Picture of John Strohmeyer

Writer in Residence

Department of Journalism and Public Communication

Ph.D. (Hon.), Lehigh University, Pennsylvania

M.A., Columbia School of Journalism, New York

B.A., Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania

afjs2@uaa.alaska.edu

Professor Strohmeyer won a Pulitzer traveling fellowship for finishing first in his class at the Columbia School for Journalism in New York, and a Nieman fellowship from Harvard University while a reporter for the Providence Journal. He has a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing and in 1983 was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lehigh University.

In 1984 Professor Strohmeyer won a national competition for an Alicia Patterson fellowship that enabled him to research and write a book about the rise and fall of the nation's steel industry.

Professor Strohmeyer has been listed in Who's Who in America and is profiled in a 1980 edition of Contemporary Authors.

Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel's Struggle to Survive

Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel's Struggle to Survive

A close-up view of what ails a great American industry

Extreme Conditions: Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska

Extreme Conditions: Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska

Examination of the miseries brought to Alaska with the 1967 discovery of oil deposits at Prudhoe Bay.
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Historic Anchorage: An Illustrated History

Historic Anchorage: An Illustrated History

An illustrated history of the largest metropolis in Alaska, its changes in character and growth over the last century. Gold exploration, railroad boom and bust, military occupation, air age discovery, oil fever, earthquakes, and finally massive oil wealth all figure into transforming this relatively recent wilderness site into a jewel of a city. Anchorage is celebrating over 300 years of rich history.