Associate Professor
Kathy Roberts Forde is an American journalism historian with research interests in democracy and the public sphere, the African American freedom struggle, the First Amendment, literary journalism, and the history of the book and print culture. She is the Associate Dean of Equity & Inclusion in the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences. She served as Chair of UMass Journalism from 2014-2017; she is past chair of the AEJMC History Division and past associate editor of American Journalism.
Her book Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008) received the Frank Luther Mott-KTA book award and the AEJMC History Division book award. She is the co-editor with Sid Bedingfield of Journalism & Jim Crow: The Making of White Supremacy in the New South, is forthcoming in fall 2021 with the University of Illinois Press. The book documents the active role white newspaper publishers and editors played in building and sustaining white supremacist political economies and social orders across the South from 1875-1920.
Kathy is also co-editor of the new book series Journalism & Democracy at the University of Massachusetts Press with Sid Bedingfield (University of Minnesota).
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About Kathy Roberts Forde
Kathy Roberts Forde is an American journalism historian with research interests in democracy and the public sphere, the African American freedom struggle, the First Amendment, literary journalism, and the history of the book and print culture. She is the Associate Dean of Equity & Inclusion in the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences. She served as Chair of UMass Journalism from 2014-2017; she is past chair of the AEJMC History Division and past associate editor of American Journalism.
Her book Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008) received the Frank Luther Mott-KTA book award and the AEJMC History Division book award. She is the co-editor with Sid Bedingfield of Journalism & Jim Crow: The Making of White Supremacy in the New South, is forthcoming in fall 2021 with the University of Illinois Press. The book documents the active role white newspaper publishers and editors played in building and sustaining white supremacist political economies and social orders across the South from 1875-1920.
Kathy is also co-editor of the new book series Journalism & Democracy at the University of Massachusetts Press with Sid Bedingfield (University of Minnesota).
| Present | Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst ‐ Journalism | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Professional Service and Affiliations
| Present | Associate Dean Equity & Inclusion, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, UMass Amherst | 2018 - 2019 | Chancellor's Leadership Fellow, Office of Equity & Inclusion, UMass Amherst | 2014 - 2017 | Chair, Journalism Department, UMass Amherst | Former Associate Editor, American Journalism, peer-reviewed journal of the American Journalism Historians Association | Former Chair, History Division, AEJMC |
Honors and Awards
- Frank Luther Mott-Kapp Tau Alpha Book Award, 2009, Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment
- AEJMC History Division Book Award, 2009, Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment
- Covert Award in Mass Communication History, 2012, AEJMC, “Profit and Public Interest: A Publication History of John Hersey's ‘Hiroshima,’” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 88:3 (Autumn 2011), 562-579
- James W. Carey Media Research Award, 2012, Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research. “‘The Facts—the Color!—the Facts’: The Idea of a Report in American Print Culture, 1885-1910,” co-authored with Katherine A. Foss, Book History (2012), 123-151
- Covert Award in Mass Communication History, 2013, AEJMC, “‘The Facts—the Color!—the Facts’: The Idea of a Report in American Print Culture, 1885-1910,” co-authored with Katherine A. Foss, Book History (2012), 123-151
Courses
- Longform Narrative
- African American Freedom Struggle and the Press
- History of American Journalism
| PhD Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ‐ Hussman School of Journalism and Media | ||
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| MA English, Middlebury College ‐ Bread Loaf School of English | ||
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| BA Honors English Phi Beta Kappa, Sewanee, University of the South | ||
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