By 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)
Aimee Edmondson
Where you work: E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University
Where you got your Ph.D.: Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri
Current favorite class: It might be a tie. I alternate teaching the History of American Journalism and Communications Law, and I love them both.
Current research project: I recently finished a book, In Sullivan’s Shadow: The Use and Abuse of Libel Law during the Long Civil Rights Struggle, which was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. I take the U.S. Supreme Court’s famous 1964 case New York Times v. Sullivan as the starting point to tell the stories of libel cases that preceded and followed this historic ruling during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. It feels quite relevant today as politicians and others continue to use libel as a weapon to punish the press for covering issues they don’t want to see the light of day.
Fun fact about yourself: I’m an Appalachian Trail thru hiker. I walked from Georgia to Maine to benefit the National Stroke Association after my grandmother and then my dad suffered strokes. My trail name? Call me Lois Lane.
Cathy M. Jackson
Where you work: Norfolk State University
Where you got your Ph.D.: University of Missouri
Current favorite class: Mass Media History
Current research project: African American cowboys in Hollywood westerns
Fun fact about yourself: I love history so much that if there was a time machine, I would jump in it. Well, maybe only after the first hundred or so people go and return safely.