Conference Program 

Questions about the program should be directed to 2nd Vice President Michael Fuhlhage 

Full Program in PDF Form

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Wednesday, Oct. 2

1:30 p.m. Board of Directors meeting, Carson Meeting Room, 

2 - 6 p.m. Conference Registration, Sofia Ballroom

5:45 p.m. American Journalism Editorial Advisory Board meeting, Carson Meeting Room

Thursday, Oct. 3

8:00-9:00 a.m. Breakfast Buffet, Sofia Ballroom (Foyer)

8-5 p.m. Conference Registration, Sofia Foyer, with closure during Sidney Kobre lunch 

8:30 a.m. Welcome and President’s Address: Tracy Lucht, Iowa State University, AJHA President 2023-2024

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

Paper Session: Modern American Politics, Salk Meeting Room 

Moderator: David R. Davies, University of Southern Mississippi 

• Timothy Vest Klein, Wenzhou-Kean University, "

  The Journalism of Theodore Roosevelt and the Populists"
• Thomas A. Mascaro, Bowling Green State University, "Amplifying Agnew: How Outside Groups Strengthened the Vice President’s Attacks on Journalism"
• Bala James Baptiste, Miles College, "What Civil Rights Acts? The Times-Picayune's Strategic Editorial Silence on the Signing of the Monumental Federal Bills"

PANEL: Political Cartoons and Public Perceptions, Clemente Meeting Room

 Moderator: Pam Parry, Southeast Missouri State University

• Panelist: Erika Pribanic-Smith, University of Texas at Arlington
• Panelist: Pete Smith, Mississippi State University
• Panelist: Claire Rounkles, University of Memphis
• Panelist: Meshari Alotaibi, University of Southern Mississippi

10-10:30 a.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Sofia Ballroom (Foyer)

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

PAPER SESSION: Under the Hood of News: Journalism Values and Innovations, Salk Meeting Room

Moderator: Matthew Pressman, Seton Hall University 

• Gilad Halpern, University of Haifa, "The Journalistic Creed Upon Decolonization: The Case of The Palestine Post" Award: Jean Palmegiano Award for outstanding transnational journalism research paper
• Amber Roessner, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Brian Creech, Lehigh University, "Addressing the 'Error of Our Ways': Metajournalistic Discourse, the Rise of Ombuds, and the Defense of Truth in American Journalism’s Late High-Modern Era (1961-1980)"

PANEL: AI and Media History— Questions about Ethics, Archive, and Methodology, Clemente Meeting Room

Moderator: Ashley Walter, St. Louis University

• Panelist: Erin Coyle, Temple University

• Panelist: Michael Fuhlhage, Wayne State University

• Panelist: Gwyneth Mellinger, James Madison University

• Panelist: Timothy Moran, Wayne State University

12-1:30 p.m. Sidney Kobre Award Luncheon, Sofia Ballroom, included with registration

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

PAPER SESSION: Science and Health, Salk Meeting Room

Moderator: Carol Terracina-Hartman, Murray State University 

• Eric Boll, Ohio University, "Depictions of Paleontology in Three Major American Newspapers in the 1990s"
• Suzannah Evans Comfort, Indiana University-Bloomington, "From John Muir to a Sports Editor Turned Natural Resources Reporter: The Milwaukee Journal as An Unexpected Cradle of American Environmental Journalism"
• Connor Todd, University of Alabama, "Gay News, Straight Facts: How the Alabama Forum Covered HIV Tests during the AIDS Crisis (1981-1993)"

PANEL: It’s Not Your Grandparent’s Protest—How Media Historians Can Help Journalists Bring Context to Protest Coverage, Clemente Meeting Room

Moderator: Earnest Perry, University of Missouri School of Journalism

• Panelist: Lorraine Ahearn, Elon University School of Communications

• Panelist: Aimee Edmondson, Ohio University

• Panelist: Naeemah Clark, Elon University

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

PAPER SESSION: Feminism in Print Across the Centuries, Salk Meeting Room

Moderator: Donna Lampkin Stephens, University of Central Arkansas 

• Margarita Artoglou, Temple University, "Seventeen Magazine, 1990-2010: Constructions of Teenage Girlhood in the Third Wave and Postfeminist Eras"
• Eduardo Morales, University of Georgia, "The Awful and Impressive Example: Wife Beaters and the Whipping Post in American Newspapers, 1904-1906" Award: Maurine Beasley Award for Outstanding Women’s History Research Paper
• Julie Hedgepeth Williams, Samford University, "Creating Their Own Mass Medium:  Suffragist (and Anti-Suffragist) Postcards"

