 103-0.

The History Division’s officers seek to appoint the following division members to the new Publications Committee, established to assist in overseeing the publication of Journalism History. In order to ratify the five appointments to this committee, members should vote yes or no via this Qualtrics survey. Deadline to vote is 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Sept. 7.

Because the committee is launching this year, two of the initial appointees will serve a three-year term and three will serve for two years. Thereafter, terms will be staggered.

Lillie M. Fears is a professor of multimedia journalism at Arkansas State University. She teaches a variety of courses including History of Mass Media. A member of AEJMC since 1994, she has served as PF&R Chair for the History Division and is a former chair of the Minorities in Communications Division. Her doctorate is from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. The author of several peer-reviewed articles, she is co-author of the book “Social Responsibility and Science News: Four Case Studies.” (Two-year term)

Gerry Lanosga is an associate professor in the Media School at Indiana University, where he teaches and researches in the areas of journalism practice, media law, and journalism history. His work has been published in journals including American Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Practice, and Journalism Studies. After earning his PhD in 2010, he taught for three years at Ball State University before joining the faculty at IU. Previously, he had a 20-year career as a print and broadcast journalist in Indiana. (Two-year term)

Therese L. Lueck (Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 1989) is a professor emerita from the University of Akron. She has research interests in the media portrayal of women and in women working in journalism, particularly during the decades that bookend 20th-century America. Her research has appeared in publications including American Journalism and Newspaper Research Journal. She has a background in newspapers, and she is a past president of the American Journalism Historians Association. (Two-year term)

David T.Z. Mindich is the chair of the journalism department at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University; before that, he was a journalism professor at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont, where he served nearly a decade as chair.  The author of two books and numerous articles, Mindich was named Vermont Professor of the Year in 2006. Before becoming a professor, Mindich worked as an assignment editor for CNN and earned a doctorate in American Studies from New York University. (Three-year term)

Cristina Mislán is an Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies in the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Her research primarily focuses on media history, advocacy journalism, and social movements. Much of her work focuses on the history of the black press and how it has shaped national and international conversations around race, gender, and class struggles. Mislán holds bachelor’s degrees in English and psychology as well as a master’s degree in journalism from Louisiana State University. (Three-year term.)

These appointments follow a member vote at the 2018 AEJMC conference in Washington, D.C., to approve an amendment to the History Division constitution and bylaws that created a new publications committee. The new constitution section reads as follows:

The Division shall have a Publications Committee to oversee Journalism History, which all members receive as subscribers. This committee shall consist of five members, each serving two-year renewable terms on a staggered basis (after a full committee is established, two shall be selected one year, three the next). Those members shall be proposed by the Executive Committee, striving for representative diversity, and ratified by the Division’s membership. The Publications Committee shall recommend an editor to be appointed by the Division’s officers. If for any reason the editor’s appointment is not renewed at the end of a term, or the editor resigns during a term, the committee shall issue a call for applicants and then evaluate applicants. The process normally involves interviews with promising candidates. The committee’s other responsibilities include working with the editor during the editor’s term to ensure the highest possible standards for the journal as well as developing plans to encourage quality submissions.