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Janet Cramer, Ph.D.
 Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1999
 Office: Room 231, 505-277-1906

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

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

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

  • Cramer, Janet (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 (2000). "For Women and the War: The Mayflower, 1861-1864." In The Civil War and the Press, David Sachsman, Kittrel Rushing, and Debra Van Tuyll, eds., 209-226; New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Transaction Press.
  • Cramer, Janet (forthcoming). "The Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS)." In Historical Dictionary of Women's Press Organizations, Elizabeth V. Burt, ed.
  • Cramer, Janet (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. My methods are often qualitative, although I think quantitative methods are useful for certain research questions.

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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