Kimberly Wilmot Voss is a professor of journalism at the University of Central Florida. Her research includes the history of women in journalism, particularly in relation to women's pages.

Early life and education

Voss received a bachelor of arts in mass communications in 1993 from the University of Wisconsin. In 1995 she received a master of arts in creative writing from Cardinal Stritch University. In 1997 she received a master of arts in mass communication from Towson University. In 2004 she received a doctorate in mass communication and a certificate in women's studies from the University of Maryland.^[1]

Career

From 2004 through 2008 Voss was an assistant professor of journalism at Southern Illinois University. She became assistant professor of journalism at the University of Central Florida in 2008, becoming associate professor of journalism in 2012,^[1][2][3] later becoming a full professor.

Voss's primary research interests are women's pages journalism, journalists, and editors.^[4] Her research into women's page journalism has found that the genre, which had generally been seen and treated as unimportant to journalism history by other journalism historians, instead had profound impacts on American journalism, and in the case of food sections, on American society, being instrumental in the development of the foodie movement.^[4] She also found that advertising revenues produced by women's page sections were routinely among the highest of any of a newspaper's sections.^[4]

Books

• The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community (2014) ISBN 978-1-4422-2720-0^[5][2][6]
• Women Politicking Politely: Feminists Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s (2017) ISBN 9781498522304
• Re-Evaluating Women’s Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era: Celebrating Soft News (2018) ISBN 9783319962146
• Newspaper Fashion Editors in the 1950s and 60s: Women Writers of the Runway (2021) ISBN 978-3-030-73623-1

Recognition

In 2014 Voss received the Award for Service to Food Journalism from the Association of Food Journalists for her book The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community.^[1] Publishers Weekly called the book 'a cogent examination of remarkable female journalists who served "an important role for their communities" over the years'.^[5] American Journalism called it "a well-researched and in-depth analysis of the complex history and journalistic and cultural significance of food sections and the women responsible for them" and Voss's research "exhaustive and meticulous".^[6]