Washington, DC (May 8, 2012)— International Communication Association Fellow and Past President Barbie Zelizer (University of Pennsylvania) has been named a William T. Patten Lecturer at Indiana University. She will deliver two lectures in Bloomington, IN, during the week of October 22-26, 2012.
The William T. Patten Foundation brings individuals of extraordinary distinction in the sciences, the humanities and the arts to Indiana University. Zelizer is the first communication scholar to receive this honor.
"The Patten Lecture has been given by a host of first-rate public intellectuals, scholars and researchers from across the broadest fields of academic inquiry. I'm delighted to be among them and honored that communication is taking its place as a source of such recognition," Zelizer said.
Zelizer's research focuses on journalistic authority, collective memory and media images in crises and wars. She is the author of 12 books, including About to Die: How News Images Move the Public (Oxford, 2010), Journalism After September 11 (Routledge, 2011), and Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera's Eye (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
The winner of numerous awards, Zelizer has also been named a Guggenheim Fellow, a Research Fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, a Fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, a Fulbright Senior Scholar, and a Fellow at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Contact: To schedule an interview with Barbie Zelizer, please contact John Paul Gutierrez, jpgutierrez@icahdq.org.
About the Patten Lecture Series
The Patten Lecture Series was established in 1937 with an endowment from William T. Patten, an 1893 graduate of the university who settled in Indianapolis and had a successful career in real estate and politics. More than 200 eminent scholars, scientists, authors and public figures have lectured at IU Bloomington as part of the series. For more details, visit http://patten.indiana.edu.
About ICA
The International Communication Association is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication. With more than 4,300 members in 80 countries, ICA includes 26 Divisions and Interest Groups and publishes the Communication Yearbook and five major, peer-reviewed journals: Journal of Communication; Communication Theory; Human Communication Research; Communication, Culture & Critique; and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. For more information, visit www.icahdq.org.