Stacy Takacs
Professor
Phone: 405-744-9474
Tulsa Campus: 2215 Main Hall
Phone: 918-594-8331
Email: stacy.takacs@okstate.edu
Website: https://stakacs.wordpress.com
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
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 21st 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.