44th Annual AJHA Convention
Long Beach, California  |   Sept. 25-27

Convention contacts

Convention Coordinator

Aimee Edmondson

Ohio University

Registration Coordinator

Patti Piburn

California Polytechnic State University


Program Coordinator

Erin Coyle 

Arizona State University

Convention hosts

Madeleine Liseblad

Cal State University Long Beach


Noah Arceneaux 

San Diego State University


Christina Littlefield 

Pepperdine University


Conference Sponsors:




Department of Journalism & Public Relations and the College of Liberal Arts




Seaver College and Communication Division



Conference Program 

Questions about the program should be directed to 2nd Vice President Erin Coyle 

Go to: Thursday morning | Thursday afternoon | Thursday evening | Friday | Saturday 

Wednesday, Sept. 24

2 - 6 p.m. Conference Registration, Gallerie Foyer -1st Floor

1:30 p.m. Board of Directors meeting, The Boardroom, 3rd floor 

5:45 p.m. American Journalism Editorial Advisory Board meeting, TBA

Thursday, Sept. 25

7:30-8:30 a.m.  Continental Breakfast, Gallerie 1, 1st Floor 

8-5 p.m. Conference Registration, Gallerie Foyer -1st Floor, with closure during Sidney Kobre lunch 

8:30 a.m. Welcome and President’s Address: Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Augusta University, AJHA President 2024-2025, Gallerie 1

9:40-10:40 a.m. Your choice of two simultaneous sessions:

Paper Session: Representation & Advocacy for Chicanos, Cubans, Latinos, and Spaniards, Gallerie 2 -1st Floor 

Moderator: Aimee Edmondson, Ohio University

    • Mark Bernhardt, Texas A&M University, Friend and Foe: The Racialized Portrayal of Cubans and Spaniards in the New York Press Coverage of the Spanish-American War***
    • Michael Fuhlhage, Wayne State University, Rewriting the Chicano Image: Domingo Nick Reyes’s Battle Against Media Stereotypes
    • Teresa Puente, California State University, Long Beach, Paving the Way for Latinos in the Media

*** Award: Wally Eberhard Award for best historical research paper on media and war

PANEL: The Journalist as Advocate: A Tradition, Not a TransgressionGallerie 3 -1st Floor 

 Moderator: Aaron Atkins, Weber State University

    • Erika Pribanic-Smith, University of Texas at Arlington
    • Rebecca Law, University of Memphis
    • Claire Rounkles, University of Memphis
10-10:30 a.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Gallerie 1

10:50-11:50 a.m. Your choice of two simultaneous sessions

PAPER SESSION: Women, Resistance, and Representation in Media History, Gallerie 2 -1st Floor 

Moderator:  Bailey Dick, Bowling Green State University

    • Kaelyn L. Hannah, Wichita State University, Too Loud for a Lady: Anna E. Dickinson and the Politics of Madness****
    • Thérèse L. Lueck, The University of Akron, An Essay on the Enfranchisement of American Women: Considering the Journalistic Context
    • Ashley Walter, Saint Louis University, The Reluctant and the Excluded: How 1970s Print Sex Discrimination Lawsuits Fostered Solidarity, Tensions, and Fragmentation Inside U.S. Newsrooms

**** Award: Maurine Beasley Award for outstanding women’s history research paper

PANEL: A Journal Process Primer to Honor the Memory of Pam Parry, Gallerie 3

Moderator: Dianne Bragg, The University of Alabama

    • Amber Roessner, University of Tennessee
    • Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Augusta University
    • Jennifer Moore, University of Minnesota Duluth
    • Madeleine Liseblad, California State University, Long Beach
12-1:30 p.m. Award Luncheon, Gallerie 1, included with registration


1:40-2:40 p.m. Your choice of two simultaneous sessions

PAPER SESSION: Memory, Myth, and Narrative in Media History, Gallerie 2

Moderator: Eric Boll, Ohio University

  • Mary M. Cronin, New Mexico State University, They Were Giants: How the American Press Kept the Memory of the Bataan POWs Alive During a News Blackout: May 1942 to January 1944
  • Lisa Gibbs, University of West Florida, and Willie R. Tubbs, University of West Florida, To Victor Goes the Myth: Japanese and American Contextualizations of Pearl Harbor
  • Paulette D. Kilmer, The University of Toledo, “Grimm” Stories: News and “Folk” Tales in the Nineteenth Century Press
PANEL: The Mic Drop: Tracing the History of Black Journalists in Broadcast & Radio, Gallerie 3

