Maurine H. Beasley | Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Maurine H. Beasley
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., George Washington

Office: 3115 Journalism
Phone: 301-405-2413
E-mail: mbeasley@jmail.umd.edu

Maurine H. Beasley, former education editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star and former staff writer for The Washington Post, is a journalism historian who specializes in women's portrayal and participation in journalism. Her particular focus is Washington women journalists, including their coverage of First Ladies. Her most recent book is First Ladies and the Press (Northwestern University, 2005). She was coeditor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, published in 2001, named one of the outstanding academic reference books of the year by Booklist, publication of the American Library Association. Her coauthored/edited book, Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism, received a 2003 award for excellence from the Text and Academic Authors Association. Beasley, who holds degrees in journalism from the University of Missouri and Columbia University, has a Ph.D. in American Civilization from George Washington University. At Maryland she teaches classes in women and the media and history of journalism. She was named a Distinguished Senior Scholar by the Educational Foundation of the American Association of University Women and received a Leadership Award in 2001 from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication of which she is a past national president. She also is a former president of the American Journalism Historians Association. She has taught journalism at Jinan University in China under a Fulbright grant.

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