Assistant Professor
Magazine Journalism

321-B Lee Hills Hall
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211-1200

• Phone: 573-882-4201
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For 25 years a magazine and newspaper writer and editor, BERKLEY HUDSON teaches in the magazine journalism emphasis area. His course areas include intermediate and advanced writing and the literature of journalism as well as a mass media seminar.

His research interests center on American media history, visual studies, interviewing, media representation of racial conflict and narrative journalism. His dissertation focused on the "photobiography" of a Mississippi town in the early and mid-twentieth century, illuminating issues of identity, culture and history.

Previously Hudson was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, the Providence (R.I.) Journal and The Bulletin in Bend, Ore. He edited the Providence Sunday Journal Magazine. Hudson's freelance writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Mother Jones, Hemispheres and Historic Preservation.

Hudson has taught at the University of Rhode Island and the California State University at Fullerton and at Los Angeles. Hudson earned an undergraduate degree in history and journalism at the University of Mississippi, a master's in journalism at Columbia University, and a doctorate in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Book Chapter In Progress
Hinnant, A. and Hudson, B. (2009). The Magazine Revolution, 1880-1920, in The Oxford History of U.S Popular Print Culture, ed. Christine Bold. Oxford University Press.

Recent Articles

• Hudson, B. (Winter 2007). A Mississippi Negro Farmer, His Mule, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Racial Portrayals of Sylvester Harris in the Black and White 1930s. Journalism History, 32(4), 201-212.
• Hudson, B. (Summer 2007). O.N. Pruitt's Possum Town: The "Modest Aspiration and Small Renown" of a Mississippi Photographer. Southern Cultures, 13(2), 52-77.
• Hudson, B. (November 2008). The Latest News from Foreign Homelands and the New Heartland: Immigrant Press Flourishes in Turn of the Twentieth Century Missouri. Gateway, Missouri Historical Society, 32-43.

Book Chapter
Hudson, B. (2008) Foreign Voices Yearning to Breathe Free: The Early Twentieth-Century Immigrant Press in the United States, in Journalism 1908: Birth of a Profession, ed. Betty Winfield. University of Missouri Press, 283-302.

Articles In Press

• Hudson, B. (Winter 2009). To Privilege the Visual: An Alternative Approach to Media History. American Journalism, 26(1), 138-140.
• Hudson, B. & Boyajy, K. (August 2009). The Rise and Fall of an Ethnic Advocate and American Huckster: Louis N. Hammerling and the Immigrant Press. Media History, 15(3).
• Hudson, B. & Ostman, R. (2009). "A Desire to End These Things": An Analytical History of John L. Spivak’s Photographic Portrayal of 1930s Georgia Chain Gangs. Visual Communication Quarterly, 16(4).
• Hudson, B. (2009). Photojournalists: Biographies, in The Encyclopedia of Journalism, ed. Christopher H. Sterling. Sage Publications.