UNC at 2012 AJHA convention in Raleigh

Faculty, graduate students and alumni will represent the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) annual convention in Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 11-13, 2012.

Associate professor Barbara Friedman — who serves as editor of American Journalism, published by AJHA — and professor emeritus Frank Fee will host the conference.

The Carolina contingent will present papers and serve as moderators and panelists. Among Carolina’s activities at AJHA:

• Fee will serve on the panel “The Vanishing Media Archive: Challenges for Historical Research in the 21^st Century” in which participants will confront the reality of new media technologies that have complicated the scholar’s task, especially with regard to electronic archiving of materials.
• Friedman will serve on the panel “New Life for the Historical Methods Seminar: Training the Next Generation of AJHA Historians.” 
• Doctoral student Lorraine Ahearn will present her paper “Hostage-Taking at the Robesonian Newspaper: How Red Power Protest Enactment Problematized Media Objectivity.” She also will moderate the panel “Lost Cause, Lost Reality: The North Carolina Civil War Experience.”
• Doctoral student Denise Hill will present her paper “Public Relations to Help Free Rosa Lee Ingram, 1948-1959.”
• Doctoral student April L. Raphiou will present her paper “Former N.C. Governor Terry Sanford’s Progressive Use of Public Relations through the Good Neighbor Council.”
• Kathy Roberts Forde, a 2005 doctoral graduate and an associate professor at the University of South Carolina, will moderate the panel “Does Journalism History Matter? Journalism Historians Talk with John Nerone.”
• Michael Fuhlhage, a 2010 doctoral graduate and an assistant professor at Auburn University, will present his papers “Brave Old Spaniards and Indolent Mexicans: J. Ross Browne, Harper’s Monthly Magazine, and the Social Construction of Off-Whiteness in the 1860s” and “A Confederate Journalist Imprisoned in the North: The Case of Edward A. Pollard.” 
• Melita Garza, a doctoral alumna and Texas Christian University assistant professor, will present her paper “Sword & Cross in San Antonio: Reviving the Spanish Conquest in Depression-era News Coverage.”