Dr. Carrie Teresa Tallies Third Award From American Journalism Historians Association
Carrie Teresa, Ph.D., will soon complete her second semester as an assistant professor of communication studies at Niagara University. When she does, Dr. Teresa will have already won three prestigious awards from theAmerican Journalism Historians Association, following Thursday’s announcement that she was selected for the 2015 Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize.
Dr. Teresa’s winning dissertation, Looking at the Stars: The Black Press, African American Celebrity Culture, and Critical Citizenship in Early Twentieth Century America, 1895-1935, examined how African American journalists and editors writing at the height of Jim Crow-ism covered celebrity culture and how this coverage was connected to the fight for civil rights.