2008 Scheidel Lecture: Jane Rhodes

Wednesday, February 06, 2008
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Communications 126

Jane Rhodes is Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and Professor and Chair of American Studies at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN. Her latest book is Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon (The New Press, 2007).  

Rhodes holds an M. A. in Communication from Syracuse University and a Ph. D. in Mass Communication Research from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the Macalester faculty, Rhodes taught in the Ethnic Studies department at the University of California— San Diego, in the School of Journalism at Indiana University, and in the Communication Studies department at SUNY Cortland. Rhodes’ dissertation, a biography of the first African American woman journalist in North America, won the Nafziger-White prize for the best dissertation from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Rhodes was also awarded a President’s Postdoctoral Fellows from the University of California in 1994, and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities in 1999. In 1998, Rhodes’ first book, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (Indiana University Press), was published, and it won the award for the best book in mass communication history from AEJMC. Rhodes was also featured in the award-winning documentary The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (California Newsreel). Rhodes specializes in the study of race and mass media, the black press, media and social movements, and cultural studies.

Co-sponsored by the Diversity Research Institute and the Simpson Center for the Humanities