David Abrahamson is a Professor Emeritus at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He was the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research (2015), a definitive anthology of magazine scholarship and author of Magazine-Made America: The Cultural Transformation of the Postwar Periodical, an interpretive history of the magazine profession since World War II. The co-founder of the International Association of Literary Journalism Studies, he also taught magazine writing and magazine editing and was co-director of the graduate Magazine Publishing Project. In addition, he was the general editor of a 26-volume historical series, "Visions of the American Press," published by the Northwestern University Press and the past winner of the Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History from the American Journalism Historians Association, as well as the AEJMC Magazine Division's Educator of the Year Award.
Research interests
- Magazine Studies (including History)
- Literary Journalism
