AEJMC President
Office Term – 2011/2012
WELCOME LINDA STEINER, University of Maryland as the 93rd President of AEJMC. Elected to office in May 2009, she was installed as president at the AEJMC Conference in St. Louis, MO, August 2011.
Steiner is professor of journalism and director of graduate studies and research at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Previously she was professor at Rutgers University, where she served a term as chair of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies. Her first full-time teaching job was at Governors State University. Between completing her BA at the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois-Urbana, she worked for a weekly newspaper in upstate New York.
Having attended her first AEJMC meeting in 1979, Steiner chaired the Task Force on Ethics; that task force’s Code of Ethics was unanimously approved at the 2008 convention. She co-chaired (with James Carey) the Task Force on the Future of Publications, 2001 – 2003; and served as sub‑committee chair and author of a final report of the Vision 2000 Task Force. She served two elected terms on the Standing Committee on Research, including as chair and as head of the Blum and Deutschmann awards; and served on the Publications Committee. A member of the Commission on the Status of Women from the days when CSW members were appointed, she has served CSW in a number of capacities; and also has done service for the History division. Having worked through the ranks to head of the Qualitative Studies division, she spearheaded the effort to change its name to Cultural and Critical Studies. Twice she won that division’s James Murphy Award for Top Faculty Paper. She also won the MaryAnn Yodelis Smith Award for Research. She was an elected member of the executive committee of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication
Steiner served as Associate Editor of Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and remains on its editorial board. She remains on seven other editorial boards, including Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs. She was Editor of Critical Studies in Media Communication, Associate Editor of Journalism History, and Criticism and Commentary co-editor of Feminist Media Studies.
She published a Journalism Monograph, and has coauthored or co-edited three books, including Women and Journalism (Routledge, 2006). Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies, co-edited with Clifford Christians, is forthcoming. She is the author of 20 refereed journal articles, a dozen other articles for refereed journals, and 45 book chapters.
FROM THE PRESIDENT • January 2012
Contact Steiner: lsteiner@jmail.umd.edu • (301) 405-2426
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