Ph.D., Indiana University

 

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• American Studies

• Cultural Studies

• TV and Media Studies

• Popular Culture

Recent Courses Taught

• Graduate Seminar in Screen Studies: Theories of Popular Culture

• Graduate Seminar in TV and New Media: TV History and Historiography

• Graduate Seminar in TV and New Media: TV Studies

• Graduate Seminar in Screen Studies: Convergence and Control

• Graduate Seminar in Screen Studies: Examining the Screen

• Theories and Methods of American Studies

• Television and American Society

• American Popular Culture

• Race, Gender & Ethnicity in American Film

• Introduction to Digital Humanities

Recent Publications

• “David Sarnoff on War, Militarism, and Communications.” Broadcasting America: The Rise of Mass Media and Communications. Adam Matthew Digital Collections, 2023.

• “Afterword.” Mediated Terror in the 21^st Century, Eds. Elena Caoduro, Karen Randell, and Karen A. Ritzenhoff. Palgrave MacMillan, 2021.

• “Foreword.” The Big Picture by John Lemza. Lawrence, KS: U Press of Kansas (War on Screen series), 2021.

• “The Banality of Militarism in the Late War on Terror.” In Medial Reflections: Threat Communication and the US American Order after 9/11. Eds. Lukas R.A. Wilde, Vanessa Ossa, David Sheu. Routledge, 2020: 80-101.

• “Exceptional Soldiers: Imagining the Privatized Military on US TV.” In Imperial Benevolence: US Foreign Policy in American Popular Culture Since 9/11. Eds. Scott Laderman and Tim Gruenewald. University of California Press, 2018: 97-116.

• “Radio, TV & the Military.” In A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting. Ed. Aniko Bodroghkozy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018: 257-278.

Selected Conference Presentations

• Roundtable presenter: “Elana Levine’s Herstories” Reflections on US Broadcasting History, Sponsored by the Radio Preservation Task Force, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, April 27-29, 2023

• Presenter, “Rumors of Peace, Greatly Exaggerated: Six O’Clock Follies and the Cultural War over Vietnam.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, CO, April 12-15, 2023.

• Presenter, “TV as Recruitment and Retention Vehicle in the Atomic Military.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, ONLINE, March 30-April 3, 2022.

• Presenter, “‘We Bring You Home’: American Forces Network and the Imagination of Empire Post-9/11.” American Studies Assoc. Conference. Honolulu, HI. Nov 6-10, 2019.

• Presenter, “Fortress Americana, or TV on the Frontiers of the GWOT.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Seattle, WA. March 13-17, 2019.

• Presenter, “The Banality of Militarism in the Late War on Terror.” Medial Reflections: Threat Communication in the US-American Order after 9/11. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, September 20-21, 2018.

• Presenter, “Is This What You Mean By Global Village? Satellites, Public Diplomacy and AFN.” Post-War Faculty Colloquium, University of North Texas. Denton, TX, April 6, 2018.

Awards and Recognition

• Arts & Sciences Travel Grant, OSU 2023

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 2022

• English Department, Research Release, OSU 2020

• Oklahoma Humanities, Research Grant 2020           

• Arts & Sciences Travel Grant, OSU 2020

• Winner, Regents Distinguished Research Award, OSU 2019

Current Research

My work focuses on the role of television in the mediation of American politics with a particular focus on issues of war and representation. My current manuscript (under contract at U of Illinois Press) examines the American Forces Network, a global network of radio and television stations available to US military members serving overseas since 1942. It is a cultural history of the service, its transmission networks, and its effects on U.S. service personnel, their families, and civilian "eavesdroppers" in places like Panama, Vietnam, Korea, Germany, and Japan.