The 2023 microgrant winners: Robby Byrd, Jeremy J. Chatelain, Sydney Dillard, Lisa D. Lenoir, Michael T. Martínez and Wendy Melillo. Read about their work here. Journalism History and American Journalism Invite Applications for Microgrants to Support Research Related to Diversity and Media History Journalism History and American Journalism are offering a combined $4,800 in microgrant funding to encourage research relating to the intersection of diversity and media history. The microgrants are sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division and the American Journalism Historians Association, respectively. Topics should incorporate any of the following or an intersection of the following with media history: race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, religion, disability, mental health, and/or rural populations. Topics related to public relations and advertising diversity history are also welcome. To apply, write a one- to two-page description of your research project proposal that includes a brief description of your budget and how the grant money will be used. The maximum grant request is $1,200. Please also include a brief curriculum vitae (no more than three pages). The firm deadline for submission is January 31, 2025. Decisions will be announced by February 31. Research must be completed by June 1, 2026, and submitted in publishable journal format to either Journalism History or American Journalism. Publication is not guaranteed and is subject to peer-review acceptance. Awardees must also submit a brief one-page report on how the grant money was spent by June 1, 2026. Submissions and questions can be emailed to Journalism History Publications Committee Chairwoman Maddie Liseblad at madeleine.liseblad@csulb.edu. Please put “History Grant” in the subject line. Journalism History is published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division, and American Journalism is published by the American Journalism Historians Association.
The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference (JJCHC), co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is now accepting submissions for the 2025 conference. Submissions will open Thursday, January 2, and the submission deadline is 11:59 p.m. Monday, January 20, 2025. This one-day interdisciplinary conference welcomes faculty and graduate students with an interest in journalism or communication history. Innovative research and ideas from all areas of journalism and communication history and from all time periods are welcome. This conference offers participants the chance to explore new ideas, garner feedback on their work, and meet colleagues from around the world interested in journalism and communication history in a welcoming environment. When: Friday, March 28, 2025, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Research, research-in-progress, panels, and workshop proposals are all welcome. Your proposal should detail your presentation topic and offer a compelling rationale as to why your research would interest an interdisciplinary community of scholars. For more information, check out the full call. | Intelligencer blog
W. Joseph Campbell, a professor emeritus of communication at American University in Washington, D.C., will be speaking about election polling and his book, Lost in a Gallup, Sunday morning at 8 Eastern on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" program. He just published a journalism history piece in the popular press. In "No antidote for bad polls," Campbell recounts the New York Times’ 1956 election experiment in shoe-leather reporting for The Conversation. He has also published separate op-eds, two in the Hill and one in The Conversation. Campbell just received AJHA's 2024 Kobre Award for lifetime achievement in journalism history. |
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AJHA Member in the Public Eye