Department of Communication

Contact and Overview

Email Address

edycm@appstate.edu

Office Hours

Monday: 9:00-10:00am

Wednesday: 9:00-10:00am

Friday: 9:00-10:00am

By Appointment

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Education

Ph.D., Mass Communication (Journalism History), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., Mass Communication (Journalism), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., English (Creative Writing), St. Lawrence University

Teaching

Currently Teaching (Spring 2025)

COM 1300 Journalism Matters: An Introduction to News Literacy & News Writing
COM 3210 Copy Editing

Courses Taught

COM 1300 Journalism Matters: An Introduction to News Literacy & News Writing
COM 2610 News Reporting & Writing
COM 3124 Intercultural Communication
COM 3130 Race & Diversity in Media
COM 3210 Fact Checking & Editing (formerly Copy Editing)
COM 3549 In-Depth Reporting in France
COM 3600 In-Depth Reporting & Writing
COM 3680 Literary Journalism

Teaching Specialties

Advanced Editing
Data Journalism
Journalism History
Literary Journalism
Investigative Reporting
Feature Writing
Race & Diversity in Media

Professional Affiliations

ACES, The Society for Editing
American Journalism Historians Association
American Society of Journalists & Authors
Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
International Communication Association
Investigative Reporters & Editors
Society for American Archivists

Research Specialties

Journalism History
War Correspondence
Women's History

Selected Publications

• Dubbs, C. and Edy, C. The Weekly War: How the Saturday Evening Post Reported World War I. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 2023.
• Edy, C. “Outstanding and Conspicuous Service: Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Ann Stringer in the European Theater.” In Reporting World War II: American Correspondents at the Front-Lines. Ed. G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023.
• Fondren, E. and Edy, C. "Leonora Raines and Cecil Dorrian Cover the Great War (1914–1919)." Journalism History, July 2022.
• Edy, C. Review of Dateline—Liberated Paris: The Hotel Scribe and the Invasion of the Press, Ronald Weber. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.) In Journalism History 46, 4, 2020. 
• Edy, C. “War Correspondents, Women’s Interests, and World War II.” In Journalism’s Ethical Progression: A Twentieth-Century Journey. Ed. Gwyneth Mellinger and John Ferré. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019.
• Edy, C. “Trust but Verify: Myths and Misinformation in the History of Women War Correspondents,” American Journalism, 36, 2, Spring 2019.
• Edy, C. The Woman War Correspondent, the U.S. Military, and the Press: 1846-1947. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2017.
• Edy, C. "Women's Magazine Coverage of Heart Disease Risk Factors: Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1997 to 2007." Women & Health 50, 2, 2010.
• Edy, C. "Juggernaut in Kid Gloves: Inez Callaway Robb, 1900-1979." American Journalism 27, 4, Fall 2010.
• Edy, C. "Getting the Story: A Study of the State of Literary Journalism in the American Academy," in Literary Journalism 3, 4, Fall 2009.

Awards

• Finalist, Best Journalism History Book of 2017, American Journalism Historians Association
• Faculty Staff Appreciation Award 2015-2016, Outstanding Professor, College of Fine & Applied Arts, Appalachian State University
• Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Honorable Mention, AJHA
• Mary Gardner Award for Graduate Student Research, AEJMC
• Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, Harvard University
• Joseph L. Morrison Award for Excellence in Journalism History, UNC–Chapel Hill
• Minnie S. and Eli A. Rubinstein Research Award, UNC–Chapel Hill
• Top Student Paper, History Division, AEJMC Annual Convention
• Roy H. Park Doctoral Fellowship, UNC–Chapel Hill