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2023 releases

• Microgrant winners selected for American Journalism/Journalism History initiative
  
• American Journalism Historians Association Invites Applications for Inaugural Hazel Dicken-Garcia Research Grant
• American Journalism Historians Association Invites Nominations for Two Journalism History Achievement Awards

2022 releases

• American Journalism and Journalism History Invite Applications for Microgrants to Support Research Related to Intersection of Diversity and Media History
• AJHA Elects New Officers, Board Members
• AJHA Invites Entries for Top Mass Communication History Dissertation
• Dianne Bragg to Receive 2022 Teaching Award
• Tracy Lucht Receives 2022 Best Article Award
• AJHA Recognizes 2022 Top Paper Winners
• AJHA Names 2022 McKerns Grants Recipients
• Madeleine Liseblad Named 2022 Rising Scholar
• Janice Hume Earns Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism History
• Meghan McCune Wins Blanchard Prize for Work That Builds Upon Great War Scholarship
• A Chronicle of the Press and Jim Crow Wins AJHA's 2022 Book Award

2021 releases

• Edmondson, Pribanic-Smith honored with President's Awards
  
• AJHA announces research grant awards
• AJHA announces top papers for 2021 conference
  
• Ira Chinoy selected to receive 2021 Teaching Award
  
• Edmondson receives 2021 Best Article Award
  
• Shumate selected as 2021 Rising Scholar
  
• AJHA Announces 2021 Blanchard Dissertation Prize Honorees
• A history of WWI propaganda earns LSU scholar his second AJHA Book of the Year Award
  
• PR Museum founder to receive Distinguished Service Award
  
• Williams named 2021 Kobre Award winner

2020 releases

• AJHA invites entries for top mass communication history dissertation of 2020
  
• Pamela E. Walk leads new editorial staff of American Journalism
  
• Carolyn Edy recognized for service with President's Award
  
• AJHA announces top papers for 2020
• New officers announced (Oct. 12, 2020)
• Remembering Sidney Kobre.pdf
  
• Amie Marsh Jones Awarded 2020 Blanchard Prize
  
• Scholars Honored for 2020 Books of the Year
  
• Michael Fuhlhage selected for 2020 Teaching Award
• American Journalism names Matt Pressman 2020 Rising Scholar
  
• Stephen Bates receives 2020 Best Article Award
• Ford Risley earns Kobre Award for lifetime achievement
• Reminder! Call for Papers AJHA 2020 Virtual Conference
• Reminder! 2020 Call for McKerns Grant Proposals
• Stephens begins term as president at a crucial time for journalism historians

2019 releases

• 2019 McKerns Grant winners announced (Oct. 18, 2019)
• AJHA announced 2019 paper award winners (Oct. 18, 2019)
• New officers announced (Oct. 18, 2019)
• Awards committee bestows rare honor on Danky (Aug. 27, 2019)
• Vergobbi wins 2019 Teaching Award (Aug. 27, 2019)
• AJHA names Augusta University's VanTuyll 2019 Kobre Award winner (Aug. 23, 2019)
• Valdosta State's Aiello garners 2019 Book Award (Aug. 23, 2019)
• Meyers wins 2019 Best Article Award (Aug. 22, 2019) 
• 2019 Rising Scholar Award Winner Announced (Aug. 21, 2019)
• Deadline extended for 2019 Rising Scholar Applications (May 31, 2019)
• 2019 Blanchard Dissertation Prize honorees announced (May 20, 2019)
• President's Feature: Collins’ term as president latest notch in career of service to AJHA (Feb. 21, 2019)
• AJHA hosts annual Southeast Symposium in Panama City Beach (Feb. 21, 2019)

• 2018 McKerns Grant winners announced (Nov. 7, 2018) 
• New officers, board members announced (Oct. 23, 2018)
• AJHA announces 2018 paper award winners (Oct. 19, 2018)
• Mascaro's study of documentary journalists tabbed as Article of Year (Sept. 14, 2018)
• Arizona's Swanberg named 2018 Rising Scholar (Sept. 5. 2018)
• Steven Casey wins 2018 AJHA Book Award (Aug. 28, 2018)
  
• Ohio University's Sweeney wins 2018 Teaching Award (July 28, 2018)
• St. Peter's Palmegiano named 2018 Kobre Award recipient (July 18, 2018) 
• Kathryn McGarr wins 2018 Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize (May 1, 2018)
• One Month Remains for Convention Submissions (April 27, 2018)
• Call for McKerns Grant Applicants (April 27, 2018)
• Call for 2018 Rising Scholar Applicants (April 20, 2018)

• Veteran researchers earn 2017 McKerns Research Grants (Dec. 1, 2017)
• American Historical Association announces winner of first journalism history book prize (Nov. 15, 2017)
• AJHA welcomes new board members (Nov. 15, 2017)
• AJHA recognizes top papers from annual convention (Nov. 15, 2017)
• American Journalism announces Best Article award winner (Sept. 22, 2017)
• Littlefield named 2017 Rising Scholar (Sept. 22, 2017)
• AJHA announces 2017 Local Journalist Award winner (Sept. 5, 2017)
  
• Roessner named 2017 Outstanding Educator (Aug. 18, 2017)
• Hrach wins 2017 AJHA Book Award (Aug. 11, 2017)
• AJHA names Endres 2017 Kobre Award Winner (July 28, 2017)
• Pressman wins 2017 Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize (May 18, 2017)
• Call for American Journalism's 2017 Rising Scholar Award (March 9, 2017) 
• Official AJHA statement regarding the Administration of President Donald J. Trump's stances on media (Feb. 2, 2017)
• Vergobbi highlights plan for term as president (Jan. 2, 2017)

