Mary Lamonica, Ph.D.

Mary Lamonica is a professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at New Mexico State University. Her Ph.D. is from Michigan State University. Her B.A. and M.A. are from the University of Miami. Lamonica's research areas of interest include nineteenth- and twentieth-century media law and media history. Much of her research focuses on press performance during wartime. She publishes under the name Mary M. Cronin. 

Prior to becoming a professor, Dr. Lamonica spent a decade at newspapers and magazines. She worked as a reporter, as a copy editor and as an assistant news editor in large and mid-sized media markets, including Miami, Florida; Asbury Park, New Jersey; and Lawrence, Massachusetts. She also worked for public radio in Washington State and freelanced for national magazines and regional newspapers. Prof. Lamonica has a wonderful daughter and several pets from the local animal shelter. A life-long Red Sox fan, she will never support the New York Yankees.
 

Recent Publications

Mary M. Cronin and Bruce Berman, Home Front: Alfred T. Palmer's World War II Photography (London, UK: Fonthill Media, 2025).

Katrina J. Quinn and Mary M. Cronin, "'Our Reporter is Just Come from the Ruins': Reporting Practices and the 1860 Pemberton Mill Disaster," American Journalism 40, no. 2 (2023): 140-167. 

Mary M. Lamonica, "Duty, Honor, Manhood, and Nationalism: Portrayals of Texas’s Civil War Soldiers," in The Civil War Soldier and the Press, eds. Katrina J. Quinn and David B. Sachsman (New York: Routledge, 2023), 139-154.

Debra Reddin van Tuyll and Mary M. Cronin, eds., The Midwestern Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War (New York: Peter Lang, 2022).

Mary M. Cronin and Debra Reddin van Tuyll, eds., The Western Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War (New York: Peter Lang, 2021).

Katrina J Quinn, Mary M. Cronin and Lee Jolliffe, Adventure Journalism in the Gilded Age: Essays on Reporting from the Arctic to the Orient (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2021).

Mary M. Cronin, "'Free Speech is Sometimes a Dangerous Privilege': Western Editors' Support for Press Suppression during the US Civil War," Journalism History 47, no. 3 (2021): 263-284. 

Mary M. Cronin, "An Editorial House Divided: The Texas Press Response to the Compromise of 1850," in The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War, eds. David B. Sachsman and Gregory A. Borchard, (New York: Routledge, 2019),  77-90.  

Mary M. Cronin, ed., High Private: The Trans-Mississippi Correspondence of Humorist R. R. Gilbert, 1862-1865 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2018).

Mary M. Cronin, "When the Chinese came to Massachusetts: Representations of race, labor, religion, and citizenship in the 1870s press," Historical Journal of Massachusetts 46, no. 2 (2018): 72-105.

Mary M. Cronin, ed., An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016).

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