In May, the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) will begin accepting paper entries, panel proposals, and abstracts of research in progress on any facet of media history for its 43rd annual convention in Pittsburgh, PA, from Oct. 3-5, 2024. The deadline for all submissions is June 1, 2024, 11:59 p.m. (EST).
A full version of AJHA’s 2024 call can be found here.
Continue readingThis award is presented to the winners of the AEJMC History Division’s teaching competition. Members may submit an innovative teaching technique to the contest, which is judged by a committee each spring.
Teaching ideas should be original, tested, and creative techniques used by the author in teaching media history and could be used by other instructors or institutions. The competition welcomes a variety of teaching ideas, including those taught across a quarter/semester or taught as a module within an individual course. Of particular interest are teaching ideas that help instructors address one or more of these pedagogies: diversity, collaboration, community, or justice. The 2024 deadline for submissions is May 8.
The applications should be submitted as one document saved in a PDF format to aejmchistory@gmail.com using the subject line “Jinx C. Broussard Award” and should include:
Continue readingFeminism is “the social, economic and political equality of ALL genders.”
A sign on my desk says, “Behind Every Great Man is a Woman Rolling Her Eyes.” So, to say I am a feminist is not surprising, to say the least, but it might be surprising to know that one of my strongest feminist role models was my father, Richard Grant. Whenever I attempted to use my gender as an excuse, he quickly reminded me, “You are a Grant and we can do anything.” All my extroverted tendencies came from my mother, but my confidence came from my father. As a young child, I would threaten the beautician that if she burned me with the hot comb I was going to tell “my Daddy.”
It was his goal and determination that my siblings and I were going to be fully-equipped members of society. This included knowing how to cook, cleaning/dusting, wash clothes, iron clothes, and sew on a button. So traditional gender roles didn’t exist within the household and every Saturday morning we all did a deep cleaning of the house. I say deep cleaning because my father served in the Air Force so clean wasn’t really clean to him. It was clean.
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Dr. Melita Garza of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, won the 2024 essay contest sponsored by Journalism History.
Originally the brainchild of Dr. Erika Pribanic-Smith (University of Texas at Arlington), the competition first began in 2018 and has featured essays around specific themes. This year’s competition focused on civil rights with the impetus being the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A panel of judges assessed the submitted essay proposals, and selected Dr. Garza’s as the best. She will receive a $100 prize and have her essay published in the journal.
Continue readingJournalism History, the journal of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), is celebrating fifty years of continuous publishing with a special commemorative issue. The electronic version was published Feb. 13, and can be viewed at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ujhi20/50/1?nav=tocList, and the print version should be mailed the first of March.
Continue readingAnna E. Lindner, Michael Fuhlhage, D. T. Frazier, and Keena S. Neal are the winners of the 2024 Tom Reilly Award. Their article, “’If Ever Saints Wept and Hell Rejoiced, It Must Have Been Over the Passage of That Law’: The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in Detroit River Borderland Newspapers, 1851-1852” was the most popular research study on the Journalism History website in 2023.
While conducting this research, all four scholars were associated with Wayne State University’s Department of Communication and what is affectionately called “Fuhlhage’s Research Gang.” Dr. Fuhlhage is an associate professor and he has successfully collaborated with his students on several research projects. Lindner, Frazier, and Neal were doctoral candidates at the time.
Continue readingThree scholars – Ed Timke, Marcus Collins, and Otávio Daros – have been selected by Journalism History to receive funding this spring to advance diverse perspectives in media history. Journalism History is the official academic journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC) History Division. The goal of the grants is to increase diversity research in the journal.
“These microgrant recipients will be conducting vitally important research in areas where the journal has gaps,” said Journalism History Editor Pam Parry. “The journal staff appreciates the leadership of the Publication Committee in conducting a diversity study of the journal in anticipation of our 50th anniversary. As a result, we were able to identify gaps that needed more attention, and so the Division started the microgrant program to encourage research in those areas. These projects are a step forward in bringing greater diversity to media history.”
Continue readingEdgar Simpson of The University of Southern Mississippi has won the 2024 Michael S. Sweeney Award for his article, “Manipulating the Sphere: Mississippi’s Post-Brown Offensive Against White Journalists.”
Presented by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the Sweeney Award recognizes the outstanding article published in the previous volume of the scholarly journal Journalism History. The Division’s Publications Committee selected the article from among four finalists provided by Journalism History Editor Pam Parry. In addition to receiving a plaque and cash prize, Simpson will be honored during the History Division’s awards gala at this year’s AEJMC conference in Philadelphia.
Continue readingThe History Division invites submissions of original research papers and extended abstracts on all aspects of media history for the AEJMC 2024 conference in Philadelphia. All research methodologies are welcome.
Continue readingAndie Tucher of Columbia University is the winner of the 2023 Best Podcast Guest Award from Journalism History.
Tucher is the guest of “Episode 121: The Colonial Press,” which was released in February 2023. It was the top-rated episode of that year, drawing over 500 downloads.
“I’ve been so pleased to see that ever since I began working on the history and meaning of fake news I seem to have become much more interesting wherever I go,” Tucher said. “And I’m so grateful to the Journalism History podcast and to the great interviewer Teri Finneman for the opportunity to share my thoughts and insights with this even more interesting community of journalism history scholars. I appreciate how seriously you all have taken fake news and fake journalism, and I thank you for this honor!”
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