Frank Durham

Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1993, University of Wisconsin-Madison
E330 Adler Journalism & Mass Comm. Bldg. (AJB)
319-335-3362
frank-durham@uiowa.edu

Frank Durham"s research focuses on the role of media as a part of social change. He has investigated the ways in which journalism has defined the social meanings of key events in a variety of contexts, including in news coverage of the crash of Flight 800, the 1997 Thai currency crisis, the Katrina disaster, and the Southern labor and civil rights movements.

"The Last True Believers: The Knoxville Journal in the late Civil Rights movement." The Journal of Communication Inquiry.(at press).
"Media ritual in catastrophic time: The populist turn in television coverage of Hurricane Katrina" (at press) in Journalism: Theory, Practice, and Criticism.
"Framing the state within globalization: The Financial Times" coverage of the 1997 Thai currency crisis" (2007) in Critical Studies in Media Communication.
"Exposed by Katrina: The gulf between the president and the press" (2006) in Critical Studies in Media Communication.
"Media tactics and taste: Organizing the southern labor movement at Highlander Folk School, 1938-1946" (2005) in Javnost—The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture.
"Symmetry as structuration: The StarLink™ global food contamination case" (2005) in The Journal of Public Relations Research.
"Anti-Communism, race, and structuration: Newspaper coverage of the labor and desegregation movements in the South, 1932-40 and 1953-61" (2002) in Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs
"News Frames as Social Narratives: TWA Flight 800," in the Journal of Communication (1998).
"History of a curriculum: The search for salience," published in Journalism Educator (Winter 1992).
A book chapter: "Breaching powerful boundaries: A postmodern critique of framing," in Framing the new media landscape (2001)

His current research is focused on local news coverage of the new Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960-61 by the States-Item and the Times-Picayune. This proposed journal article will contribute to a larger project on the role of anti-communism in local coverage of the Southern Civil Rights movement

Durham teaches Cultural and Historical Foundations of Communication, Persuasive Writing, Public Relations Campaigns Development, and Qualitative Research Methods.