Janet M. Cramer
Director, Women Studies
Associate Professor, Communication & Journalism

jcramer@unm.edu
Office Phone: 505.277.9119

Education: 
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1999

Research Interests/ Current Projects:

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.

Publications:

• "Discourses of sexual morality in Sex and the City and Queer as Folk." The Journal of Popular Culture. (forthcoming).
• "White womanhood and religion: U.S. missionary women's publications, 1890-1905." The Howard Journal of Communications 14(4), December 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; 2003.
• "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; 2000.
• "The Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS)." In Historical Dictionary of Women's Press Organizations, Elizabeth V. Burt, ed. (forthcoming).
• "Woman as Citizen: Race, Class, and the Discourse of Women's Citizenship, 1894-1905," Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs 165, March 1998.

Courses:

forthcoming

Spare Time:

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