Moderator: Felecia Jones Ross, The Ohio State University

  •  Antoine Haywood, University of Florida
  • Robin Sundaramoorthy, Lehigh University
  •  Ivy Lyons, University of Maryland

2:50-3:50 p.m. Your choice of two simultaneous sessions

PAPER SESSION: Journalism Education and Representation, Gallerie 2

Moderator: Patti Piburn, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

  • George L. Daniels, The University of Alabama, From Revolution to Evolution to Survival: Media Education’s Diversification through Accreditation  
  • Joel Moroney, University of Tennessee, and Lori Amber Roessner, University of Tennessee, That Textbook Needs a Rewrite: Exploring the Treatment of Investigative Reporting in Journalism History Textbooks
  • Paul Myers, University of Missouri, and Lisa M. Parcell, Wichita State University, A Service to the Public: Radio’s Early Efforts at Educational Programming

PANEL: Re-Politicizing the Archive: Just One More Assault on Marginalized History?, Gallerie 3

Moderator: Michael Fuhlhage, Wayne State University

  • Melita Garza, University of Illinois
  • Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamente, University of Texas
  • Melissa Greene-Blye, University of Kansas
  • Gwyneth MellingerJames Madison University
3:00-3:30 p.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Gallerie 1

4:00-5:00 p.m. Your Choice of Two Simultaneous Sessions

PANEL: Guardians of Our History: Tactics Historians Can Use to Safeguard and Preserve the Untold Stories of Our PastGallerie 3

Moderator: Pamela Walck, Duquesne University

  • Ashley Walter, Saint Louis University
  • Chelsea Reynolds, Arizona State University
  • Mike Conway, Indiana University
  • Marquita Smith, University of Mississippi

PANEL: Forging Our Legacies, Navigating the Future: Covering AAPI Communities with Accuracy at the Intersections of Our Histories, Gallerie 2

Moderator: Noah Arceneaux, San Diego State University 

  • Leezel Tanglao, Asian American Journalism Association
  • Amy Wang Manning, Oregon Health and Science University
  • Arnold Pan, University of California, Los Angeles Asian American Studies Center

5:10-6:10 p.m. Your Choice of Two Simultaneous Sessions

LOCAL PANEL: Los Angeles Portrays Itself: Historicizing Community Journalism in the Southland, Gallerie 2

Moderator: Chelsea Reynolds, Arizona State University

  • Sarah Bennett, Santa Ana College
  • Teresa Puente, California State University, Long Beach
  • Albert Serna, Los Angeles Center for Investigative Journalism and NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists
  • Evan Solano, KCRW

PAPER SESSION: Chronicling Black Lives and Fighting for IntegrationGallerie 3

Moderator: Cathy Jackson, Norfolk State University

  • Jason Peterson, University of South Carolina-Beaufort, Rebel With a Cause: Jimmie Robertson’s Tenure as Editor of The Mississippian, 1961-1962**
  • Felecia Jones Ross, The Ohio State University, The Attempted Rescue of Ensign Jesse L. Brown: A Model of Interracial Cooperation During the Korean War***
  • Pamela E. Walck, Duquesne University, Julia B. Jones: The Courier’s ‘First Lady of Journalism’

** Runner-up: David Sloan Award for outstanding faculty research paper

*** Award: J. William Snorgrass Award for outstanding minority-journalism research paper

6:20-7:30 p.m. Local Journalist Award Reception, Gallerie 1/Pool

Friday, Sept. 26

7:30-8:30 a.m.  Continental Breakfast, Gallerie 1

9-11:30  p.m. Conference Registration, Gallerie Foyer

8:50-10:20 a.m. Your choice of two simultaneous sessions

PANEL: Free Speech on the Frontlines: Examining the Foundations for FairnessGallerie 2

Moderator: Dianne Bragg, The University of Alabama

  • A.J. Bauer, The University of Alabama
  • Emily Erickson, California State University, Fullerton
  • John Szabo, Los Angeles Public Library

