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AEJMC History Division Announces Third Annual Teaching-Idea Contest Winners

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication History Division awarded five winners for the third annual Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History teaching-idea competition, renamed the Jinx Coleman Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History in late 2019. The recipients were: 

  • Ira Chinoy, University of Maryland  
  • Teri Finneman, University of Kansas 
  • Kristin Gustafson, University of Washington-Bothell  
  • Donna L. Halper, Lesley University  
  • Robert Kerr, University of Oklahoma 

The competition featured original and tested transformative teaching ideas and practices that address pedagogies of diversity, collaboration, community, and/or justice.  

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The History Division needs you! Call for reviewers

The History Division will need help reviewing papers and extended abstracts for AEJMC 2021. If you are willing to review for the History Division’s research competition, please RSVP via this Google form.

If you have any questions, please contact Division Research Chair Maddie Liseblad (Middle Tennessee State) at Madeleine.Liseblad@mtsu.edu. We will need approximately 75 reviewers for the competition. Graduate students are not eligible to serve as reviewers and, in general, reviewers should not submit their own research into the competition. Thank you in advance for your assistance!

Nominations Are Now Open for the Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award

This History Division honor will recognize an individual for excellence in journalism history research who has a minimum 15-year academic career and a record of division membership.

To apply, the nomination packet should include a cover letter that explains the nominee’s research contributions to journalism history, a CV, a brief biography, and a minimum of two letters of support. Self-nominations, with the accompanying supporting materials, are welcome. Letters may be addressed to Committee Chair Pam Parry.

Email nominations to aejmchistory@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. Central Time March 15.

The winner will be notified by mid-May and recognized during the History Division Awards Gala at the 2021 AEJMC conference in August with a plaque and $200 cash award. 

AEJMC History Division 2021 Panels

By Cayce Myers, Virginia Tech, Vice Chair/Program Chair, mcmyers@vt.edu

Will and I are excited to announce the results of the panel competition for AEJMC 2021, in the midst of a supremely challenging year. We received a number of very worthy and interesting panel pitches, but had to pick six to bring forward to our sibling divisions for negotiation as cosponsors, with AEJMC’s partnering system. Our teaching awards will be our seventh panel. While there’s still a few moving parts, we’re proud to continue partnerships and add new and important ones, for the division.

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Hazel Dicken-Garcia Master’s Thesis Award Competition

The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication will present its award for Outstanding Master’s Thesis in Journalism and Mass Communication History in 2021, recognizing the outstanding mass communication history thesis completed during the 2020 calendar year.

The award will be presented during the member awards gala at the 2020 AEJMC Conference, scheduled for Aug. 4-7 in New Orleans, La.

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AEJMC History Division Business Meeting Minutes, 2020 Virtual Conference

Friday, Aug. 7: Virtual

6:45 p.m. PT/7:45 p.m. MT/8:45 p.m. CT/9:45 p.m. ET

Chair Teri Finneman called the meeting to order. 

Finneman gave an overview of the year’s accomplishments, which can be found in the annual report. She gave special recognition to Brian Creech for his fast turnaround from an in-person to virtual conference in March for the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference and noted the success of a summer Zoom graduate student social.

Throughout 2019-20, she noted that 48 people were involved in some kind of division position and 110 people were featured in Clio. The division membership sits at 291, with 29 of them students.

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Journalism History Student Podcast Competition

Students should create a podcast of 10 to 20 minutes that either (1) explores the history of journalism through discussion of a particular topic, such as the life of a prominent journalist or a major event covered by the press years ago, or (2) integrates historical context into your reporting on a newsworthy event on your campus or in your community (e.g., you may review your university’s old yearbooks and back issues of your campus newspaper in order to add context to reporting on the cancellation of the university basketball season).

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#MediaHistoryMatters: Getting Students Engaged in Journalism History

By Will Mari, vice chair and incoming chair, and Teri Finneman, chair, AEJMC History Division

Throughout the fall, we’re inviting you to involve your students in #MediaHistoryMatters, a Twitter campaign to get students talking about journalism history together.

Echoing past efforts with Media History Engagement Week and National News Engagement Day, the idea is to get our students engaged in a larger national conversation about the importance of perspective and context when it comes to media systems. 

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How to Encourage Discussion about Diversity and Inequality in the Classroom

By Nathaniel Frederick II, PF&R Chair, frederickn@winthrop.edu

The coronavirus pandemic has forced a drastic change in the way of life in the United States. The new normal involves working from home, if possible. More importantly, we must not forget the homeless and other populations that are vulnerable during this time of uncertainty. While anyone can contract the virus, current data suggest a disproportionate burden of illness and death among racial and ethnic minority groups.

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