Kimberly Wilmot Voss

Kimberly Wilmot Voss, PhD-Maryland, is a tenured associate professor of journalism at the University of Central Florida and the area coordinator of the journalism program. She is the author of Re-Evaluating Women’s Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era: Celebrating Soft News (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Women Politicking Politely: Feminists Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s (Lexington Books, 2017).

Her other books include The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) and a co-author of Mad Men & Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance and Otherness (Peter Lang, 2014). She was the winner of the 2014 Carol DeMasters Award for Service to Food Journalism given by the Association of Food Journalism (AFJ).

She was a featured speaker at the 2014 Food + Tech conference in New York City, at the SPJ-sponsored Excellence In Journalism in Nashville and the AFJ annual conference in Memphis. She also recently published “Gossip in the Women’s Pages: Examining and Legitimizing the Work of Female Journalists in the 1950s and 1960s” in When Private Talk Goes Public: Gossip in United States History, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

She earned an American Midwest Foodways Scholar’s Grants from the Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance in collaboration with Culinary Historians of Chicago in 2013. Until recently, she was the Vintage Cocktail columnist for OKRA, the magazine of the Southern Food and Beverage Institute. In the summer of 2014, the Poynter Institute featured her research which had been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly regarding women in newspaper management.

She has published more than 30 articles about women and journalism history. She blogs at WomensPageHistory and also blogs for Ms Magazine. In 2015, she will be a faculty fellow for the UCF Center for Success of Women Faculty.

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