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Rodger Streitmatter
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Publications - Presentations at Academic Conferences

  • “How Youth Media Can Help Combat Homophobia among American Teenagers,” Lavender Languages Conference, Washington, D.C., February 2003 (paper presenter)

  • “Lavender Languages, Public Media,” Lavender Languages Conference, Washington, D.C., February 2003 (panel coordinator and chair)

  • “Publishing Women: Rosie, Buffy, and the Revolution,” Composition and Cultural Studies Conference, George Washington University, Washington, DC, April 2002

  • “Media Representations of Gays and Lesbians,” Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, Washington, D.C., February 2002

  • “Bringing in the Outs: Gays and Lesbians, the Excluded Minority,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national convention (co-sponsored by History Division and Minorities and Communication Division), Washington, DC, August 2001, chair and moderator

  • “The White House Ten and the Origins of the Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement,” Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, Washington, D.C., September 2000

  • “‘Will & Grace’ Bring Gay and Lesbian America to the National Television Audience: A Positive View,” Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference, Washington, D.C., September 2000

  • “The Media History Classroom: A Forum for Diversity Issues,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division jointly with Minorities and Communication Division, New Orleans, August 1999

  • “Fighting for the Rights of American Labor,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division, New Orleans, August 1999

  • “Setting a Revolutionary Agenda for Women’s Rights,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Commission on the Status of Women, New Orleans, August 1999

  • “Promoting Free Love in the Victorian Age,” at the annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1999

  • “Other Voices: Writing the History of the Non-Mainstream Press,” American Journalism Historians Association, Mobile, Alabama, October 1997

  • “Bringing Research into the Classroom,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History/Law Divisions, Chicago, August 1997, organizer and chair

  • “Rosie the Riveter Meets the News Media: Propelling the American Woman into the World War II Work Force,” American Journalism Historians Association, London, Ontario, October 1996

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

  • “Margaret Schofield Wang: Opening a Window onto a ‘Different’ China,” Special Biographical Competition, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, California, August 1996

  • “Presentation and Publication” workshop, History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, California, August 1996

  • “Reporting on Gay and Lesbian Issues: The Emerging Curriculum,” Lesbian, Gay and Family Diversity Interest Group, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, California, August 1996, chair

  • “Integrating Varied Voices into Journalism and Mass Communication Classes,” History Division and Minorities and Communication Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Anaheim, California, August 1996

  • “Slowing the Momentum for Women’s Rights,” International Communications Association, May 1996, Chicago

  • “AIDS and the Gay Press: Uncovering or Covering Up?,” American Journalism Historians Association national meeting, September 1995, Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • “Sex, Lies and Auto/Biography: Who Should Do the Studying,” American Journalism Historians Association national meeting, September 1995, Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • “Researching Women Journalists and Their Publications: Problems and Solutions,” American Journalism Historians Association national meeting, September 1995, Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • “Origins of the Lesbian and Gay Press,” Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference (Keynote Address), September 1995, Washington, DC.

  • Vice Versa: America’s First Lesbian Magazine,” Lesbian, Gay and Family Diversity Interest Group, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national meeting, August 1995, Washington, D.C.

  • “From ‘Drivel’ to Substance: Transforming the Women’s Pages of the American Newspaper,” History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, August 1995, Washington, D.C.

  • “The Impact of Tabloid News Programs on American Television,” Fifth Annual Shanghai International Television Festival, November 1994, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.

  • “Gay Journalism: Standing on the Shoulders of the Counterculture,” History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national meeting, August 1994, Atlanta

  • “Lesbian and Gay Journalism Fights Back Against the New Right,” Lesbian, Gay and Family Diversity Interest Group, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication national meeting, August 1994, Atlanta

  • ONE Magazine: Gay America's First Journalistic Voice,” American Journalism Historians Association national meeting, October 1993, Salt Lake City

  • “The Homosexual Citizen: Spreading the Seeds of Gay Revolution,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Gay, Lesbian and Family Diversity Interest Group, August 1993, Kansas City

  • Mattachine Review: A Voice of Conformity in Gay America,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division, August 1993, Kansas City

  • “The Interactive Journalism History Classroom: Bringing the Dead to Life,” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention, Kansas City, 1993, organizer and chair

  • “Maria W. Stewart: Firebrand of the Abolition Movement,” American Journalism Historians Association national meeting, October 1992, Lawrence, Kansas

  • “Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: Woman Journalist of Boston’s Black Elite,” Symposium on the History of Women in Massachusetts sponsored by the Institute for Massachusetts Studies, October 1992, Westfield, Massachusetts

  • “Gertrude Bustill Mossell: Voice for Newly Freed Blacks,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division, August 1992, Montreal

  • “Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: African-American Journalist of the Elite Class,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Commission on the Status of Women, August 1992, Montreal

  • “After the Barriers Fell: How Racism and Sexism Affected the First Two African-American Women Journalists Accredited to Cover the U.S. Congress,” Organization of American Historians national meeting, April 1992, Chicago

  • “Delilah L. Beasley: A Nineteenth Century African-American Woman Journalist Who Lifted As She Climbed,” American Journalism Historians Association, October 1991, Philadelphia

  • “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, Boston, August 1991

  • “Marvel Cooke: An African-American Woman Journalist Who Agitated for Racial Reform,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division, Boston, August 1991 (presented jointly with Barbara Diggs-Brown)

  • “Alice Allison Dunnigan and the Hastening of the Modern Civil Rights Movement,” American Journalism Historians Association, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, October 1990

  • “Alice Allison Dunnigan: Pioneer Black Woman Journalist,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division, Minneapolis, August 1990

  • “Theodore Roosevelt: Public Relations Pioneer,” American Journalism Historians Association, Atlanta, October 1989

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