Check out these mini-profiles of our division members. The stats of our veterans and rookies are destined to dazzle you.

Name: Ed Alwood
Where you work: Adjunct Faculty, University of Maryland
Where you received/are receiving your Ph.D.: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Current favorite class: Journalism History
Current research project: Free Press in the McCarthy Era
Fun fact about yourself: As an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, my writing professor, Don Shaw, and my academic advisor, Maxwell McCombs, set me out to gather data for what became their “Agenda-Setting” study. Who knew in the early 1970s how it would be regarded today?

Name: Maurine H. Beasley
Where you work: Professor Emerita, University of Maryland
Where you received/are receiving your Ph.D.: In American Civilization from George Washington University
Current favorite class: I cherish the media history seminars that propelled me to become the Ph.D. thesis advisor for 27 students, many of whom wrote about women and minorities. Currently, I’m preparing to teach a class on changes in the news media since 1945 for the Osher program (aimed at retired persons) at Johns Hopkins University.
Current research project: I am researching periodicals aimed at newly-minted women voters in the 1920s.

Name: Kevin Lerner
Where you work: I’m an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Where you received/are receiving your Ph.D.: The School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University
Current favorite class: ‘The Press in America’ is my perennial favorite—a class that combines the history of American journalism with a critical examination of contemporary issues. But I’m excited to be teaching an undergraduate honors seminar on fake news and “fake news” in the fall of 2018. We’ll be looking at the history of hoaxes, fabrications, propaganda, and attempts to delegitimize the press.
Current research project: In 2019, The University of Missouri Press will be publishing my first book, Provoking the Press, which is a history of the 1970s journalism review called (MORE), and a study of how press criticism influences the practices of the mainstream press.
Fun fact about yourself: I’m crazy for trivia. I play bar trivia once or twice a week, including once with one of my dissertation committee members at a conference. Sometimes I host. And I’m a member of an online head-to-head trivia league.

Name: Andie Tucher
Where you work: Columbia Journalism School
Where you received/are receiving your Ph.D.: New York University in American Civilization
Current favorite class: I love teaching the journalism history survey required of all our Journalism M.S. students. At the end of the course I always get students coming up to tell me “I’ve never been interested in history before, but I really loved this class!”
Current research project: Book on the history of fake news in America
Fun fact about yourself: My very first piece of published writing appeared in the children’s magazine Jack and Jill when I was eight. As I recall, it had something to do with a talking dog that solved a mystery, and soon afterwards I made the wise decision that I wasn’t cut out for writing fiction.