39th Annual AJHA Convention
Virtual Conference | Oct. 2-3, 2020
Convention contacts Convention Coordinator Registration Coordinator Program Coordinator | Conference Program Questions about the schedule should be directed to 2nd Vice President Mike Conway Access information was emailed to registered participants on Sept. 28. If you need assistance, email ajhaconvention@gmail.com Go to: Saturday Friday, October 2 All sessions are one hour unless otherwise noted 11 a.m. E/10 a.m. C/9 a.m. M/8 a.m. P Choice of Two Sessions Paper Session: Defining Acceptability: Boundary Work of Journalism Moderator: Carolyn Edy, Appalachian State University Patrick Walters, Temple University/Kutztown University, “Boundaries and Journalistic Authority in Newspaper Coverage of the Hutchins Report” Ashley Walter and Karlin Andersen, Pennsylvania State University, “All the President’s Media: How the Traditional Press Responded to New Communications Technology Adopted by U.S. Presidents” Autumn Lorimer Linford, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “‘They’ll Never Make Newspaper Men’: Early Gendering in Journalism, 1884-1889” Panel Session: Black Women, Black Media and the Legacy of Women’s Suffrage Moderator: Meta G. Carstarphen, University of Oklahoma Panelists: Felecia Jones Ross, Ohio State University; Rachel Grant, University of Florida; Earnest L. Perry Jr., University of Missouri 12:30 p.m. E/11:30 a.m. C/10:30a.m. M/9:30a.m. P Choice of Two Sessions Paper Session: Portrayals and Production: Blacks as Creators and Focus of 20th Century Journalism Moderator: Brenda Edgerton-Webster Thomas Terry, Utah State University, “Its Racist Plunder: Opposing Agendas and Representations of the Elections of 1898 and 2008 through White and Black Press Political Cartoonists” Jon Bekken, Albright College, “Relations of Production at the Chicago Defender: Union-Busting, Contingent Labor, and Consolidation in the Black Press” Owen V. Johnson, Indiana University, “That’s All We Did for Him: The Story of Ernie Pyle and His Relationship to Blacks” Panel Session: Keeping History in Our Curriculum: Incorporating Historical Material into Non-History Courses Moderator: Meghan Menard McCune, Louisiana State University Panelists: Melita M. Garza, Texas Christian University; Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, Louisiana State University; Erin Coyle, Temple University; David J. Vergobbi, University of Utah 2 p.m. E/1 p.m. C/12 p.m. M/11 a.m. P Choice of Two Sessions Paper Session: New Programming Directions in Media Platforms Moderator: Nathaniel Frederick, Winthrop University Julien Gorbach, University of Hawaii at Manoa, “No Monsters and No Heroes! How the Realism of The Front Page Changed the Movies” Nicholas Hirshon, William Paterson University, “Bowling Headliners (1948-1950): The Creation of a Spectator Sport in Television’s Emergent Years” Madeleine Liseblad and Greg Pitts, Middle Tennessee State University, “Breaking the Billboard Magazine Mold: The Barbara Streisand, Michael Jackson and Julio Iglesias Super Specials” Panel Session: Presidential Attacks on Journalism as a Democratic Institution Since Nixon Moderator: Aimee Edmondson, Ohio University Panelists: Thomas A. Mascaro, Bowling Green State University; Amber Roessner, University of Tennessee; Jon Marshall, Northwestern University 3-3:30 p.m. E/2-2:30 p.m. C/1-1:30 p.m. M/12-12:30 p.m. P 3:30 p.m. E/2:30 p.m. C/1:30 p.m. M/12:30 p.m. P Choice of Two Sessions Paper Session: Women’s Role in Society: Public Relations and Journalism Interpretations Moderator: Carolyn Kitch, Temple University Tracy Lucht, Iowa State University, “Amelia Bloomer, The Lily, and Early Feminist Discourse in the U.S.” Pete Smith, Mississippi State University, “‘To Be Up and Doing’: Kate Markham Power’s Crusade Journalism and Case Against Woman Suffrage in the Post-Civil War South” Brian Carroll, Berry College, “Isabella Goodwin: Gendered Newspaper Coverage of New York's First Female Detective” Panel Session: Solving the Fake News Problem! Moderator: Teri Finneman, University of Kansas Panelists: Nathaniel Frederick, Winthrop University; Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE); Lisa Parcell, Wichita State University; David Bordewyk, South Dakota Newspaper Association 5 p.m. E/4 p.m. C/3 p.m. M/2 p.m. P Blanchard Dissertation Award session Winner: Amie Marsh Jones, University of Georgia, “The Forgotten Children of Bath: Media and Memory of the Bath School Bombing of 1927” (Dissertation Chair: Janice Hume, University of Georgia) Honorable Mentions: Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen, University of Idaho, “City of Destiny: Print Culture, Modernity, and the Struggle for a City’s Future” (Dissertation Chairs: Sue Robinson, William J. Reese, and James L. Baughman, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Moderator: Dale Zacher, St. Cloud State University 7 p.m. E/6 p.m. C/5 p.m. M/4 p.m. P Julie Hedgepeth Williams talk/performance: Carrie Ingalls, frontier newspaperwoman  Since joining AJHA in 1992, Julie Hedgepeth Williams has served as president and a member of the board of directors. She was honored to win AJHA's first Dissertation Award. She is also involved in AJHA's Southeast Symposium. Julie has taught media history in the graduate school at University of Alabama and teaches at Samford University. She has published a number of books, including the award-winning