2016 releases

• New Officers for 2016-17 (Dec. 8, 2016)
  

• AJHA awards four with McKerns Grants (Nov. 8, 2016)
  

• National Convention paper awards announced (Nov. 4, 2016)

• Local journalist award (Sept. 7, 2016)

• Local journalist featured at luncheon (Aug. 30, 2016)

• Rising Scholar Award winner announced (Aug. 30, 2016)

• Dawkins receives AJHA National Award for Excellence in Teaching (Aug. 24, 2016)
  

• Davis to be honored as distinguished administrator (Aug. 19, 2016)
• Teel to receive AJHA Book Award (Aug. 16, 2016)
• Folkerts Named Lifetime Achievement Award Winner (July 13, 2016)
• Vanessa Freije Wins Blanchard Dissertation Prize (April 7, 2016)
• AJHA Award Nominations (Feb. 17, 2016)
• Ward appointed new AJHA Registrar (Feb. 1, 2016)
• Call for American Journalism's Rising Scholar Award (Jan. 21, 2016)

2015 releases

• AJHA introduces prize for international and transnational journalism historians (Nov. 30, 2015)
• AJHA President Pete Smith aims to focus on convention costs, membership (Oct. 20, 2015)
  
• AJHA members elected three new board members at the 2015 national convention (Oct. 19, 2015)
  
• AJHA awarded research paper awards at the 2015 national convention (Oct. 19, 2015)
  
• AJHA member Kimberley Mangun to receive American Historical Association teaching award (Oct. 15, 2015)
  
• American Journalism named Mike Conway winner of 2015 Best Article Award (Aug. 31, 2015)
  
• AJHA will honor local journalists Mick Hinton and Jaclyn Cosgrove at its October convention in Oklahoma City (Aug. 18, 2015)
  
• AJHA named Tracy Lucht winner of the 2015 National Award for Excellence in Teaching (Aug. 14, 2015)
  
• AJHA named Meg Lamme's Public Relations and Religion in American History 2015 Book of the Year (July 20, 2015)
  
• American Journalism selected Tracy Lucht as 2015 Rising Scholar Award winner (July 10, 2015)
  
• AJHA selected Mike Sweeney as 2015 Kobre Award winner (July 6, 2015)
  
• AJHA Elections and Nominations Committee seeks nominations for board, 2nd VP (May 29, 2015)
  
• AJHA selected Carrie Teresa as 2015 Blanchard Dissertation Prize winner (April 9, 2015)
  
• AJHA Board of Directors seeks candidates for Treasurer (Feb. 27, 2015)
  
• AJHA members and their students will present at the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium (Feb. 15, 2015)
  
• AJHA honored seven students with research awards at its Southeast Symposium (Feb. 3, 2015)
  
• Lisa Parcell (AJHA finance officer) appeared on Rudy Maxa’s World to discuss her Hershey Company research (Jan. 21, 2015; listen here at 12:48-21:35)
• Ford Risley leads new editorial staff of American Journalism (Jan. 8, 2015)

2014 releases

• New president Erika Pribanic-Smith aims to focus on communication.
• American Journalism presented Amber Roessner with the inaugural Rising Scholar Award.
• AJHA presented Leonard Teel the Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement.
  
• AJHA recognized Bernell Tripp with its National Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• AJHA awarded Beth Kaszuba the Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize.
• AJHA presented Carol Sue Humphrey the Book of the Year Award.
• American Journalism named Amy Aronson and Tim Vos winners of the Best Article Award.
• AJHA awarded Michael Martinez and Roger Mellen with Joseph McKerns Research Grants.
• AJHA recognized 19 scholars with research paper awards at its national convention.
• AJHA member Kimberly Wilmot Voss received the Association of Food Journalists first Carol DeMasters Service to Food Journalism Award for her research on food journalism history.
• Several AJHA members received recognition for their research at the AEJMC National Conference.
• AJHA member Julie Williams was among five awardees for the 2014 Ella Dickey Literacy Award, along with former First Lady Laura Bush.
• AJHA members presented research at the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference.
• AJHA members and their students participated in the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium.
• AJHA honored six students with research awards at its Southeast Symposium.
• AJHA plans for its 33rd National Convention in St. Paul.

2013 releases

• New president Amy Lauters emphasizes professionalism.
• AJHA recognized Earnest Perry with its National Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• AJHA awarded Melita Garza the Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize.
• AJHA presented Richard K. Popp the Book of the Year Award.
• American Journalism named Frank Fee winner of the Best Article Award.
• AJHA recognized 14 scholars with research paper awards at its national convention.
• AJHA plans for its 32nd National Convention in New Orleans.
• AJHA panel addresses archiving digital records.

2012 releases

• New president Kimberley Mangun seeks constitutional revisions.
• AJHA presented David Nord the Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement.
• AJHA recognized Janice Hume with its National Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• AJHA awarded Brian Dolber the Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize.
• AJHA presented Peter Hartshorn the Book of the Year Award.
• AJHA awarded Meg Lamme and Tracy Lucht with Joseph McKerns Research Grants.
• AJHA plans for its 31st National Convention in Raleigh.
• AJHA members received recognition for their teaching and research at the AEJMC National Convention.
• American Journalism named Pete Smith as its first digital media editor.
• AJHA members were named among the nation's top professors.
• AJHA member Kitty Endres produced her fourth documentary.