Lana Rakow

Lana F. Rakow (born April 17, 1952) is a professor emerita of communication at the University of North Dakota and author of Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life. In 2000, she was identified as a top woman scholar in journalism and mass communication, and her research results were reported by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication on the Status of Women. She is currently the Associate Editor of the Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. She pursued her master's degree at UND as well, earning a degree in American Literature with a minor in English Language in 1977. WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.

Scholarly work The focus of Lana Rakow's research deals largely with subjects such as communication, feminist theory (the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse.), and technology. One of her major works, Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life (1992), combines all three of these subjects. Rakow's book, based on her dissertation at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Chaimpaign, looks at the way that women use telephones as a form of communication. Her research, conducted using personal interviews with women in Prospect, Illinois, sheds light on the complexity of women's use of telephones through the feminist perspective. The point of this particular work from Rakow is to assert that gender research in communication should look at gender as evolving social systems created through communication, rather than as simple categories used to compare communication in men and women. Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship, presented by the Feminist Scholarship Division, International Communication Association, Singapore, June 2010 Who's Who (Marquis, New Providence, NJ): Who's Who of American Women, 2005, 2006; Who's Who in American Education, 2006, 2007; Who's Who in the World, 2006; Who's Who in America, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Identified as a top woman scholar in journalism and mass communication. Research results reported in the newsletter of the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, 9, no. 2 (Spring/winter 2000) Named to the Plaza of Heroines, located at Wichita State University, 1998