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Phone Number: (706) 542-5980
Fax Number: (706) 542-2183
E-Mail Address: jhume@grady.uga.edu

	Education
	Ph.D., Journalism, University of Missouri M.A., Journalism, University of Missouri B.J., University of Missouri

	Teaching Specialty
	Dr. Hume's teaching interests are magazine article writing, feature writing and media history. She has also taught classes in editing, mass communication and society, journalism philosophy and gender issues in media.

Research Interests

Dr. Hume's research focuses on the history of American journalism (as it relates to American culture and public memory), early American magazines, and media and women. For her book Obituaries in American Culture (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000), she read more than 8,000 obituaries published in newspapers in New York City, New Orleans, Baltimore, Chicago and San Francisco, along with Niles' Weekly Register and The National Intelligencer to show what they reveal about changing American values. She has also published research in a number of academic journals, including Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, American Journalism, Journal of Popular Culture and Newspaper Research Journal, and she has contributed book chapters to Elizabeth Burt's edited Women's Press Organizations, 1881-1999 (Westport CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000) and the forthcoming Jonathan Wilks, ed., Death, Corpse, Text: An American Cultural Studies Reader (NY: St. Martin's Press). She has presented papers at conferences of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, American Journalism Historians Association, International Communications Association, Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender, International Society for the Study of Subjectivity and the Symposium on the Antebellum Press, the Civil War and Free Expression.

	Experience
	Dr. Hume spent twelve years as a newspaper reporter and features editor. She was lifestyle and arts editor at the Mobile Register (Alabama). Before coming to UGA, she served on the faculty of the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Kansas State University.

Awards

Dr. Hume is the recipient of the Cruise Palmer Professorship in Journalism and Mass Communications, Kansas State University, for superior teaching. She was also named a "promising professor" by the Mass Communication and Society Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and received two Donald K. Anderson Graduate Student Teaching Awards from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

	Curriculum Vitae
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