Heather Hendershot

Heather Hendershot
OccupationHistorian
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2009)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisEndangering the dangerous: the regulation and censorship of children's television programming, 1968-1990 (1995)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Heather Hendershot is an American historian. A 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written several book on television studies – Shaking the World for Jesus (2004), What's Fair on the Air? (2011), Open to Debate (2016), and When the News Broke (2022) – and edited one volume: Nickelodeon Nation (2004). She is Cardiss Collins Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism at the Northwestern University School of Communication,[1] and she has previously served as the editor of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

Biography

Hendershot attended Yale University, where she obtained her BA in French and Film Studies,[1] and was part of Berkeley College.[2] She later did her graduate studies at the University of Rochester, where she obtained an MA and PhD, both in English and part of the film program.[1] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Endangering the dangerous: the regulation and censorship of children's television programming, 1968-1990.[3]

Hendershot originally worked at Queens College as an associate professor within the Department of Media Studies, as well as at CUNY Graduate Center's Film Studies Certificate Program, where she was coordinator.[4] She was Wolf Visiting Professor of Television Studies at University of Pennsylvania in late-2009.[4] Following her time at Queens College, she became a professor of film and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5] She later moved to the Northwestern University School of Communication, where she held a full professorship.[6] In 2025, she was appointed Cardiss Collins Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism.[6]

Hendershot specializes in television studies, as well as mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.[1] She released two books in 2004: an edited volume about the cable channel Nickelodeon titled Nickelodeon Nation[7] and a monograph about evangelical Christianity product marketing called Shaking the World for Jesus.[8] In 2009, Hendershot was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[9] She later published two more monographs: What’s Fair on the Air? (2011), centered on the era of Cold War right-wing broadcasters Billy James Hargis, H. L. Hunt, Carl McIntire, and Dan Smoot;[10] and Open to Debate (2016), centered on the conservative talk show Firing Line.[11] She served as the editor of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies for five years.[1]

In 2022, Hendershot released When the News Broke, a book on the impact of the 1968 Democratic National Convention on accusations of media bias in the United States,[12] it was shortlisted for the Newberry Library's 2023 Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award.[13]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Heather Hendershot". Northwestern University School of Communication. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  2. ^ "On Buckley and the Modern Media Environment with MIT's Heather Hendershot". The Buckley Beacon. September 30, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  3. ^ Hendershot, Heather (1995). Endangering the dangerous: the regulation and censorship of children's television programming, 1968-1990 (PhD thesis). University of Rochester. OCLC 34047791.
  4. ^ a b "Hendershot, Heather". University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on January 16, 2025. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  5. ^ "Heather Hendershot". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2025 – via Gale In Context: Biography.
  6. ^ a b "Five Faculty Members Honored with Named Professorships". Northwestern University School of Communication. January 30, 2025. Archived from the original on June 17, 2025. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  7. ^ "Nickelodeon Nation". NYU Press. Archived from the original on July 8, 2024. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  8. ^ "Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture". University of Chicago Press. Archived from the original on July 4, 2025. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  9. ^ "Heather Hendershot". Guggenheim Fellowships. Archived from the original on February 18, 2025. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  10. ^ "What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  11. ^ "Open to Debate". HarperCollins. Archived from the original on March 21, 2025. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  12. ^ "When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America". University of Chicago Press. Archived from the original on May 29, 2025. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  13. ^ "The Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award". Newberry Library. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  14. ^ Coulter, Natalie H. (July 19, 2006). "Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics and Economics of America's Only TV Channel for Kids". Canadian Journal of Communication. 31 (2): 479–480. doi:10.22230/cjc.2006v31n2a1598. ISSN 0705-3657.
  15. ^ Mittell, Jason (August 1, 2005). "Review Essay: "Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon," edited by Joseph Tobin and Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America's Only TV Channel for Kids," edited by Heather Hendershot". Popular Communication. 3 (3): 209–212. doi:10.1207/s15405710pc0303_5. ISSN 1540-5702.
  16. ^ Clark, Lynn Schofield (2006). "Religion, American Style: Critical Cultural Analyses of Religion, Media, and Popular Culture". American Quarterly. 58 (2): 523–533. ISSN 0003-0678.
  17. ^ Rojecki, Andrew (2006). "Review of Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture". Church History. 75 (4): 948–950. ISSN 0009-6407.
  18. ^ Schneider, Gregory L. (2005). "Review of UNEASY IN BABYLON: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture; SHAKING THE WORLD FOR JESUS: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture". American Studies. 46 (2): 205–206. ISSN 0026-3079.
  19. ^ Winston, Diane (2008). "Review of Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture". The Journal of Presbyterian History (1997-). 86 (2): 89–91. ISSN 1521-9216.
  20. ^ Hemmer, Nicole (2012). "Review of What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest". The Journal of American History. 99 (2): 646–647. ISSN 0021-8723.
  21. ^ Morrow, R.W. (2012). "Hendershot, Heather. What's fair on the air?: Cold War right-wing broadcasting and the public interest". CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 50 (1): 74. Retrieved August 2, 2025 – via Gale Literature Resource Center.
  22. ^ Cohen, Adam (January 13, 2017). "REVIEW: William Buckley and the Golden Age of Intellectual Conservatism". The National Book Review. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  23. ^ Edwards, Mickey (November 3, 2016). "The conservative rich kid who found his place on television and in politics". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  24. ^ "OPEN TO DEBATE". Kirkus Reviews. July 18, 2016. Archived from the original on May 28, 2023. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  25. ^ Foner, Eric (September 21, 2023). "Seeing Was Not Believing". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 70, no. 14. ISSN 0028-7504. Archived from the original on January 17, 2025. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
  26. ^ Kotlowski, Dean J. (2025). "When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America by Heather Hendershot (review)". Indiana Magazine of History. 121 (1): 58–60. doi:10.2979/imh.00065. ISSN 1942-9711.
  27. ^ Sánchez Jr., Jaime (December 31, 2023). "Jaime Sánchez, Jr. on Heather Hendershot's *When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America*". Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Archived from the original on June 17, 2025. Retrieved August 2, 2025.
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