Fall 2008

 

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Awards and Honors

Publications

Research Underway

Calls

 

Voices would like to extend congratulations

to the following individuals:

 

Promotions

Robbin D. Crabtree, Professor of Communication at Fairfield University in Connecticut, was selected Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. She is the first woman to serve in this post at Fairfield.

 

Jennifer Borda received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of New Hampshire this past July. 

 

Angela G. Ray (Ph.D., Minnesota, 2001) was tenured and promoted to associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, effective September 1, 2008.

 

Kyra Pearson received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor at Loyola Marymount University this past spring.

 

Kristina Horn Sheeler (Ph.D. Indiana University, 2000), was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Communication Studies, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

 

Awards and Honors

On November 2, Dr. Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Assistant Professor,  Speech/Communication Art, Music and Theater, will be inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi known as the "oldest and most selective all discipline honor society." She was nominated by Armstrong Atlantic State University.

 

Cindy Lont, Professor of Communication at George Mason University, received several video awards including:

  • 2007 Davey Silver Awards: C.M. Lont, Executive Producer, Studio A interview with  Ron Maxwell, Director of Gods and Generals

  • 2008 Videographers Award of Excellence: C.M. Lont, Executive Producer, Studio A interview with Barry Sisson, CEO of Cavalier Films.

  • 2008 Gracie Allen Award: C.M. Lont, Executive Producer, Studio A interview with Caren Cross, Independent Filmmaker

  • 2008 Telly Silver Award: C.M. Lont, Executive Producer, Studio A interview with Craig MacGowan, Director of “Jesus as Art.”

She was also awarded the NCA Mass Communication Division’s Teaching Award honoring excellent teaching in the mass communication field. Congratulations Cindy!

 

Dr. E. Michele Ramsey, Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women's Studies and coordinator of the Communication Arts and Sciences degree program at Penn State Berks, recently received the Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Equity (CLGBTE) Award for Excellence in Curricular Integration. For more on this outstanding honor to improve the climate of her campus for LGBT individuals, read the complete story. Congratulations Michele!

 

Pamela Tracy, Associate Professor of Communication, Longwood University, recently received the Maria Bristow Starke Award for Faculty Excellence. Congratulations Pamela

 

Carly Woods is a graduate student member of the Feminist and Women's Studies division. She recently received a $500 Honorable Mention Award for the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, a national competition hosted by the Catt Center at Iowa State University. For more on Carly's award, read the full story.
 

Publications

Jennifer Borda, University of New Hampshire, published a book chapter titled “Documentary Dialectics or Dogmatism?: Fahrenhype  9/11, Celsius 41.11, and the New Politics of Documentary Film” in The Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary. Eds. Thomas W. Benson and Brian J. Snee. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, which was released in June 2008. 

 

Janis L. Edwards and Amanda Leigh Brozana. "Gendering Anti-War Rhetoric: Cindy Sheehan's Symbolic Motherhood." Journal of the Northwest Communication Association, Vol. 37 (November 2008). Janis Edwards is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama.

 

Professor Linda K. Fuller, Worcester State College, recently published with Palgrave Macmillan Publishers the book African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises.

 

Naomi Johnson, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Longwood University recently had her research findings about branding in teen romance novels published in The New York Times, Newsweek, and many other local and regional news sources including NPR With Good Reason, The John Tesh Show, Slate.com, and CBS Good Morning Virginia.

 

Kruckeberg, D., & Tsetsura, K. (2008). The Chicago school in global community: Concept explication for communication theories and practices. Asian Communication Research, 5, 9-30. Katerina Tsetsura is Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication at the University of Oklahoma.

 

Dr. Laura Linder, Associate Professor of Media Arts at Marist College, explores how teachers have been portrayed on American television in her new book, Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television (Peter Lang, 2008), co-authored with Mary Dalton of Wake Forest University. This is Linder's third book on television programming history. She is also the author of Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox and co-editor (with Dalton) of The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed.

 

Cindy Lont, Professor of Communication at George Mason University, published "Confronting the Front Pages: A Content Analysis of U.S. Print" In Rebecca Lind’s Race/Gender/Media:  Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers, 2nd edition,  A-B LongmanPublishers.

 

Marian Meyers. (Ed). Women in Popular Culture: Representation and Meaning. (Hampton Press, 2008). Professor Meyers' anthology takes a new look at a wide range of contemporary images of women within the media to examine the meanings behind the representations of women in popular culture.  It explores what the representation of women says about their positions in society, the factors that shape representation, and the roles that gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation play within the mediated portrayal of women. Marian Meyers is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University.

