43rd Annual AJHA Convention
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Oct. 3-5, 2024
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| Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement 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. This year's honoree will be announced later this summer and will be recognized during the Awards Lunch at the AJHA conference. AJHA's Book of the Year Award recognizes the best book in journalism history or mass media history published during the previous calendar year.
Bodroghkozy’s book explores the resurgence of white supremacy amid the 2017 “Summer of Hate” in Charlottesville, Virginia, by comparing that highly visible event to key moments in the civil rights era. Three authors earned honorable mention for their books:
The award will be presented during the book award panel. Read the news release. Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize 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 committee named three honorable mentions: Anna E. Lindner, Karen D. Russell, and Carey Kelley. Honorees will discuss their work in a special conference session. American Journalism Rising Scholar Award Editors of AJHA's quarterly academic journal American Journalism present the Rising Scholar Award at the annual General Business Meeting to recognize the achievements and potential of an untenured scholar who shows promise in extending her or his research agenda. This year's winner will be announced later this summer and the winner will be honored during the General Business Meeting. The award comes with $2,000 in research funding. Best American Journalism Article 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. This year's winner will be announced later this summer. The editors of American Journalism will present the award during the annual General Business Meeting. Inaugural Hazel Dicken-Garcia Research Grant The Hazel Dicken-Garcia Research Grant provides $1,000 grants for researchers who share the scholarly interests of Dicken-Garcia. This year's winner will be announced later this summer. 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. The 2024 winners will be announced later this summer. During the general business meeting, the AJHA will give out the following research awards for top papers at the Columbus convention.
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This year's winner is 
This year's winner is Christopher Schaefer, a postgraduate affiliate at the University of Cambridge now working for the German Marshall Fund of the United States, who won for his dissertation “Covering the World with the International Herald Tribune.”