By Rachel Grant, Membership Co-Chair, University of Florida, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Matt Cecil (Minnesota State University, Mankato) was named Interim Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs on Jan. 13, 2020.
Continue readingBy Perry Parks, Membership Co-Chair, Michigan State University, parksp@msu.edu
Sid Bedingfield
Where you work: I’m an Associate Professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Where you got your Ph.D.: I earned my Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications in 2014.
Current favorite class: We have a wonderful “case studies” course at the Hubbard School that allows instructors to focus on journalism and mass media during a particular historical period or event. I use it to teach a course on mass media and the African American struggle for equality, from the antebellum period to the present. The Fall 2020 version could not be timelier.
Current research project: Fellow History Division member Kathy Roberts Forde and I are co-editing and contributing chapters to a book called Journalism and Jim Crow: The Making of White Supremacy in the New South. We have a strong lineup of historians from a range of subfields working with us on the project, which is under contract at the University of Illinois Press. With a little luck, it should be out in 2021.
Fun fact about yourself: As a failed jock, I tried out for my college baseball team just for fun. I was a pitcher, and during one practice, I struck out a star player who was later drafted by a major league team (he swung at a ball over this head). For the next few years, I tracked his progress through the minor leagues, eagerly awaiting the big day when he made it to “the show” and I could say, “I struck out an actual major league batter.” Unfortunately, he only got to Double AA. Saying I struck out a guy who made it to the high minors just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Continue readingBy Rachel Grant, Membership Co-Chair, University of Florida, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Gregory Borchard (University of Nevada Las Vegas) is editing the second edition of SAGE’s Encyclopedia of Journalism.
Continue readingBy Perry Parks, Membership Co-Chair, Michigan State University, parksp@msu.edu
Elizabeth Atwood
Where you work: Hood College, Frederick, MD (associate professor)
Where you got your Ph.D.: University of Maryland
Current favorite class: Introduction to Media Writing (I enjoy seeing students learn a new form of writing and gain appreciation for how journalists work.)
Current research project: I have just completed work on the biography of Marguerite Harrison, a Baltimore Sun reporter who was a spy for the Military Intelligence Division in the early 1920s. The book, The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison, America’s First Female Foreign Intelligence Agent, will be published by Naval Institute Press in September.
Fun fact about yourself: I met my husband in Moscow when the Baltimore Sun sent its co-ed softball team to Russia in 1990 to teach Russian journalists how to play softball. That anecdote shows how much money newspapers used to have and how naive we were as we watched the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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 of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is pleased to announce that Maurine Beasley is the first winner of the division’s Senior Scholar Award.
“Maurine Beasley has created not only a strong record of historical scholarship, but a legacy. Selected from a competitive field of nominations, she stands out as the clear choice to be the inaugural recipient of the Donald Shaw Senior Scholar Award,” the judges’ comments said. “She is a tireless scholar in pursuit of historical truth. More than that, she has helped produce multiple generations of scholars, both by inspiring them with her published work and by providing personal mentorship.”
Continue readingBy Rachel Grant, Membership Co-Chair, University of Florida, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Lillie Fears (Arkansas State University) was named 2020 recipient of the Thomas E. Patterson Education at the annual King Kennedy Awards ceremony. In celebration of Black History Month, the Arkansas Democratic Black Caucus honored Fears and eight other Arkansans. Since 2005, the King Kennedy Awards have recognized outstanding individuals who positively impact their communities and the state.
Continue readingBy Perry Parks, Membership Co-Chair, Michigan State University, parksp@msu.edu
George Daniels
Where you work: Associate Professor of Journalism and Creative Media at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa
Where you got your Ph.D.: Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of Georgia
Current favorite class: Mass Communication, Service and Diversity
Current research project: I am researching the 40+ year work of Lionel C. Barrow who started AEJMC’s diversity efforts in 1968
Fun fact about yourself: I just celebrated my 50th birthday! (Very proud of that)
Continue readingBy Rachel Grant, Membership Co-Chair, University of Florida, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Mike Conway’s (Indiana University) book, Contested Ground: The Tunnel and the Struggle Over Television News in Cold War America has won the 2020 Library of American Broadcasting Foundation Broadcast Historian Award. Conway will be receiving the award and talking about the book at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) annual conference in Las Vegas in April.
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