Winfield has been a member of the Missouri School of Journalism faculty since 1990. She also holds appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri. Before joining the Missouri Journalism faculty, Winfield was a professor of communication and American studies at Washington State University. She held post-doctoral fellowships at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the Gannett Center for Media and Politics at Columbia University. Among Winfield’s four books are Journalism, 1908: Birth of a Profession and the award-winning FDR and the News Media. Her other publications include two monographs, 12 book chapters, and more than 80 encyclopedia and journal articles. Winfield has given numerous scholarly lectures and competitive papers on mass media history and White House communication. Among them are analyses of the free expression conflicts with the commander-in-chief role of the president, the models of attorneys general during wartime, and first lady relationships with the public and the media. Her current vein of research involves how journalists use history in their stories. In 2008, she received the 24th annual Covert Award in Mass Communication History. Also in 2008, Winfield received the American Journalism Historians Association’s inaugural teaching excellence award. In 2003, Winfield was honored as the first journalism professor to receive a systemwide University of Missouri Curators’ Professorship, which she will hold for the rest of her career at MU. In 2002, she received the MU Faculty-Alumni Award. The University of Missouri awarded Winfield its prestigious Thomas Jefferson Award in 1998 for an “academic career embodying the Jeffersonian principles and ideals in scholarship and teaching.”