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| John Maxwell Hamilton
Hopkins P. Breazeale LSU Foundation Professor and Dean
Phone: 225-578-2002
E-mail: jhamilt@lsu.edu
Office: 213 Journalism Bldg
Website: www.lsu.edu/faculty/jhamilt/index.htm
Ph.D., 1983, George Washington University - American Civilization |
John Maxwell Hamilton came to LSU in 1992 after more than two decades as a journalist and public servant. Hamilton reported abroad for ABC Radio and the Christian Science Monitor,among other media, and was a longtime national commentator on public radio's MarketPlace. Hamilton has served in the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Carter Administration, on the staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and at the World Bank. He was the first to explore systematic ways to improve local coverage of foreign affairs and has played a leading role in shaping public opinion about U.S.-Third World relations, according to the National Journal. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the boards of the International Center for Journalists, the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, and Lamar Advertising Corp., a NASDQ 100 company. He has chaired the Knight International Press Fellowships Advisory Committee and has been a juror for the Pulitzer Prize and Scripps Howard Awards. In the fall of 2000 he was a fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics, and Public Affairs. He was appointed the LSU Foundation Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor in 1998. The Freedom Forum named him the 2003 Journalism Administrator of the Year.
Selected works:
Articles:
Hamilton, J., Lawrence, R. and Cozma, R., “The Paradox of Respectability: The Limits of Indexing and Harrison Salisbury’s Coverage of the Vietnam War,” The International Journal of Press/Politics, forthcoming.
Cozma, R. , and Hamilton, J. (2009)., “Film Portrayals of Foreign Correspondents: A Content Analysis of Movies before WWII and after Vietnam,” Journalism Studies, August.
Cole, J., and Hamilton, J. (2008)., "Another Test of the News: American Partisan Press Coverage of the French Revolution," Journalism History, Spring.
Cole, J., and Hamilton, J. (2008)., "The History of a Surviving Species: Defining Eras in the Evolution of Foreign Correspondence," Journalism Studies, October 2008.
Cole, J. , and Hamilton, J., (2007). "A Natural History of Foreign Correspondence: A Study of the Chicago Daily News, 1900-1921)," Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 84:1, Spring.
Hamilton, J., Coleman, R., Grable, B. and Cole, J., (2006). "An Enabling Environment: A Reconsideration of the Press and the Spanish-American War," Journalism Studies, February.
Erickson, E., and Hamilton, J., (2006). "Foreign Reporting Enhanced by Parachute Journalism," Journalism Studies, February.
Rowley, K., and Hamilton, J. (2005). "A Missing Llink in the History of American War Correspondents: James Bradford and the Time Piece of St. Francisville, Louisiana," American Journalism, Fall.
Broussard, J., and Hamilton, J., (2005). "Covering a Two-Front War: African-American Foreign Correspondents During World War II," American Journalism, Summer.
"Wu, H.D., & Hamilton, J. (2005). U.S. Foreign Correspondents: Changes and Continuity at the Turn of the Century, Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, February.
Hamilton, J., & Jenner, E. (2004). Redefining Foreign Correspondence, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, August.
Hamilton, John Maxwell, and Jenner, Eric, The New Foreign Correspondence, Foreign Affairs, Sept.-Oct. 2003.
Books:
Hamilton, John Maxwell (2009). Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Newsgathering Abroad. Louisiana State University Press
Cole, Jaci, and Hamilton, John Maxwell, edited, annotated, and introduction, Edward Price Bell. (2007). Journalism of the Highest Realm: The Memoir of Edward Price Bell, Pioneering Foreign Correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. Louisiana State University Press.
Perlmutter, David, and Hamilton, John Maxwell, editors. (2007). From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology. Louisiana State Press.
Hamilton, John Maxwell. (2000). Casanova Was a Book Lover: And Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, the Selling, and the Reading of Books. Louisiana State University Press; (2001) Penguin.
Hamilton, John Maxwell, and George A. Krimsky. (1996). Hold the Press: The Inside Story on Newspapers. Louisiana State University Press.
Hamilton, John Maxwell. (1990). Entangling Alliances: How the Third World Shapes Our Lives. Seven Locks Press.
Hamilton, John Maxwell. (1988). Edgar Snow: A Biography. Indiana University Press.
Hamilton, John Maxwell. (1986). Main Street America and the Third World. Seven Locks Press. |
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