 

Aimee Carillo Rowe, Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Iowa, recently published a book, Power Lines: On the Subject of Feminist Alliances with Duke University Press. Her book will be the focus of a Spotlight panel Saturday at 12:30pm (Manchester I) at this year's NCA.

 

Terri L. Russ, St. Mary's College, published the book Bitchin' Bodies: Young Women Talk about Body Dissatisfaction with StepSister Press out of Chicago. The national launch was September 25 at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Read the full story.

 

Research Underway

Carolyn Byerly, Howard University, has become the principal investigator of a two-year study called "Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media," which will examine the status of women in employment, decision making and governance in news organizations of 55-60 nations. The research is sponsored by International Women's Media Foundation, Washington, DC.  The report will be released in spring 2010. The study extends and refines Margaret Gallagher's study An Unfinished Story: Gender Patterns in Media Employment (Unesco, 1995). Gallagher's study of 43 nations focused predominantly on Europe, covered women in various media industries, and was irregular in its methodology. The IWMF-sponsored research represents the first global, systematic attempt to look specifically at women in news organizations; the study will result in recommendations for change to advance women's full participation in journalism professions.

 Carolyn Byerly, Tia Tyree, and Kerry-Ann Hamilton, of Howard University, have undertaken a study of the Washington Post's 17-article series Being a Black Man, which ran in 2006. The research examines content, and follows up with a survey of those who created the series.  The study will conclude in fall 2008.

 

Calls

Contemplating Maternity in the Era of Choice:

Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction

Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice.  We grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is our political right, our responsibility as women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under our control.  Unquestionably, the ability to make decisions about reproduction is a defining and empowering factor in our lives; we are indebted to our feminist foremothers.  Nonetheless, as we make reproductive decisions and enact contemporary maternity, we find that the implications of discourses of choice are varied and complex.  Choice implies rational deliberation ­ as if we come up with a plan, take appropriate action, and achieve our goals. Itıs true, of course, that some womenıs reproductive lives unfold this way.  Some women decide early and easily that they do not want children, they use birth control effectively, and they go about their lives 'childfree.' At the other end of the spectrum some women have 'always known' that they wanted to be mothers, they achieve their reproductive goals, and they embrace their maternal identities. Yet the editors of this volume argue that most women exist somewhere between these polar ends: that in questions of reproduction and maternity, women do not always 'get what we want.' Moreover, we maintain that womenıs reproductive desires are often ambivalent, vague, and subject to change.  In the United States and many other industrialized countries, women can and do exercise choice.  However those choices are shaped and impacted by various life factors including our relationships with others, our mental and physical health, our race, sexual orientation, and economic status, our varied goals and responsibilities, public and workplace policies, and the social norms and messages communicated to women about our ability to become mothers (or not). Additionally, making a 'choice' about reproduction is not a singular event; rather, women are faced with a series of choices over the course of our (reproductive) lives.

 

Employing a lens informed by communication studies and womenıs studies, in this edited volume we seek to investigate how discourses of choice affect womenıs lives as we move through the many stages of reproductive decision-making.  Specific questions that may be addressed include (but are not limited to): What factors shape our reproductive choices?  How do race, class, and/or sexuality intersect with choice making? What roles do public and workplace polices play in our reproductive choices? How do we negotiate choice in the context of our relationships? How do discourses of choice play out as women make decisions about where and how to give birth?  How do discourses of choice affect experiences of pregnancy, abortion, adoption, and infertility? How are discourses of choice implicated in our current understandings of 'good' mothering? What is the relationship between reproductive choice and womenıs identity?  How do discourses of choice continue (or not) to shape contemporary understandings of feminism? We invite essays that investigate womenıs lived experiences from a wide range of methodological and theoretical perspectives; essays should be written so that they are accessible to a broad academic audience. Scholars interested in contributing to this volume are invited to submit electronic proposals (approx. 1000 words in length) to Sara Hayden at sara.hayden@umt.edu.

 

Proposals Due: February 1, 2009

First Drafts Due:  September 1, 2009

Anticipated Date of Completion:  February 2010

If you have questions, please contact Sara Hayden at the address above or Lynn O'Brien Hallstein at lhallst@bu.edu

 

Last Updated 24 October 2008

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