Susan Smulyan
Susan Smulyan | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Employer | Brown University |
| Notable work | Selling Radio Popular Ideologies Major Problems in American Popular Culture |
| Title | Professor |
Susan Smulyan is professor of American Studies and director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University. A graduate of Yale University, Smulyan's research focuses on U.S. popular culture in the 20th century.
Early life and education
Smulyan attended Yale University, where she earned a BA (1975), MA (1980), and PhD (1985).[1]
Career
Smulyan taught at University of Texas at San Antonio from 1985 until 1988, when she joined the Department of American Civilization (later renamed American Studies) at Brown University.[2] She is professor of American Studies and director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown.[3]
Smulyan's work focuses on popular culture in the United States in the 20th century. Her first book, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934, described the rise of advertising on the medium of radio.[4][5] Reviewing the book for the journal American Journalism, William James Ryan suggested that Smulyan made an important contribution in documenting the historical contingency (rather than inevitability) of this development: that, per Ryan, "American radio did not need to become what it became."[6] In The Business History Review, Regina Lee Blaszczyk emphasized Smulyan's "savvy borrowing of research methods and theories from several fields" to develop this investigation.[7]
Smulyan has also served as chair of the board of directors of New Urban Arts, a youth mentoring program in Rhode Island.[8]
Works
- Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994)
- Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)[9][10][11][12][13][14]
- ed., Major Problems in American Popular Culture, with Kathleen Franz (Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011)[15]
References
- ^ "Smulyan, Susan". vivo.brown.edu. Brown University. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ "SUSAN SMULYAN" (PDF). Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ "Smulyan, Susan". vivo.brown.edu. Brown University. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ Benjamin, Louise (1 July 1994). "Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994". American Journalism. 11 (3): 293–294. doi:10.1080/08821127.1994.10731655. ISSN 0882-1127. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ B., Kielbowicz, Richard (1 October 1995). "Susan Smulyan. Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920–1934. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 1994. Pp. viii, 223. $24.95". The American Historical Review. 100 (4). doi:10.1086/ahr/100.4.1318-a. ISSN 0002-8762. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Ryan, William James (1 October 2000). "Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting 1920 - 1934". American Journalism. 17 (4): 145–147. doi:10.1080/08821127.2000.10739285. ISSN 0882-1127. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ Blaszczyk, Regina Lee (1996). "Review of Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934". The Business History Review. 70 (4): 602–604. doi:10.2307/3117322. JSTOR 3117322.
- ^ "Prior Board Members - New Urban Arts". newurbanarts.org. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
- ^ Wall, Wendy L. (1 October 2009). "Susan Smulyan . Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid‐Century . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . 2007 . Pp. 202. $35.00". The American Historical Review. 114 (4): 1109–1110. doi:10.1086/ahr.114.4.1109. ISSN 0002-8762. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ Kammen, Michael (2008). "Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century (review)". Journal of Social History. 42 (2): 529–531. doi:10.1353/jsh.0.0107. ISSN 1527-1897. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ Scanlon, Jennifer (17 December 2008). "Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century (review)". Technology and Culture. 49 (4): 1077–1079. doi:10.1353/tech.0.0178. ISSN 1097-3729. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ Neal, Arthur G. (1 June 2008). "Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century by Susan Smulyan". The Journal of American Culture. 31 (2): 243–244. doi:10.1111/j.1542-734X.2008.00674_39.x. ISSN 1542-734X. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ Benjamin, Louise (1 July 1994). "Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994". American Journalism. 11 (3): 293–294. doi:10.1080/08821127.1994.10731655. ISSN 0882-1127. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ Heffernan, Nick (December 2008). "Smulyan Susan, Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, £23.00). Pp. 202. isbn9780 0 8122 4020 7". Journal of American Studies. 42 (3): 607–608. doi:10.1017/S0021875808005793. ISSN 1469-5154. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ^ Grassy, Elsa (2012). "Kathleen Franz and Susan Smulyan (eds), Major Problems in American Popular Culture Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011, 496 p." InMedia: The French Journal of Media Studies. Retrieved 31 December 2017.