In 2024-25 Anne F, MacLennan will be on sabbatical, which means I won't be teaching courses, but please reach out to me if you are a graduate student looking for a supervisor or committee member; if you are someone with research projects; if you are media; and with other projects, ideas, or interests amaclenn@yorku.ca

Anne F. MacLennan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University in Toronto Ontario. In 2023, Anne MacLennan received the Faculty of Graduate Studies Faculty Teaching Award. She was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (Tenure/Tenure-Track Stream) 2020-21 and previously the University-Wide Teaching Award winner, 2006.

In the Fall of 2023 Anne MacLennan taught a new course, CMDS 3744 National Identities: Canadian Media History; it's focus is connected to her new SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Interrogating Canadian Identities - Les identities canadiennes une interrogation. In the winter semester 2024, she taught a redesigned designed course, CMDS 2150 Introduction to Research Methods in Communication and Media Studies as the course is transformed from a third-year optional course to a large lecture class required at the second year. She also taught CMCT Advanced Research Methodologies for PhD students in the Communication and Culture joint graduate program in winter 2024. She was teaching Introduction to Communication Research Methods (COMN 3150), which she loves and in the winter CMCT 7200 Advanced Research Methodologies, which she also loves in 2022-23, and a new course in the winter called Death, Destruction, an Disease in the Media this winter.

Her book manuscript in progress is a study of the program listings of seven cities across Canada during the 1930s to explain the distinct element of local non-network radio and the changes across the country as national network radio is put in place in stages. The work is based a on a large data sample of newspapers, archival research, and other documentation. Anne MacLennan and Michael Windover at Carleton University co-authored Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956 in 2017 as part of the work that emerged from their Social Science and Humanities Research Grant of the same name. This research has also resulted in curators talks and curated exhibits of Making Space for Radio at the Archives of Ontario and the Carleton University Art Gallery, Seeing, Selling and Situating Radio at the Sound and Moving Image Library, York University, Radio in Canada 1922-1956 at the MacOdrum Library, Carleton University and the forthcoming digital exhibition in collaboration with Dr. Anja Borck, Director of the Musée des ondes Emile Berliner, Montreal, Quebec with the support of a Digital Museums Canada grant from the Canadian Museum of History to create Radio chez nous/Radio at Home for exhibit in 2022-23. MacLennan has published in Media and Communication, Journal of Radio & Audio Media, Women’s Studies, The Radio Journal, Relations Industrielles, Urban History Review, largely on radio but also on podcasting, history, women, advertising, charity, poverty, television, and labour. She has published nine chapters in books with two more in progress, most recently “Forming Networks: National Radio Networks − Public, State, and Commercial,” Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, edited by Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio, Routledge, 2022; MacLennan, Anne F. and Irena Knezevic, “Advertising Food for Health and Happiness: Bovril to superfood,” in Food Studies: Matter, Meaning & Movement, edited by David Szanto, Amanda Di Battista, and Irena Knezevic, Food Studies Press, 2022; and “Canadian Community/Campus Radio: Struggling and Coping on the Cusp of Change,” in Radio’s Second Century: Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future edited by John Allen Hendricks, Rutgers University Press, 2020. She has also received major national grants from SSHRC for ongoing projects for: “Reclaiming the Early Canadian Radio Broadcasting Audience.” SSHRC Standard Research Grant as sole Principal Investigator; SSHRC Insight Grant, Principal Investigator “Programming, practices, production and policy: Canadian community radio” with collaborator Prof. Kate Moylan, University of Leicester; SSHRC Insight Grant, Principal Investigator with Co-PI Irena Knezevic, Carleton University, “The role of entertainment media in the persistence of Canadian and American poverty” and a variety of other research grants. Anne MacLennan was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Radio & Audio Media from 2017 to 2021 and currently serving as co-editor for 2022 as a transition year. She has given 125 presentations in the last twenty years at conferences that include The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum Conferences; the International Association of Media and Communication Research Conferences; the Canadian Communications Association Conferences; the Broadcast Education Association Conferences, The international perspective on a radio centenary conference, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conferences; Radio Soundscapes in (Post)Colonial Settings; European Communication Research and Education Association – radio and history divisions Conferences; International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), Social Science Historical Association; Society for the History of Children and Youth; Canadian Historical Association Conferences; Society for Cinema & Media Studies; Radio Preservation Task Force Conferences; Entangled Media Histories: Tracing entanglements in media history, a conference; Business History Conferences; Canadian Association of American Studies Conferences; What is Radio? Exploring the past, present & future of radio Conference, American Historical Association Conference; Two Days in Canada Conferences; Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Conference; International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Broadcasting in the 1930s: Radio, Television and the Depression –A Symposium; Association for Research on Mothering; Canadian Society for the History of Medicine; ,” L’Électricité: Déploiements d’un pardigme la nouvelle sphere intermédiatique 7ème colloque international du Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité; .” Canadian Industrial Relations Association Annual Conference; Association for Canadian Studies Conferences; and other thematic conferences in her research areas. She has reviewed book manuscripts for Routledge, Columbia University Press, the University of Ottawa Press, and HarperCollins. She has reviewed journal submissions for numerous journals, reviewed for conference, grants and prizes. She more recently has started accepting interview for podcasts and has been interviewed or been a participant on radio and television shows. She is also an active participant on social media, especially Twitter where she tweets primarily about radio with more than 3500 followers. MacLennan will teach her 40th distinct course in 2023, has supervised more than 36 MA students to completion, 10 PhD students to completion, and one postdoctoral fellow.

