Barbie Zelizer#
Photo: Kyle Cassidy
| Membership Number: | 6965 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/barbie-zelizer-phd |
| Twitter: | @bzelizer |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2002 Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
- 1999 - 2002 Raymond Williams Term Chair of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
- 1997 - 1999 Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
- 1995 - 1997 Associate Professor, Temple University, Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media
- 1990 - 1994 Assistant Professor, Temple University, Department of Rhetoric and Communication
Fields of Scholarship
- Memory studies
- Holocaust
- War and conflict
- Visual studies
- Journalism studies
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2021 Elected Member, British Academy
- 2020 Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2019 B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award, International Communication Association
- 2013 Corelio Chair, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
- 2012 Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award, Media Ecology Association (for About To Die)
- 2011 James Tankard Book Award, AEJMC, 2011 (for About To Die)
- 2011 Distinguished Scholar (elected), National Communication Association
- 2009 Fellow (elected), International Communication Association
- 2005 Bonnier Chair, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2000 Best Book Award, International Communication Association(for Remembering to Forget)
- 1999 Diamond Book Award, National Communication Association(for Remembering to Forget)
- 1999 Bruno Brand Tolerance Book Award, Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance(for Remembering to Forget)
- 1995 Goldsmith Research Award, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- 1990 Nichols-Ehninger Award for Communication and Rhetorical Theory, Speech Communication Association (for excerpt from Covering the Body)
