Melita M Garza Author & Editor

Melita M. Garza is an associate professor and the Tom and June Netzel Sleeman Scholar in Business Journalism at the University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign. She is a media historian focusing on journalism and democracy, and marginalized groups.

Michael Fuhlhage is an associate professor at Wayne State University. He researches media history concentrating on racial representation, the genesis of stereotypes about Latina/os in the nineteenth-century press, and open source intelligence during the American Civil War.

Tracy Lucht is an associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University, where she studies the history of women in the media.