Research Interests

• President's University-Wide Teaching Award - 2006
• Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching - 2020-21
• Faculty of Graduate Studies, Faculty Teaching Award - 2023

Current Research Projects

Approach to Teaching

Professor MacLennan teaches courses that usually fall under the area of Media and Culture and a few for the area of Politics and Policy. This year (2022-23) Prof. MacLennan will be teaching COMN 3150 Introduction to Research Methods in Communication and Media Studies in the Fall, then CMCT 7200 (PhD) Advanced Research Methodologies, and a new course, COMN 1405 Death, Destruction, and Disease in the Media! In 2021-22 she taught Introduction to Research Methods in Communication and Media Studies; in 2019-20 she taught Media History Seminar; 2018-19 she taught COMN 3740 Evaluating Media History and Communication & Culture 7200 Advanced Research Methodologies In the past she taught at the PhD level: PhD Field Seminar: Disciplinary Practices; Perspectives in Communication and Cultural Studies; Advanced Research Methods Workshop; at the MA level: Research Methods Workshop; at MA and PhD level: Research Methods Workshop and Core Issues in Cultural Studies; at the BA level: Print! The History and Culture of the Printed Word; Experiential Research Methods at Work; Advertising and Society; Research Methods in Mass Communications; Media, Culture & Society; Broadcasting Policy: Current Issues and Case Studies; Broadcasting Policy: A Comparative Introduction; Strategies of Social Science Research; Popular Culture; and Communication Theory. This year she is teaching Research Methods in Mass Communication and Advertising & Society in the Department of Communication Studies and Research Methods Workshop in the York-Ryerson Joint Program in Communication and Culture.

In previous years she has also taught Media, Culture & Society, Broadcasting Policy: A Comparative Introduction, Broadcasting Policy: Current Issues and Case Studies, Strategies of Social Science Research, Popular Culture, Communication Theory, as well as Core Issues in Cultural Studies for the Communication and Culture program.

Anne MacLennan was a presented with a York University-Wide Teaching Award in 2006. She has over twenty years experience teaching communication studies, media studies, history, methodology and other interdisciplinary topics.

In 2024-25 Anne F, MacLennan will be on sabbatical, which means I won't be teaching courses, but please reach out to me if you are a graduate student looking for a supervisor or committee member; if you are someone with research projects; if you are media; and with other projects, ideas, or interests amaclenn@yorku.ca

Anne F. MacLennan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University in Toronto Ontario. In 2023, Anne MacLennan received the Faculty of Graduate Studies Faculty Teaching Award. She was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (Tenure/Tenure-Track Stream) 2020-21 and previously the University-Wide Teaching Award winner, 2006.

