Participant Info
- First Name
- Kathryn
- Last Name
- McGarr
- Country
- United States
- State
- WI Wisconsin
- kmcgarr@wisc.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Website URL
- https://journalism.wisc.edu/staff/mcgarr-kathryn/
- Keywords
- media, newspapers, reporting, communication, washington, politics, clubs, foreign policy, cold war
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I’m a historian in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My current project is a book about foreign policy reporters in Washington in the 1940s and 1950s and the blurred social-professional boundaries that created the news media echo chamber.
My previous book was a political biography of the Washington power broker, Bob Strauss, The Whole Damn Deal: Robert Strauss and the Art of Politics.
I hold a PhD in history from Princeton University, a masters from the Columbia Journalism School, and a bachelors in history from Stanford University.
- Recent Publications
No One Should Be Surprised By Journalism’s Sexual Harassment Problem, The Washington Post
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @KathrynMcGarr
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Presidents, Diplomacy, Gender, Government, Politics, Sexuality, Urban History, Women, World War II