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Janet Cramer, Ph.D.
 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1999
 Office: Room 231
 jcramer@unm.edu

Associate Professor 
Journalism 
Communication 

Research:

Gender, race and class in the media, primarily from a historical perspective. I'm interested in the evolution of ideas and attitudes about these social positions and how media discourse has contributed to their creation and perpetuation. I am motivated by the idea that our ways of using language and images convey particular ideologies and power relations, but that this process is often unclear. I hope my research contributes to the goal of making the process and the messages more visible.

Sample Publications:

  • Cramer, Janet M.; Greene, Carlnita P.; Walters, Lynn M. (Eds.), (2011); Food as communication/Communication as food. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

  • Cramer, Janet M. (2009). Media/History/Society: A Cultural History of U.S. Media, Wiley-Blackwell.

  • Cramer, Janet M. Cramer and Foss, Karen A. (2009). "Baudrillard and Our Destiny with the Natural World: Fatal Strategies for Environmental Communication." Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 3, 1.

  • Cramer, Janet M. (2009). "Critical discourse analysis" in Stephen W. Littlejohn and Karen A. Foss, eds., Encyclopedia of Communication Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

  • Cramer, Janet M. (2007). "Discourses of sexual morality in Sex and the City and Queer as Folk." The Journal of Popular Culture, 40, 3.

  • Cramer, Janet M. (2004). Cross purposes: Publishing practices and social involvements of 19th-century U. S. missionary women. Journalism History, October 2004.

  • Cramer, Janet M. (2003). "White womanhood and religion: U.S. missionary women's publications, 1890-1905." The Howard Journal of Communications 14(4).

  • Cramer, Janet M. (2003). "Sábado Gigante (Giant Saturday) and the cultural homogenization of Spanish-speaking people." In The Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony; L. Artz, Y. R. Kamalipour & S. E. Ambrose (Eds.); 131-150; New York: SUNY Press.

  • Cramer, Janet M. (1998). "Woman as Citizen: Race, Class, and the Discourse of Women's Citizenship, 1894-1905," Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs 165.

Methods: I most often use discourse analysis to look at media content and at the conditions of media production and reception, and I approach my research through a critical lens.

Authors: Judith Butler, Norman Fairclough, Michel Foucault, Rosemary Hennessy, Teun van Dijk.

Teaching Style: A variety of approaches depending on the course. I favor hands-on and interactive situations, and I try to structure courses so that students get the opportunity to apply concepts and theories in their own work.

Why UNM?: The faculty and students are wonderful. I appreciate the culture of the University and New Mexico, and I'm excited by the intellectual diversity within the department.

Spare Time: Traveling: especially to my farm home in Minnesota; outdoor fun: golf, skiing, hiking, gardening.

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