By 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.
Continue readingBy Perry Parks, Membership Co-Chair, Michigan State University, parksp@msu.edu
Matt Cecil
Where you work: Minnesota State University, Mankato is a 15,000-student regional comprehensive university about an hour southwest of the Twin Cities.
Where you got your Ph.D.: I received my Ph.D. from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa in 2000. #GoHawks!
Current favorite class: I currently serve as Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs here, so unfortunately, I’m no longer in the classroom. I have been an administrator for the past 11 years, serving in positions ranging from department head to dean to provost. My favorite class was the large lecture survey course I taught every semester from 2000 to 2015, Introduction to Mass Communication.
Continue readingBy Rachel Grant, University of Florida, Membership Co-Chair, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Jon Bekken’s (Albright College) co-authored chapter, “Spanish Firemen and Maritime Syndicalism, 1902-1940,” appears in Christopher J. Castaneda and Montse Feu, editors, Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States. University of Illinois Press, 2019. The chapter explores the weekly newspaper Culture Obrera and its role in sustaining a union of marine firemen and their immigrant community. He presented a paper, “Participatory Journalism & Democratic Communication in the Working-Class Press,” to the Labor and Working Class History Association’s annual conference in May 2019, and reviewed Mediating America: Black and Irish Press and the Struggle for Citizenship in the most recent Journalism History 45:4. His entry on “Unions of Newsworkers” appears in the International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies, edited byTim Vos and Folker Hanusch (Wiley Blackwell Publishing, 2019). And a commentary, “Restoring Labor to the Public Sphere,” is scheduled to appear in the next Journalism & Communication Monographs.
Jinx Broussard (Louisiana State University) and Sheryl Kennedy Haydel (Louisiana State University) along with Shaniece Bickham (Nicholls State University) will present their research “Framing an Acceptable Image: The Political Campaigns of Four of America’s First Black Mayors” at the 2020 Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference. The study examines the mayoral campaigns of the first black mayors in four major U.S. cities to determine how their images were cultivated on the campaign trail and the extent to which the race of their selected press secretaries influenced their ability to be more palatable to white citizenry. The conference will take place on March 14 at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Teri Finneman (University of Kansas) is attending Podcast Movement in February in Los Angeles to learn more tricks for marketing the Journalism History podcast. The conference is a major event for the podcasting industry and will include sessions on livestreaming, monetizing podcasts, podcast listeners and transcription.
On Feb. 29, Will Mari (Louisiana State University) will be giving a talk on his book, “A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies: 1960-1990” (Routledge, 2019) which covers the computerization of the American newsroom during the latter Cold War. The talk will take place at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, Washington.
David T. Z. Mindich (Temple University) published his third book, “The Mediated World: A New Approach to Mass Communication and Culture” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). The Mediated World departs from other mass communication textbooks by emphasizing history (including pre-printing press) narrative, diversity issues, and media literacy.
Founder and director Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez’s (University of Texas) Voces Oral History Project is now officially a Center at the University of Texas at Austin. This signals permanence – so that the oral histories will live on (vocesoralhistoryproject.org). Voces celebrated its 20th anniversary in November 2019. It has video recorded over 1,250 interviews and has over 10,000 digitized photographs and other documentation. Its physical archives are held at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the UT-Austin Campus. Collections include the Latina/o WWII, Korean and Vietnam eras; Political and Civic Engagement; Professions. The Voces Oral History Summer Institute will be held June 8-12, 2020, on the University of Texas campus.This workshop is for faculty and graduate students wishing to use oral history in research and teaching. Instructors have created oral history projects, published widely using oral history, and are leaders in oral history publishing and teaching. Applications accepted through March 9, 2020. Visit vocessummerinstitute.org for more information.
Kimberly Wilmot Voss (University of Central Florida) will be participating in Beacon College Salon Series on Jan. 22. Her talk is titled “Politicking Politely: Well-behaved Women Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s.”