Deadline for entries (postmark date): February
1, 2009.
The AJHA Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize, given for the first time in 1997, is awarded annually for the best doctoral dissertation dealing with mass communication history. An honorarium of $500 accompanies the prize, and a $200 honorarium is awarded to each honorable mention.
Eligible works shall include both quantitative and qualitative historical dissertations, written in English, which have been completed between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2008. For the purposes of this award, a "completed" work is defined as one which has not only been submitted and defended but also revised and filed in final form at the applicable doctoral-degree-granting university by December 31, 2008.
To be considered, nomination packets must include:
(a) One copy of the complete dissertation;
(b) Four copies each of the following items, with all author, school, and dissertation committee identification of any kind whited-out:
(i.) a single chapter from the dissertation [preferably not to exceed 50 manuscript pages, not including notes, charts or photographs],
(ii.) a 200-word dissertation abstract,
(iii.) the dissertation table of contents;
(c) a letter of nomination from the dissertation chair/director or the chair of the university department in which the dissertation was written;
(d) a cover letter from the nominee indicating a willingness, should the dissertation be selected for a prize, both to attend the awarding ceremony and to deliver a public presentation based on the dissertation at the 2009 American Journalism Historians Association Annual Convention, October 6-8, 2009 in Birmingham, AL.
Note: Regarding Paragraph (b.)(i.) above, as a guide to selecting a chapter for submission, the Award Committee has in the past expressed a preference for a chapter which, if possible, highlights the work's strengths as a piece of primary-sourced original research.
Nominations,
along with all the supporting materials, should be sent to:
Prof.
David Abrahamson, Chair
AJHA
Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize Committee
Medill School of Journalism
Northwestern University
1845 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208.
The deadline
for entries is a postmark date of February 1, 2009.
Past
Winners of the Margaret
A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize
| 2006 |
Stacy
Spaulding, “Lisa Sergio: How Mussolini’s ‘Golden
Voice’ of Propaganda Created an American Mass Communication
Career”; Director: Maurine Beasley, University of Maryland |
| 2005 |
Pete
Smith, “‘It’s Your America’: Gertrude Berg
and American Broadcasting, 1929-1956”; Director: Arthur J.
Kaul, University of Southern Mississippi |
| 2004 |
Guy
Reel, "The Wicked World: The National Police Gazette, Richard
K. Fox, and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906";
Director: Patrick S. Washburn, Ohio University |
| 2003 |
Mark
Feldstein, "Watergate's Forgotten Investigative Reporter: The
Battle Between Columnist Jack Anderson and President Richard Nixon";
Director: Margaret A. Blanchard, University of North Carolina |
| 2002 |
Marc
Edge, "Pacific Press: Vancouver’s Newspaper Monopoly,
1957-1991"; Director: Patrick Washburn, Ohio University |
| 2001 |
Aleen
J. Ratzlaff, "Black Press Pioneers in Kansas: Connecting and
Extending Communities in Three Geographic Sections, 1878-1900";
Director: Bernell E. Tripp, University of Florida |
| 2000 |
Dale
Zacher, "Editorial Policy of the Scripps Newspapers During
World War I"; Director: Patrick Washburn, Ohio University |
| 1999 |
Nora
Hall, "On Being an African-American Woman: Gender and Race
in the Writings of Six Black Women Journalists, 1849-1936";
Director: Hazel Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota |
| 1998 |
David
R. Davies, “An Industry in Transition: Major Trends in American
Daily Newspapers, 1945-1965”; Director: David Sloan, Univ
of Alabama |
| 1997 |
Julie
Hedgepeth Williams, “The Significance of the Printed Word
in Early America”; Director: David Sloan, University of Alabama |
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