BETTY HOUCHIN WINFIELD has been a member of the Missouri School of Journalism faculty since 1990. A specialist in political communication, Winfield is also an adjunct professor in the university's Department of Political Science and an affiliated professor in the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs. Before coming to Missouri, she was a professor of Communication and American Studies at Washington State University. She has had post-doctoral fellowships at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University (1991) and the Gannett Center for Media and Politics at Columbia University (1988-1989). Winfield has written three books and seven book chapters, including FDR & the News Media (Columbia University Press, 1994). She has also published more than 70 encyclopedia and journal articles and numerous scholarly papers on mass media history and White House communication. Among them are analyses of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's relationships with the public and the media. In 1998 the University of Missouri awarded Winfield its prestigious Thomas Jefferson Award for an Academic Career Embodying the Jeffersonian Principles and Ideals in Scholarship and Teaching, and in 2002 she received the MU Faculty Alumni Award. In 2003, she was honored with a University of Missouri Curators' Professorship, which she will hold for the rest of her career at MU.
Publications
Articles
Winfield, B.H., & Peng, Z. (2005). Marketplace or Party Controls: The Chinese Media in Transition. Gazette: The International Journal of Communication Studies, 67(3), 255-270.
Winfield, B.H. (2004). To Support and Defend the Constitution of the United States Against All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic: Four Types of Attorneys General and Wartime Stress. Missouri Law Review, 69(4), 1095-1114.
Winfield, B.H., & Friedman, B. (2003). Gender Politics: News Framing of the Candidates' Wives During Campaign 2000. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 80(4), 548-566.
Winfield, B.H. (2003). The Press Response to the Corps of Discovery: Making Heroes in an Egalitarian Age. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 80(4), 866-993.
Winfield, B.H., & Yoon, D. (2002). Historical References at a Glance: Editorial Cartoon in U.S.-Korean Conflicts. Journal of Newspaper Research, 23(4), 97-100.
Winfield, B.H., Friedman, B., & Trisnadi, V. (2002). History as a Metaphor Through Which the Current World is Viewed: How the British & American Newspapers Used History to Explain the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. Journalism Studies, 3(2), 289-300.
Winfield, B.H. (2001). From Sponsored Status to Satellite to Her Own Orbit: The First Lady at a New Century. Journal of White House Studies, 1(1), 21-31.
Winfield, B.H., Mizuno, T., & Beaudoin, C. (2000). Confucius, Collectivism and Constitutions: Free Expression in China and Japan. Journal of Communication Law and Public Policy, 5(3), 323-347.
Chapters
Winfield, B.H., & Davidson, S.D. (Forthcoming). Journalism: The Historical Lifeblood of a Democracy. In G. Kennedy & D. Moen (Eds.), What Good Is Journalism? How Reporters and Editors Are Saving America's Way of Life. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Winfield, B.H. (2003). The Public Perceptions of the Expedition. In D. Konig & P.J. Kastor (Eds.), Lewis and Clark: A Journey to Another America. Oasis Publications.
Winfield, B.H. (2002). Public Perception and Public Events: The Louisiana Purchase and American Partisan Press. In P.J. Kastor (Ed.), The Louisiana Purchase and the Emergence of the American Nation. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.
Winfield, B.H. (2001). A Report to the New First Lady, The Mass Media Relations: You Can't Live With Them (The American Mass Media), You Can't Live Without Them. In R. Watson (Ed.), A Report to the First Lady. New York: Nova History Publications.
