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Rodger Streitmatter
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Honors and Awards

Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, American University, March 2002
     Title: “Sex and the Media: Discomfiting Bedfellows”

Lambda Literary Award for the Best Women’s Biography published in 1998, for Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok

Guest Editor of theme issue on Conservative Media for American Journalism, 1998-99

Member, Selection Committee for the 1999 Journalism History Book of the Year

Annual Lecturer to the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 1998
     Title: “Before Stonewall: A History of the Gay and Lesbian Press      in America”

1997 Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights Award

Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America

Top Faculty Research Paper Award, History Division

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1996 for “Defying the Ku Klux Klan: Three 1920s Newspapers Challenge the Most Powerful Nativist Movement in American History”

First Place, Special Biographical Research Competition

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1996, (co-sponsored by Commission on the Status of Women, Newspaper Division, Magazine Division, and Scholastic Journalism Division) for “Margaret Schofield Wang: Opening a Window onto a ‘Different’ China”

Lecturer, Library of Congress Scholars’ Lecture Series, August 1996
     Title: “The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America”

Main Speaker, 1995 American University Convocation, September 1995
     Title: “From the Dowager Empress to Duck Tongues:      Personalizing the Teaching Process”

American University Scholar/Teacher of the Year, 1995

Outstanding Journalism History Research Award, 1995, for “AIDS and the Gay Press: Uncovering or Covering Up?” (Three awards are given annually to recognize the year's most significant contributions to scholarship related to the history of American journalism. The awards are presented by the American Journalism Historians Association.

J. William Snorgrass Minorities Research Award, 1995, for “AIDS and the Gay Press: Uncovering or Covering Up?” (This award is given annually to the journalism historian who has made the most significant contribution in the area of research on minority journalism.)

Fulbright Professor at Shanghai International Studies University, China, 1994-95. Taught two 15-week classes in Feature Writing at one of China’s key universities.

Presented an eight-part lecture series on “Current Trends in American Media” to students and faculty of the American Studies Center and College of Communication.

Lectured at U.S. Consulate General.

Worked as an editor at Radio Shanghai, a government-sponsored radio station.

J. William Snorgrass Minorities Research Award, 1992, for “Maria W. Stewart: Firebrand of the Abolition Movement”

First Place, Bill of Rights Bicentennial Research Competition, 1991 for “African-American Women Journalists: Breaking the Double Barriers of Race and Gender” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Commission on the Status of Women

Fulbright Professor at Moscow State University, 1991

Taught a 15-week course in American journalism at the oldest and largest university in the Soviet Union.

Organized and led a conference on Soviet-American Women in Journalism.

Presented a series of lectures, for the Soviet Ministry of Education, at Leningrad State University, Tashkent Institute of Foreign Languages, and Samarkand State University.

J. William Snorgrass Minorities Research Award, 1991, for “Delilah L. Beasley: A Nineteenth Century African-American Woman Journalist Who Lifted as She Climbed”

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars National Media Studies Essay Competition, 1989. This competition was designed to encourage analysis of the performance of the U.S. media. The 10,000-word essay was awarded second place and a cash stipend of $7,500.

Outstanding Journalism History Research Award, 1989, for “Theodore Roosevelt: Public Relations Pioneer”

Associated Press Award for Outstanding News Story in Virginia, 1978. First place, metropolitan newspaper category

Virginia Press Association Award for Spot News Writing, 1978, First place, metropolitan newspaper category

Virginia Press Association Award for Column Writing, 1977

First place, metropolitan newspaper category. 1977

Virginia Press Association Award for In-Depth Reporting Project, 1976, second place, metropolitan newspaper category

Virginia Press Association Award for Feature Article Writing, 1975, Honorable mention, metropolitan newspaper category

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