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Professor, Researcher, Mother
Today I spoke on a panel about balancing motherhood with being an academic. The key to what Lance & I try to do is incorporate much of our women’s page work with our family. It was a tradition we had before we had children as we traveled to archives and went through papers together. We would then try to add on a mini-vacation. In the photo above I am in the Dallas home of women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry. Lance and I stayed with Vivian and her husband Curtis before we moved to Orlando. When we discovered that we were having our first son, we decided that Curtis was a…
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Parenting & Research
On Thursday, I am speaking on a panel about combining a career in academia and parenting. One of the questions involved keeping up your research agenda post-baby. I will speak about the wonderful book Searching for Tamsen Donner. Like the book’s author, Gabrielle Burton, I have incorporated my research with my family. Many of our weekend activities and trip have some connection to the women’s pages.
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A Visit to the Kennedy Space Center
We visited the Kennedy Space Center this weekend. When the space work in Cape Canaveral first started, Miami Herald women’s page reporter Roberta Applegate wrote a 5-part series on the women who worked for NASA.
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Chili Cook-offs
Last night we went to the Avalon Park Oktoberfest where Mr. Toddler – pictured above – had a blast. Today, the Oktoberfest continues with a chili cook-off. I have been looking into these cook-offs for the food journalism book that I am writing. These competitions followed the beginning of the Pillsbury Bake-Offs – covered by the women’s pages. Here is a link to a history of the chili cook-off. In it, the author notes that food history had recently been corrected to show that the first such cook-off was in 1950. It was learned in a newspaper clipping. It is these bake-offs and cook-offs that were the initial culinary competitions…
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History of the Cookbook
I was excited to see this announcement about this new cookbook and this accompanying talk. Here is a review of the cookbook. The cookbook comes from the cookbook collection at the Fales Library at NYU. Much of the collection is the result of the donation from Associated Press food editor Cecily Brownstone – whose recipe column ran in the women’s pages for decades. Brownstone’s work was often overshadowed by hew fellow food writers: James Beard (a close friend) and Craig Claiborne. I am presenting a paper about Brownstone at the National Communication Association convention in November.
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Women of the Washington Press
This new book about women journalists in Washington by Maurine Beasley is in a word – amazing. (Dr. Beasley was my dissertation adviser and introduced me to the women’s pages.) It is rich storytelling – with strong anecdotes – grounded in significant research. Washington D.C. with its mix of politics and society has been a special place for women reporters. Dr. Beasley tells their stories well. Two of the women I write about are mentioned in the book – Vera Glaser and Eleni Epstein. The work of both women ran in the women’s pages. Vera Glaser was the longtime political columnist for a national wire service. Her work often ran…
A website devoted to the history of newspaper women's pages
