39th Annual AJHA Convention
Virtual Conference | Oct. 2-3, 2020
Convention contacts Convention Coordinator Registration Coordinator Program Coordinator | Go to: Teaching Award | Book Award | Blanchard Prize | Business Meeting Awards Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement: Ford Risley AJHA's highest honor, the Kobre Award recognizes individuals with an exemplary record of sustained achievement in journalism history through teaching, research, professional activities, or other contributions to the field of journalism history.
The National Award for Excellence in Teaching honors a college or university teacher who excels at teaching in the areas of journalism and mass communication history, makes a positive impact on student learning, and offers an outstanding example for other educators. An honorarium of $500 accompanies the prize.
AJHA Book of the Year Award: Mike Conway AJHA's Book of the Year Award recognizes the best book in journalism history or mass media history published during the previous calendar year.
Read the news release. Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize: Amie Marsh Jones Since 1997, AJHA has presented the Blanchard Prize for the best doctoral dissertation dealing with mass communication history completed during the prior calendar year.
The following scholars earned honorable mention for their dissertations:
All three honorees will present their research and be recognized during a special session at AJHA’s 39th annual convention, to be held virtually Oct. 2-3. Read the news release. Business Meeting AwardsAmerican Journalism Rising Scholar Award: Matthew Pressman Editors of AJHA's quarterly academic journal American Journalism present the Rising Scholar Award to recognize the achievements and potential of an untenured scholar who shows promise in extending her or his research agenda.
Best American Journalism Article: Stephen Bates The Best Article Award honors research published in American Journalism within the last year that is original, rigorous, and makes an outstanding contribution to developing scholarship in the field of journalism and mass communication history.
Joseph McKerns Research Grants Joseph McKerns Research Grants provide funding of up to $1,250 per person for media history research projects while recognizing and rewarding the winners. 2020 winners are:
Maurine Beasley Award For the Outstanding Paper on a Women’s History Topic
J. William Snorgrass Memorial Award for the Outstanding Paper on a Minorities Topic (tie) Jon Bekken, Albright College, "Relations of Production at The Chicago Defender: Union-Busting, Contingent Labor & Consolidation in the Black Press." Thomas
Terry, Utah State University, "Its Racist Plunder: Opposing Agendas and
Representations of the Elections of 1898 and 2008 through White and Black Press
Political Cartoonist." Jean Palmegiano Award for Outstanding International/Transnational Journalism Research Brendon Floyd, University of Missouri, “From Nationalism to Imperialism: Musgrave, Burk, and the Irish Rebellion of 1798." Wally Eberhard Award for Best Paper on Media and War (tie) Thomas Mascaro, Bowling Green State University, "A Journalist’s Guernica: With 'East Pakistan, 1971,' NBC’s Robert Rogers Introduces Rhonda Schwartz to Documentary Method in a Haunting Critique of U.S. Policy in the Pakistani Civil War." Michael S. Sweeney, Ohio University, "The 'Exactest' Color and Situation: James Cassidy’s Two Radio Voices in World War I." Robert Lance Memorial Award for Top Grad Student Paper Autumn Lorimer Linford, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “'They’ll Never Make Newspaper Men': Early Gendering in Journalism, 1884-1889."
Wm. David Sloan Award for Top Faculty Paper Tracy Lucht, Iowa State University, "Amelia Bloomer, The Lily, and Early Feminist Discourse in the U.S." --> |