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Ashley Walter, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Communication


Courses Taught

Editing; Journalism: News Writing; Multiplatform Journalism

Education

Ph.D., Mass Communications, Pennsylvania State University

M.S., Media Arts & Technology, Duquesne University

B.A., Integrated Marketing Communication, Duquesne University

Research Interests

  • Media history
  • Journalism and women's labor
  • Intersectional gender studies
  • Gender discrimination

Publications and Media Placements

Walter, Ashley. Settling: How Women Journalists Changed U.S. Democracy and the News. Contracted with University of Massachusetts Press, book series. Forthcoming 2026. 

Risley, Ford and Walter, Ashley. . Lanham, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield, 2024.
 
Davis Kempton, Stefanie and Walter, Ashley. 鈥淒eadlines and due dates: The impact of pregnancy and motherhood on working journalists from the 1950s to the 2020s.鈥 Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. Online first April 8, 2024.

Walter, Ashley. 鈥淩ethinking How We Collect Stories.鈥 American Journalism 40, no. 4 (Fall 2023).

Davis Kempton, Stefanie and Walter, Ashley, , Women's Media Center.
 
Walter, Ashley and Andersen, Karlin. 鈥.鈥 American Journalism 40, no. 1 (Winter 2023).
 
Walter, Ashley. 鈥.鈥 Journal of Magazine Media 19, no. 2 (December 2019): 25-49. 
 
Walck, Pamela and Walter, Ashley. 鈥.鈥 Journalism History 44, no. 4 (2019): 195-206.

Honors and Awards

  • Joseph McKerns Research Grant, American Journalism Historians Association, Pittsburgh 2024
  • Hazel Dicken-Garcia Research Grant, American Journalism Historians Association, Pittsburgh 2024
  • Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication Fellowship, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2024.
  • Second-place Top Faculty Paper Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (History Division), 2024.
  • 2023 Best Article Award finalist. 鈥淎ll the President鈥檚 Media: How the Traditional Press Responded to New Communications Technology Adopted by US Presidents,鈥 published in Vol. 40-1 (Winter 2023) of American Journalism.
  • 50 Most Influential Aggies at Utah State University, The Statesman (student newspaper), awarded for contributions to Utah State University, 2023
  • Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize (honorable mention), American Journalism Historians Association, 2023
  • Maurine Beasley Award for the Outstanding Paper on Women鈥檚 History, American Journalism Historians Association, 2022
  • Second-Place Top Graduate Student Paper Award, American Journalism Historians Association, 2022
  • Excellence in Communications Doctoral Award, Bellisario College of Communications, 2021-2022
  • Sidney and Helen Friedman Endowed Scholarship in the Bellisario College of Communications,  2020-2021
  • Marlowe Froke Graduate Scholarship in Education and Public Affairs in Public Broadcasting in the Bellisario College of Communications, 2019-2020.
  • Robert Lance Memorial Award for the Top Graduate Student Paper (first place), American Journalism Historians Association, 2019.
  • Students鈥 Choice Award for Extraordinary Faculty, Community College of Allegheny County, 2019.
  • Top Graduate Student Paper (first place), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Magazine Division), 2019.
  • Top Podcast Guest Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (History Division), 2019.
  • Elliot King Top Research-in-Progress Panel, Joint Journalism & Communication History Conference, 2019.
  • Honorable Mention Wally Eberhard Award for Outstanding Paper in Media and War, American Journalism Historians Association, 2017.
  • Top Graduate Student Paper (third place), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Magazine Division), 2017.