The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference (JJCHC), co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is now accepting submissions for the 2025 conference. Submissions will open Thursday, January 2, and the submission deadline is 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.

This one-day interdisciplinary conference welcomes faculty and graduate students with an interest in journalism or communication history. Innovative research and ideas from all areas of journalism and communication history and from all time periods are welcome. This conference offers participants the chance to explore new ideas, garner feedback on their work, and meet colleagues from around the world interested in journalism and communication history in a welcoming environment.

When: Friday, March 28, 2025, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park
Registration fee: $90, including boxed lunch. Free for graduate students, with optional boxed lunch at $30.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anya Schiffrin, director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a senior lecturer on global media, innovation and human rights.

Tour: Conference participants can join a tour of the National Archives in College Park

Research, research-in-progress, panels, and workshop proposals are all welcome. Your proposal should detail your presentation topic and offer a compelling rationale as to why your research would interest an interdisciplinary community of scholars.

• Papers are completed research studies and should be attached to the submission, along with the 500-word abstract.
• Research-in-progress are projects that are currently underway, and which would benefit from collegial feedback in a conference setting. The JJCHC eagerly welcomes this kind of work and prides itself as a forum for generative thinking and feedback. To submit an RIP, include a 500-word abstract of the work in the submission form.
• Panels are pre-constituted presentations around a single topic. To submit a panel, include a 500-word rationale overview, along with separate abstracts for individual presentations.

Submissions should be emailed to jjchc.submissions@gmail.com. Please remove any identifying information from your paper or abstract, and attach it to your email as a PDF or Microsoft Word document. In the body of your email, please include your name, preferred email address, institutional affiliation, and title/rank (if applicable). If you are submitting a panel proposal, please include that information for all panel participants. 

The deadline for proposal submissions is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S.) Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. Authors will be notified as to whether their proposals by mid-February.

JJCHC 2025 Conference Organizers:

Elisabeth Fondren, St. John’s University, New York, NY, fondrene@stjohns.edu

Rob Wells, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, robwells@umd.edu