The History Division is holding a members’ business meeting via Zoom on Thursday, July 28 at 1 p.m. EDT. Look for an email invitation from AEJMC closer to the date.
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Call for Reviewers: AEJMC 2022
The History Division Needs You! Early Call for Reviewers
The History Division will need help reviewing papers for AEJMC 2022. If you are willing to review for the History Division’s research competition, please RSVP via this Google form by April 1 and indicate your areas of expertise and/or interest.
If you have any questions, please contact Division Research Chair Rachel Grant (University of Florida) at rlgrant6@gmail.com . We will need up to 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!
2022 AEJMC Conference Panel Proposals
It’s time to start submitting your 2022 AEJMC conference panel proposals. If you have a good idea for a history division panel – with a focus on teaching, research or PF&R – please send Maddie Liseblad (madeleine.liseblad@csulb.edu) an email with the following details:
- The title of the proposal
- Whether the panel is teaching, research or PF&R
- A short summary of the panel topic that clearly indicates why it fits the history division
- Whom you propose as panelists, including a short bio of each, a brief description of what each would discuss, and their contact information. Please also indicate the panelists willingness to participate, if panel is selected
- The potential co-sponsor you envision for this panel (another AEJMC division/interest group/commission)
Please send these panel proposals by 11:59 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Sept. 15 (please note the date!) to madeleine.liseblad@csulb.edu.
The final selection of panels/panelists will be determined after our negotiations with other AEJMC divisions/interest groups/commissions. If you have questions, please reach out to Maddie.
Summary of the 2021 AEJMC History Division Business Meeting
Thursday, Aug. 5, virtual meeting
6:45 p.m. PT/7:45 p.m. MT/8:45 p.m. CT/9:45 p.m. ET
The virtual AEJMC history division meeting in early August included a summary of the division’s activities during 2020-21, leadership voting, transitions and information, and a presentation of the success of Journalism History and its affiliated activities. More details, including a review of the meeting minutes, follows below.
Brief end-of-year status report
The outgoing chair, Dr. Will Mari (Louisiana), called the meeting to order at 8:49 p.m., CST. Last year’s meeting minutes were approved (following a second by Dr. Cayce Myers, verbally) and Dr. Mari gave a brief 2020-21 year-in-review report. For research initiatives, he mentioned our journal having a new editor and book reviews moving online. He also discussed conferences being virtual and JJCHC being postponed. For PF&R/research, the division had a 9/11 panel, a NAJA panel, and a webinar with Jonathan Karl (ABC’s Washington correspondent). For research/teaching, we held a student podcast contest and our podcast downloads have tripled. For teaching/PF&R, highlights included a 9/11 essay series and increased media coverage. Other division activities included a new website and Facebook page. Outside of convention activities, 47 members were involved in a division role and there have been 69 Clio/website posts with new content since last August.
Continue readingLinford Wins 2021 Diversity in Journalism History Research Award
Autumn Linford of the University of North Carolina is the winner of the 2021 Diversity in Journalism History Research Award. The award – presented by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) – recognizes the outstanding paper in journalism or mass communication history that addresses issues of inclusion and the study of marginalized groups and topics. The award winner is selected from research submitted for the annual conference paper competition.
Linford, a Ph.D. student, also won the division’s Top Student Paper Award for her paper, “Perceptions of Progressive Era Newsgirls: Framing of Girl Newsies by Reformers, Newspapers, and the Public.”
Continue readingHistory Division’s Top Paper Award Winners Announced, Draft Conference Agenda Published
The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is announcing that Elizabeth Atwood of Hood College has won this year’s Top Faculty Paper Award. She will receive a plaque and a $100 cash prize for her paper, “Deadline: A History of Journalists Murdered in America.”
The second-place faculty paper award goes to Noah Arceneaux of San Diego State for “Acadian Airwaves: A History of Cajun Radio.”
Third place faculty paper goes to Tamar Gregorian of Tulane University for “The Making Of ‘The Young Budgeter’: The American Girl Magazine’s Role in a Girl Scout’s Life During the Great Depression.”
Continue readingWinner of 2021 Hazel Dicken-Garcia Award for Outstanding Master’s Thesis in Media History
Claire Rounkles, a doctoral student at the University of Missouri who completed her master’s work at The Ohio University, has won the Hazel Dicken-Garcia Award for Outstanding Master’s Thesis in Media History from the History Division for 2020.
Rounkles, who completed the thesis under the direction of Aimee Edmondson and Michael Sweeney, won for her work, “The Shame of the Buckeye State: Journalistic Complacency in Episodic Lynching in Ohio from 1872 to 1932.”
“I was wonderfully surprised, honored, and grateful of the Hazel Dicken-Garcia Award committee selection,” Rounkles said. “And also thankful for the support and guidance of my amazing thesis committee, mentors, family, and friends who encouraged me to continue with this project.”
Rounkles’ work focuses on the journalistic narrative surrounding lynching’s in Ohio.
“This thesis introduced facts and statements made by journalists who had the platform to set the historical narrative—and set it badly,” Rounkles said. “It is pertinent to recognize history involving the coverage of lynching in America, especially the lack of acknowledgment of the humanity of those lynched. By studying this history, I hope to promote honest and challenging conversations in the journalistic community.
“This history has greatly affected how journalists report on minority communities. Until we address the history of using ‘objectivity’ to vilify and further disfranchise Black and Brown communities, the profession and practice of journalism will not change its ways.”
In evaluating the thesis, one judge said, “This thesis adds to literature of the history of the white press and its complicity in the reign of lynching terror in America. With a specific focus on Ohio, it highlights how racism and anti-Black sentiment/equal rights permeated white America, regardless of region.” Rounkles will receive the award, which also honors her advisors, at AEJMC’s annual convention in August. Her work has also been featured on the Journalism History podcast: https://journalism-history.org/2020/06/23/rounkles-podcast-court-held-at-midnight/
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.
Continue readingCall for AEJMC Reviewers
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!
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!