Professor Lee Jolliffe has been named vice president of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Historians and will serve on the board of directors. The Society represents the evolution of a long-held symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, held every autumn since 1993.
Professor Jolliffe’s research appears in several books that have arisen from the Symposium, including Adventure Journalists in the Gilded Age: From the Arctic to the Orient (McFarland, July 2021), which she co-wrote and co-edited with Katrina Quinn and Mary Cronin. Adventure Journalists won the 2022 Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in American Culture. Her chapters on “A Press Ablaze: Violent Suppression of Abolitionist Speech, Press, Petition, and Assembly” and “Freedom of Expression for Women: The Fight for Suffrage and Personal Liberty” (the latter co-authored with Sandra Davidson and Paulette Kilmer) were published in An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America edited by Mary M. Cronin, and her article on “‘BLACK FIENDS’ AND ‘ATROCIOUS MURDERS’: Redefining ‘Sensationalism’ ,” appears in The Press in the Gilded Age, edited by David Sachsman. Professor Jolliffe also guest-edited an issue of Journalism History with articles from a Symposium panel she created.