Category Archives: Calls

Posts related to calls for papers, conference panels, conferences and so on.

Applications for Microgrants To Encourage Diverse Research Due Feb. 1

American Journalism and Journalism History are offering a combined total of $5,000 in microgrant funding to encourage research relating to the intersection of diversity and media history.

Proposed 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. Submissions related to public relations and advertising diversity history are also welcome.

To apply, write a one-page description of your research project proposal that includes a brief description as to how you would spend the money. The maximum grant request is $1,250 in order to fund four proposals.

The firm deadline for submissions is February 1. Decisions will be announced by March 1. Submissions and questions can be emailed to Journalism History Publications Committee Chairwoman Teri Finneman at finnemte@gmail.com. Put History grant in the subject line.

Winning grant recipients will be invited to join a panel at 2023 AJHA in Columbus, Ohio. Research must be completed by Dec. 31, 2023, and submitted as a journal article to either American Journalism or Journalism History.

Call for Papers: the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium

Proposals are due December 12, 2022, for the 48th annual AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, held March 2–4 , 2023 at Middle Tennessee State University.

Conference registration includes a data analytics preconference in the School of Journalism & Strategic Media’s Social Insights Lab, the keynote address by Dr. Kathy Roberts Forde, co-editor of the award-winning book, Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America (edited with Dr. Sid Bedingfield, Foreword by Alex Lichtenstein), a Friday night reception, optional activities in Murfreesboro, and multiple days filled with scholarship, advice, and networking.

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Call for Proposals: the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference

The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference—co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the AEJMC History Division—provides a forum for innovative research and ideas from all areas of journalism and communication history and from all time periods. The deadline for proposal submissions is February 15, 2023. More information, including the proposal call, is available here.

The free one-day interdisciplinary conference offers participants the chance to explore new ideas, garner feedback on their work, and meet colleagues from around the country interested in journalism and communication history in a welcoming environment.

Funding Opportunity: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Applications for Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowships for the Virginia Museum of History and Culture are due January 27, 2023. The fellowships support research on Virginia and American history in the following general categories of study, but are not limited to:

  • Political, constitutional, religious, military, and Black studies
  • Business history, economic history, and labor relations
  • Gender, women’s, and LGBTQ+ studies
  • Social, cultural, and literature studies

More information on the fellowship program and application process is available here.

Call for Papers: IAMHIST Conference 2023, “The Future of Archives”

The deadline for submissions for the 2023 IAMHIST Conference is January 16, 2023.

This conference aims to revisit these archival transformations by bringing into focus archives’ blind spots, notably in relation to their accessibility and ecological dimensions. How do existing archival institutions, associations or private collectors and archivists address technology and media transformations? What are the current and future challenges of archive research? Use? Configurations? What type of ‘new’ archives can be imagined and created in relation to technology and media transformations?

The IAMHIST Conference will be particularly interested in proposals dealing with media archives (film, radio, video, television, Web, photographs, etc.) but also warmly welcomes archives that use media and technology institutionally (museums, associations, vernacular archives etc.). For more information, view the full call for papers here.

Call for Proposals: Media Building: New Perspectives on Journalism, Mass Communication, and the Built Environment

A new collection, Media Building: New Perspectives on Journalism, Mass Communication, and the Built Environment, is soliciting abstract proposals for an upcoming edited volume. The collection will bring together scholars to interrogate the enduring and evolving relationship between journalism, mass communications, and the built environment. From the emergence of the first newspapers, media creators have intuitively understood the importance of connecting place and content. This has centered on the media building – most powerfully rendered through iconic headquarters such as the Tribune tower in Chicago and the Daily Express building in London.

Abstracts of 350-500 words, alongside a short position statement explaining how you envision your chapter contributing to the collection as a whole, to be submitted by January 10, 2023. Editors are Will Mari, LSU; Carole O’Reilly, Salford; E. James West, Northampton.

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Award Call: Hazel Dicken-Garcia Outstanding Master’s Thesis in Journalism and Mass Communication History

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 2023, recognizing the outstanding mass communication history thesis completed during the 2022 calendar year.

The award will be presented during the member awards gala at the 2023 AEJMC conference in Washington, D.C.

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 January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2022. Membership in the AEJMC History Division is not required to submit.

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

This award is presented to the winners of the AEJMC History Division’s teaching competition. Members may submit an innovative teaching technique to the contest, which is judged by a committee each spring. 

Teaching ideas should be original, tested, and creative techniques used by the author in teaching media history and could be used by other instructors or institutions. The competition welcomes a variety of teaching ideas, including those taught across a quarter/semester or taught as a module within an individual course. Of particular interest are teaching ideas that help instructors address one or more of these pedagogies: diversity, collaboration, community, or justice. The 2023 deadline for submissions is January 15.

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Lisa Burns Is New Mentorship Coordinator, Sign-Up Deadline Approaching 

Dr. Lisa Burns (Quinnipiac) is in charge of the 2022-23 History Division mentorship program.

Dr. Lisa Burns (Quinnipiac) is taking over the History Division’s mentorship program. This marks the fourth year of this highly successful program that was started by Dr. Erika Pribanic-Smith.

If you haven’t signed up yet, there’s still time. The division is looking for both mentors and mentees. Prior participants have found their relationship highly beneficial, and many have chosen to continue informally after their year has ended. The sign-up deadline is Sept. 18 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time. Apply now at https://forms.gle/CczeAi1cpWZ3Y37m9.

Pairings will be notified via email by early October. The partnerships officially last through August 2023. For questions about the program, please email Lisa Burns at Lisa.Burns@quinnipiac.edu.