37th Annual AJHA Convention
Salt Lake City | Oct. 4-6, 2018
Convention contacts Convention Coordinator Registration Coordinator Program Coordinator Convention hosts University of Utah | Thursday, October 4 (morning) Go to: Schedule at a Glance | Thursday p.m. | Friday | Saturday Dianne Bragg, University of Alabama AJHA President, 2017-2018 9-10 a.m. Choice of two sessions PAPER SESSION: Media, Race, and Public Opinion Moderator: Vanessa Murphree, University of Southern Mississippi Turning the Attention: The Public Relations Efforts of the Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race Gwyneth Mellinger, James Madison University The AP and the Negro Identifier: An Ideological Battle for Journalism Standards Natascha Roelsgaard, Ohio University Let Our Voices Speak Loud and Clear: Daisy Bates’s Leadership in Civil Rights and Black Press History PANEL: Best Practices for Directing a Historical Dissertation or Thesis Maurine Beasley, Professor Emerita, University of Maryland Julie Hedgepeth Williams, Samford University Earnest Perry, University of Missouri Rachel Grant, Xavier University of Louisiana David R. Davies, University of Southern Mississippi 10:10-11:10 a.m. Choice of two sessions PAPER SESSION: Vexing Issues of Society and Study Moderator: Sonny Rhodes, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Spinning toward Secession: The Interplay of Editorial Bellicosity and Exchange News in the Press before the American Civil War Sara Browning, University of Maryland Answering the Chinese Question: Print Media’s Response to 19th-Century Immigration Debra van Tuyll, Augusta University The Transnational Paradigm as a Method of Analyzing Early Colonial American Journalism PANEL: Giving History a Voice: Strategies for Publishing Oral Histories Nicholas Hirshon, William Paterson University
PAPER SESSION: Unafraid to Blaze a Trail: Women Journalists Make a Difference Moderator: Donna Lampkin Stephens, University of Central Arkansas Bailey Dick, Ohio University Pete Smith, Mississippi State University Marama Whyte, University of Sydney
Go to: Schedule at a Glance | Thursday p.m. | Friday | Saturday |