Biography
Twelve years in newspaper and magazine reporting and editng jobs in the Northeast, 23 years as a journalism professor and historian. Author of four books, William C. Fulbright Scholar.
Degrees
- Ph.D. Mass Communication
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US
- Rampant Women: How Suffragists Used the First Amendment's Right of Assembly to Win the Votw
- M.A. Magazine
- Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, US
- Thesis: Magazine Project
- B.A. Sociology
- Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, US
- none
Work Experience
- Western Kentucky University (1996 - 2006)
Awards
- Mary Lily Research Grant
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture.Duke University's Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Spring 2016
- Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy Fellow
- U of Arizona, Spring 2016
- Media Development Seminar
- Palestine American Research Center, Summer 2014
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
No activities entered.
Scholarly Contributions
Presentations
- Lumsden, L. J. (2018, October). “‘Don Sotaco’ Finds His Voice: Visual Rhetoric and Farm Worker Identity in El Malcriado, 1964-1967,”. American Journalism Historians Association convention. Salt Lake City: American Journalism Historians Association.
- Lumsden, L. J. (2014, April). The Border: Tucson’s Short-Lived Socialist Magazine on the Borderlands, 1907-08. Arizona Historical Society annual conference. Prescott, Ariz: Arizona Historical Society annual conference.
Poster Presentations
- Lumsden, L. J. (2015, August). Socialist Muckraker John Kenneth Turner: A Journalist/Activist a Century Before the Internet. Association for Education and Journalism in Mass Communication Annual Convention. Mntreal: Association for Education and Journalism in Mass Communication.
