Melita Garza received her Ph.D. in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Roy H. Park fellow, and was nominated for the Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award. Melita Garza was awarded the national Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Prize for the outstanding doctoral dissertation from the American Journalism Historians Association. Currently, Melita Garza serves at Texas Christian University as an Associate Professo. Here, she h