Pam Parry, chair of the Communication Studies Department, will present Oct. 8 a research-in-progress paper at the annual meeting of the American Journalism Historians Association in Kansas City, Mo. She will present a paper titled, “Public Relations as Military Strategy: How the Supreme Allied Commander Utilized Communications during WWII.” This paper is the first chapter in Parry’s dissertation titled, “The PR President: How Ike Transformed Political Communication.” Parry is working on her Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
