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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.

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Linford 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.”

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History 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.”

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Winner 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.

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Call 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!

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Nominations: Harry W. Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy

The Law and Policy Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) seeks nominations for the 2020 Harry W. Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy.

The award honors the legacy of Harry W. Stonecipher, who died in 2004. Stonecipher was an acclaimed and influential First Amendment educator. He nurtured a number of distinguished media law scholars during his 15-year career at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, beginning in 1969.

The Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy is open to all journalism, First Amendment and communication scholars within and outside AEJMC. The award will be bestowed on research that most broadly covers freedom of expression as a whole, not just journalism.

The award is not limited to research that centers on media-specific issues. It can include First Amendment speech and press issues more broadly. The successful nomination also might be global in scope, rather than U.S.-centric, given that media law and policy as a research topic is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world in the 21st century.

Preference will be given to research with a strong theoretical component that demonstrates the potential to have a lasting influence on freedom of expression scholarship. All methodologies — empirical, qualitative, historical, etc. — are welcome. Nominations may be for monographs, peer-reviewed journal articles, law review articles or book chapters (but not entire books). Self-nominations are encouraged, one per author.

In order to be considered for the award, the research must have been published between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2020.

Nominations should be sent to Dr. Dean Smith at High Point University via e-mail — dsmith1@highpoint.edu — by Feb. 7, 2021. Please include STONECIPHER in the subject line. The winner will be announced ahead of the AEJMC’s national convention in August, and the award will be presented then.

CALL FOR JUDGES: Would you like to read the best media law and policy articles of 2020? The Stonecipher judging committee would like to add two or three readers this year. If you would like to lend your expertise, please e-mail Dean Smith at dsmith1@highpoint.edu.

Nominations open for the Covert Award

AEJMC’S History Division announces the 37^th annual competition for the Covert Award in Mass Communication History for entries published in 2020.

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 $200 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.

Submit an electronic copy in pdf form of the published article/essay/chapter via email to Professor Thomas A. Mascaro, mascaro@bgsu.edu, by March 31, 2021. The publication may be self-submitted or submitted by others, such as an editor or colleague.

The following links connect to articles providing more background on Dr. Covert.