By Teri Finneman, Chair, University of Kansas, teri.finneman@ku.edu
The officers have been working mission control with 500 cups of coffee like you wouldn’t believe for days now, and I just feel a need to tell you all how absolutely amazing our division is.
In a pandemic, we had 47…..47….paper submissions. And all of our reviewers had their content back in within 24 hours of our deadline.
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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 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 invites submission of original research papers on all aspects of media history for the AEJMC 2020 conference in San Francisco. All research methodologies are welcome.
Papers will be evaluated on originality and importance of topic; literature review; clarity of research purpose; focus; use of evidence to support the paper’s purpose and conclusions; and the degree to which the paper contributes to the field of journalism and mass communication history.
Continue readingBy Will Mari, Louisiana State University, Vice Chair/Program Chair, wmari1@lsu.edu
Teri and I are excited to announce the results of the panel competition for AEJMC 2020. We received a number of very worthy and interesting panel pitches (nearly 20!), but had to pick just six to bring forward to our sibling divisions for negotiation as cosponsors, with AEJMC’s chipping system. After a lot of back and forth, we’re proud to continue partnerships and add new and important ones, for the division:
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The steering committee of the 27th annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression invites all CLIO readers to attend this year’s conference in Chattanooga, November 7-9. The symposium is sponsored by the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga communication department, the Walter and Leona Schmitt Family Foundation Research Fund, and the Hazel Dicken-Garcia Fund for the Symposium, and because of this sponsorship, no registration fee will be charged. If you are interested in attending, please contact David Sachsman at david-sachsman@utc.edu. Additional information is available at www.utc.edu/west-chair-communication/symposium/index.php .
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 2020, recognizing the outstanding mass communication history thesis completed during the 2019 calendar year.
The award will be presented during the member awards gala at the 2020 AEJMC Conference, scheduled for Aug. 5-9 in San Francisco, Calif.
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, 2019 and December 31, 2019. Membership in the AEJMC History Division is not required to submit.
Candidates for the award should submit the following materials:
Nominations, along with all the supporting materials, should be sent to AEJHistoryThesisAward@gmail.com no later than 11:59 p.m. Pacific on Feb. 1, 2020.
Questions should be directed to Dr. Amy Mattson Lauters, chair of the AEJMC History Thesis Award Committee, at AEJHistoryThesisAward@gmail.com