PAPER SESSION: Journalism History and Media TheoryGallerie 3

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

  • Bradley Hamm, Northwestern University, and Charlotte Che, Northwestern University, History of an Idea: The Serious Obstacles to Agenda-Setting Research in its First Decade
  • Nicholas Hirshon, William Paterson University, “Gone to Pot”: Newsday’s Framing of Marijuana Use by the 2002 New York Mets
  • Rich Shumate, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Taking It to the Screen: How JFK’s Live TV Press Conferences Created a New Paradigm for the Bully Pulpit*
  • Ken J. Ward, Pittsburg State University, Mapping a Movement: Imagining the Socialist Community of the Appeal to Reason
  • Timothy Klein, Wenzhou-Kean University, McClure’s Magazine and the Populist Movement

* Award: David Sloan Award for outstanding faculty research paper

10:00-10:30 a.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Gallerie Foyer 

    10:30-11:50 a.m. Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize, Gallerie 2

    Moderator: Pete Smith, Mississippi State University 

    Winner: Robin Sundaramoorthy, Lehigh University, Black Radio Ownership and the FCC's Failed Attempt to Diversify the Airwaves” 

    Honorable mentions: Holly Swensen, Northwestern University, Robert O’Sullivan, University of Notre Dame, and Karlin Andersen Tuttle, Penn State University 

    12-1:30 p.m. Donna Allen Roundtable Luncheon, Gallerie 1 

    2-5 p.m.  Historic Tour, The Queen Mary

    Saturday, Sept. 27

    7:30-8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Gallerie 1 

    8:00-10:00 a.m. Your Choice of Two Research in Progress Sessions

    Group 1, Gallerie 2

    Moderator: Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen, University of Idaho

    • Julie Haltom, California State University, Long Beach, "Subscribing to the Southwest: Desert Magazine and the Reinvention of the American Frontier"
    • Lucas DeBenedetti, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, “Commitment or Compulsion? How the Press Understood Executive Orders 8802 and 9981”
    • Elisabeth Fondren, St. John's University, "Masking Political Propaganda as ‘News’: Fact-Finding and the U.S. ‘Strategy of Truth’ in Aerial Leaflets that Bypassed Nazi Censorship in WW II"
    • George Daniels, The University of Alabama, and Wayne Dawkins, Morgan State University, “Pre-AAJA and Pre-NABJ: Minority Journalists’ Organizing and Advocacy Story”
    • Jon Marshall, Northwestern University, “The Press as Accelerant: A New Theory of Watergate and Journalism”
    • Tracy Lucht, Iowa State University, “Mabel Grammer and the Afro-American’s ‘Brown Baby Plan’”
    • Charles Sorrie, École Bilingue de Berkeley, “American Culture and Stars and Stripes, 1918-1919”
    • Jennifer E. Moore, University of Minnesota Duluth, "All She Did Was Ask: Defining the Journalism of Terry Gross"
    • Natalie Pursche, University of Kansas, “Vibrant Subjects: How Cherokee Photographer Jennie Ross Cobb Captured History”
    • Daniel Marshall Haygood, Elon University, “Addison ‘Add’ Penfield: A Duke Sports Media Career that Mirrors the Long Broadcast History of Atlantic Coast Conference Sports”

