Dr. Teri Finneman, a member of the AJHA board, was granted tenure and promotion to associate professor at the University of Kansas.

Dr. Debra Reddin van Tuyll, professor of communication at Augusta University, is co-editor of a new book that will be published in June by Syracuse University Press.

The book, Politics, Culture, and the Irish American Press: 1784–1963, also is edited by Mark O'Brien and Marcel Broersma

Van Tuyll is the 2019 recipient of the AJHA Kobre Award for lifetime achievement in journalism history.

Dr. Erika Pribanic-Smith and Dr. Tracy Lucht recently joined Dr. David Sloan as editors of the 11th edition of the textbook The Media in America: A History.  

The Media in America was first published 30 years ago. 

Dr. Pribanic-Smith is the co-author of Emma Goldman’s No-Conscription League and the First Amendment. She has written a number of book chapters, and her articles have been published in American Journalism, American Periodicals, Journalism History, Kansas History, and Media History Monographs. 

Dr. Lucht is the author of Sylvia Porter: America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist and co-author of Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness. Her articles have been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, American Journalism, and other journals. 

Dr. Pam Parry will be the next editor of the journal, Journalism History, a peer-reviewed publication of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

Parry, a professor of public relations at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, where she teaches media history, is the author or co-editor of eight academic books. She is the author of Eisenhower: The Public Relations President (Lexington 2014) and has a forthcoming book, Eisenhower and Women: Changing the Face of Politics. She is also co-editor of the book series Women in American Political History.

Parry will serve as an apprentice under current editor Greg Borchard (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) beginning in August and then begin her three-and-a-half-year term as editor in August 2021.

Dr. Melony Shemberger, associate professor of journalism and mass communication at Murray State University, recently earned the Quality Matters Teaching Online Certificate. 

To earn the certificate, seven classes were required by Quality Matters, a global assurance program for online teaching. It is considered the gold standard in online pedagogy.

Mark Holan presented at the 2019 AJHA National Convention in Dallas about Ruth Russell in Revolutionary Ireland. He closed with the issue detailed in the below link from his blog.

As can seen in the bottom photo on the blog page, Ruth's name has been added to the gravestone with her sister, Cecilia.

https://www.markholan.org/archives/7822