Bernell Tripp, Ph.D.

Associate Professor - Department of Journalism

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Tripp specializes in sports writing and has won several awards for her spot sports coverage and sportswriting. Before joining the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, Tripp was a sports writer for the Pensacola News and freelanced for the Orlando Sentinel, Florida Times-Union and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Tripp has earned her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D.

Education

Ph.D., University of Alabama

News

• CJC Faculty, Staff and Student Receive UF Research Team Awards for 2020 Racial Justice Research Fund Grant (December 21, 2020)
• Rachel Grant and Bernell Tripp Will Serve as Panelists at the 2020 Online AJHA National Convention (September 22, 2020)
• Bernell Tripp Helps Launch New Online Journal on Journalism and Mass Communication History (October 19, 2015)
• Bernell Tripp is honored by American Journalism Historians Association (September 9, 2014)
• All News About Bernell Tripp

Publications

Tripp, Bernell E., Black Women Journalists, 1825-1860.  Northport , AL:  Vision Press, in press.

Tripp, Bernell, “The Antebellum Press.”  Wm. David Sloan, James Stovall, and Jim Startt (eds.) , The Media in America:  A History, 6th edition, (Northport, AL:  Vision Press, 2005)

Research

Research Keywords

journalism history

Research Areas

• Mass Communication History

Courses

Syllabi from the current and three previous semesters: