Donna Halper

Donna L. Halper is a professor of communication and media studies at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A former broadcaster and radio consultant, she is the author of six books, including Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting (2014) and Boston Radio 1920-2010 (2011). A widely-quoted media historian, she has written for both scholarly and mass-appeal publications. Among her recent articles are a profile of the first black sportscaster, Jocko Maxwell, for the Society for American Baseball Research, https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/jocko-maxwell/ and an in-depth exploration of one of America's first radio stations, "Preserving the Story of Greater Boston’s Pioneering Broadcast Stations 1XE and WGI," for the AWA Review: https://antiquewireless.org/homepage/review-vol-31-article/

Presentation(s):

• A Century of Radio: What You May Not Know About The History of Broadcasting

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