His research focuses on the role of media as a part of social change and on the historical sociology of newspapers and social movements with a focus on the role the news frames in the maintenance of mainstream social values. In a series of focused articles he has investigated the ways in which journalism defined the social meanings of key events in a variety of contexts, including in news coverage of the crash of Flight 800, the 1997 Thai currency crisis, the Katrina disaster, and the Southern labor and civil rights movements. Contact: frank-durham@uiowa.edu [2]