Bobbi McCallum
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Fashion Writers Marian Christy & Bobbi McCallum
Love this images of fashion journalists Marian Christy and Bobbi McCallum. (Marian is seated.) The photo was taken at a Penney-Missouri Awards ceremony.
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Women’s History Month: Day 21 & Bobbi McCallum
For day 21 of Women’s History Month, I am blogging about Bobbi McCallum – a women’s page journalist from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 1968, at age 25, McCallum won the top national reporting award for women’s pages – the Penney-Missouri Award. Her five-part series about young pregnant women, “Unwed Mothers-The Price They Pay,” examined the lives of women facing significant social stigma. She interviewed teens, hippies, career women, and African American women. She told warm yet probing stories of young women whose voices often went unheard. Her work demonstrated what was happening at newspapers across the country in the 1960s-women’s pages were changing. New topics captured women’s attention and their…
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Working as a Public Historian
I have been asked why I spend so much time doing research when that work is not considered research by my university. My answer is that I believe in public history. I have written before about having to twice as hard to get tenure because I study regional rather than national figures in journalism history. While it does not feel fair, the women I write about were rarely treated fairly and faced much bigger hurdles than my own. I have the usual peer-review history journal articles that I publicize through social media, especially Academia.edu and Linkedin. My article about food editor Jeanne Voltz has more than 560 page views on…
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How the Tenure Process Can Marginalize Women in History
This post was inspired by Heather Cox Richardson’s post yesterday about mothers in the academy. In addition to excellent points about motherhood, she offered a reminder of what women often bring to research as they sometimes look for new topics or at an issue in a different way. In looking back post-tenure, it worries me that the requirements needed for tenure at an R-1 institution may lead to the marginalization of women in history. At my university, like many other schools, tenure means being a national expert – publishing in national journals. This means that research is largely about national figures, usually men. In fact, in what was intended to…
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Women’s History Month: Bobbi McCallum
For day nine of Women’s History Month, I am blogging about Bobbi McCallum – a women’s page journalist from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 1968, at age 25, McCallum won the top national reporting award for women’s pages – the Penney-Missouri Award. Her five-part series about young pregnant women, “Unwed Mothers-The Price They Pay,” examined the lives of women facing significant social stigma. She interviewed teens, hippies, career women, and African American women. She told warm yet probing stories of young women whose voices often went unheard. Her work demonstrated what was happening at newspapers across the country in the 1960s-women’s pages were changing. New topics captured women’s attention and their…
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Day Five: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
The fifth object that represents the women’s pages is a reporter’s notebook. The women’s page journalist with her reporter’s notebook is Bobbi McCallum. The most amazing reporter’s notebook from a women’s page journalist that I have read was the one that Vivian Castleberry kept the day that President Kennedy was assassinated. It is available at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. Vivian had been at the Trade Center and was waiting for the president to arrive. Word came that a shooting day occurred. Rev. Luther Holcomb began to speak. Vivian wrote of his words, “We are relying upon the faith we possess.” The wife of Henry S. Miller spoke out…
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