Elisabeth is an assistant professor of journalism at St. John’s University in New York. Her research focuses on the history of propaganda, international journalism, media-public affairs, and press-military tensions in the twentieth century.
1. What is the primary focus or central question(s) of your history research?
My research broadly explores the history of international journalism, government propaganda, military-media relations, and freedom of speech during wartime. I research reporters’ interactions with propagandists during past conflicts and, collectively, my scholarship argues how important it is to: 1) have journalists as eyewitnesses and foreign news as sources of information during conflicts, and 2) for scholars to dig deep and reveal how governments continue to build proficiency in propaganda and censorship that restrict reporters’ access to all sides of the story.
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