Curriculum Vitae: Barbie Zelizer
Barbie Zelizer
Journalism, news images, cultural studies & popular culture, collective memory, media criticism. Studies on journalism as cultural practice, journalists as interpretive communities, news images & crisis - JFK assassination, Holocaust, September 11, war.
Research Interests:
Barbie Zelizer (Ph.D. 1990, University of Pennsylvania; MA 1981, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; BA 1976, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is Professor of Communication and holds the Raymond Williams Chair of Communication. A former journalist, Zelizer's work focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism, with a specific interest in journalistic authority, collective memory, and journalistic images in times of crisis and war. Coeditor and founder of the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism (Sage), Zelizer also has served on the editorial boards of numerous book series and journals, including Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Popular Communication, and Critical and Cultural Studies in Communication. Zelizer has lectured widely both internationally and nationally, and her essays on the media have appeared in The Nation, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Newsday, and other publications. Author and editor of seven books and some 40 articles and book chapters, Zelizer's work has been translated into French, Hebrew, German, Portuguese and Japanese. Zelizer has been both a Guggenheim Fellow, a Research Fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, and a Fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Her previous academic appointment was at Temple University.
Teaching:
Media Criticism; Critical Perspectives on Journalism; Journalism and the Academy; Communication and Cultural Studies; Communicating Memory; International Communication: Power and Flow.
Books:
"About to Die": Journalism, Memory and the Voice of the Visual. University of Chicago Press. In preparation
Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy. Sage Publications. 2004
(Co-Ed.) Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (with Stuart Allan). Routledge. 2004
(Co-Ed.) Journalism After September 11 (with Stuart Allan). Routledge. 2002
(Ed.) Visual Culture and the Holocaust. Rutgers University Press. 2001
Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye. University of Chicago Press. 1998
Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory. University of Chicago Press. 1992
Almost Midnight: Reforming the Late-Night News (with Itzhak Roeh, Elihu Katz, and Akiba A. Cohen). Sage Publications. 1980