In the Fall of 2023 Anne MacLennan taught a new course, CMDS 3744 National Identities: Canadian Media History; it's focus is connected to her new SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Interrogating Canadian Identities - Les identities canadiennes une interrogation. In the winter semester 2024, she taught a redesigned designed course, CMDS 2150 Introduction to Research Methods in Communication and Media Studies as the course is transformed from a third-year optional course to a large lecture class required at the second year. She also taught CMCT Advanced Research Methodologies for PhD students in the Communication and Culture joint graduate program in winter 2024. She was teaching Introduction to Communication Research Methods (COMN 3150), which she loves and in the winter CMCT 7200 Advanced Research Methodologies, which she also loves in 2022-23, and a new course in the winter called Death, Destruction, an Disease in the Media this winter.

Her book manuscript in progress is a study of the program listings of seven cities across Canada during the 1930s to explain the distinct element of local non-network radio and the changes across the country as national network radio is put in place in stages. The work is based a on a large data sample of newspapers, archival research, and other documentation. Anne MacLennan and Michael Windover at Carleton University co-authored Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956 in 2017 as part of the work that emerged from their Social Science and Humanities Research Grant of the same name. This research has also resulted in curators talks and curated exhibits of Making Space for Radio at the Archives of Ontario and the Carleton University Art Gallery, Seeing, Selling and Situating Radio at the Sound and Moving Image Library, York University, Radio in Canada 1922-1956 at the MacOdrum Library, Carleton University and the forthcoming digital exhibition in collaboration with Dr. Anja Borck, Director of the Musée des ondes Emile Berliner, Montreal, Quebec with the support of a Digital Museums Canada grant from the Canadian Museum of History to create Radio chez nous/Radio at Home for exhibit in 2022-23. MacLennan has published in Media and Communication, Journal of Radio & Audio Media, Women’s Studies, The Radio Journal, Relations Industrielles, Urban History Review, largely on radio but also on podcasting, history, women, advertising, charity, poverty, television, and labour. She has published nine chapters in books with two more in progress, most recently “Forming Networks: National Radio Networks − Public, State, and Commercial,” Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, edited by Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio, Routledge, 2022; MacLennan, Anne F. and Irena Knezevic, “Advertising Food for Health and Happiness: Bovril to superfood,” in Food Studies: Matter, Meaning & Movement, edited by David Szanto, Amanda Di Battista, and Irena Knezevic, Food Studies Press, 2022; and “Canadian Community/Campus Radio: Struggling and Coping on the Cusp of Change,” in Radio’s Second Century: Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future edited by John Allen Hendricks, Rutgers University Press, 2020. She has also received major national grants from SSHRC for ongoing projects for: “Reclaiming the Early Canadian Radio Broadcasting Audience.” SSHRC Standard Research Grant as sole Principal Investigator; SSHRC Insight Grant, Principal Investigator “Programming, practices, production and policy: Canadian community radio” with collaborator Prof. Kate Moylan, University of Leicester; SSHRC Insight Grant, Principal Investigator with Co-PI Irena Knezevic, Carleton University, “The role of entertainment media in the persistence of Canadian and American poverty” and a variety of other research grants. Anne MacLennan was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Radio & Audio Media from 2017 to 2021 and currently serving as co-editor for 2022 as a transition year. She has given 125 presentations in the last twenty years at conferences that include The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum Conferences; the International Association of Media and Communication Research Conferences; the Canadian Communications Association Conferences; the Broadcast Education Association Conferences, The international perspective on a radio centenary conference, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conferences; Radio Soundscapes in (Post)Colonial Settings; European Communication Research and Education Association – radio and history divisions Conferences; International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), Social Science Historical Association; Society for the History of Children and Youth; Canadian Historical Association Conferences; Society for Cinema & Media Studies; Radio Preservation Task Force Conferences; Entangled Media Histories: Tracing entanglements in media history, a conference; Business History Conferences; Canadian Association of American Studies Conferences; What is Radio? Exploring the past, present & future of radio Conference, American Historical Association Conference; Two Days in Canada Conferences; Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Conference; International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Broadcasting in the 1930s: Radio, Television and the Depression –A Symposium; Association for Research on Mothering; Canadian Society for the History of Medicine; ,” L’Électricité: Déploiements d’un pardigme la nouvelle sphere intermédiatique 7ème colloque international du Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité; .” Canadian Industrial Relations Association Annual Conference; Association for Canadian Studies Conferences; and other thematic conferences in her research areas. She has reviewed book manuscripts for Routledge, Columbia University Press, the University of Ottawa Press, and HarperCollins. She has reviewed journal submissions for numerous journals, reviewed for conference, grants and prizes. She more recently has started accepting interview for podcasts and has been interviewed or been a participant on radio and television shows. She is also an active participant on social media, especially Twitter where she tweets primarily about radio with more than 3500 followers. MacLennan will teach her 40th distinct course in 2023, has supervised more than 36 MA students to completion, 10 PhD students to completion, and one postdoctoral fellow.

