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Cinema Studies

Education

B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University.

Biography

Author of Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space (Duke University Press, 2001); coeditor (with Nick Couldry, London School of Economics) of Media/Space: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age (Routledge, 2004); and "The Burlesque Body of LaGuardia’s New York" in Henry Jenkins and Jane Shattuc (eds.), Hop on Pop: New Voices in Cultural Studies.

Articles in Cinema Journal, Quarterly Review of Film and Television, International Journal of Cultural Studies, October, Journal of Visual Culture, and Velvet Light Trap. Editorial Board, Television and New Media. Awarded Society for Cinema Studies Dissertation Prize, 1997.

Recipient of a Hagley Business Library Grant for research on television advertising, 1999.  Stephen Charney Vladeck Junior Faculty Fellowship (competitive; focus on labor history), NYU, 2001.  J. Walter Thompson Company Research Grant, Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, Duke University, 2002.  Faculty Fellowship, Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict, International Center for Advanced Study, NYU, 2002-3.