Saturday, October 14

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8-9:50 a.m. Research in Progress Sessions
For a full list of presenters, see the Research in Progress page.


10-11:30 a.m. General Business Meeting

All are welcome. A full agenda will be provided in early October.

• Approval of 2016 Minutes
• Election of Officers
• Officer and Committee Chair Reports
• Presentation of Research and Service Awards
• Gavel turned over to Dianne Bragg, University of Alabama
  
  

11:40 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. Working Lunch (Officers/Board)

New and continuing officers and board members enjoy a complimentary lunch in appreciation of services provided to AJHA.


12:45-1:45 p.m. AJHA Book of the Year Award
Visit Awards page for more information.


2-3:15 p.m. Choice of two sessions

PAPER SESSION: Propaganda and Persuasion in War and a Workers' Union
(Click paper titles for abstracts)

Moderator: Susan E. Swanberg, University of Arizona

Elisabeth Fondren, Louisiana State University
Publicizing Tragedy: The Sinking of the Lusitania as an International News Story

Dominique Trudel, Concordia University
Revisiting the Origins of Communication Research: Walter Lippmann’s WWII Adventure in Propaganda and Psychological Warfare

Scott Morton, Catawba College
Hanoi Hannah and the Anti-War Movement: How the American Print Media Covered a Female Enemy Radio Propagandist Who Exploited U.S. Societal Unrest During the Vietnam War

Scott Burgess, Wayne State University
Essential Allies: How the United Automobile Workers Persuaded African Americans to Join the Union 

PAPER SESSION: Photography and Its Influence in War, Politics, Civil Rights, and Public Health

Moderator: Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, Xavier University of Louisiana

Wally Eberhard, University of Georgia
Pulitzer Prize Winner Turned Propagandist: The Korean War Ordeal of Pappy Noel

Michael Martinez, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Managing the President’s Image: A Comparative Analysis of Visual Journalists’ Access to President Ronald Reagan and President Barack Obama

Earnest Perry and Keith Greenwood, University of Missouri-Columbia
Connecting the Long Struggle: Reflections of Iconic Civil Rights Photographs in Coverage of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Chris Stidley, University of Arizona
The Thalidomide Tragedy: An Agenda-Setting Analysis of Early News Media Coverage 

3:25-4:35 p.m. Choice of two sessions

PAPER SESSION: Alternative Voices in Contemporary Journalism: The Rise of Narrative, Localism, and Power of Marginalized Voices
(Click paper titles for abstracts)

Moderator: Melissa Greene-Blye, University of Tennessee

Thomas Schmidt, University of Oregon
The Narrative Turn in American News Writing: How Newspapers Adopted Narrative Journalism in the Late 20th Century

Dante Mozie, South Carolina State University
Eyewitnesses to a Tragedy: How the Collegian, the Student Newspaper of South Carolina State College, Covered the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre

John Coward, University of Tulsa
Indian Ideology in The Warpath: Lehman Brightman’s Red Power Journalism 

Vanessa Murphree, University of Southern Mississippi
Universal Localism: Community Radio Station WWOZ, 1980-2006

PANEL: From Pant(aloon)s to Pussyhats: Feminist Dress as Media Spectacle
Abstract

Moderator: Erika Pribanic-Smith, University of Texas-Arlington

Caryl Cooper, University of Alabama
Brooke Kroeger, New York University
Jane Marcellus, Middle Tennessee State University
Kimberly Wilmot Voss, University of Central Florida

5-8:30 p.m. Gala Dinner
Clinton Library; meet in hotel lobby
Visit Events page for more information.