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Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement
Dr. Allison Graham
Dr. Graham’s research reflects a consistent concern with the role of American mass
media in shaping some of the most complex cultural debates of the last 50 years.
Her most recent published scholarship, Framing the South: Hollywood, Television,
and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle (Johns Hopkins Press, 2001), is a major
achievement. According to a reviewer, it demonstrates an “unusual combination of historical
research, literary and cinematic sensibility, and the achievement of a public voice.
. . .”
Dr. Graham’s research was the backbone of the documentary project on the 1969 Memphis
Sanitation Workers’ strike that resulted in the acclaimed film, At the River I Stand.
For Dr. Graham and her two U of M collaborators on the project, Mr. David Appleby
and Mr. Steven Ross. Her research also contributed to the success of Hoxie: The First
Stand, the story of the 1955 Hoxie, Arkansas, desegregation crisis, directed by David
Appleby.
Dr. Graham is also the director of the interdisciplinary Women’s Studies program,
housed in the College of Arts and Sciences.
“Allison Graham is an immensely valuable voice on issues of political, in addition
to scholarly importance,” writes one reviewer. She manages successfully to merge a
high critical standard with an accessibility of style,” writes another.
Dr. Graham, who earned her doctorate at the University of Florida, has been at the
University for 23 years and is a professor of communication.
Congratulations, DR. GRAHAM.
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