    Group 2, Gallerie 3

    Moderator: Susan Swanberg, University of Arizona

    • Zachary J. Rzicznek, Temple University, “Imagining Communities of Gun Owners: The Role of Print Periodicals in U.S. Gun Culture and Politics, 1833-1916”
    • Teresa Puente, California State University, Long Beach, "A Bilingual Newspaper Experiment”
    • Anna E. Lindner, Nazareth University, “Whiteness, Womanhood, and Virtue in Spanish Colonial Cuba: The Fictions of Virginia Felicia Auber y Noya, 1849-1852”
    • Melissa A. Wall, California State University, Northridge, “‘Most Admired, Sometimes Feared and Ridiculously Loved’: Frances Sweeney, Boston’s World War 2 Antifascist Muckraking Journalist"
    • Lorraine Ahearn, Elon University, “‘Public is Boss’: The Impact of The Tenderloin Times as a Quadrilingual Street Paper in San Francisco (1977-1994)”
    • Kate L. Flach, California State University, Long Beach, “‘Population Boom or Doom?’: How Marlene Sanders Used Population Growth to Report on Women’s Reproductive Health at ABC”
    • Rachel Grant, University of Florida, and Christina Mislan, University of Missouri, “Child Clapbacks: Black Press Female Cartoonist Jackie Ormes Reimagines Black Feminism in ‘Patty Jo ‘n’ Ginger’”
    • Ken J. Ward, Pittsburg State University, and Aaron Atkins, Weber State University,
    • “Sport, Cultural Practice, or Something Else?: Legitimizing ‘Indian Relay’ in the American Press”
    • Lisa Lenoir, Indiana University, and Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University, “The Circle City’s Black Press: A History of Indianapolis’ Black Voices, 1879-1901”
    • Natascha Toft Roelsgaard, Muskingum University, “‘Nora Visits the Jail’: Journalism, Structural Witnessing, and the Ethics of Care in the Work of Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson”

    10:00-10:30 a.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Gallerie 1

    10:10-11:40 a.m. General Business Meeting, Gallerie 1

    •  Approval of 2024 Minutes
    • Election of officers
    • Officer and committee reports
    • Presentation of research paper and service awards
    •  Presidential succession
    • The gavel will be turned over to Michael Fuhlhage, Wayne State University, AJHA president for 2025-2026
    • Rising Scholar Award
    • Best Article in American Journalism Award

      12-1:20 p.m. Working Lunch (Officers/Board), Boardroom, 3rd floor 

      1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. AJHA Book of the Year Award PanelGallerie 2

      Winner: Gwyneth MellingerJames Madison University, Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow 

      Honorable Mentions:

        • Ira Chinoy, University of Maryland, Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Day of Computer Forecasting
        • Jeremiah Favara, Gonzaga University, Tactical Inclusion: Difference and Vulnerability in U.S. Military Advertising
        •  Larry Heinzerling, Associated Press, and Randy Herschaft, Associated Press,  with Ann Cooper, Columbia University, Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany

        2:40-3:40 p.m. Your Choice of Two Simultaneous Sessions

        PAPER SESSION: Transnational Journalism, Press Freedom, and Colonial Contexts, Gallerie 2

        Moderator: John Ferré, University of Louisville 

          • Erin K. Coyle, Arizona State University, and Annette Masterson, University of Michigan, Framing Journalistic Roles and Rights: A Historical Case Study of U.S. and Cuban Leader’s Transnational Communications About the Cuban Detention of a Miami Herald Journalist ******
          • Rachel Grant, University of Florida, and Kelsy-Ann Adams, University of Florida, Decolonizing Caribbean Queer Histories: The Gay Freedom Movement’s The Jamaica Gaily News, 1977-1984
          • Anna E. Lindner, Nazareth University, A Microtextual Approach: Theories and Methods for Studying Enslavement and Colonialism in Communication, Media, and Journalism History*****

        ***** Award: Jean Palmegiano Award for outstanding transnational journalism research paper

        ****** Runner-up: Jean Palmegiano Award for outstanding transnational journalism research paper

        PANEL: Presidency and the Press, Gallerie 3

        Moderator: Christina Littlefield, Pepperdine University

          • Thomas Mascaro, Bowling Green State University
          • Diane Winston, University of Southern California
          • Jon Marshall, Northwestern University
        3:00-3:30 p.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Gallerie 1

        3:50-4:50 p.m. Your Choice of Two Simultaneous Sessions

        AMERICAN JOURNALISM PANEL:  Media History that Speaks Back in Moments of Crisis, Gallerie 2

        Moderator: Rachel Grant, University of Florida

          • Erin K. Coyle, Arizona State University
          • Kim Gallon, Brown University
          • Kevin Lerner, Marist University
          • Bailey Dick, Bowling Green State University

        PRESIDENT’S PANEL: The Press and Politics in an Age of Autocracy, Gallerie 3

        Moderator: Debra Reddin van Tuyll, Augusta University

          • A.J. Bauer, The University of Alabama
          • Elisabeth Fondren, Saint John’s University
          •  Joseph R. Hayden, University of Memphis
        6 p.m. Gala Dinner, Gaucho Beach 


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