Degrees

Appointments

Professional Leadership

Prof. Anne MacLennan was the Editor-in-Chief, 2017-2021, of the Journal of Radio and Audio Media. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hjrs20/current
2021-2022 Chair of Faculty Council, Faculty of Graduate Studies
2018-21 Board member, Canadian Communication Foundation (Interim president, president 2020-21)
2018-2020 Chair of the Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
2013-16 Graduate Program Director, Joint Program in Communication & Culture, Ryerson & York Universities
2014-15 Chair of Faculty Council, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Community Contributions

Making Space for Radio in Canada, 1922-1956 Archives of Ontario, with Michael Windover, Carleton University. Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, Sound and Moving Image Library, September to December 2017, with Michael Windover, Carleton University.

Research Interests

Awards

• President's University-Wide Teaching Award - 2006
• Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching - 2020-21
• Faculty of Graduate Studies, Faculty Teaching Award - 2023

Approach to Teaching

Professor MacLennan teaches courses that usually fall under the area of Media and Culture and a few for the area of Politics and Policy. This year (2022-23) Prof. MacLennan will be teaching COMN 3150 Introduction to Research Methods in Communication and Media Studies in the Fall, then CMCT 7200 (PhD) Advanced Research Methodologies, and a new course, COMN 1405 Death, Destruction, and Disease in the Media! In 2021-22 she taught Introduction to Research Methods in Communication and Media Studies; in 2019-20 she taught Media History Seminar; 2018-19 she taught COMN 3740 Evaluating Media History and Communication & Culture 7200 Advanced Research Methodologies In the past she taught at the PhD level: PhD Field Seminar: Disciplinary Practices; Perspectives in Communication and Cultural Studies; Advanced Research Methods Workshop; at the MA level: Research Methods Workshop; at MA and PhD level: Research Methods Workshop and Core Issues in Cultural Studies; at the BA level: Print! The History and Culture of the Printed Word; Experiential Research Methods at Work; Advertising and Society; Research Methods in Mass Communications; Media, Culture & Society; Broadcasting Policy: Current Issues and Case Studies; Broadcasting Policy: A Comparative Introduction; Strategies of Social Science Research; Popular Culture; and Communication Theory. This year she is teaching Research Methods in Mass Communication and Advertising & Society in the Department of Communication Studies and Research Methods Workshop in the York-Ryerson Joint Program in Communication and Culture.

In previous years she has also taught Media, Culture & Society, Broadcasting Policy: A Comparative Introduction, Broadcasting Policy: Current Issues and Case Studies, Strategies of Social Science Research, Popular Culture, Communication Theory, as well as Core Issues in Cultural Studies for the Communication and Culture program.

Anne MacLennan was a presented with a York University-Wide Teaching Award in 2006. She has over twenty years experience teaching communication studies, media studies, history, methodology and other interdisciplinary topics.