George Daniels (University of Alabama) was named the recipient of this year’s Gene Burd Award for Research in Urban Journalism Studies by AEJMC. He also received $2,500 as part of the annual award, which purportedly aims to improve the practice and study of journalism in the urban environment.
Daniels award-winning research project is titled “Exploring the Role of Black Newspapers Filling Urban Government News Coverage.” The award recognizes high quality urban media reporting, critical analysis, and research relevant to that content and its communication about city problems, programs, policies, and public priorities in urban life and culture.
Rachel Grant (University of Florida) has been selected to participate in the virtual 2021 Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute (IQRMI) from June 6-11.
This intensive, week-long institute, originating from the University of Maryland College Park, will provide instruction in methodological skills, writing, and navigation of institutional norms.
The goal of the institute is to enhance qualitative research and writing skills, develop critical intersectional perspectives for designing and interpreting research and develop and hone navigational skills to successfully negotiate academic career paths.
In retirement, Dave Nord (Indiana University) has drifted away from journalism history and into state and local history, especially the history of maps and mapping and the history of manufacturing. His most recent scholarly publication is an article in the December issue of the Indiana Magazine of History titled “The Flour-Milling Revolution in America, 1820–1920: The Indiana Experience.”
Will Mari (Louisiana State University) has an essay, “Materiality in Media History,” in the January 2021 issue of Historiography in Mass Communication.
David E. Sumner (Ball State University) is co-authoring a new edition of his 2010 book, The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900 (Peter Lang), with Samir Husni of the University of Mississippi. Sumner also has consulted on an exhibition, featured in a recent New Yorker, of more than 200 historic magazines on display through April 24 at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th Street in New York), from the collection of Dr. Steven Lomazow, a neurologist, who has a personal collection of more than 7,000 historic magazines. The exhibit is available online; to visit the Grolier Club for an in-person viewing, contact drlomazow@gmail.com.
Owen V. Johnson (Indiana University) will virtually present a paper, “Regaining & Expanding Their Voice: Slovak Mass Media, 1948-1968,” at the Thirteenth Annual Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop, organized by the University of Pittsburgh. Also, a podcast in which he participated, The Ernie Pyle Experiment!, has been named a finalist for a prestigious Audie Award.
Several of our History Division members participated in the twenty-eighth Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, held virtually November 12-14, 2020, with six of its panels broadcast on C-SPAN and available for online viewing: “Depicting Soldier Experiences in the Civil War Press,” “Newspaper Coverage of Epidemics 1800-1920,” “Mid-19th Century Presidential Press Coverage,” “Commemorating Soldiers in the Press,” “Ethnic and Immigrant Troops in the Civil War,” and “Western Press During the Civil War.”