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Nancy L. Roberts's Teaching and Research Interests:

• Communication and journalism history, especially the history of alternative periodicals.
• Literary aspects of journalism.
• Magazine writing and editing.

Publications/Presentations

Books

• The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media, with Michael Emery(deceased) and Edwin Emery (deceased), 9th edition, Allyn and Bacon, 2000; 8th edition, Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
• American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement, coedited with Anne Klejment. Praeger, 1996. Won the Pax Christi Award (1997).
• American Peace Writers, Editors, and Periodicals: A Dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1991. Includes profiles, bibliographies, and demographic statistics of some 400 U.S. peace advocacy writers and editors, colonial period to present.
• "As Ever, Gene": The Letters of Eugene O'Neill to George Jean Nathan, coauthored/coedited with Arthur W. Roberts, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987.
• Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, State University of New York Press, 1984.

Selected contributions to books

• “Professionalization of Journalism” (by Nancy L. Roberts and Giovanna Dell’Orto) in Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, vol. 2, ed. Jorge Reina Schement (New York: Gale, 2002), 497-499.
• “Dorothy Day,” Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, ed. Mary E.Reichardt (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001), 81-88.
• Essay on the history of U.S. women newspaper columnists for The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States,ed. Cathy N. Davidson, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Elizabeth Ammons (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 627-628.
• Entry on Ellery Sedgwick for American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 580-581.
• "The Peace/Pacifist Press" in History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret Blanchard (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998), 501-503.
• "The Catholic Worker and the Vietnam War," with Anne Klejment, American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement, Praeger, 1996, 153-170.
• "The Peace Advocacy Press," in Outsiders in 19th-Century Press History: Multicultural Perspectives, ed. Frankie Hutton and Barbara Straus Reed. Bowling Green State University Press, 1995, 209-238.
• "Dorothy Day" (evaluative essay), A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre, ed. Thomas B. Connery (Greenwood, 1992), 179-185.
• "Ellery Sedgwick" (evaluative essay), American Magazine Journalists, 1900-1960, 1st ser., Dictionary of Literary Biography Series, vol. 91 (Gale, 1990), 291-296.
• "Dorothy Day: Editor and Advocacy Journalist," for A Revolution of the Heart: Essays on the Catholic Worker (a volume of articles on the Catholic Worker movement), ed. Patrick Coy (Temple University Press, 1988), pp. 115 133.

Selected journal articles

• "'Ten Thousand Tongues' Speaking for Peace: Purposes and Strategies of the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Peace Advocacy Press," Journalism History, vol. 21, no. 1 (Spring 1995), pp. 16-28.
• "Journalism and Activism: Dorothy Day's Response to the Cold War," Peace and Change, A Journal of Peace Research, vol. 12, nos. 1-2 (1987), pp. 13-27.

Selected conference papers

• "Journalism in the Oneida Community," Communal Studies Association, Pittsfield, MA, October 2004.
• “Peace Reform Literacy in the History of Journalism,” as part of a session entitled “Literacy History and Material Cultures of Print in America: Why the Intense Interest at the End of the 20th Century?” to 52nd annual Convention Conference on College Composition and Communication 17 March 2001.

Other Professional Activities

Professional background in journalism

Free lance and on assignment writer (and sometimes photographer) for more than 50 consumer and trade magazines and newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, the Christian Century, Commonweal, Catholic Digest, U.S. Catholic, Americana, the Minneapolis Tribune, the St. Paul Dispatch, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Providence Journal, American Bookseller, U.S. Art (contributing writer/editor), Small Business, Specialty Coffee Retailer, and Instructor.

Selected service activities

• Head, History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1995-96
• President, American Journalism Historians Association, 1991-92
• Judge and critic for: Associated Church Press awards, 2001, 2004; Minnesota Magazine Publishers Association, 1997-2002; American Association of University Professors newsletter awards, 1998-2000; National Society of Newspaper Columnists (for collegiate columnists), 2000; Hearst student journalism awards, 1996-2004; Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, 1996.
• Editor, Faculty Voices, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities chapter of the American Association of University Professors, 1997-99.

Professional memberships

• American Studies Association.
• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
• Organization of American Historians.
• Research Society for American Periodicals.
• Society of Professional Journalists.

Links to websites related to research

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