PANEL: Eureka! Imagination and Innovation in the Quest for Primary Source Materials, Clemente Meeting Room

Moderator: Ira Chinoy, University of Maryland 

• Panelist: Melita Garza, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

• Panelist: Mark Feldstein, University of Maryland 

• Panelist: Rob Wells, University of Maryland 

3:00-3:30 p.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Sofia Ballroom (Foyer)

4:00-5:30 p.m. High-Density Paper Session, Sheffield Ballroom

Group 1

MODERATOR: Christopher Hanson, University of Maryland 

• W. Joseph Campbell, American University, "No Antidote for Bad Polls: The New York Times’ Commitment to Shoe-leather Journalism in Reporting the 1956 Presidential Campaign"
• Erin K. Coyle, Temple University. "Guarding Against the Miscarriage of Justice: Analyzing Newspaper Coverage of the 1954 Marilyn Sheppard Murder Investigation Through the Prism of the Social Responsibility Theory, Checking Value, and Watchdog Role of the Press"

Group 2

MODERATOR: Patrick Cox, Patrick Cox Consulting 

• Craig Allen, Arizona State University, "The 1986 Mass Resignation of Journalists in Spanish-Language TV News: Revisiting the SIN Mutiny and the Triumph Journalists Claimed"
• Michael Fuhlhage, Wayne State University, and Lee Wilkins, University of Missouri, "Racial Reckoning at the Guardian: A Newspaper Owns Up to a History of Entanglement with the Slave Trade"
• River Gracey, University of Georgia, "The Manzanar Free Press: Managed Democracy"

Group 3

MODERATOR: Carolyn Kitch, Temple University 

• Ross F. Collins, North Dakota State University, "Propaganda for the Cure: United States San Mags at the End of the Sanatorium Era"
• Bella Farris, University of Georgia, "The First Pages of Southern Queer Liberation"
• Daniel Marshall Haygood, Elon University, "Black College Football’s Moment – The Story of the Grambling College Football Network"

4:00-5:30 p.m. PRESIDENT’S PANEL: Effective Leadership in Times of Turmoil,  Clemente Meeting Room

Moderator: Tracy Lucht, Iowa State University

• Panelist: Janice Hume, University of Georgia

• Panelist: Earnest Perry, University of Missouri

• Panelist: Ford Risley, Penn State

• Panelist: Amber Roessner, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

5:40-6:40 p.m. Your Choice of Two Simultaneous Sessions

LOCAL PANEL: Journalism in a City of Trailblazers: Media, Steel, Sports, and Medicine, Clemente Meeting Room

Moderator:  Sara Bauknecht, Chatham University

• Panelist: Katrina Jesick Quinn, Slippery Rock University

• Panelist: Robert Edward Healy III, Duquesne University

• Panelist: Liann E. Tsoukas, University of Pittsburgh

• Panelist: Andrew Simpson, Duquesne University

• Panelist: Laurence Glasco, University of Pittsburgh

PAPER SESSION: Mass Media Phenomena in the Mid-20^th Century, Salk Meeting Room

MODERATOR: Felecia Jones Ross, Ohio State University 

• Alexia Little, University of Georgia, "The Reality of a Pseudo-Event: Gone with the Wind Premiere, 1939," Award: Robert Lance Award for outstanding student research paper
• Madeleine Liseblad, California State University, Long Beach,  "'My Whole Perspective Had Been Changed…My Life Was Changed:' Four American World War II Correspondents and MacArthur’s Return to the Philippines"
• Willie R. Tubbs, University of West Florida, "Missed Opportunities: Military Publications, Public Information, and the Vietnam-Era Service of Bob Kalsu and Rocky Bleier," Award: Wally Eberhard Award for Best Historical Research Paper on Media and War

6:45-8:30 p.m. Local Journalist Award Reception, rooftop, Kimpton Hotel Monaco Pittsburgh 

Friday, Oct. 4

8:00-9:00 a.m. Breakfast Buffet, Sofia Ballroom (Foyer)

