Amy Aronson | |
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Born | Amy Beth Aronson (1962-11-09)November 9, 1962 (age 62) United States |
Spouse | Michael Kimmel |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Understanding equals: audience and articulation in the early American women's magazine (1996) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Fordham University |
Main interests | Journalism, media studies |
Website | fordham |
Amy Beth Aronson (born November 9, 1962)[1] is a Professor of Journalism and Media Studies atFordham University.[2]
Aronson gained her Ph.D. in 1996 fromColumbia University.[3][4]
Aronson specializes in media history, with a focus on American magazines and periodical literature. Within that frame, her primary research interest is gender, including both femininity and masculinity studies. A scholar-practitioner, she has published both scholarly and journalistic work on issues of gender, diversity, journalism history and American culture. She has worked as the editor of several magazines, includingWorking Woman andMs., and has published work inBusinessWeek,Global Journalist, and the Sunday supplement of theBoston Globe. She examined the history of early American women's magazines in her book "Taking Liberties". Her article "Everything Old is New Again: How the 'New' User-Generated Magazine Takes Us Back to the Future." won Best Article of the Year Award from the American Journalism Historians Association.