A Rare Titanic Family, about her great-uncle on the Titanic. Meanwhile, Wings of Opportunity, Three Not-So-Ordinary Joes, and Little Newspapers on the Prairie all started life as AJHA papers.Little Newspapers on the Prairie is the story of Carrie Ingalls' career as a frontier journalist. If you grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, you'll recognize Carrie as the third of the four Ingalls sisters, the one immediately younger than Laura. In the books, she's depicted as worry-worthy -- Laura is often concerned for Carrie's health. But as an adult, Carrie was the maverick of the Ingalls girls. A biographer of Laura mentioned briefly that Carrie grew up to run newspapers all over the West. When Williams read that as a teenager, it was merely interesting. Then she took media history in grad school and realized Carrie was the prototypical frontier press worker. Her career came together at the nexus of women's expanding roles and the frontier press movement in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Saturday, October 3 All sessions one hour unless otherwise noted 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. E/10–11:30 a.m. C/9-10:30 a.m. M/8-9:30 a.m. P Research in Progress: Choice of Two Sessions 1 p.m. E/12 p.m. C/11 a.m. M/10 a.m. P Choice of Two Sessions Paper Session: Changing Perceptions Through Fact, Fiction, and Persuasion Moderator: Andrea Ferraro, University of Mount Union Amy Mattson Lauters, Minnesota State University, Mankato, “‘Giving Cheap Knowledge to the People’: Community-building Among the British Working-class Through the Poor Man’s Guardian, 1831-1835” Emily Muhich, Louisiana State University, “Before Scopes: God, Darwin and America’s First Anti-Evolution Campaign” Susan Bragg, Georgia Southwestern State University, “Emma Bugbee and the ‘Girl Reporter’: The Mid-Century Print Culture Politics of Juvenile Literature” Panel Session: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Workshop on Media History Grant Proposals Moderator: Robby Byrd, University of Memphis Panelists: Joshua Sternfeld, National Endowment for the Humanities; Mike Conway, Indiana University 2:30 p.m. E/1:30 p.m. C/12:30 p.m. M/11:30 a.m. P Choice of Two Sessions Panel Session: American Journalism Panel—The Press and Protests: Black Oppression and Resistance Moderator: Vanessa Murphree, University of Southern Mississippi Panelists: Ford Risley, Pennsylvania State University; Bernell Tripp, University of Florida; Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota; Kathy Roberts Forde, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Panel Session: Infusing Historical Consciousness in Journalism Moderator: Michael Fuhlhage, Wayne State University Panelists: Jennifer Hart, Wayne State University; Jennifer Moore, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Candi Carter Olson, Utah State University; Carly Goodman, La Salle University and Washington Post’s “Made by History”
4 p.m. E/3 p.m. C/2 p.m. M/1 p.m. P Choice of Two Sessions Paper Session: Descriptions of Destruction: How Journalists Approached 20th Century Carnage Moderator: Melissa Greene-Blye, University of Kansas Raymond McCaffrey, University of Arkansas, “The Oklahoma City Bombing, 25 Years Later: Institutional Values and Professional Practices Employed by Journalists on the Biggest Story of Their Lives” Michael S. Sweeney, Ohio University, “The ‘Exactest’ Color and Situation: James Cassidy’s Two Radio Voices in World War II” Thomas Mascaro, Bowling Green State University, “A Journalist’s Guernica: With 'East Pakistan, 1971,' NBC’s Robert Rogers Introduces Rhonda Schwartz to Documentary Method in a Haunting Critique of U.S. Policy in the Pakistani Civil War” Panel Session: Talking Theory: New Scholarship in Journalism’s Legal History Panelists: Jared Schroeder, Southern Methodist University; Victoria Ekstrand, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Eric Robinson, University of South Carolina; Dean C. Smith, High Point University 5:30 p.m. E/4:30 p.m. C/3:30 p.m. M/2:30 p.m. P Choice of Two Sessions Paper Session: Media Portrayals and Historical Memory Moderator: Rachel Grant, University of Florida Matthew Cikovic, Pennsylvania State University, “Mister Rogers: The Public Broadcasting Champion” Brendon Floyd, University of Missouri, “From Nationalism to Imperialism: Musgrave, Burk, and the Irish Rebellion of 1798” Michael Fuhlhage, Anna Lindner, and Keena Neal, Wayne State University, “From Empire Builder to Failed Despot: News Framing of William Walker’s First Nicaragua Filibuster Campaign, 1855” Panel Session: “Did That Really Happen?”: Historical Fiction as “Gateway Drug” to Historical Research Panelists: Amy Mattson Lauters, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Erika Pribanic-Smith, University of Texas at Arlington; Kate Roberts Edenborg, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Ashley Walter, Pennsylvania State University 7 p.m. E/6 p.m. C/5 p.m. M/4 p.m. P Book Award Session Winner: Mike Conway, Indiana University, Contested Ground: ‘The Tunnel’ and the Struggle Over Cold War America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019) Honorable Mentions: Michael S. Sweeney and Natascha Toft Roelsgaard, Ohio University, Journalism and the Russo-Japanese War: The End of the Golden Age of Combat Correspondence (Lexington Books, 2019) Moderator: Michael Stamm, Michigan State University |