NOTE: I still need to plug my references into my actual writing. References and Awards/Honors with asterisks next to them are items I need to find citations for online. They were given to me in Dr. Rakow's CV.

Lana Rakow (ROUGH DRAFT)

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Lana F. Rakow (April 17, 1952 - Present)

Lana Rakow (April 17, 1952 – Present) is a retired professor of Communication and author of Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life (1992). She also has numerous other published works that are primarily in the fields of communication and feminist theory.

Dr. Rakow was born in North Dakota, where she spent a majority of her life as a student and, later, as a professor, writer, and researcher. As of June 2016, Rakow is in retirement from her position at University of North Dakota. She is currently the Associate Editor of the Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly.

Education and Career

Dr. Rakow began her secondary education in her home state at the University of North Dakota. There, she graduated in 1974 with degrees in both Journalism and Humanities. She pursued her Master’s Degree at UND as well, earning a degree in American Literature with a minor in English Language in 1977. During this time, she taught as a graduate assistant within the English department.

From 1981 – 1985, Dr. Rakow taught first as an assistant professor of Journalism at Franklin College in Indiana and then as a graduate assistant in the College of Communications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She later earned her Ph. D at the latter school in Cultural Studies in 1987.

Dr. Rakow’s long-term career as a professor and researcher began at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside where she was an assistant professor from 1980 – 1986 and an associate professor from 1990 – 1994 in the department of Communication. Finally, she returned to the University of North Dakota, where she taught Communications from 1994 until her retirement in 2016. During this time, she also served as the founder and director of the Center for Community Engagement.

Scholarly Work

The focus of Dr. Rakow’s research deals largely with subjects such as communication, feminist theory, and technology. One of her major works, Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life (1992), combines all three of these subjects. Dr. Rakow’s book, based on her dissertation at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Chaimpaign, looks at the way that women use telephones as a form of communication. Her research, conducted using personal interviews with women in Prospect, Illinois, sheds light on the complexity of women’s use of telephones through the feminist perspective.Gender on the Line received the 1993 Book Award from the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender.

Honors and Awards

James E. Murphy Memorial Award for Top Faculty Paper, presented by the Cultural and Critical Studies Division for “Who Uses Dewey and Why? Remembering and Forgetting John Dewey in Communication Studies,” ***
2016 Advocacy Award for Faculty, presented by the President’s Advisory Council on Women, University of North Dakota, April 2016 ***
Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship, presented by the Feminist Scholarship Division, International Communication Association, Singapore, June 2010***
Who’s Who (Marquis, New Providence, NJ): Who’s Who of American Women, 2005, 2006; Who’s Who in American Education, 2006, 2007; Who’s Who in the World, 2006; Who’s Who in America, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011***
Identified as a top woman scholar in journalism and mass communication. Research results reported in the newsletter of the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, 9, no. 2 (Spring/winter 2000)***

References

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lana-rakow-429a2b18

https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0c4kdsp&hl=en-US&kgs=a6c4cd533ed98796&q=Lana+Rakow&shndl=0&source=sh/x/kp&entrypoint=sh/x/kp

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lana_Rakow2

http://blogs.und.edu/uletter/2016/08/rakow-paper-receives-academic-award/

http://blogs.und.edu/uletter/2016/06/june-30-retirement-reception-honors-lana-rakow/

https://books.google.com/books?id=Jds8Oc1Oqt0C&pg=PA457&lpg=PA457&dq=lana+rakow+awards&source=bl&ots=ko6KdSyrNm&sig=YVQfROHfMYKSIlxTpSRURDLGKRw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMt6zEiqDSAhVF9IMKHdJEC_Y4ChDoAQgZMAA#v=onepage&q=lana%20rakow&f=fals

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08109029308629146

Lana Rakow - Wikipedia Outline

History/Background NICE JOB ON OUTLINE -- LOTS OF GOOD INFORMATION

· Birthplace

o Buffalo, ND

o April 17, 1952

· Colleges/universities attended

o Ph.D. in Communication Cultural Studies from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1983-1987)

o M.A. in English from University of North Dakota (1975-1977)

o B.A. in Journalism from University of North Dakota

· Current Work

o Recently Retired Professor of Communication at UND

Scholarly work

· Communication and Media, Social Theory, Qualitative Social Research, Feminist Theory

Highlight one key, noteworthy research publication or idea

· Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life (1992) by Lana F. Rakow

· Gender and Communication, technology, feminist theory, women and technology

Other contributions

· Associate Editor of Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (presently)

· Founder and Director of UND Center for Community Engagement (2004-2016)

· Coordinator of Experiential Learning Project (2000-2004)

· Director of School of Communication (1994-1996)

· Associate Dean of Fine Arts and Communication (1994-1996)

Awards/honors

· Rakow’s paper “Who uses Dewey and Why?” chosen for James E. Murphy Memorial Award as the Top Faculty Paper by Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) on August 4, 2016

· Book Gender on the Line was named 1993 Book of the Year by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender

References GOOD WORK HERE

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lana-rakow-429a2b18
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lana_Rakow2
http://blogs.und.edu/uletter/2016/08/rakow-paper-receives-academic-award/
http://blogs.und.edu/uletter/2016/06/june-30-retirement-reception-honors-lana-rakow/
https://books.google.com/books?id=Jds8Oc1Oqt0C&pg=PA457&lpg=PA457&dq=lana+rakow+awards&source=bl&ots=ko6KdSyrNm&sig=YVQfROHfMYKSIlxTpSRURDLGKRw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMt6zEiqDSAhVF9IMKHdJEC_Y4ChDoAQgZMAA#v=onepage&q=lana%20rakow&f=false

Bibliography DOES SHE HAVE ANY MORE JOURNAL, BOOK CHAPTER PUBLICATIONS? NORMALLY CONFERENCE PAPERS DON'T COUNT FOR MUCH.

Nastasia, D., & Rakow, L. (2004). Towards a philosophy of communication theories: an ontological, epistemological and ideological approach. Conference Papers -- International Communication Association, 1.

Nastasia, D., & Rakow, L. (2006). What Is Communication? Unsettling A Priori and A Posteriori Approaches. Conference Papers -- International Communication Association, 1-36.

Nastasia, D., & Rakow, L. (2009). Keywords in Communication: What Is Theory?. Conference Papers -- International Communication Association, 1-38.

Rakow, L. (1995). New Curricular Categories for the Future: University of North Dakota School of Communication. Journal Of The Association For Communication Administration, (3), 211-215.

Rakow, L. F. (1988). Gendered Technology, Gendered Practice. Critical Studies In Mass Communication, 5(1), 57.

Rakow, L. F. (2007). Follow the Buzz: Questions about Mobile Communication Industries and Scholarly Discourse. Communication Monographs, 74(3), 402-407. doi:10.1080/03637750701543535

Rakow, L. F. (2013). Worldviews and mediatization: in search of a metatheory. Journal Of Multicultural Discourses, 8(3), 190-194. doi:10.1080/17447143.2013.849712

Rakow, L. F., & Davis, D. K. (1989). Feminist Studies: The Next Stage. Critical Studies In Mass Communication, 6(2), 209.

Rakow, L., & Nastasia, D. (2005). A Generative Grammar of Communication Theories. Conference Papers -- International Communication Association, 1-35.

Rakow, L., & Nastasia, D. (2008). On Feminist Theory of Public Relations: An Example From Dorothy E. Smith. Conference Papers -- International Communication Association, 1-44.

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