AEJMC’s History Division has several open calls, including
the newly announced Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award. Below is a list with
links to each current open call.
The $200 award will be presented to the author of the best mass communication history article or essay published in 2019. Book chapters in edited collections also may be submitted.
The award recognizes the late Catherine L. Covert, professor of public communications at Syracuse University and former head of the History Division.
An electronic copy in pdf form of the published article/essay/chapter should be submitted via email to Professor Sheila Webb, sheila.webb@wwu.edu, by March 1, 2020. The publication may be self-submitted or submitted by others, such as an editor or colleague.
The
History Division invites submission of original research papers on all aspects
of media history for the AEJMC 2020 conference in San Francisco. All research
methodologies are welcome.
Papers will be evaluated on originality and importance of topic; literature review; clarity of research purpose; focus; use of evidence to support the paper’s purpose and conclusions; and the degree to which the paper contributes to the field of journalism and mass communication history.
This new History Division honor will recognize an individual for excellence in journalism history research who has a minimum 15-year academic career and a record of division membership.
To apply, the nomination packet should include a cover letter that explains the nominee’s research contributions to journalism history, a CV, a brief biography, and a minimum of two letters of support. Self-nominations, with the accompanying supporting materials, are welcome. Letters may be addressed to Committee Chair Pam Parry.
The winner will be notified by mid-May and recognized during the History Division Awards Gala at the 2020 AEJMC conference in August with a plaque and $200 cash award.
The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is pleased to announce the creation of the Donald L. Shaw Senior Scholar Award, named in honor of the pioneering journalism theoretician, distinguished journalism historian, and former head of the History Division, who taught for almost half of a century at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
Dr. Donald L. Shaw
The History Division officers unanimously voted to name the award after Shaw with the support of the full leadership team.
“I am deeply honored by the recognition of my historical work, and for recognition of historical work in general,” Shaw said. “We cannot understand ourselves without knowledge of our roots, individually or collectively. I am delighted with any acknowledgement of the many fine scholars we have in our historical discipline. Thank you for this honor.”
By Denitsa Yotova, Ph.D. student at the
University of Maryland
Dr. Tom Mascaro recently retired from his position as professor in the School of Media & Communication at Bowling Green State University. Mascaro is a documentary historian who is currently working on a sequel to his highly acclaimed book, Into the Fray: How NBC’s Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the News (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2012). Into the Fray won the 2013 AEJMC James W. Tankard Award for Best Book on Journalism and received an honorable mention from AJHA. Into the Fray covered 1961 to 1967; Mascaro’s new manuscript will span 1967 to 1989.
Dr. Tom Mascaro has a Ph.D. from Wayne State University and a M.A. from the University of Michigan.Continue reading →
By Rachel Grant, University of Florida, Membership Co-Chair, rgrant@jou.ufl.edu
Pam Parry (Southeast Missouri State University) was promoted to professor in Fall 2019.
Phillip J.Hutchison (University of Kentucky) published an article titled “Gay Talese and Floyd Patterson: Constructing a Liminal Hero for an Ambivalent Age” in Journal of Sports Media Spring-Fall 2019.
Linda
Steiner (University of
Maryland-College Park), Carolyn Kitch (Temple University), and Brooke
Kroger (New York University) edited book titled Front Pages, Front
Lines: Media and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage will be published in March
2020.
This collection offers
new research on media issues related to the women’s suffrage movement.
Contributors incorporate innovative approaches to social movement, media
theory, and historiography while discussing the vexed relationship between the
media and debates over suffrage. Aiming to correct past oversights, the editors
curate essays on overlooked topics like the participation of African American
and Mormon-oriented media, coverage of black women in the movement, suffrage-related
historiography, suffragist rhetorical strategies, elites within the movement,
suffrage as part of broader campaigns for social transformation, and how views
of white masculinity influenced press coverage.
