Speakers BureauThe AJHA Speakers Bureau features members who share their expertise and knowledge with the media and local and national organizations. The diversity of our membership enables our bureau to provide a wealth of educational resources. |
Name (click for email) |
Affiliation | Phone | Expertise |
Noah Arceneaux |
San Diego State |
(706) 224-0922 | Early radio (pre-1930) and telegraph history |
Maurine Beasley |
Maryland | (301) 405-2413 | Eleanor Roosevelt and media, Washington women journalists |
Fred Blevens |
Florida International |
(305) 919-4430 | Native American journalism |
David Bulla |
Zayed (U.A.E.) |
(055) 451-8799 | Civil War journalism, First Amendment, 19th century press |
Brian Carroll |
Berry College |
(706) 368-6944 | Black press, integration of professional baseball, Negro leagues, communication technology |
Lucy Shelton Caswell |
Ohio State |
(614) 292-0538 |
History of newspaper cartoons |
Mike Conway |
Indiana | (812) 856-1371 |
Radio and television news history |
John Coward |
Tulsa | (918) 631-2542 |
Native Americans and the media (19th and 20th centuries) |
Patrick Cox |
Texas | (512) 217-2279 |
20th century political, media, and public history |
Dale L. Cressman |
Brigham Young |
(801) 422-1686 |
Development of television news, Times Square, newspaper signage |
Doug Cumming |
Washington & Lee |
(540) 458-8208 |
Southern press, press and civil rights, literary journalism |
Chris Daly |
Boston | (617) 353-4295 |
Recurring crisis in the business model for the news media, non-profit newspaper PM |
David Davies |
Southern Mississippi |
(601) 266-4533 | Press and civil rights, newspaper industry since 1945 |
Aimee Edmondson |
Ohio | (901) 299-4219 | Civil rights-era libel law |
Kitty Endres |
Akron | (330) 972-6846 | Magazines, muckraking, progressive era, women |
Carolyn Edy |
Appalachian State |
(828) 262-7759 |
History of women war correspondents |
John P. Ferre |
Louisville | (502) 852-8167 | Media and religion, media and ethics |
Dolores Flamiano |
James Madison |
(540) 568-3034 | Photojournalism, social reform photography, Life magazine, women’s history |
Barbara Friedman |
North Carolina |
(919) 843-2099 | Gender and mass communication history, World War II, newspapers and magazines |
Ray Gamache |
College of St. Scholastica |
(218) 733-2298 | Sports journalism history, journalism education |
Paul Gates | Appalachian State | (828) 262-2392 | communication law, First Amendment |
Karla Gower |
Alabama |
(205) 348-0132 |
Public relations history |
Roy Harris |
author/journalist | (781) 740-3114 |
History of the Pulitzer Prize, public service reporting, Watergate, the Pentagon Papers |
Berkley Hudson |
Missouri | (573) 882-4201 |
American South photography, photojournalism, race relations in U.S. media, literary journalism |
Janice Hume |
Georgia | (706) 542-5980 |
Media and public memory, journalism and grief, obituaries |
John Jenks |
Dominican | (708) 524-6932 |
Cold War censorship, 20th century British news media |
Dean Jobb |
King's College |
(902) 422-1270 X143 |
Libel and media law, freedom of the press, colonial era newspapers, Canada's early press history, Chicago journalism in the 1920s |
Dave Kaszuba |
Susquehanna |
History of sports journalism, women in sports journalism |
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Paulette Kilmer |
Toledo | (419) 297-2764 | Popular culture, news as archetype and myth, news as narrative of cultural memory |
Carolyn Kitch |
Temple |
(215) 204-5077 | Women and journalism history, magazines, visual communication, memory studies |
Mary Lamonica |
New Mexico State |
(575) 646-4638 | Civil War women and Civil War reporting, 19th century minority journalism, 1930s FSA photographers |
Gerry Lanosga |
Indiana | (317) 697-6083 | Journalistic practice, investigative reporting, freedom of information |
Amy Mattson Lauters |
Minnesota State-Mankato |
(507) 389-5523 | Laura Ingalls Wilder/Rose Wilder Lane, American farm women’s history, literary journalism, women in media, women in popular culture |
Kevin Lerner | Marist | (845) 575-3000 X2661 | Press criticism, intellectual history of the press, alternative media, 1960s and 1970s |
Chuck Lewis |
Minnesota State-Mankato | (507) 389-5524 | Photojournalism/photography, Civil War, World War I, World War II |
Linda Lumsden |
Arizona | (520) 243-0533 | Women’s journalism history, American radical press (1900-1918), suffrage press |
Jane Marcellus |
Middle Tennessee State |
(615) 898-5282 |
Women in journalism, media representation of women |
Jon Marshall |
Northwestern | (847) 467-2450 | Investigative reporting, Watergate |
Jane S. McConnell |
Minnesota State-Mankato | (507) 389-5801 | Journalism ethics codes, history of social responsibility of the press |
James B. McPherson |
Whitworth | (509) 777-4429 | Media and politics, media and society |
James Mueller | North Texas | (940) 565-2278 | 19th century press, Civil War and frontier press, the press and the presidency |
Vanessa Murphree |
Southern Mississippi |
(601) 266-6574 |
Public Relations history |
Eugenia M. Palmegiano |
St. Peter's (retired) |
(201) 761-6177 |
19th century press, evolution of the journalist, transnational journalism |
Lee Anne Peck |
Northern Colorado |
(970) 351-2635 |
History of U.S. media ethics |
Earnest Perry |
Missouri | (573) 882-4214 |
African-American press |
Selene G. Phillips |
Louisville | (502) 852-6976 |
Native American communication/newspapers/culture and the Chautauqua movement |
Mavis Richardson |
Minnesota State-Mankato |
(507) 389-3299 |
Wounded Knee (1890), Wounded Knee (1973), BIA occupation (1972), American Indian journalists and newspapers |
Ford Risley |
Penn State |
(814) 865-2181 |
Abolitionist, Civil War and 19th-century press |
Lori Amber Roessner |
Tennessee | (865) 974-5142 |
Sports media history; collective memory; gender, race, class in media history. |
David Sloan |
Alabama (retired) |
(205) 333-8603 |
Press and politics, media bias, editorial writing, origins of the American newspaper |
Reed Smith |
Georgia Southern |
(912) 478-0531 |
Broadcast news history, Copperhead publishers in the Midwest during the Civil War, journalistic coverage of southern lynchings |
David Spencer |
Western Ontario |
(519) 471-4578 |
19th century press, radicals, editorial cartoons |
James D. Startt |
Valparaiso |
Woodrow Wilson and the media |
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Teresa Jo Styles |
North Carolina A&T State |
(336) 334-7900 |
History of film/documentary film-making, broadcast journalists in network news, media management |
Michael S. Sweeney |
Ohio |
(740) 597-1799 |
World War I and World War II censorship and propaganda |
Leonard Teel |
Georgia State |
(404) 377-8975 | Cuban revolution (1956-59), Civil Rights journalism (1940-70), public press (1900-45) |
Debra Reddin van Tuyll |
Augusta State |
(706) 729-2183 | History of the political press, Civil War journalism, and issues of media law and ethics |
David J. Vergobbi |
Utah |
(801) 485-4626 | Mass media law, freedom of expression, media ethics |
Patrick S. Washburn |
Ohio (retired) |
(740) 592-5888 | Black newspapers in the 20th century, government and the press in World War II |
Susan Weill |
Texas State |
(512) 396-1979 | Race and gender in the media, civil rights and the media, stereotypes and the media |