Journalism’s Sheila Webb to Attend NEH Summer Institute in NYC

Western Washington University Associate Professor of Journalism Sheila Webb will attend “City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press,” a two-week program for college faculty this summer in New York City.

Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the program offers a comprehensive view of the shifting cultural politics of New York City during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, told through the voices of New York’s periodical press.

As a participant, Webb will take part in discussions led by cultural historians, archivists and experts in the field of American literature, art and urban history, and periodical studies. She will also have the opportunity to participate in hands-on sessions in the New York Historical Society’s periodicals collection.

Webb’s proposal was to continue her work on the suffragist journal, Women Citizen, and, in particular, investigate how social activists have been framed visually in periodicals. Her research centers on magazines, she teaches the Journalism Department’s class on magazines and serves on the executive board of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

For more information contact Sheila Webb, associate professor in Western’s Department of Journalism, at Shelia.Webb@wwu.edu or (360) 650-6245.