I had the opportunity to discuss my current research project, an edited collection titled "Journalism and Gender: Perspectives from the Global South," with colleagues in the College of Communication at Butler University today. After circulating a call for chapter proposals in Spring 2025, I selected 29 chapters to be included in my proposal to a publisher. I received positive feedback from three reviewers last week and hope to move forward with this important work.
I had the wonderful experience of recording an hour-long podcast episode about my book, Journalism and Gender: Global Perspectives, with Nina Bo Wagner for the New Books Network. We covered a wide range of topics related to the book, ranging from its origins to what it feels like to use the book in my class this semester. The podcast should be ready in about a week, and I will share the link here.
First time to hold my book
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Book on display at AEJMC conference |
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With my Routledge editor, Lizzie Cox |
Today is the official publication date for my new textbook, "Journalism and Gender: Global Perspectives," with Routledge. I am super excited! I found this cool word cloud on Google Books.
Together with colleagues Ingrid Bachmann and Mia Moody, I will again lead a syndicate or working group at this year's World Journalism Education Congress. This syndicate will build on and develop discussions from the previous WJEC in Paris (2019), where a group of scholars considered the same topic. At that meeting, participants agreed that good journalism should be sensitive to gender and inequality, that coursework should address these issues, and that schools must make broader commitments to gender equality and diversity. The 2025 syndicate will consider progress over the past six years, while acknowledging new threats to this type of work. Our question this year is: What, if any, progress has been made over the past six years in educating journalism students globally on gender and related inequality issues? This conference will take place in San Francisco from August 8 to 10. See this website for more information about the WJEC.
Butler University decided to implement Quality Matters criteria for online and hybrid courses over the next few years. In April, I participated in a workshop, "Applying the QM Rubric," and then decided to sign up for the QM Peer Reviewer course. I am currently halfway through this 3-week online course and have learned so much! My first goal is to improve my courses, but I will also be able to support other faculty members in improving their courses.
With the publication date of August coming closer, I am happy to share the front cover for my new textbook with Routledge.
I am now working on an edited research collection on journalism and gender in the Global South. Here is the call for chapters:
Title: Journalism and Gender:
Perspectives from the Global South
Editor: Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Potential Publisher: Routledge
Overview
To address gaps identified in my forthcoming textbook, Journalism and Gender: Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2025), I invite contributions to an edited research collection that focuses on the intersections of journalism and gender in the academic peripheries of the Global South. This volume seeks to advance the decolonization of scholarship on gender and journalism by foregrounding narratives that have historically been marginalized in dominant research discourses. By critically examining how gender influences journalistic practices and how the news media represent gender, this collection aims to provide a nuanced analysis of gender’s role in shaping journalism across media landscapes in the regional and national contexts of countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. This project challenges hegemonic frameworks and seeks to contribute to more inclusive and equitable global media and gender scholarship.
Within the context of the Global South, topics to be considered include, but are not limited to, the following:
Submission guidelines
Please submit an abstract of 250-300 words outlining
the proposed chapter’s scope and contribution to the field. Include a brief
author biography (100-150 words) with institutional affiliation and attach a
curriculum vitae. While the preference is for original research contributions,
other types of scholarship will also be considered. Completed chapters will be
about 6,000 words each.
Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance:
August 15, 2025
Full chapter submission deadline:
January 15, 2026
Submission & contact information:
Send abstracts and inquiries to Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh at mgeertse@butler.edu.
I look forward to receiving your proposals and contributing to a critical dialogue on journalism and gender in the Global South.
At the end of February, I had the opportunity to talk with graduate students at the Media School of Indiana University in Bloomington about my research in gender and journalism over the past twenty years. This was a great way of reflecting on my adventures in this field. And of course, this is all culminating in the forthcoming publication of my textbook, Journalism and Gender: Global Perspectives, in July. A big thank you to the wonderful Dr. Radhika Parameswaran for the invitation.
I am excited to see that information for my new textbook, "Journalism and Gender: Global Perspectives," is now available on the Routledge website. Publication date is July 28, 2025.
