ABSTRACT

Pioneer educators who labored to elevate broadcasting to the status of a respected discipline in higher education have received limited historical study. The storied academic career of Sherman Paxton Lawton ascended in one of the most transformative eras in mass communication history, the introduction of radio and television. This article chronicles not only Lawton’s achievements in broadcast education—publication of the first broadcast textbook and founder of a national honorary—but also his contributions to the study of human history and controversial political activism that tested the limits of a tenured professor’s free speech.

摘要

努力将广播提升到高等教育中受人尊敬的学科地位的先驱教育家只接受了有限的历史研究。谢尔曼·帕克斯顿·劳顿 (Sherman Paxton Lawton) 传奇的学术生涯在大众传播史上最具变革性的时代之一上升，即广播和电视的引入。本文不仅记录了劳顿在广播教育方面的成就——第一本广播教科书的出版和国家荣誉称号的创始人——还记录了他对人类历史研究和有争议的政治活动的贡献，这些活动测试了终身教授言论自由的极限。