Linda Lumsden
Assistant Professor (2006)
B.A., Central Connecticut State University;
M.A., Syracuse University;
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Office - Marshall 338
Telephone - (520) 243-0533
E-mail - lumsden@email.arizona.edu
Currently Teaching
Courses Taught
Recent Publications
- NEZ: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland (Bloomington; Indiana University Press, 2004)
- "'Women's Lib Has No Soul'? An Analytical Challenge to Myths Surrounding the Black Press's Coverage of the Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-1973," Journalism History 34 (Fall 2009)
- "Anarchy Meets Feminism: A Gender Analysis of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth, 1906-1917," American Journalism 24/3 (Summer 2007): 49-72
Past Academic Positions
- Associate Professor and director of Mass Communication sequence, Western Kentucky University, 1996-2006
Past Professional Positions
- Features Editor, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake, N.Y., 1983-87
- Assistant Sunday Editor, Middletown Times Daily Record, Middletown, N.Y., 1981-82
- Sports Editor, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake, N.Y., 1980-81
- Reporter, Lake Placid News, Lake Placid, N.Y., 1980-81
- Reporter, Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Conn., 1976-79
- Reporter, Hartford Times, Hartford, Conn., 1975-76
- Reporter-Intern, Hartford Courant, Hartford, Conn., 1975
- Freelance: New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Adirondack Life, WomenSports, The Olympian, New York Alive, Hartford Courant, Milwaukee Journal, Kentucky Home & Garden
Professional Organizations
- American Journalism Historians Association
Awards
- Maurine Beasley Award for Outstanding Paper in Women’s History, American Journalism Historians Association, 2005, 2006, 2007
- 2004 Institute for Journalism Excellence Fellow, American Society of Newspaper Editors
Research Summary
Radical journalism history, women’s journalism history, Progressive Era, American woman suffrage history