Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D. (2024)

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Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D.

Raymond Williams Professor of Communication
Director, Center for Media at Risk

barbie.zelizer@asc.upenn.edu (215) 898-4964 she/her

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International Media
Journalism
Media History
Visual Communication

Research Areas

Media Institutions

Center & Group Affiliations

Center for Media at Risk
Center on Digital Culture and Society

A former journalist, Barbie Zelizer’s work focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism, with a specific interest in journalistic authority, collective memory, and journalistic images in times of crisis and war.

Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Media at Risk at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. A former journalist, Zelizer is known for her work on journalism, culture, memory, and images, particularly in times of crisis. She has authored or edited fifteen books, including the award-winning About To Die: How News Images Move the Public (Oxford, 2010) andRemembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye (Chicago, 1998), and over 150 articles, book chapters, and essays.Her latest book, The Journalism Manifesto (co-authored with Pablo Boczkowski and C.W. Anderson), was published by Polity Press in 2021.

Zelizer is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, in 2021, she was elected as a fellow of the British Academy. She is also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship;a Freedom Forum Center Research Fellowship; a Fellowship from Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy;a Fellowship from the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies;a Fulbright Senior Scholar; a Fellowship from Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences;and an ACLS Fellowship. Zelizer is also a media critic, whose work has appeared in The Nation, PBS News Hour, CNN, The Huffington Post, Newsday, Liberation,and other media organizations.

Coeditor of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism and former Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication, she is a past President of the International Communication Association, where she is also a Fellow, and a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. She is a former Judge of the Peabody Awards for Excellence in Electronic Media, and her work has been translated into French, Korean, Turkish, Romanian, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and Portuguese. She is currently working on a manuscript entitledHow the Cold War Drives the News.

Education

B.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1976
M.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1981
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1990

Selected Publications

What Journalism Could Be. Polity, 2017.

“Epilogue: Timing the Study of News Temporality.” Journalism, 2017.

“Seeing the Present, Remembering the Past: Terror's Representation as an Exercise in Collective Memory.” Television & New Media, 2017.

“Communication in the Fan of Disciplines.” Communication Theory, 2016.

“Journalism's Deep Memory: Cold War Mindedness and Coverage of Islamic State.” International Journal of Communication, 2016.

“Terms of Choice: Uncertainty, Journalism, and Crisis.” Journal of Communication, 2015.

Journalism and Memory. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

“Tools for the Future of Journalism.” Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 2013.

Courses

COMM 3390 (formerly 339) Critical Perspectives in Journalism
COMM 6390 (formerly 639) Communication and Cultural Studies
COMM 7390 (formerly 739) Collective Memory and Journalism

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