8-11:30  p.m. Conference Registration, Sofia Foyer

8:30-9:30 a.m. Your choice of two simultaneous sessions

PAPER SESSION: Religion in Twentieth-Century Mass Media, Salk Meeting Room

Moderator: Christina Littlefield, Pepperdine University 

• Karlin Andersen Tuttle, Penn State, "'A Different Type of Woman': A History of Fundamentalist Baptist Women’s Magazine Christian Womanhood, 1974-2022"
• Paul A. Anthony, Florida State University, "White Press, Black Church: Colorblind Rhetoric, Alternative Media, and the 1968 Summer of Crisis in Churches of Christ" Award: J. William Snorgrass Award for Outstanding Minority Journalism Research Paper
• John P. Ferré, University of Louisville. "Soft News, Commercialism, and Faith: Religion in Pathé and Paramount Newsreels, 1920-1957" Award: Wm. David Sloan Award for Outstanding Faculty Research Paper

AMERICAN JOURNALISM PANEL:  The Pittsburgh Courier: Chronicling Black Activism Across the Decades,  Clemente Meeting Room

Moderator: Pamela E. Walck, outgoing American Journalism editor, Duquesne University

• Panelist: Jinx Broussard, Louisiana State University

• Panelist: Robin Sundaramoorthy, University of Maryland

• Panelist: Cristina Mislan, University of Missouri 

• Panelist: Rachel Grant, University of Florida

10:00-10:30 a.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Sofia Ballroom (Foyer)

10:10-11:25 a.m. Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize, Sheffield Ballroom

Winner: Christopher Schaefer, University of Cambridge,  “Covering the World with the International Herald Tribune.” 

Honorable mentions: Anna E. Lindner, Karen D. Russell, and Carey Kelley. 

11:35 AM-12:40 p.m. Donna Allen Roundtable Luncheon, Sofia Ballroom

1-5 p.m.  Historic Tour 

Saturday, Oct. 5

8:00-9:00 a.m. Breakfast Buffet, Sofia Ballroom (Foyer)

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

Group 1: Salk Meeting Room

MODERATOR: Dianne Bragg, University of Alabama 

• Alan G. Stavitsky, University of Nevada-Reno, “‘Eminent in Such Fields’: The Historical Composition of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board of Directors”
• Ashley Walter, St. Louis University, “The ‘President Baiter’: The Life and Legacy of Journalist Sarah McClendon”
• Pamela E. Walck, Duquesne University and Josalyn McMillan, Duquesne University, “Liberated from ‘Linoleum Confines’: Hazel Garland’s Unlikely Path from Her Kitchen to Leading the New Pittsburgh Courier”
• George L. Daniels, University of Alabama, “Toward a History of Asian American Journalism and Media Educators”
• Matthew Pressman, Seton Hall University, “From Othering to Targeting: How New York’s Daily News Tried to Shed a Reputation for Racism and Attract Minority Readers”
• Perry Parks, Michigan State University, "Access Without Accountability: A Longitudinal Analysis of Journalism Textbooks' Approaches to Police Coverage"
• Petra McGillen, Dartmouth College, “Hired to Take the Fall: ‘Proxy Editors’ and Journalistic Accountability in Imperial Germany”
• Michael Fuhlhage, Wayne State University, “Pleading Their Own Cause: Chicano Counter-narratives in the Late Twentieth Century”
• Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota, “Journalism & Jim Crow North: How the Mainstream Press Supported Racial Segregation in Housing during the Great Migration—and How the Black Press Fought Back “(working title)
• Amy Mattson Lauters, Minnesota State University-Mankato, “Newspapers.com: On Considering the Value of Breadth in Historical Research”
• David Kaszuba, Susquehanna University, “Filling the Mid-20th Century Gap in the Timeline of Women Sports Journalists”

