UA JOURNALISM PROFESSOR WINS TOP HISTORY AWARD

An assistant professor in The University of Arizona Department of Journalism won the top history award at the American Journalism Historians Association convention in Wichita, Kan., Oct. 12-14.

Journalism historian Linda Lumsden won the Maurine Beasley Women's History Award for the second year in a row. Lumsden received a plaque from Beasley, a professor at the University of Maryland who is a pioneer in journalism history.

Lumsden, who joined the UA faculty this fall from Western Kentucky University, is the only person to have won the award twice since it was inaugurated in 1999. It honors the best paper on women in journalism. Her paper was titled "Anarchy Meets Feminism: A Gender Analysis of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth, 1906-1917."

Lumsden is on the convention site committee of AJHA, which is expected to meet in Tucson in 2010. The AJHA was founded 25 years ago by journalism historians.

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