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Professor's book becomes a movie A documentary based on SLIS assistant professor Jeff Weddle's award-winning book Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press (University of Mississippi Press, 2007), premiered Nov. 11 at the Denver Film Festival. University Libraries sponsored a screening of the film, "The Outsiders of New Orleans: The Loujon Press" (directed by Wayne Ewing) and an accompanying talk by Weddle on Dec. 4. The film also was screened Feb. 5 at the Bama Theatre. |
Graduate recognized for outstanding dissertation Butler Cain, news director of Alabama Public Radio and instructor in the department of Telecommunication and Film, received an Honorable Mention award for his dissertation "Contempt by Publication in Nineteenth Century America" during the American Journalism Historians Association's national convention in Richmond, Va., October 13. The recognition places Cain's dissertation among the top four in the nation completed during the last academic year. Cain, whose dissertation chair was journalism professor Wm. David Sloan, was hooded in May. Other member participation at the AJHA conference: * Doctoral students Erika Pribanic-Smith and Dianne Bragg participated in a panel profiling women in journalism history. Pribanic-Smith also presented her work on antebellum South Carolina newspapers during a Research-in-Progress session. * Sloan moderated a panel on Graduate Education in Media History. * Caryl Cooper, assistant dean for undergraduate studeis, participated in a panel on Learning to Teach Media History, presented her research on "The growth of advertising and advertising agencies to support journalistic endeavors." |
Conference presentations and publications Wm. David Sloan is editor of The Age of Mass Communication, 2nd edition, published in 2007 by Vision Press. The media history textbook covers a wide range of topics and features chapters by Ph.D. candidate Erika Pribanic-Smith and Assistant Dean Caryl Cooper. Meg Lamme, assistant professor of public relations, had an article entitled "Alcoholic Dogs and Glory for All: The Anti-Saloon League and Public Relations, 1913" published in the Spring 2007 issue of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (vol. 21, no. 2). Amanda Clark, a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of Library and Information Studies, presented her paper entitled "Archiving the Middle Kingdom: Tracing Print Record in China" at the Society of Alabama Archivists (SALA) annual meeting in Dothan, Alabama, on October 26, 2007. Wm. David Sloan, professor of journalism, led a large University of Alabama contingent to the annual southeast symposium of the American Journalism Historians Association, Feb. 1-2 in Panama City, Florida. The purpose of the non-juried conference is to provide students with a non-threatening and supportive environment to share their work. In addition to moderating a faculty panel on his co-edited series "The History of American Journalism," Sloan sponsored several graduate students who presented papers, many of which were completed for his class. UA master's students on the program were Katie Cole, "Getting the News: Newspaper Reporting Methods, 1900-1940"; Anna Gresham, "Calvin Coolidge and the Press, 1923-1929: Political Genius or Just Lucky?"; and Jennifer Mitchell, "Women in Journalism, 1887-1897: Struggling or Successful?". Doctoral student Dianne Bragg also presented her paper "Waging War at Home: Coverage of Returning Black World War II Veterans by Four Black Newspapers." |
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