Group 2: Clemente Meeting Room

MODERATOR: Jennifer E. Moore, University of Minnesota Duluth 

• Rob Wells, University of Maryland, “Raymond Moley: New Deal Architect to Conservative Advocate”
• Ken J. Ward, Pittsburg State University, “Imagining a Socialist America: Community-Building in the Appeal to Reason”
• John-Erik Koslosky, Commonwealth University, “Selling the Farm: The Long-term Impact of Early Corporate Newspaper Consolidation on the Watchdog Function of the U.S. Press”
• Allison Millward, Rowan College-Burlington County, "'If I fail, He Dies': Representations of Professional Nurses in Mass Propaganda in the World Wars"
• Maria Villarroel, St. John's University, American Journalism Independence Amid Populism: A Comparative Study of How The New York Times Covered the 1988 and 2013 Presidential Elections in Venezuela”
• Daniel Marshall Haygood, Elon University, “Brought to You By: An Exploration and Analysis of the Original Advertising Sponsors of Televised (ACC) Basketball”
• Melita M. Garza, University of Illinois, “The Free Press Stamped in Public Memory”
• Robert A. Rabe, Marshall University, “The Pendulum Swings Right: Richard Dudman, Men of the Far Right, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the Early 1960s”
• Robert D. Byrd, University of Memphis, “Giving Truth to Memphis Youth”: Tackling Literacy and Newsroom Diversity in Memphis’ City-wide High School Newspaper, 1997-2015
• Anna E. Lindner, Nazareth University, “White Rhetorics of Control: Race, Enslavement, and Status in Spanish Colonial Cuba, 1844-1886”
• Charles Sorrie, independent scholar, "‘The Legend of Verdun’ and the Development of Allied Propaganda in World War 1”
• Christie Kleinmann, Belmont University, “Creating Public Relations: The Influence of Jo van Gogh Bonger on the Profession”

10:00-10:30 a.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Sofia Ballroom (Foyer)

10:10-11:40 a.m. General Business Meeting, Sheffield Ballroom

• Approval of 2023 Minutes
• Election of officers
• Constitution and Bylaws amendments
• Officer and committee reports
• Presentation of research and service awards
• Presidential succession
• The gavel will be turned over to Debbie van Tuyll, Augusta University, AJHA president for 2024-2025
• Rising Scholar Award
• Best Article in American Journalism Award

11:50 a.m.-1:20 p.m. Working Lunch (Officers/Board)

1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. AJHA Book of the Year Award Panel, Salk Meeting Room

Winner: Aniko Bodroghkozy, "Making #Charlottesville: Media from Civil Rights to Unite the Right." 

Honorable Mentions:

• Katherine Rye Jewell, “ Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio"
• Josh Shepperd, “Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting"
• Ken Ward, "Last Paper Standing: A Century of Competition Between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News"

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

PAPER SESSION: Dissent and the Alternative Press, Salk Meeting Room

MODERATOR: Julie Lane, Boise State University 

• Mark Holan, independent journalist/historian, "Ireland’s 'Bloody Sundays' and The Pittsburgh Catholic, 1920 and 1972"
• Darren Chan, Temple University, "Rebel in a Chinatown: the legacy of Yellow Seeds and their newspaper in Philadelphia’s Chinatown"
• Ryan Busillo, The New School for Social Research, "Suits or Hippies:  The Contrasting Ideology and Communication Techniques of Students for a Democratic Society and the Yippies"

PANEL SESSION: Beyond ‘American:’ Cosmopolitan and Transnational Approaches to Journalism and Media History, Clemente Meeting Room

Moderator:  Anna E. Lindner, Nazareth University

• Panelist: Yong Volz, University of Missouri

• Panelist: Debra Van Tuyll, Augusta University

• Panelist:Tania Rosas-Moreno, Loyola University Maryland

3:00-3:30 p.m. Coffee and Hot Tea Service, Sofia Ballroom (Foyer)

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

PAPER SESSION: Sports and Representation in the Black Press, Salk Meeting Room

MODERATOR: Marquita Smith, University of Mississippi 

• Brian Carroll, Berry College, "The Dean of Scribes: The Poetry of Amsterdam News’s Romeo Dougherty"
• Carolina Velloso, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and Robin Mazyck Sundaramoorthy, University of Maryland-College Park,  “'Sepia Queen of Ice': News Coverage of Pioneering Black Ice Skater Mabel Fairbanks"
• Lisa D. Lenoir, Indiana University Bloomington, "Field of Protests and Politics: How the Women of the Negro Leagues Infuse Uniform Style into Baseball"

PANEL: Going Deep with The HistoryMakers Digital Archive While Teaching History Across the Curriculum, Clemente Meeting Room

Moderator: Wayne Dawkins, Morgan State University

• Panelist: Jana Duckett, Morgan State University

• Panelist: George L. Daniels, University of Alabama

• Panelist: Michael Christel, Carnegie Mellon University

6 p.m. Gala Dinner, Talia, 611 William Penn Place