1. Maurine Beasley was born on 28 January 1936 and is professor emerita of Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park.
16 Facts About Maurine Beasley
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Maurine Beasley is known for her studies on the history of women in journalism, especially during early periods when they were poorly represented in the field, and for her research concerning the life and work of Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Maurine Beasley pursued her master's degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she ranked third in the class.
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Maurine Beasley subsequently took a job as a staff writer at The Washington Post.
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Maurine Beasley started teaching as a part-time instructor at the University of Maryland College of Journalism in 1974 and was promoted to assistant professor in 1975.
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Maurine Beasley was viewed as the "token woman" of the faculty, and indeed was not joined on the tenure track by any other women at the department until about a decade later.
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Maurine Beasley advanced to associate professor in 1980 and to full professor in 1987, and was an affiliate faculty member in the departments of American Studies and Women's Studies.
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Maurine Beasley was a founding member of the American Journalism Historians Association, and was elected president in 1989 for one year.
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Maurine Beasley served as president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the largest organization of academic journalism educators, in 1994 and led the first delegation of journalism educators from the United States to China to study journalism schools there.
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Maurine Beasley received a Fulbright grant in 2020 to teach journalism for a semester at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China.
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In other activities, Maurine Beasley was elected president of the Washington professional chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in 1990 and subsequently served on the national board.
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Maurine Beasley has written about the history of women in journalism and the public spotlight, calling attention to the relationship between Washington women reporters and coverage of First Ladies.
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Maurine Beasley has been interviewed by Book TV about her publications on these topics.
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Maurine Beasley was consulted and interviewed about the role of female war correspondents as well as "women's pages" in newspapers for the documentary "No Place For A Woman," about women reporting on World War II.
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Maurine Beasley's book "Taking Their Place: Documentary History of Women and Journalism" 2nd Edition was awarded a Textbook Excellence Award in 2004 by the Text and Academic Authors Association.
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Maurine Beasley has been a grantee of The Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, New York.