
2025 Farrar Award
Ken Campbell and Edgar Simpson at the lecture. See more photos on Flickr
Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History
Previous Recipients
This award recognizes the best journal article or chapter in an edited book on the
historical relationship between media and civil rights published during the previous
two years.

Edgar Simpson - 2025
Edgar Simpson is the director of the School of Media and Communication at The University
of Southern Mississippi. His article, "Spinning Hate: Mississippi’s Post-Brown PR
Offensive and the Secret Campaign Against ‘Agitators,’ 1956-1960," was selected as
the 2025 recipient of the Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights
History.

Burgin Say - 2023
Burgin Say is an assistant professor in the Department of History of Dickinson College.
Her article, “The Trickbag [of] the Press”: SNCC, Print Media, and the Myth of an
Antiwhite Black Power Movement,” was selected as the 2023 winner of the Ronald T.
and Gayla D. Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History.

Kathleen Wickham - 2021
Kathleen Wickham is a professor of journalism at the School of Journalism and New
Media at the University of Mississippi. Her paper “The Magnifying Effect of Television
News: Civil Rights Coverage and Eyes on the Prize,” American Journalism 37: 27-46
(2020), was selected as the 2021 winner of the Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Award
in Media & Civil Rights History.

Gwyneth Mellinger - 2019
Gwyneth Mellinger, director of James Madison University’s School of Media Arts and
Design, took home the 2019 Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Award, for her paper which
explored a 1940s effort to publish African American newspaper columnist Charles S.
Johnson in white newspapers.

R. Joseph Parrott - 2017
R. Joseph Parrott, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, won the 2017 Farrar Award
for his article published in the July–September 2015 issue of Race & Class: “A Luta
Continua: Radical Filmmaking, Pan-African Liberation and Communal Empowerment.”

Mark J. Walmsley - 2015
Mark J. Walmsley, a Ph.D. student at the University of Leeds, won the 2015 Farrar
Award for his article "Tell It Like It Isn't: SNCC and the Media 1960-1965" published
in the February 2014 issue of Journal of American Studies.

Carol A. Stabile - 2013
Dr. Carol A. Stabile, professor at the University of Oregon, won the 2013 Farrar Award
for her article published in the September 2011 issue of Communication and Critical/Cultural
Studies: "The Typhoid Marys of the Left: Gender, Race and the Broadcast Blacklist."

William P. Hustwit - 2012
William P. Hustwit, visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Mississippi, won
the 2012 Farrar Award for his article “From Caste To Color Blindness: James J. Kilpatrick’s
Segregationist Semantics” published in the August 2011 issue of The Journal of Southern
History.

Gordan Mantler - 2011
Gordon Mantler, lecturing fellow in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University, won
the Farrar Award for his article "'The Press Did You In': The Poor People's Campaign
and the Mass Media," published in the Spring 2010 issue of The Sixties: A Journal
of History, Politics and Culture.