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Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers on any aspect of media history to the competition for the annual conference of the American Journalism Historians Association. The organization and conference is small enough to allow graduate students to take an active role in presenting and discussing research but large enough to maintain rigorous academic standards, making it a good place for young scholars to get their feet wet in academia. Graduate student presenters will find conference participants, from first-year graduate students to veteran media history scholars, ready to discuss their ideas and share advice. Conference participants will also find plenty of opportunities for socializing at the conference, including sightseeing tours of historical points of interest and media outlets in the host city. These opportunities to get to know faculty and other students help build a network of contacts that come in handy in research and job pursuits. Encouraging graduate student participation is not an empty obligation with AJHA. The organization puts its money where its mouth is. Graduate students who present at the annual conference receive reduced fees and, importantly, a stipend to help offset travel costs. The stipend is drawn from the conference’s annual silent auction, which, despite its name, is anything but silent. During the auction, which is one of the conference’s most anticipated social functions, conference participants bid on donated items of historical interest. The proceeds go toward graduate student stipends for the following year’s conference. The value placed on graduate student participation makes the AJHA annual conference one of the best in our field for young scholars. Consider submitting a paper. Michael Slagle |
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