Natascha Toft Roelsgaard and Mike Sweeney of Ohio are the winners of this year’s History Division Top Paper Award.
They will receive plaques and a $100 cash prize for their paper, “Capturing ‘The Real Thing’: James Ricalton Brings the Russo-Japanese War to American Parlors.”
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Carolina Velloso of the University of Maryland is the winner of the History Division’s 2020 Diversity in Journalism History Research Award.
Velloso, a Ph.D. student who also won the division’s top student paper award, won for her paper, “‘A True Newspaper Woman’: The Career of Sadie Kneller Miller.”
Continue readingBy Teri Finneman, Chair, University of Kansas, teri.finneman@ku.edu
With the approval of the History leadership team, Will, Cayce, and I decided that all graduate students with accepted History papers in the student competition will have their AEJMC registration fees paid this year.
Continue readingBy Rachel Grant, Membership Co-Chair, University of Florida, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Gregory Borchard (University of Nevada Las Vegas) is editing the second edition of SAGE’s Encyclopedia of Journalism.
Continue readingBy Kruthika Kamath, Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Equipped with “an enthusiasm that spreads like wildfire”, Dr. John P. Ferré has been a fixture in the Department of Communication at the University of Louisville, Kentucky since 1985. He is known for his interdisciplinary background, with specializations in religion, divinity, and communications, and has written/edited books on a range of topics—composition (Rhetorical Patterns in 1981 and Merrill Guide to the Research Paper in 1983), religion and media (A Social Gospel for Millions in 1988 and Channels of Belief in 1990), and ethics and media (Public Relations and Ethics in 1991, Good News in 1993, and Ethics for Public Communication in 2012). To top it off, Professor Ferré has also served for eight years as the College of Arts and Science’s Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and for two years as Interim Dean.
By Perry Parks, Membership Co-Chair, Michigan State University, parksp@msu.edu
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Where you work: Hood College, Frederick, MD (associate professor)
Where you got your Ph.D.: University of Maryland
Current favorite class: Introduction to Media Writing (I enjoy seeing students learn a new form of writing and gain appreciation for how journalists work.)
Current research project: I have just completed work on the biography of Marguerite Harrison, a Baltimore Sun reporter who was a spy for the Military Intelligence Division in the early 1920s. The book, The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison, America’s First Female Foreign Intelligence Agent, will be published by Naval Institute Press in September.
Fun fact about yourself: I met my husband in Moscow when the Baltimore Sun sent its co-ed softball team to Russia in 1990 to teach Russian journalists how to play softball. That anecdote shows how much money newspapers used to have and how naive we were as we watched the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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By Graduate Student Co-Liaisons Bailey Dick, Ohio University, bd764808@ohio.edu, and Brandon Storlie, University of Wisconsin, bstorlie@wisc.edu
As the graduate student co-liaisons, the largest challenges we have are engaging student members in a meaningful way and division recruitment. Graduate students are extremely busy, juggling many different tasks. Some balance taking courses with conducting research while also teaching as instructors of record. As students progress in their coursework, they prepare for and take their comprehensive exams, start working on their dissertations and navigate the job market. Graduate students tend to spread themselves thin, trying to accumulate as many lines on the CV as possible. Sometimes a commitment beyond basic membership simply isn’t feasible. These last couple of months, the added stressor has been trying to balance everything during a pandemic.
Continue readingMadeleine Liseblad and Perry Parks will be recognized during the History Division’s virtual Awards Gala for Exceptional Service to the History Division.
This new honor from the chair and vice chair recognizes these junior scholars for their behind-the-scenes commitment to advance the importance of journalism history through public relations initiatives.
Continue readingThe History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) has selected Dr. Will Slauter as the winner of its Book Award honoring the best journalism and mass communication history book published in 2019.
The author of Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright (Stanford University Press), Slauter is an associate professor at Université de Paris and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He earned his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University and taught at Columbia University and Florida State University before relocating to France in 2010.
The runner-up for this year’s Book Award is Dr. Aimee Edmondson, author of In Sullivan’s Shadow: The Use and Abuse of Libel Law During the Long Civil Rights Struggle (University of Massachusetts Press). An associate professor and director of graduate studies at Ohio University, Edmondson earned her Ph.D. in Journalism at the University of Missouri. She teaches courses in media law; computer-assisted reporting; and race, class, and gender in the media.
Continue readingThe 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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