The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is pleased to announce that Lindsay Palmer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has won this year’s Top Faculty Paper Award.

She will receive a plaque and a $100 cash prize for her paper, “Greater Credibility in Washington: Political Balance in the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 1982 Mission to Central America.”

The second-place faculty paper award goes to Nate Floyd of Miami University for “Boundary Work, Specialized Accreditation for Journalism, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.”

Third place faculty paper goes to Henrik Örnebring of Karlstad University for “Thelma Berlack Boozer: A ‘Forgotten First’ at the School of Journalism at Lincoln University.″

In the student paper competition, the top award winner is Viktoriia Savchuk of the University of Maryland, College Park for her paper “Walter Duranty, the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize, and the 1932–33 Holodomor in Ukraine.” She will receive a plaque and a $100 cash prize.

The second-place student award goes to John McQuaid, also of the University of Maryland, College Park, for his paper “Covering the Start of the Anthropocene: The U.S. News Media and 1950s H-bomb Tests.”

Third place in the student paper competition was won by New York University’s Nansong Zhou for “Chinese Video Game Industry in Post-Cold War Era: How the Video Game became Digital Drug in the 1990s.”

The History Division also awards a top extended abstract award, which will go to the University of Idaho’s Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen for her research entitled “Selling Schools: Educational Publicity in the Early Twentieth Century.”

The top faculty papers and the first-place student paper will be presented together at the division’s top papers panel during AEJMC’s 2023 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, August 9th, from 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.