New Book by Trent History Professor Takes Home International Awards
Dr. Finis Dunaway presented with 2016 History Division Book Award for book on the use and abuse of American environmental images
Trent University History professor Dr. Finis Dunaway can add another award to his resume, after his new book, Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images, was recently awarded the winner of the 2016 History Division Book Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC), which honours the best journalism and mass communication history book published in 2015.
Seeing Green examines the role images in the media have played in the making of popular environmentalism, and the ways they’ve obscured environmental truths. A panel of three distinguished media historians chose Seeing Green from a field of 20 entries. The judges praised Professor Dunaway’s “persuasive historical analysis that relies on extensive archival research and examination of a vast trove of media images documenting and promoting the environmental movement and its issues across time.”
“Media history is an important part of my teaching and research at Trent, so I am honoured that the book was selected by a committee of distinguished media historians for this award,” said Prof. Dunaway about his accomplishment. “Seeing Green looks at a wide array of media images—including pictures in popular magazines, television news, advertisements, cartoons, films and, posters. I treat these images not simply as illustrations of the past but as active participants in politics and public life. The book attempts to demonstrate why images matter to history, and to explain how the media have both popularized and delimited the scope of modern environmentalism. I believe that the legacies and implications of these images continue to shape environmental debates today.”
In addition to this honour, Prof. Dunaway’s book was also recently presented with the John G. Cawelti Award for the best scholarly book in Popular and American Culture from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and was given an Honorable Mention for the PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies from the Association of American Publishers.
Prof. Dunaway will accept his AEJMC award and speak about his work during the History Division business meeting on Saturday, August 6, 2016 at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention in Minneapolis.
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