Contributors: Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Jinx C. Broussard, Teri Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde, Linda M. Grasso, Carolyn Kitch, Brooke Kroeger, Linda J. Lumsden, Jane Marcellus, Jane Rhodes, Linda Steiner, and Robin Sundaramoorthy.
Patrick File (University of Nevada-Reno) received a
$1,000 grant from Kappa Tau Alpha to study how photographers resolved legal
concerns a century ago. The KTA grant will
support File’s travel to review archives in New York City and at the University
of Utah.
Kappa Tau Alpha, the national college honor society for journalism and mass communication, conducts the grant program to provide research assistance to chapter advisers and to recognize their efforts to promote excellence in scholarship. The society has chapters at 97 universities. File has served as adviser of the University of Nevada chapter for two years.
Berkley Hudson
(University of Missouri) is launching a Go-Fund-Me style $250,000 campaign to supplement
his efforts for a nationally traveling photography exhibition and symposia
based on historical Mississippi photographs from the Jim Crow era. The National
Endowment for Humanities already has contributed two grants to the project,
most recently in April for $150,000.
Hudson is reaching out to potential supporters of all kinds:
those who can give perhaps $10, $25, $50 or $100 as well as those who can give
much more. Here’s a link to the Missouri School of Journalismwebsite that
allows donations of any amount, whether via the internet or via snail mail: GiveDirectMizzou
link.
The project will incorporate vintage film and newsreels, oral history audio, an interactive mobile app, and a curriculum guide for secondary students and their teachers. In addition, an illuminated exhibition entry tunnel will be made of scores of facsimile large format, glass plate negatives of photographer O.N.Pruitt (1891-1967). Pruitt worked mainly in northeast Mississippi from 1915-1960.
Kevin Curran’s (Arizona State University) study of the 2006 iHeartMedia leveraged buyout has been accepted for presentation at the biannual World Media Economics and Management Conference to be held in Rome in May 2020.
Poynter recently covered the newspaper launched by Teri Finneman (University of Kansas) and her reporting students. The town lost its newspaper during the Recession. Finneman’s KU students partnered with her alma mater, the University of Missouri, to tackle this news desert.
Dante Mozie (South Carolina State University) presented his paper “‘This, Too, Is Segregation: A Framing Analysis of the 1960 Sit-Ins in Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, N.C., Through the Eyes of Student Journalists” Oct. 3 at the 38th American Journalism Historians Association National Convention in Dallas, Texas.
Students at Temple University tune in to the 1619 Project for Students and Educators session hosted by the New York Times. Photo submitted by Karen Turner.
From left to right: Maddie Liseblad, Rachel Grant and Perry Parks.
As your 2019-2020 committee, we’d like to share our primary goals for this year. First and foremost, our overall goal is to grow our membership. We will continue our outreach work as opportunities arise. For example, when nonmembers present media history research at conferences, we reach out and invite them to join our division.
By Perry Parks, Michigan State University, Membership Co-Chair, parksp@msu.edu
Lillie Fears
Where you work: School of Media & Journalism, Arkansas State University
Where you got your
Ph.D.: University of Missouri School of Journalism
Current favorite class: Mass Communications in Modern Society
Current research
project: I am working on a project
that examines coverage of the historic Memphis-based Universal Life Insurance
Company in African American print media.
Fun fact about yourself: I have always enjoyed organizing information and edited three self-help books about health in the 7th grade.
By Kruthika Kamath, Ph.D. student at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison
A former deejay, music director, and radio consultant, Dr. Donna Halper switched tracks after three decades in broadcasting to become a professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a strong supporter of the Media Ecology school of thought and guides her students with her extensive knowledge of popular culture, media history, and media effects. Her research interests include how women and minorities are represented in media, early baseball history, and unsung heroes and heroines in the history of broadcasting. Moreover, not only is she the author of six books and numerous articles, Halper is also a blogger and a freelance writer.
Dr. Donna Halper is a professor at Lesley University.
This helped guide a conversation about her more recent work, specifically her current inspirations, how she ties her research interests to the evolving field of mass media, and advice for new scholars.
