Greg Borchard
President
Gregory A. Borchard, associate director and undergraduate coordinator at the School of Journalism and Media Studies at UNLV, teaches classes in journalism history, media criticism, reporting, and research methods. His publications include second edition books co-authored with David Bulla, Journalism in the Civil War Era (Peter Lang 2023), Lincoln Mediated: The President and the Press through Nineteenth-Century Media (Routledge 2020), and the single authored Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley (Southern Illinois University Press 2019) and A Narrative History of the American Press (Routledge 2018). He edited the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Journalism (SAGE 2022), co-edited with David Sachsman The Antebellum Press: Setting the State for Civil War (Routledge 2019), and he was the inaugural editor of Journalism History for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s History Division. His manuscripts appear in Journalism and Communication Monographs, Journalism History, American Journalism, and The Journal of Popular Culture.
Simon Vodrey
Secretary
Simon Vodrey holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Communication from Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, Canada. He researches and writes about journalism history, media history, political marketing, and political communication.
Sandy Davidson
Board Member At-Large
Prof. Emerita Sandy Davidson earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Connecticut-Storrs and her J.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia, graduating Order of the Coif. A Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, she retired in 2019 after teaching media law there for 30 years. Writing sample: “The Rocky Road to Truth as a Defense: Libel Construction in the 19 Century,” in An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Freedom of Expression in the 19 Century, ed. by Mary Cronin (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016).
Katrina Quinn
Vice President
Katrina Jesick Quinn is a professor in the Department of Strategic Communication & Media at Slippery Rock University. A Hazel-Dicken Garcia Distinguished Scholar of Journalism History, Dr. Quinn has published on topics such as 19th-century political reporting, the Civil War press, sensationalism, and journalism of the American frontier. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and an array of edited books. She is an editor of Adventure Journalism: Essays on Reporting from the Arctic to the Orient (McFarland, 2021), recognized as “Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture” by the Popular Culture Association, and The Civil War Soldier and the Press (Routledge, 2023).
Matthew Arendt
Board Member At-Large
Matt Arendt received his Ph.D. in history at Texas Christian University, his M.A. at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and his B.A. at the University of St. Thomas. He specializes in the history of abolitionism and the intersection of slavery with politics and religion in antebellum America and the Civil War. He has presented his research at the Symposium of the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression since 2018.
Lee Jolliffe
Board Member At-Large
Lee Jolliffe, Ph.D., earned her B.A. in Communication Arts and English at Lindenwood College, her M.A. in Education from The Ohio State University, and her Ph.D. in Journalism and Mass Communication from Ohio University. Dr. Jolliffe is a former full-time magazine freelance writer and spent the 1980s as editor and head of the editorial department at Battelle Institute, where she worked on projects and proposals for NASA, NSF, US DOE, DoD, and other clients, on teams winning over a billion dollars in research grants. She is Professor Emerita at Drake University, a mid-sized private school, and is an award-winning teacher as well as a prolific writer of academic studies of resistance to slavery in the 19th-century United States. Her work appears in American Periodicals, Journalism Quarterly, Journal of Popular Culture, Journalism History, and many books. In 2016, she served as the first guest editor of Journalism History, publishing a series of research articles created by participants in the Symposium now offered by the Society of Nineteenth-Century Historians. She is coeditor and coauthor of Adventure Journalists in the Gilded Age: Essays on Reporting from the Arctic to the Orient, winner of the 2022 Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in American Culture.
Brian Gabrial
Treasurer
Brian Gabrial, Ph.D., is a journalism historian whose research focus has been the nineteen-century press as it concerned American slavery and race. Other research involves the nineteenth-century press and its reaction to the American Indians’ struggle against “manifest destiny.” He is a professor emeritus from Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, and was the most recent Wise Endowed Chair in Journalism at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
David Bulla
Board Member At-Large
David W. Bulla is a professor of communication at Augusta University. Bulla focuses his research on the history of journalism. Bulla and Gregory A. Borchard have co-authored Journalism in the Civil War Era and Lincoln Mediated: The President and the Press through Nineteenth Century Media. He has also written a book about Mohandas K. Gandhi as a journalist and edited two books on slavery. Bulla earned a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Florida.
Debra van Tuyll
Board Member At-Large
Debra Reddin van Tuyll is professor emeritus at Augusta University where she taught journalism and public relations for nearly 30 years. She presently serves as executive editor of The Augusta Press, an award-winning daily newspaper in Augusta, Ga. Van Tuyll is the author or editor of nine books, most of which deal with the Civil War-era press. She also works in the area of transnational journalism history and the earliest Irish-American press.
