About Us

The Magazine Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is composed of journalism professors who teach courses in magazine writing, editing, management, and design at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. We publish the scholarly online Journal of Magazine & New Media Research and a biannual newsletter. Our teaching activities include the popular Student Magazine Contest and faculty development tour as well as a syllabus exchange and student magazine exchange. Each year members present research papers at both the Southeast Colloquium and the AEJMC Convention. We welcome inquiries from professional magazine editors and publishers.

Head
Rachel Davis Mersey
Medill School of    Journalism
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
Tel: 847-491-2196
rdmersey@northwestern.
edu

Vice Head
Jacqueline Marino

School of Journalism and    Mass Communication
Kent State University
P.O. Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242
Tel: 330-672-8285
jmarino7@kent.edu

Secretary
Betsy Edgerton

Journalism Department
Columbia College—
   Chicago
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
Tel: 312-369-8914
bedgerton@colum.edu

Newsletter Editor
Sheila Webb

Department of Journalism
269 Communications    Facility
Western Washington  U.
516 High Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
Tel: 360-650-3252
Sheila.Webb@wwu.edu

SE Colloquium Chair
Erin Coyle

Manship School of Mass    Communication
Louisiana State    University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Tel: 225-578-2098
ekcoyle@lsu.edu

Research Chair
Elizabeth Fakazis

Division of    Communication  
University of Wisconsin—    Stevens Point
Stevens Point, WI 54481
Tel: 865-974-4452
liz.fakazis@uwsp.edu

PF&R Chair
Elizabeth Hendrickson

School of Journalism and
   Electronic Media
University of Tennessee    —Knoxville
Knoxville, TN 37996
Tel: 865-974-4452
ehendri2@utk.edu

Teaching Chair
Kevin Lerner

Department of
   Communication
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Tel: 845-575-3000
   x. 2661
kevinmlerner@gmail.com

Midwinter Chair
Ellen Gerl

Ohio University
E.W. Scripps School of
   Journalism
Scripps Hall 231
32 Park Place
Athens, Ohio 45701-2979
Tel: 740-597-3136
gerl@ohio.edu

Contest Co-Chair
Carol Holstead

William Allen White    School of Journalism &    Mass Communication
University of Kansas
1435 Jay Hawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045
Tel: 785-864-7628
holstead@ku.edu

Contest Co-Chair
Pamela Nettleton

Diederich College of    Communication
Marquette University
1131 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 53233
Tel: 612-871-8272
Pamela.Nettleton@
Marquette.edu

Social Networking Chair
Lori Blachford

Drake University
112 Meredith Hall
2507 University Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50311
Tel: 515-271-3050
Fax: 515-271-2798
lori.blachford@drake.edu


Membership Chair
Jeff Inman

School of Journalism and    Mass Communication Meredith 109
Drake University
Des Moines, IA 50311
Tel: 515-271-3941
jeff.inman@drake.edu

 

Journal Editor and
   Webmaster

Carol Schwalbe

Journalism School
Marshall Building
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tel: 520-621-6223
cschwalbe@email.
arizona..edu

 

Journal Assistant Editor
Miglena Sternadori
Contemporary Media and
   Journalism Department
University of South    Dakota  
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069
Tel: 605-677-6473
Miglena.Sternadori@
usd.edu

Journal Book Editor
David Sumner

Department of Journalism
Art and Journalism
    Building (AJ)
Room 300
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306
Tel: 765-285-8210
sumner@bsu.edu

 

Grad Student Liaison
Melita M. Garza

University of North
   Carolina—Chapel Hill
Campus Box #3365
Carroll Hall, Office 367
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Tel: 312-375-3163
melitag@email.unc.edu

Immediate Past Head
Lyn Lepre
School of Communication    and the Arts
Lowell Thomas 134C
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Tel: 845-575-3000
   x. 2684
lyn.lepre@marist.edu

Conference Fun Day
   Chair

Ted Spiker

Department of Journalism,
University of Florida
P.O. Box 118400
Gainesville, FL 32611
Tel: 352-392-6990
tspiker@jou.ufl.edu