Kenton Bird Papers, 1958-2023

Acquisition Information

Materials donated by Kenton Bird in 2014; 2019; 2024 (MA 2024-11; MA 2014-22; and MA 2019-38.)

Related Materials

Related materials may be found in MG 145 History of Journalism papers; MG 405 Coalition for Central America Records; MA 2024-09 Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium.

Bibliography

Professor Emeritus Kenton Bird was a journalism student at the University of Idaho in the mid 1970s. Nearly 50 years later, he was a professor of journalism at the UI School of Journalism and Mass Media. He was director of the School from 2003 to 2015 and director of General Education from 2015 to 2017. Bird earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the UI, where he was editor of the Argonaut. He later completed an M.Ed. in journalism history from University College, Cardiff, Wales, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Washington State University.

Before pursuing an academic career, Bird was a reporter and editor of newspapers in Moscow, Lewiston, Sandpoint and Kellogg, Idaho. As a congressional fellow of the American Political Science Association, he worked as a congressional staff member in Washington, D.C. Bird is co-author of a new biography of former House Speaker Tom Foley, The Man in the Middle, published earlier this year by the University Press of Kansas. He retired from the University of Idaho in 2023.

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