Faculty & Research

Education:

• Ph.D. at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2004
• M.A. at George Washington University, 2000
• B.A. at University of Virginia

Contact Information:

(812) 856-0638

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HPER Building, Room 168

Background:

• Alan Bussel Award for Top Student Paper in Minorities and Communication Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's National Conference, August 2002. Paper entitled, "Jesse Owens, A Black Pearl Amidst an Ocean of Fury: A Case Study of Press Coverage on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games."
• Third Place Award in Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's History Division, Southeast Colloquium, March 2001. Paper entitled, "McClure's: The Significance of 1906-1912 on Willa Cather and Her Artistic Growth."
• Park Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 2000-2003.
• Graduate Assistantship, George Washington University, August 1998-May 2000.

Research:

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Dr. Laucella's scholarly research studies socio-cultural-historical issues in sport communication and sport journalism, focusing on media portrayals of race and gender. She also studies the media "feeding frenzy" surrounding Division I coaches and the journalist/source relationship between coaches and journalists.

Publications:

Pedersen, P. M., Miloch, K., & Laucella, P. (2007). Sport Communication. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Pedersen, P. M., Laucella, P., Miloch, K., & Fielding, L. The juxtaposition of sport and communication: Defining the field of sport communication. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing.

Laucella, P. (Accepted for publication, 2005). Coach Tyrone Willingham and Coach Mike Davis: A narrative analysis of press coverage during the 2004-05 seasons, for B. Pitts (ed.). Sharing best practices in sport marketing: The Sport Marketing Association's book of papers. Morgantown: Fitness Information Technology.

Laucella, P. (2005, Spring). Review of Blackout: The untold story of Jackie Robinson's first spring training, by C. Lamb, 2004. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 208-209.

Laucella, Pamela, & Osborne, Barbara (2002). Libel and college coaches. Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport 12, (3).

(2000). Selections on electronic public relations and public relations activities of tobacco companies. The Media in Your Life (2nd ed.). Folkerts, Lacy, & Davenport.

PRESENTATIONS:

• Laucella, P. (May, 2006). An analysis of black and Communist coverage of Jesse Owens in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Conference of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH). Glenwood Spring, CO.

• Fielding, L., Pedersen, P. M., Laucella, P., & Gregg, L. (May, 2006). From market directed flows to management directed flows: The bicycle industry experience 1890-1900. Conference of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH). Glenwood Spring, CO.

• Laucella, P. (November 12, 2005). Coach Tyrone Willingham and Coach Mike Davis: A narrative analysis of press coverage during the 2004-05 Seasons. Presented at the Annual Sport Marketing Association Conference (SMA) in Phoenix, Arizona.

• Laucella, P. (April 15, 2004). Jesse Owens: A case study of mainstream, black, Communist, and Nazi press coverage on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Dissertation research presented during Jackie Robinson Week at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Laucella, Pamela. "Jesse Owens, A Black Pearl Amidst an Ocean of Fury: A Case Study of Press Coverage on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games." Paper presented to the Roy Park family and Board of Visitors at the University of North Carolina's School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 25, 2002.

Laucella, Pamela. "Jesse Owens, A Black Pearl Amidst an Ocean of Fury: A Case Study of Press Coverage on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games." Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's National Conference; Miami Beach, Florida, August 7-10, 2002.

Laucella, Pamela. "Journalism, Mass Culture, and Modernism: The Impact on Theodore Dreiser's Writings from 1894-1900." Paper accepted to the American Journalism Historians Association's Conference; San Diego, California, October 4-6, 2001.

Laucella, Pamela. "McClure's: The Significance of 1906-1912 on Willa Cather and Her Artistic Growth." Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's National Conference; Washington, D.C., August 4-8, 2001.

Laucella, Pamela. "McClure's: The Significance of 1906-1912 on Willa Cather and Her Artistic Growth." Paper presented at the Southeast Colloquium, History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication; Columbia, South Carolina, March 8-9, 2001.

Courses Recently Taught:

HPER K500 Issues in Sport Media

HPER K582 Creative Sportswriting