Diane Prusank, Ph.D., professor of communications, and her co-author Robert Duran, Ph.D., of the University of Hartford, presented their manuscript titled “The Role of Journalists in Mediating Gender Tensions: An Historical Case Study of Dorothy Barclay” at the international Gender and Media Matters conference hosted by Sapienza University of Rome on Oct. 16. The research project analyzed the writing of Ms. Barclay who promoted a progressive gender role agenda while serving as The New York Times parent and child section editor from 1949 to 1965.