Rodger
Streitmatter
Professor
Print Journalism
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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