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Call for Nominations: Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award

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Nominations are open for the AEJMC History Division’s 2026 Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award. This division honor will recognize an individual for excellence in research on the history of journalism and mass communication. Nominees must have a minimum 15-year academic career and a record of division membership. To submit a nomination, please compile a single PDF file with the following items:

  • Cover letter that explains the nominee’s research contributions
  • Minimum of two letters of support
  • Nominee’s current C.V.
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Journalism History and American Journalism Invite Applications for Diversity and Media History Microgrants

Journalism History and American Journalism are offering a combined $5,000 in microgrant funding to encourage research relating to the intersection of diversity and media history. The microgrants are sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division and the American Journalism Historians Association, respectively. Topics should incorporate any of the following or an intersection of the following with media history: race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, religion, disability, mental health, and/or rural populations. Topics related to public relations and advertising diversity history are also welcome.

To apply, write a one- to two-page description of your research project proposal that includes a brief description of your budget and how the grant money will be used. The maximum grant request is $1,200. Please also include a brief curriculum vitae (no more than three pages).

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2026 Covert Award Call for Submissions

Headshot of Dr. Catherine L. Covert
Dr. Catherine L. Covert

AEJMC’s History Division announces the 42nd annual competition for the Covert Award in Mass Communication History for entries published in 2025.

The Covert Award recognizes the author of the best mass communication history article or essay published in the previous year. Book chapters in edited collections published in the previous year are also eligible. The AEJMC History Division has presented the award annually since 1985.

The $400 award memorializes the esteemed Dr. Catherine L. Covert, professor of journalism at Syracuse University (d.1983). Cathy Covert was the first woman professor in Syracuse’s Newhouse School of Journalism and the first woman to head the History Division, in 1975. Prof. Covert received the AEJMC Outstanding Contribution to Journalism Education Award in 1983.

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Award Call: Best Journalism and Mass Communication History Book

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division is soliciting entries for its annual award for the best journalism and mass communication history book. The winning author will receive a plaque and a $500 prize at the August 2026 AEJMC conference in New Orleans. Attendance at the conference is encouraged as the winner will be honored at a History Division awards event.

Book authorship is defined as the person or persons who wrote a book. Edited collections with substantial chapter contributions by the editors may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2026 JOINT JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION HISTORY CONFERENCE

The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference – co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication – is accepting submissions for its 2026 conference, which will be held in person on March 27, 2026 in New York City.

Deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30th, 2026

This one-day, interdisciplinary conference welcomes faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars researching the history of journalism and mass communication, including advertising and public relations. Topics from all geographic areas and time periods are welcome, as are all methodologies. The joint conference offers a welcoming environment in which participants can explore new ideas, garner feedback on their work, and meet colleagues from around the world interested in mass communication history.

When: Friday, March 27, 2026, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern (U.S.) Time

Where: Columbia University, 116th and Broadway, New York, NY 10027

Registration fee: $100, including boxed lunch. Free to graduate students, with optional boxed lunch for $30.

Proposals for paper presentations, research-in-progress presentations, or panels are all welcome. Your proposal should detail your presentation topic and offer a compelling rationale for why the research would interest an interdisciplinary community of scholars.

  • Papers are completed research studies and should be no more than 25 pages, not including notes. The paper should be attached to the submission (as a PDF or Microsoft Word document), and include an abstract of up to 500 words.
  • Research-in-Progress (RIP) proposals are projects currently underway and that could benefit from collegial feedback. An RIP submission .is an abstract of up to 500 words.
  • Panels are pre-constituted presentations from multiple scholars working on similar topics or using similar methodological approaches. Panels generally consist of three to four scholars. To submit a panel proposal, please include an overview of the panel along with abstracts for each of the individual projects/presentations. The overview and the individual abstracts may each be up to 500 words.

Submissions should be emailed to jjchc.submissions@gmail.com. 

Please remove any identifying information from your paper or abstract, and attach it to your email as a PDF or Microsoft Word document. In the body of your email, please include your name, preferred email address, institutional affiliation, and title/rank (if applicable). If you are submitting a panel proposal, please include that information for all panel participants.

Authors will be notified about the status of their proposals by mid-February.

Please direct questions to one of the conference co-chairs:

Carolina Velloso, cvelloso@umn.edu

Robin Sundaramoorthy, ros325@lehigh.edu

Autumn Linford, all0093@auburn.edu

Paper Call: Journalism History – 2025-26 Essay Competition

The colonial-era US printer Benjamin Franklin is credited with responding to a question about what the Constitutional Convention of 1787 had produced by saying, “A republic – if you can keep it.”1 The convention was the United States’ second attempt to form a national government after its revolutionary break from Britain – a break that was codified by the signatures of Franklin and fifty-five fellow delegates on July 4, 1776.

Of course, Franklin and his contemporaries’ vision of a democratic republic for propertied white men was significantly narrower than what most people in the US conceive today. That original vision of representative democracy was transformed by President Abraham Lincoln’s rhetorical reframing during the Civil War and subsequent constitutional amendments granting citizenship and basic rights to formerly enslaved people.2 The vision was further expanded by the nineteenth amendment granting women the vote in the early twentieth century and by the civil rights laws of the 1960s that added enforcement mechanisms to the amendments passed a hundred years earlier. By the turn of this century, many US institutions had, at least rhetorically, embraced the notion of working toward a truly pluralistic multiracial democracy.

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Panel Proposals for AEJMC 2026 Due Oct. 3

Panel proposals for the 2026 AEJMC conference are due to the History Division Friday, Oct. 3, and the submission form is now open.

Division members are encouraged to develop panel proposals that thoughtfully engage historical topics on several fronts, including research, teaching, and professional freedom and responsibility (PF&R). Strong panel proposals should include a diverse representation of scholars and media professionals, not just in terms of race, ethnicity and gender, but also career stage, type of institution, and research approach.

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2025 Covert Award Call for Submissions

Catherine L. Covert
Catherine L. Covert

AEJMC’s History Division announces the 41st annual competition for the Covert Award in Mass Communication History for entries published in 2024.

The Covert Award recognizes the author of the best mass communication history article or essay published in the previous year. Book chapters in edited collections published in the previous year are also eligible. The AEJMC History Division has presented the award annually since 1985.

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Award Call: Jinx Coleman Broussard Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Media History

The Broussard Award, presented annually, honors innovative, original, tested, and transformative teaching of media and/or journalism history. Applicants for the award may submit one of the following types of pedagogical approaches, including (but not limited to): entire courses, units, individual lessons, classroom activities, assignments, assessments, and/or teaching strategies.

Teaching ideas should be original, tested, and transformative pedagogies that have been used by the author. In alignment with the Division’s belief in the importance of teaching journalism/media history across the curriculum, submissions can include ideas used either in a course dedicated entirely to media and journalism history, or as part of other courses in media and journalism.  The teaching idea should be transferrable, in that it can used by other instructors or institutions and should help instructors address one or more of the following concepts: diversity, collaboration, community, or justice.

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