Background:

Beverly Ann Deepe Keever is a professor emerita of the University of Hawai`i, where she has been awarded the Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching.

She is the author of "News Zero: The New York Times and The Bomb" (Common Courage Press, 2004), which is being translated into Japanese for publication in Tokyo.

She is also a co-editor of "U.S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities: A Sourcebook, 1934-1996" (Greenwood Press, 1997). She has written numerous academic and professional articles and received awards for her freedom-of-information endeavors in Hawaii.

Before teaching, she worked as a journalist covering the Vietnam War for seven years sucessively for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor. Her coverage of the besieged outpost of Khe Sanh in 1968 was nominated by the Monitor for a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.

For a career bridging the profession and the professorate, she has received awards from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni Association and the University of Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communications Alumni Association.

Research:

Public-Meetings and Public-Records Laws and Practices; Privacy and Freedom of Expressions; Investigative Journalism; Press Performance

Publications:

Title: Death Zones and Darling Spies-Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting (PDF) (2013)
ISBN: 978-0-8032-2261-8
Publication Information: In Death Zones and Darling Spies, Beverly Deepe Keever describes what it was like for a farm girl from Nebraska to find herself halfway around the world, trying to make sense of one of the nation’s bloodiest and bitterest wars. She arrived in Saigon as Vietnam’s war entered a new phase and American helicopter units and provincial advisers were unpacking. She tells of traveling from her Saigon apartment to jungles where Wild West–styled forts first dotted Vietnam’s borders and where, seven years later, they fell like dominoes from communist-led attacks. In 1965 she braved elephant grass with American combat units armed with unparalleled technology to observe their valor—and their inability to distinguish friendly farmers from hide-and-seek guerrillas.

Honors / Awards:

Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching (1987)
Description: Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching, University of Hawai`i Board of Regents

Excellence in Application (2008)
Description: College of Social Sciences for Excellence in Application for 2007-2008 was received in recognition of "work in applying the theory, practice and ethics of journalism to the promotion of the welfare of the community" and for "tireless endeavors to promote open government in Hawai`i and to peel off the shroud of secrecy covering the devastating impact of U.S. Pacific nuclear weapons tests on the Pacific Islanders. By applying your academic expertise and professional linkages to various organizations, groups and individuals you have greatly contributed to the strengthening of the ties between the University and the community at large," thus truly demonstrating "a scholarship of application of highest quality and impact."