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History Division - Top Research Presentations
Saturday April 5, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT
W302
Moderator: George Henry Bovenizer, University of South Alabama
Open Paper Competition:
Open 1st Place Paper: Slowly Then Suddenly: Television, Smartphones, and the Normalizing of Sports Gambling in the United States; Gary R. Edgerton, Butler University
Open 2nd Place Paper: Legacy and Impact of the Green Hornet: Generic Criticism Analysis of Comic books, Radio, and Television; Amanda Czuprynski, Regent University

Dorothy L. Sayers’s Metaphors of Meaning; Michael Sinclair, Regent University
Early Sports Broadcasting’s Pioneering Partnership – The Role of Atlantic Refining Company and N. W. Ayer & Son in Developing and Sponsoring Early Sports Broadcasting; Daniel Marshall Haygood, Elon University
Moderators
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George Bovenizer

Assistant Professor, Broadcast Journalism, University of South Alabama
Hello. I'm an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Alabama. Before joining the faculty in 2021, I had an award-winning 27-year career in broadcast journalism. I worked at NBCUniversal in Los Angeles for the last 14 years of my professional... Read More →
Speakers
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Gary R. Edgerton

Professor, Butler University
Gary R. Edgerton is professor of creative media and entertainment at Butler University.  He has published twelve books and more than ninety essays on a variety of television, film and culture topics in a wide assortment of books, scholarly journals, and encyclopedias. Gary’s latest... Read More →
avatar for Amanda Czuprynski

Amanda Czuprynski

Regent University
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Michael Sinclair

Chair, Dept. of Media and Visual Arts, Regent University
I am a television producer with 30 years of experience writing, directing, and producing television for various networks, including Discovery Channel, TLC, HGTV, OWN, Travel Channel, ID, MSNBC, National Geographic Channel, BET, PBS, and others.  I teach film and television production... Read More →
DH

Daniel Haygood

Professor of Strategic Communications, Elon University
Saturday April 5, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT
W302
  History, Research/Theory |   BEA, Research/Theory

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