David Abrahamson Email & Phone Number

David Abrahamson is a Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research (2017), a definitive anthology of magazine scholarship; author of Magazine-Made America: The Cultural Transformation of the Postwar Periodical (Hampton Press, 1996), an interpretive history of the magazine profession since World War II; and editor of The American Magazine: Research Perspectives and Prospects (Iowa State University Press, 1995). The founder of Medill's Literary Journalism seminar, he also teaches magazine writing and magazine editing and was co-director of the graduate Magazine Publishing Project from 1994 to 2002. Beyond Medill, he is the general editor of a multi-volume historical series, "Visions of the American Press," published under the Medill imprint by the Northwestern University Press. An active member of a number of learned societies, he is a founder and past president of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS) and has served as head of both the the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's (AEJMC) History Division (2002-2003) and its Magazine Division (1997-1998). In addition, he is the past winner of the Magazine Division's Educator of the Year Award, as well as the Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History from the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA). With over two decades of former experience as a magazine writer, editor and management consultant, Abrahamson's background includes senior editorial positions at a number of national consumer magazines, including Car and Driver and PC/Computing. As a practicing journalist, his articles have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Science and Playboy.